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Pro-Palestine activists believe there could be a “sea change” in the Labour party’s approach to the crisis in the Middle East which could result in the government taking a tougher stance on Israel. Campaigners have pointed to the threat posed to Labour by the Green surge in the local elections, the likely departure of Keir Starmer from No 10, and new polling which shows an appetite among Labour members for a ban on all arms shipments to Israel. The relative optimism marks a mood swing for a campaign that has been hit hard by losing successive high court cases, the labelling of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, and the failure of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to progress Palestinian self-rule. Both of the frontrunners to replace Starmer as UK prime minister, Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham, have in the past urged Labour to do more to support Palestine. In the debates so far both have refused to describe Israel’s actions as genocide, although Streeting has accused Israel of committing war crimes. He also circulated a dossier from British doctors working in Palestine to cabinet, only to be accused by Starmer, according to an interview in the Observer, of doing so for the document to be leaked. Neither Streeting nor Burnham have yet detailed what the UK should do differently in Gaza, either unilaterally or in concert, however. In July 2025 Streeting wrote that Israel’s rogue state behaviour justified applying sanctions to the state, “not just a few ministers”. The most significant government moves until this week had been the partial suspension of arms exports to Israel in September 2024, and the recognition of Palestine as a state a year later. View image in fullscreen Brian Brivati said a Labour leadership election would mean ‘a major shift’ in the party’s approach. Photograph: Brian Brivati Brian Brivati, a historian and the executive director of the British Palestine Project, is convinced steps will be taken. “There is a sea change about to happen inside government and it would be extraordinary if there was not, just because so much of the dynamic leads in one direction,” he said. “[The former adviser] Morgan McSweeney has gone as Starmer’s gatekeeper in No 10 and he cut his teeth by linking Jeremy Corbyn to antisemitism. The electoral maths is obvious to MPs, including to new-intake MPs, who have woken up to what will happen in their seat after the Greens’ performance in the local elections. “There is the contrast between the leadership shown on Ukraine with Palestine, and the failure to uphold international law. The poll of Labour party members by Medical Aid for Palestinians released last week showed 87% backing for a ban on trade with illegal settlements, while 78% back a total ban on all arms shipments to Israel. “Then there is what is happening inside Gaza itself, including more than 900 deaths since the ceasefire and the absolute failure of the Board of Peace to achieve anything in six months. I would have expected Keir Starmer in the face of this just to do the bare minimum, but a [party] leadership election will mean a major shift in Labour’s approach, almost regardless of whether it is Burnham or Streeting, or anyone else.” In startling remarks last week, Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, said Labour had failed the Palestinians. After the act of recognition last autumn, the government had lost momentum while “the Trump peace plan has gone into the sand”, she said. “Recognition was a first step. Where is the second and 10th step?” she asked. View image in fullscreen Emily Thornberry, the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, said last week that her party had failed the Palestinians. Photograph: House of Commons/Reuters “What is happening inside Gaza is intolerable yet we tolerate it,” she added. She asked why, with the threat of the West Bank being partitioned in the next two months, the government had not used its convening power to end the deadlock over Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal. At an all-day British Palestine Project (BPP) conference last week, Thornberry was heckled when she described herself as a Zionist, but her call for Labour to do more reflects a frustrated mood. Another MP said: “It’s not just the diplomacy. We have not got the politics of this right.” The sobering truth about Israeli public opinion was conveyed to the BPP conference by the Israeli pollster Dr Dahlia Scheindlin, and much of the day was spent disentangling what a new Labour leader could do to convince Israelis that occupation did not bring security. The consensus was that possible practical actions were a full trade ban or a ban on the trade of goods made in illegal settlements; the belated publication of a full government response to the international court of justice decision on the illegality of the occupation made in 2024; and urgent steps to deter British and European firms from bidding for tenders for the E1 settlement area, a development that severs the north of the West Bank from the south. A letter signed by Labour select committee chairs contained some of these ideas, but the government this week instead imposed sanctions on more settler groups, saying it was hard practically to ban illegal settlement trade. Ministers also backed a new international peace fund to support grassroots initiatives aimed at building trust between communities. More broadly, Vincent Fean, a former consul general in Jerusalem, said: “Europe has lost diplomatic control of the Palestinian issue to Trump, and it needs to get it back, and Britain should be playing a bigger part in that.” Activists feel Starmer has been unwilling to reflect how Gaza had become a defining issue for a generation. It is the Greens that have called for the release of Marwan Barghouti, an imprisoned Palestinian political leader. Chris Doyle, the director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said: “We seem to have mastered the art of vacuous press releases that express concern, deep concern and then, drum roll, grave concern.” Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator, said Labour needed some hard analysis about how Israel’s leaders accrete power. Britain had to be laser-focused “on trying to impact what Israel can and cannot do, what Israel can get away with, and what hopefully it can be prevented from doing,” he said. “Criminalising this or that settler misses the point,” Levy said. “Sanctioning [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Israel’s finance minister Bezalel] Smotrich is a badge of pride for them. I have a news alert. They were not going to spend their summer in the Lake District anyway. Eurovision, football, basketball – those are the things that send signals to Israel. “We are witnessing the tectonic plates shifting. The Israeli-US war on Iran is likely to accelerate a shift away from the US. You undermine Zionism by offering something else. Apartheid was undermined by proposing a freedom charter that offered something else to the Afrikaner and white population of South Africa. There is no kissing point between a regime based on ethno-supremacy and their need for security.”

