The British Military Is Actively Involved in Gaza. Here’s How.

Global politics has profoundly changed in recent years. Russia’s war in Ukraine, Israel’s genocide against Gaza and the re-election of Donald Trump have all shifted expectations, norms and policies. The ICJ has issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. After some of the most punitive sanctions in history the United States now wants rapprochment with Russia. Meanwhile, countries around the world – including the UK – are cutting their aid budgets and spending more on defence.

Matt Kennard can speak with authority on all of this. As a journalist and author, his reporting has covered everything from US military recruitment during the war on terror to the corporate capture of international aid.

But in recent years he has closely examined Britain’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza, from the role of RAF airbases in the Mediterranean to intelligence-sharing with Tel Aviv. These revelations, many of them uncovered in his work for Declassified UK, are central to this conversation with Aaron Bastani.