London’s National Portrait Gallery says Churchill was a mass murderer

Winston Churchill deliberately starved millions of Indians, according to a video exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The script claims that Oliver Cromwell “starved people, en masse, a little like the willful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.” It also accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately starving Gazans. “The accusation that [the famine] was deliberately visited upon Bengalis by Churchill is foul and vile,” wrote historian Andrew Roberts. “It is also historically ludicrous.” Over 50 peers, including Churchill’s grandson Lord Soames, signed Lord Roberts’s letter, which was sent to the gallery’s board on Monday. For more on why Churchill’s reputation so often comes under attack, see our main story today.