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During the recent media dust-up over the Daily Mail's attack on Labour leader Ed Milliband's father, many people on the left called attention to the right-wing tabloid's history of...
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Due to the large number of complaints we've received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...
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Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...
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Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...
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Glenn Greenwald is on a roll. This column has followed his historic coverage of Edward Snowden's leaked National Security Agency documents with great interest. Last week there was another...
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This week, the pop star Rihanna played a gig in Tel Aviv, despite many requests made to her by Palestinian and solidarity activists to observe the cultural boycott of...
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Fortress Europe's tyrannical border continues to claim lives. Last week there was another terrible shipwreck in the Mediterranean which claimed the lives of dozens of desperate, fleeing refugees. It...
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The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...
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The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...
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The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain's Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...
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The slow disintegration of living conditions in the West Bank continues apace. But this is no natural disaster or complicated economic malaise. This is a very deliberately created policy,...
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Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...
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Last month during a debate in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, there was a disturbing comment made by one of the right-wing politicians. It was racist remark that revealed much...
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The farce continues. Since the July coup that overthrew elected President Mohammed Morsi last year, Egypt has gone from disaster to disaster. As flawed and problematic as his administration...
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In Palestine solidarity circles the debate around the pro-Israel lobby often focuses on the chicken-or-the-egg problem: are Western governments supportive of Israel because the lobby is so influential, or...
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Renowned Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was at the UK's Sheldon immigration court in Birmingham this week. His appeal against the government's decision in June to...