Ken Bianco lets out a brief laugh when he hears the question. Open a factory in California — where most of his customers are? "Absolutely not," says JCB's vice president of commercial operations, slicing the air with his hand as if swatting away a bothersome fly. "California has become too slow," he says. "Everything takes too long there — it's simply not business-friendly." Bianco is standing in the lobby of construction and industrial equipment manufacturer JCB. To his left sits a model of the world's fastest diesel engine, to his right a backhoe loader painted with a flame motif. When the company, founded in Britain in 1945, planned its first US plant in 2001, one thing was clear: it would head south. "Georgia welcomed us with incredible incentives," Bianco recalls. Today, the firm's North American headquarters stands here, complete with 500,000 square feet of production space, and a second large plant is currently under construction in the "Lone Star State" of Texas. That Republican-governed states in the American South are attracting so much investment is no coincidence. A look at the data reveals a pattern. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Utah, and Texas ranked among the country's leaders in both economic and population growth in 2025. While US GDP as a whole rose by 2.1% last year, Florida and South Carolina recorded gains of just over 3%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis — the highest rate of any state. Utah comes in just below that, with Texas also above the national average. The trend of recent years is clear: While liberal metropolitan regions such as San Francisco, Boston, and New York remain the centers of finance, Big Tech, and research, industry is shifting ever more strongly into the Southern states. Manufacturing firms in particular are increasingly drawn to places where Republicans hold power. According to a report by CBRE, one of the nation's largest real estate brokerage firms, 725 companies relocated their headquarters between 2018 and 2025. Increasingly, they left high-tax states like California or New York for Republican states like Florida or Texas. Economies of powerhouse states like New York and California are still growing too, driven above all by the tech boom. But the stronger momentum is currently elsewhere, as the population figures show. While New York's headcount is stagnating, California has been losing residents for several years — and the list of big-name companies turning their backs on the "Golden State" is growing steadily longer. South Carolina, by contrast, is currently the nation's fastest-growing state in percentage terms. Texas, according to the US Census Bureau, is gaining the most residents in absolute numbers: In the past 15 years alone, nearly 7 million people have moved there. Often overlooked, Utah is also buoyed by a young, growing population, while Florida leads the field in immigration from abroad. Behind these numbers lie millions of individual decisions. Taken together, however, they point to a clear conclusion: in the first year of "Trump 2.0", it is above all Republican-governed states that are attracting industrial investment and people. There is no shortage of examples. Take billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin, who — spooked by New York's mayor Zohran Mamdani's tax plans — has declared he would rather invest in Miami than in New York. Or the software engineers from Tesla or Oracle who have left overheated Silicon Valley for Austin, drawn by a mix of tech jobs, leafy suburbs, and low income taxes. Or the fast-growing cohort of retirees selling their homes in the Midwest to enjoy the Florida sun. It is the industrial sector in particular that is fueling the upswing in the South, while the former "workbench of America" — the so-called Rust Belt — continues to bleed out. One of the companies on a growth track is JCB, which operates its