Where do the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries stand in relation to the current conflict in Gaza? How do they compare to the dominant external power in the region, the US? What do their responses to the crisis reveal about their broader global aspirations?
By failing to contextualise the Gaza assault the media helps embed a kind of official ignorance - much of the British public have no idea what is actually happening, or why.
Britain continues to sell arms to a state that shows continual and flagrant disregard for international law.
International attention is focused on Gaza thanks to the brutal Israeli offensive, but the real problem has always been daily life under occupation.
A review of Omar (2014), the most recent offering from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, which portrays the reality of life under occupation.
A Palestinian tells of a life that is death before death in Gaza.
UK media may indeed suggest the bombardment of Gaza is disproportionate but the idea that Israel's offensive is a response to Hamas rocket attacks is all too rarely questioned.
Seeing rocket fire from Gaza as a counter-discourse. This method of resistance is less about fatalities than undermining privilege structures in an anti-colonial context.
Something must be done about Israel’s number one ally, the Palestinian Authority, otherwise what we are witnessing today will be merely another flare-up, as opposed to a turning point for decolonization and the beginning of an end to the occupation.
