The British public were subjected to an hour of anti-Palestine propaganda by the BBC last week when it aired a Panorama programme on the "anti-Semitism" row within the Labour...

We are witnessing the global retreat of democracy under an "age of impunity," warned former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a Fulbright Lecture last month. The former Labour...

The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!

British Conservative MP Theresa Villiers blundered into a debate on Israel and Palestine last week. In doing so, the former Northern Ireland Secretary rehashed discredited myths the function of...

Since US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar stirred controversy with tweets about the power of the US' Israel lobby, a flood of articles has followed exposing not only the hypocrisy of...

"Zionism has never been a movement for self-determination"

With Israel seeking to purge public spaces of its critics, the decision by the New York Times to ban its publication of political cartoons entirely over alleged anti-Semitism, perhaps...

For the 1.8m Palestinians who make up almost 20 per cent of the population of Israel, discrimination and institutional racism has been a reality since the Nakba

Calls to boycott this year's Eurovision song contest have focused on Israel's brutal occupation. Mercury Prize-winning rock band Wolf Alice, for example, gave their backing by evoking images of...

Since its launch in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has evolved into one of the most effective campaigns against racism. This year's IAW kicked off in South Africa earlier...

In their desperate attempt to divert attention from the brutal reality of its military occupation, Israel and its supporters have successfully employed a number of tactics. None, however, have...

As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future.

Pro-Israel groups aided by the mainstream media have led the assault on the Labour Party over its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism. Their goal, it seems, is no less...

As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future.

A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that "The...

The Labour Party in Britain has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism ever since Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the 2015 leadership contest. The crisis has since threatened to tear...

One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people. Tragically this myth served the country to great effect especially in denying the return of...

A number of prominent Jewish-American leaders are funding covert, anonymous campaigns targeting pro-Palestinian student activists, The Forward has found. The Jewish daily newspaper, which has been publishing valuable information...

Turkey's location in a strategic part of the world is a "blessing and a curse," Professor Gülnur Aybet said this week at a major panel discussion in Central London....

Al Jazeera have released a new documentary on the racist group Generation Identity in France

For centuries, the Middle East has cast a long and dark shadow over the legacy of many a statesman wanting to leave his mark on history. Unlike Europeans, the...

Rating 4/5 Why do people who are normally good commit acts of evil? A great many have been bedevilled by the question but the answer is as elusive as...

Relations between Britain and the UAE came under scrutiny after a judge in the Emirates sentenced a British academic to life imprisonment last week. Matthew Hedges, a PhD student...

A Saudi campaign to save Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has been gaining momentum since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on 2 October. With each passing day, the...

After the Trump administration ignominiously called time on the Palestinian diplomatic mission in the US less than two months ago, the top PLO diplomat in Washington, Dr Husam Zomlot,...

Balfour in the Dock is a contemporary work looking at a 750-page magnum opus on Palestine by outstanding British journalist J M N Jeffries (1880-1960). His book Palestine: The...

Jamal, a leading journalist and columnist on the MENA, and an outspoken critic of the Saudi regime, was killed on 2 October at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul

Good nicknames have the amazing ability to capture the essence of a person's life better than any well-written biography. When we hear "the greatest," "the people's champion" or the...

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, MEMO hosted a conference in London, UK on 29 September 2018

On the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords, it is an appropriate time to consider what has been called "an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian...

Should critics of political Islam be described as racist Islamophobes? It's a question that ought to garner serious discussion in light of the ongoing "anti-Semitism" row engulfing the Labour...

The man described as the "most dangerous political operative in America" gave an interview recently where he rejected the accusation that he was an anti-Semite. His comments said a...