largest US plant just outside the port city of Savannah. "Twenty-five years ago, this was just an acre," Bianco recalls. Today, the factory alone turns out more than 20 excavators a day, and soon that number is expected to rise to 30 — the order books are full. The plant employs 560 workers in production and around 200 in administration. Its success also has to do with America's military build-up under Donald Trump. In its commercials, JCB presents itself as a problem-solver that makes heavy equipment for construction sites. But the company has long since moved into the booming military business, which people here euphemistically refer to as "defense". Construction and industrial equipment manufacturer JCB in Savannah, Georgia Jan Klauth During the plant visit in Georgia, press officers monitor every step the visitors take and repeatedly urge them not to take photos — the highest level of security applies in the military area. In terms of the US Army, Georgia has another strategic advantage: the state is home to the country's largest infantry presence, meaning the armed forces, a major client, are effectively on the doorstep. Republican-governed states tend to have one thing in common: in most cases, they have been traditionally "red" for decades. Especially in Texas and Florida, some politicians see themselves, with pride, as the antithesis to the "blue" coastal metropolises; talk of "blue state bullshit" that they want to keep at arm's length is commonplace. The relentless culture war that has been raging in the US for years has only intensified since Donald Trump returned to the White House. In reality, though, the reasons why industrial companies prefer to invest in the Republican South are rather prosaic. Governors and local politicians promise to keep taxes low, limit the rules imposed on business, and fast-track infrastructure projects. In practice, that means fewer requirements, quicker permits, and more projects. Big-name developers who might wait years for a building permit in California or the Northeast encounter municipalities here that actively court investors. Few examples show this as clearly as the corporate empire Elon Musk has moved from California to Texas. In the southwest of the Lone Star State, SpaceX rockets now shoot into the sky, and the company boasts the highest stock market valuation in history, while just outside the capital, Austin, the world's richest man has, within a few short years, built an entire "corporate town" around his companies, Tesla, The Boring Company, and X. Texas is, overall, a special case. The oil and gas business is benefiting from Trump's policy of giving fossil fuels more room again; at the same time, tech clusters are springing up along the highways around Austin, Dallas, and Houston, where start-ups sit side by side with branch offices of corporations that have shifted activities from expensive coastal regions to the Sun Belt. Cities like Austin are long past being the cheap alternative for hipsters from San Francisco; they have themselves become pricey metropolises plagued by traffic jams, housing shortages, and rising homelessness numbers. Yet compared with many coastal cities, a house with a garden remains within reach — and above all, the tax burden is lower. Perhaps the most visible consequence of the investment boom is the construction spree. Around cities like Houston, Miami, or Atlanta, one new suburban development after another is going up. On the outskirts of hubs such as Savannah or Laredo, Texas — the largest freight gateway on the Mexican border — cranes are erecting new logistics centers almost weekly. On top of this comes a second, hugely capital-intensive trend: the boom in data centers. With space at traditional locations such as the Bay Area or greater Seattle exhausted and expensive, investors have shifted their focus to places where land and energy are cheap, and politics are on their