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...

The irreconcilable tension within Zionism has been laid bare once again by prominent columnist and commentator Peter Beinart. For a number of years, the 49-year-old has had the status...

Supporters of Israel would have breathed a sigh of relief when the Zionist state postponed its 2 July annexation of the West Bank, in what was a humiliating about-turn....

The Ryerson Centre for Free Expression hosted a virtual forum earlier this month on the definition of anti-Semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). With governments and...

Last year, I wrote that a new global civil rights movement was uniting Palestinians and Black Americans. I argued that the Palestinian struggle had undergone many dramatic changes over...

Seeing US army boots on foreign ground has been commonplace over the past seven decades. According to one estimate, Washington's proclivity for military solutions has seen US troops deployed...

Yet another brutal killing of a black American by law enforcement officers has hit the headlines, especially on social media. George Floyd, 46, was unarmed when a Minneapolis police...

Israel's planned annexation of the West Bank is threatening to cause a rift among Britain's Jews as longstanding supporters of the Zionist state have spoken out against its "violation"...

Tributes have poured in from across the world for Denis Goldberg, the veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner who died on Wednesday aged 87. Goldberg was a close ally of...

The spread of the global coronavirus pandemic has exposed the shockingly "perverse" circumstances under which overseas doctors, nurses and care workers are having to work in the UK.  Tens...

Calls for China to be held to account for the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19 have the potential to push Washington and Beijing into a new Cold War. If...

Shocking details of a conspiracy at the heart of the British Labour Party aimed to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's chance of winning an election was leaked in an 851-page report...

With the world predicted to change in ways that were unimaginable only a few weeks ago due to the coronavirus outbreak, can Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman pull...

Seventeen years ago, on 19 March 2003, the US led the western invasion of Iraq in a war many consider to be the worst foreign policy disaster in modern history

Libelling human rights activists who expose the brutal reality of Israel's seemingly never-ending military occupation of Palestine has been the standard modus operandi of anti-Palestinian groups. This tactic has...

The UN decision to seek India's assistance in resolving the Palestine-Israel conflict is not only inexplicable, but also shows an incredible lack of judgement. Injecting some new blood into...

An Israeli taxi-hailing app, offering its Jewish customers the option which guarantees that they will not be picked up by an Arab cab driver, is being sued by human...

The latest clash in the American civil war over Israel, which pits liberal progressives against right-wing reactionary nationalists, ended with an apology at the weekend by the American Israel...

It will prove to be Israel's misfortune that the Zionist project to take over Palestine got underway at a period when settler-colonialism was coming to be viewed with moral...

The UK's most high-profile pro-Israel group, spearheading the campaign to conflate anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel, has been forced to cancel an event with London Central Mosque following a...

During a televised discussion over which country has been the main source of instability in the Middle East, I struggled to place Iran ahead of the US. While it...

In their quest to refashion India as a Hindu state, Hindutva extremists have placed themselves on a collision course with the country's secular constitution. Their goal is no less...

Cries of anti-Semitism took another extraordinary turn yesterday after one of Britain's leading advocates for the state of Israel insisted that the charge of Islamophobia was itself anti-Semitic in...

US officials and former NSA employees build UAE secret surveillance unit

Last week, a Guardian investigation traced a network of Facebook accounts fuelling far-right Islamophobic pages around the world to Israel. Journalists at the UK daily uncovered a plot to...

With three weeks to go until the British public cast their vote in what is expected to be a close race in the country's most important general election, and...

Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian has successfully constructed an image for himself as a vanguard of truth. The newspaper columnist's most recent novel, To Kill the Truth, published under...

With just over a month to go until the British public cast their vote in what is expected to be a close race in the country's most important General...

One would be at stretch to find another place on earth where the mining of history evokes as much controversy as Palestine. You would struggle even further to name...