{"id":2334,"date":"2026-03-30T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:39:44","slug":"blair-there-is-no-genocide-in-palestine-and-israel-blocking-aid-is-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/blair-there-is-no-genocide-in-palestine-and-israel-blocking-aid-is-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair: There is no genocide in Palestine and Israel blocking aid is justified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed that Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza does not constitute genocide, despite findings by human rights groups and reports confirming otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an op-ed published Thursday by The Free Press and republished Friday by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Blair, who is also controversial member of the executive board of Trump&#8217;s \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d said political leaders failed to stop the rise of antisemitism, reports Quds News Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blair&#8217;s shocking statement comes after two years of genocide during which Israel has killed more than 72 000 Palestinians, wiped out entire areas, forcibly displaced the majority of the population and used starvation as a method of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blair wrote that people should not cheapen the \u201ccharge of genocide\u201d by applying it to Gaza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also justified the Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza over fears that materials could be used by the resistance. &#8211; AA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHatred towards Islam and Muslims, fuelled by the likes of Tony Blair, is going to make the living of Muslims in this country a hell.\u201d<br><br>Speaking on LBC, British Imam and political activist Ajmal Masroor strongly criticised and condemned Tony Blair, accusing the former British PM\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NGy9SktWkf\">pic.twitter.com\/NGy9SktWkf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/5Pillarsuk\/status\/2038577352360247771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed that Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza does not constitute genocide, despite findings by human rights groups and reports confirming otherwise. In an op-ed published Thursday by The Free Press and republished Friday by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Blair, who is also controversial member of the executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,205],"tags":[14,15,16,23,24,19,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-2334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones","8":"category-secondary-story","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-palestine","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-war-crimes","15":"tag-zionist"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}