A columnist with the British daily, The Guardian, and author of four books including best sellers, Chavs and The Establishment, Owen Jones also maintains an informative podcast.
Since October 7 last year when the Qassam Brigades of Hamas launched their armed assault on Israel, Jones has sharply focused on what many believe is an ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Jones, once physically assaulted because of his gay lifestyle, is nothing short of a harsh critic of the Israeli government, forensically pulling together evidence to support his frequent assertions that the country’s far right government is responsible for the mass murder of Palestinian civilians. He trenchantly denounces what he asserts is a calculated policy of starvation.
He has also been forthright in his condemnation and repudiation of the October 7 attacks. Describing them as an unjustifiable sadistic atrocity. At the same time, he flags up the 248 deaths of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank at the hands of the IDF and Israeli settlers in the nine months of 2023 prior to the invasion. The point he makes is that context in the Occupied Territories is often ignored by much of the Western media.
Once described by the Financial Times as Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘most important media cheerleader’, it is hardly startling to find that he is so critical of Keir Starmer’s position on Gaza. Yet, he points not to Starmer’s hostility to Corbyn but to the recent endorsement by the current Labour Party leader of an Israeli plan to deprive the civilian population of Gaza of electricity and water – prohibited under international law.
In one of his more recent podcasts Jones takes a deep dive into the Flour massacre, leaving his listeners in no doubt that the 100 plus deaths were not the result of a stampede for food.
Harrowing but essential listening.
Jones, once physically assaulted because of his gay lifestyle, is nothing short of a harsh critic of the Israeli government, forensically pulling together evidence to support his frequent assertions that the country’s far right government is responsible for the mass murder of Palestinian civilians. He trenchantly denounces what he asserts is a calculated policy of starvation.
He has also been forthright in his condemnation and repudiation of the October 7 attacks. Describing them as an unjustifiable sadistic atrocity. At the same time, he flags up the 248 deaths of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank at the hands of the IDF and Israeli settlers in the nine months of 2023 prior to the invasion. The point he makes is that context in the Occupied Territories is often ignored by much of the Western media.
Once described by the Financial Times as Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘most important media cheerleader’, it is hardly startling to find that he is so critical of Keir Starmer’s position on Gaza. Yet, he points not to Starmer’s hostility to Corbyn but to the recent endorsement by the current Labour Party leader of an Israeli plan to deprive the civilian population of Gaza of electricity and water – prohibited under international law.
In one of his more recent podcasts Jones takes a deep dive into the Flour massacre, leaving his listeners in no doubt that the 100 plus deaths were not the result of a stampede for food.
Harrowing but essential listening.
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