side. Alongside Democratic-run Virginia, that means above all rural regions in states like Texas and Georgia. One key reason: with power supplies tight, some operators are building their own gas plants right next to the data centers. Projects like these are approved far more quickly in Texas than in California. And there is another reason companies are increasingly turning away from the "Golden State" when making new investment decisions — one that is often glossed over: risk management. What sounds like something out of a Western movie has, in fact, become a major factor in supply-chain planning. In recent years, train robberies on the West Coast have reached shocking levels. At the peak, around 90 containers a day were being looted in the Los Angeles area alone. "Companies from South Korea, China, or Japan now prefer to send their containers to the Port of Savannah rather than Los Angeles," says Arthur Hutton, who oversees operations at a recently opened logistics center near the Savannah docks. As Hutton walks through the halls, a major shipment has just arrived: pianos from Japanese manufacturer Yamaha and paper rolls from China. And indeed, evaluations by the US Department of Transportation show that California has lost market share to Atlantic ports — even though the route from Asia is longer and therefore more expensive. One other reason for the shift in investment that companies don't mention publicly: Workers are less often unionized in the Southern states. Take the logistics center, dominated by Amazon, in Savannah, for instance: None of the staff is part of any union, Hutton says. California still boasts the largest economic output of any US state, thanks to Silicon Valley and Hollywood. But alongside Austin in Texas, other states are vying for tech supremacy. One is Utah, governed by Republicans continuously since 1985. The region around Salt Lake City has developed in recent years into a tech hub often referred to as the "Silicon Slopes". Software firms, start-ups, and service providers leaving the pricey West Coast find here a blend of good pay, relatively modest living costs, and spectacular scenery. South Carolina, A

مباشر - ثابت شحاتة: شهد سوق الأسهم السعودية أداء إيجابيا خلال الأسبوع المنتهي في 11 يونيو 2026، في ظل 12 قطاعا، بقيادة البنوك والاتصالات. وسجل المؤشر العام للسوق "تاسي" ارتفاعاً نسبته 0.47%، بمكاسب بلغت 51.57 نقطة، صعد بها إلى مستوى 11,042.02 نقطة، مقابل 10,990.45 نقطة بنهاية الأسبوع الماضي. وبلغت المكاسب السوقية خلال الأسبوع 11.7 مليار ريال، ليصعد رأس المال السوقي للأسهم المدرجة بـ"تداول" إلى 9.763 تريليون ريال، مقابل 9.752 تريليون ريال، بالأسبوع الماضي. 12 قطاعا تسجل أداء إيجابيا وجاءت مكاسب السوق في ظل صعود 12 قطاعا، بصدارة قطاع التأمين الذي ارتفع 5.11%، وصعد قطاع البنوك 1.11%، وسجل قطاع الاتصالات ارتفاعا نسبته 0.99%. وشهدت بقية القطاعات أداء سلبيا، وتصدر قطاع المواد الأساسية الخسائر بعد هبوطه 3.03%، تلاه قطاع تجزئة وتوزيع السلع الاستهلاكية بتراجع نسبته 2.44%، وسجل قطاع الطاقة تراجعا طفيفا بلغت نسبته 0.03%. أعلى المكاسب والخسائر وتصدر سهم شركة الكابلات السعودية قائمة الارتفاعات الأسبوعية بنسبة بلغت 15.14% ليصعد إلى مستوى 181 ريالا، تلاه سهم ليفا الذي ارتفع بنسبة 9.25% عند مستوى 11.69 ريال. وفي المقابل، جاء سهم أسمنت ينبع في مقدمة التراجعات بعد هبوطه 8.33% إلى مستوى 15.18 ريال، وانخفض سهم تالكو بنسبة 8.24% ليصل إلى 33.62 ريال. حركة التداول وارتفعت القيمة الإجمالية للأسهم المتداولة خلال الأسبوع إلى 27.48 مليار ريال، مقابل 26.71 مليار ريال بالأسبوع الماضي، بارتفاع نسبته 2.88%، ليصعد متوسط القيمة إلى نحو 5.5 مليار ريال للجلسة الواحدة. وسجلت كميات التداول تراجعا نسبته 10.2% لتهبط إلى 1.22 مليار سهم، مقارنة بتداولات بلغت 1.36 مليار سهم خلال الأسبوع الماضي، بمتوسط كميات بلغ 244.48 مليون سهم لكل جلسة بالأسبوع الحالي. وتصدر مصرف الراجحي الأسهم النشطة من حيث القيمة، بنحو 3 مليارات ريال، تلاه أرامكو السعودية بقيمة بلغت 1.72 مليار ريال، ثم البنك الأهلي بـ 1.24 مليار ريال. وعلى صعيد نشاط الكميات، احتلت سهم أمريكانا المركز الأول بتداولات بلغت 93.72 مليون سهم، تلاه أرامكو السعودية بكمية بلغت 63.4 مليون سهم، ثم "أنابيب" بتداول 61.91 مليون سهم.

