‘Complicit’: A Forensic Look at How Britain’s ‘Blood-Soaked’ Political-Media Machine Enabled Slaughter in Gaza

Peter Oborne’s new book on Israel’s war delivers a forcefully argued indictment of Britain’s politicians and their media allies, writes Matt Gallagher

In Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Oborne assembles a detailed historical catalogue of the evasions, distortions, and decisions made by Britain’s political-media establishment.

The Byline Times and Middle East Eye columnist argues that Israel’s plausible genocide in Gaza was actively abetted by successive Conservative and Labour Governments – and ultimately sustained by what he calls Britain’s “blood-soaked” monopoly media.

“History will salute the Gaza protestors,” Oborne writes, “who turned out month after month to demand an end to mass killing, in defiance of persistent attempts to demonise, marginalise, and criminalise their movement.”