About this Event
The Sunday Times bestseller is ‘an absolutely devastating indictment of Britain’s criminal role in Israel’s genocide,’ says Owen Jones.
Ilan Pappé has called it ‘a damning document recording British betrayal of Palestine that began a century ago and continues today’. Ghassan Abu-Sittah has described it as ‘a critical document for understanding not just this war but the workings of Western imperialism’.
‘Incisive, detailed, and brutally honest, Peter Oborne cuts through the daily noise and propaganda,’ says Sayeeda Warsi. ‘Our politicians and media are in the dock for colluding in the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza,’ says our co-patron, Ken Loach. ‘Peter Oborne’s book leaves no hiding place.’
It is ‘both an act of resistance and a testament to the power of truth’, says Ahmed Alnaouq. Come and hear – and question – its author.
Peter Oborne is a distinguished journalist and pamphleteer who has reported extensively from the Middle East. In 2009, he exposed the workings of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
He was political editor of the Spectator from 2001to 2006 and chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph from 2010 to 2015. He then wrote a weekly column for the Daily Mail until 2019, when his unsuccessful attempt to get published an article about the way the Government used the media to propagate falsehoods ‘marked the end of my thirty-year-long career as a writer and broadcaster in the mainstream British press and media’. The BBC ‘ceased to use me, without explanation’.
His many books also include (2005), (2007), (with David Morrison, 2013), (2021) and (2022).
Today, he is associate editor of Middle East Eye and writes a column for MEE as well as for Byline Times, Declassified UK, Double Down News and openDemocracy.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16–18 Queen Square, Bath, United Kingdom
GBP 3.00 to GBP 5.00