الرياض - مباشر: شهدت السوق المالية السعودية "تداول" بجلسة الأربعاء، تركز التحركات السعرية والكميات في مجموعة من الأسهم القيادية وأسهم قطاع الأغذية والتجزئة، وسط تغلب اللون الأحمر على تلك الأسهم. وأنهى مؤشر سوق الأسهم السعودية الرئيسي (تاسي) تعاملات جلسة اليوم الأربعاء على انخفاض، حيث فقد المؤشر 102.16 نقطة ليغلق عند مستوى 11,012.64 نقطة، مسجلاً تراجعاً بنسبة 0.92%. وتصدر سهم شركة أمريكانا للمطاعم العالمية قائمة الأسهم الأكثر نشاطاً من حيث حجم التداول خلال جلسة اليوم، حيث تم تداول 27.59 مليون سهم، وأغلق السهم على انخفاض بنسبة 1.03% ليصل إلى سعر 1.92 ريال، وبلغت القيمة الإجمالية للتداولات على السهم 53.01 مليون ريال، وجاء هذا التحرك في ظل ضغوط بيعية شهدتها الجلسة أدت إلى تراجع السهم دون مستوياته السابقة. وفي المرتبة الثانية من حيث كمية الأسهم المتداولة، حل سهم شركة أرامكو السعودية بحجم تداول بلغ 13.03 مليون سهم، وسجل السهم تراجعاً طفيفاً بنسبة 0.37% ليغلق عند مستوى 27.06 ريال. وبلغت القيمة المتداولة على أسهم عملاق النفط السعودي 352.59 مليون ريال، مما يعكس استمرار السهم في جذب حصة كبيرة من سيولة السوق اليومية رغم التذبذب المحدود في سعره السوقي. وبرز سهم شركة أنابيب كأحد الأسهم القليلة التي خالفت الاتجاه العام للسوق، حيث حقق ارتفاعاً بنسبة 1.07% ليغلق عند 7.58 ريال، وشهد السهم تداول 8.86 مليون سهم، بقيمة إجمالية وصلت إلى 67.31 مليون ريال، مما جعله في المركز الثالث من حيث حجم التداول خلال الجلسة. وشهد القطاع المصرفي ضغوطاً واضحة أثرت على أداء المؤشر العام، حيث سجل سهم البنك الأهلي السعودي تراجعاً بنسبة 2.29% ليغلق عند 40.14 ريال، مع تداول 7.79 مليون سهم بقيمة بلغت 315.1 مليون ريال. كما تراجع سهم مصرف الراجحي بنسبة 0.96% ليصل إلى 66.8 ريال، مسجلاً تداول 7.04 مليون سهم وقيمة تداول مرتفعة بلغت 470.45 مليون ريال، وهي القيمة الأعلى بين الأسهم الأكثر نشاطاً بالحجم. وفي قطاعات أخرى، سجل سهم دي بي اس تراجعاً بنسبة 1.93% ليغلق عند 12.73 ريال، وسط تداولات بلغت 7.23 مليون سهم وقيمة إجمالية 93.24 مليون ريال، وفي المقابل، شهد سهم بترو رابغ تحركاً إيجابياً طفيفاً بارتفاع قدره 0.35% ليغلق عند 14.35 ريال، مع تداول 4.44 مليون سهم بقيمة 63.45 مليون ريال.

الرياض - مباشر: شهد سوق الأسهم السعودية بنهاية جلسة الأربعاء، تركز السيولة بشكل واضح في الأسهم الكبرى بقطاعي البنوك والطاقة والصناعات الأساسية، وسط ضغوط بيعية شملت معظم الأسهم القيادية. وأنهى المؤشر العام للسوق الرئيسية (تاسي) تعاملات جلسة الأربعاء على انخفاض بلغت نسبته 0.92%، ليغلق عند مستوى 11,012.64 نقطة، بخسائر بلغت 102.73 نقطة. وتصدر مصرف الراجحي قائمة الأسهم الأكثر نشاطاً من حيث قيمة التداول، حيث بلغت قيمة الصفقات المنفذة عليه 470.45 مليون ريال، وأغلق سهم المصرف عند سعر 66.8 ريال، مسجلاً تراجعاً بنسبة 0.96%، بعد تداول نحو 7.04 مليون سهم. وفي ذات القطاع، شهد سهم البنك الأهلي السعودي تداولات كثيفة بلغت قيمتها 315.1 مليون ريال، ليغلق السهم عند مستوى 40.14 ريال بانخفاض قدره 2.29%، مع تداول 7.79 مليون سهم، كما سجل مصرف الإنماء سيولة بلغت 167.06 مليون ريال، وأنهى الجلسة عند سعر 24.63 ريال متراجعاً بنسبة 0.81%، بعد تداول 6.74 مليون سهم. وفي قطاع الطاقة، جاء سهم أرامكو السعودية في المرتبة الثانية من حيث السيولة، محققاً تداولات بلغت قيمتها 352.59 مليون ريال، وأغلق السهم عند مستوى 27.06 ريال بنسبة انخفاض بلغت 0.37%، بعد تداول 13.03 مليون سهم، وهي أعلى كمية تداول بين الأسهم العشرة الأكثر نشاطاً بالقيمة. وسجل سهم لوبريف أداءً إيجابياً مخالفاً للاتجاه العام للسوق، حيث ارتفع بنسبة 3.36% ليصل إلى سعر 129.2 ريال، وسط سيولة بلغت 99.46 مليون ريال وتداول 0.78 مليون سهم. وفي قطاع المواد الأساسية، تعرض سهم سابك للمغذيات الزراعية لضغوط بيعية دفعته للتراجع بنسبة 3.45% ليغلق عند 126 ريال، مسجلاً قيمة تداول بلغت 201.36 مليون ريال بعد تداول 1.59 مليون سهم. كما انخفض سهم سابك بنسبة 1.95% ليصل إلى مستوى 55.2 ريال، بقيمة تداولات بلغت 153.16 مليون ريال وكمية تداول وصلت إلى 2.76 مليون سهموتراجع سهم معادن بنسبة 3.46% ليغلق عند 58.55 ريال، محققاً قيمة تداول بلغت 129.34 مليون ريال من خلال تداول 2.18 مليون سهم. وبلغت قيم تداول الأسهم العشرة الأكثر نشاطاً من حيث القيمة 2.48 مليار ريال، وهو ما يمثل 43% من السيولة الإجمالية للسوق، التي بلغت 5.75 مليار ريال.