Middle East Near You

The founders of Ben & Jerry's doubled down on the company's decision to end business in the Israeli occupied West Bank with a compelling article in the New York...

The global hacking scandal involving Israel's notorious NSO Group has sparked fury around the world as the full extent of the industrial scale spying operation targeting politicians, academics and...

The British Labour Party has become embroiled in another major race row following its decision to readmit Trevor Phillips to the party just over a year after he was...

Sajid Javid made a surprise comeback to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet this weekend following the resignation of Matt Hancock. The former health secretary fell on his sword a...

The UK plans to boycott a UN sponsored anti-racism conference in South Africa citing anti-Semitism concerns

Prof. Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.

Despite Israel's efforts to "spirit the Arabs out of their homeland" and the vain hope of its first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, that "the old will die and the...

Watch our conversation with the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, discussing the organisation's latest report which found that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.

The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the...

Scheck has been writing about Saudi Arabia since 2016. A graduate of Bates College, he worked at small newspapers in California before starting his career at the Journal in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Emmy nominee.

A Saudi-led peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League's 22 member states offered Israel a comprehensive formula for peace based on international norms

An alliance of far-right groups including Jewish Power, a party so extreme that even unflinching supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in the US cannot stomach, are poised to enter...

Watch our interview with anthropologist, author, lecturer and political activist Jeff Halper

Arguments presented by Dr Warren highlight the ongoing battle to control the narrative about the Arab Spring

Having aligned their security interest with Israel, Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state.

Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

When B'Tselem described Israel as an apartheid state in a position paper last week, it did more than just dispel long held delusions about the Zionist state. In saying...

How the mighty have fallen. In the space of a few months, Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has gone from the dizzy heights of...

Watch our interview with Jeremy Wildeman, a fellow at Ottawa University's Human Rights Research and Education Centre

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is facing fierce criticism for failing to challenge a caller to a radio phone-in who advanced a racist conspiracy theory that has inspired...

The UN's International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People — commemorated on 29 November every year since 1977 to remind the world that the question of Palestine remains unresolved...

In his new book, A Promised Land, former US President Barack Obama admits that he has a lot to say. So much so, that he felt the need to...

Upon leaving office, US Presidents have, on occasion, mustered the courage to speak their mind about America's relationship with Israel and the influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington....

On the very day that Jerusalem came under Israeli occupation in 1967 "exile became a central reality in my life," recollects Kamal Boullata in the opening passages of the...

Joe Biden's victory in the US Presidential election has sparked a flurry of commentaries on its meaning and significance. The general tendency of such reflection has been to overstate...

Our interview with Prof Salman Sayyid

A debate that is sure to resurface in Washington in the new year is the question over the promotion of democracy. Will it once again be reinstated in its...

Few have documented Israel's erasure of Palestine better than Dr Salman Abu Sitta. Best known for his ground-breaking project mapping historic Palestine and developing a practical plan for implementing...

The misuse of religion has become something of an art form in the Middle East. On the one hand many of the region's autocrats and dictators, calling for greater...

Our interview with Prof. Mark Ayyesh

What Six years ago, Israeli occupation forces targeted the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in one of the deadliest military offensives against the two million Palestinians living within the...

Pro-Israel lobby groups in the US have come out in force to unseat Ilhan Omar in the August Democratic primary elections. The freshman lawmaker is locked in a bitter...