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The power of veto held by the five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council — the US, Russia, China, Britain and France — is one of the...
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Centrist politicians and commentators generally scorn the right wing for the polarisation of society, the coarsening of political discourse and the tribalism tearing communities apart. At the root of...
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On 2 April, 2002, Israel imposed a military siege on the Church of the Nativity in occupied Bethlehem after some 200 Palestinians took refuge inside the church
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Ever since the New York Times released its eight-part podcast last month on the Trojan Horse Affair, there has been a reckoning with truth. A reckoning which has not...
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at the weekend that he had "never seen such a stark division between good and evil," as he charged Russian president Vladimir Putin...
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Rarely does a week pass by where we don't see Israel tightening its grip on Palestine through its apartheid system of domination and control, or new revelations about the...
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In late 2020, the French government's decision to dissolve two of the most prominent and respected Muslim NGOs in the country, Baraka City, and the CCIF (Collective Against Islamophobia...
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I have been watching the Russia-Ukraine crises unfold while reading Ben Rhodes' new book, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made". It is riveting, essential reading...
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The near unanimous consensus amongst leading human rights groups over Israel's practice of apartheid has thrust the UK Labour Party into an awkward and somewhat bewildering dilemma. The cognitive...
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Amnesty International became the latest human rights group to label Israel an apartheid state. In a damning report titled "Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians" the rights group concludes that the occupation...
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Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara to conceal the reality of its domination of Palestine and subjugation of its people. Propaganda in short, the hasbara industry has...
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Every now and then the influential Tel Aviv based think tank the Reut Institute publishes a report on the growing threat to Israel's privileged status within the American body...
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US lawmakers voted, last month, in support of a bill to create a State Department office tasked with monitoring and combating Islamophobia across the globe. With members of the...
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Renewed interest in the murder of Palestinian-American civil rights activist, Alex Odeh, has fuelled speculations that the US-Israel alliance has blocked justice and hindered the criminal investigation into the...
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Judging by this week's close vote on combating Islamophobia, and sensational revelations by a major US Muslim group, President Joe Biden's attempt to move the US into a new...
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World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US, Britain, China, Russia,...
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UN Resolution 181 The Partition of Palestine
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The UK is sleepwalking into a racist two-tier system of citizenship following the revelation that Home Secretary, Priti Patel, had quietly introduced a highly controversial plan last week to...
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Britain is mired in another row about freedom of speech following Tuesday's student protest against extreme right-wing Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. To the dismay of Palestinian student groups, the...
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Alarm bells are ringing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow over the perilous fate of the planet. The threat of a "doomsday" scenario was echoed in the speeches...
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In one of the worst massacres in Palestinian history, Israeli border police killed forty-nine residents of Kafr Qasem, including women and children
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One of the gains from the much talked about American "pivot" towards Asia is the genuine prospect for geopolitical recalibration. As implausible as this may sound, amongst the shifting...
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The public debate around three high-profile cases related to academic freedom in UK universities has exposed the contradictions and double standards at the centre of this row, the result...
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The European Commission is set to incorporate the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism as part of Europe's strategy to combat anti-Jewish racism. Details of the...
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Sudan's Transitional Government has been accused of illegally expropriating the assets of Malaysia's national oil company, Petronas, which could trigger legal proceedings against Khartoum in the International Court of...
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MEMO in conversation with Marc Owen Jones
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Reading the reflections of one of Israel's most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the apparently never-ending occupation of Palestine, I was reminded of an old saying about the nature...
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Two schools of thought have emerged to explain the defeat of the West in the so-called "war on terror". With proponents such as acclaimed CIA analyst and author Michael...
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The architects of the "war on terror" have hit back following the humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan. From the political leaders who sanctioned never-ending wars to the intellectual high...
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The infighting within UK Labour over Israel took a surprising twist last week that could push the party into further disarray. Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) – the main...
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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...
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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...