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This week is the 98th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – 2 November 1917– and the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on 4...

Author: Lena Jayyusi Paperback: 550 pages Publisher: Interlink Publishing Published Date: 30 April 2015 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1566567879 Review By Nasim Ahmed Jerusalem Interrupted explores how the city, its...

Tony Blair’s fortified exterior is slowly beginning to crack. He may not, yet, feel justice closing in on him but he will certainly have become resigned to the fact...

It takes blind faith and a refusal to face facts to ignore the ideological undercurrents fuelling the escalating violence in Jerusalem; its takes even more hypocrisy to go on...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s long pause as he addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly in his inimitably disdainful manner will probably be the first image that comes to everyone’s...

The mass proliferation of weapons is one of the major sources of instability in the world. Its devastating consequence is universally felt: prophets and politicians alike warned of its...

"Israel will not exist in 25 years," Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei affirmed earlier this week. He joins a growing number of people, Jews and non-Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, who...

David Cameron's hard-line refusal to take more refugees from the Middle East is dismaying, especially after the distressing image of a lifeless Syrian child, refused asylum by Canada and...

Since becoming the front runner in the Labour leadership contest, Sheikh Raed Salah, to discredit him as a potential leader. Yesterday, it was the turn of Channel 4 news...

"Britain caused many of the world's problems." These are not the words of a "radicalised" individual "indoctrinated" by an extremist narrative; they are the words of the British Prime...

David Cameron's much-trailed speech in Birmingham this week about "the struggle of our generation" failed miserably to live up to its billing. Instead of tackling genuine concerns about terrorism,...

I have been watching a bit more television than usual, certainly more than I expected to in this blessed month of Ramadan. I was gripped, in part due to...

The unsustainability of Israel's occupation is acknowledged almost universally, yet its permanence is the only reality known to most Jews and Palestinians. Its supposed temporary nature has not prevented...

Following the tragic killings in Charleston Church, many noticed, once again, the striking difference between the mainstream media and political establishment's coverage of violent crimes perpetrated by Muslims and...

A church apologist in the early fifteenth century, writing approvingly of the Inquisition, declared, "We persecuted the seeds of evil not only in men's deeds, but in their thoughts."...

A new report by Spinwatch, a public interest investigation group, provides an in-depth scrutiny of The Henry Jackson Society and the Degeneration of British Neo-conservatism; it examines the history,...

Millions of Muslims around the world are buying dates for the coming month of Ramadan. Many will be careful not to purchase those produced by Israel in occupied Palestinian...

On 15 May millions of Palestinians will be commemorating 67 years of the Nakba, the episode in their history described as the "catastrophe", with the creation of the state...

My previous article on Egypt examined how "the heart of the Arab world" has been locked into foreign dependency since its formation as a modern nation state. I argued...

Britain's Muslim community is sufficient in number to have a significant impact in the coming general election. Muslim voters are an "untapped resource" with the potential to seal the...

What better way to begin a series of articles on Egypt than to start by examining the country's composition to explore why it's teetering on the brink of being...

To be a freier is anathema to Israelis. The Yiddish word is translated loosely as "sucker", which doesn't really do justice to its broader and more significant connotations. "Don't...

What would the reaction be if a Muslim was known to have plotted to assassinate the president of the United States? How could we even approximate of the level...

Benjamin Netanyahu has won a resounding electoral victory despite the fact that he has become a caricature of Israeli rejectionists and the best efforts of "anyone but Bibi" political...

Whether it's with friend or foe, Israel bears no cost for its extreme political brazenness. Such chutzpah is normally the privilege of superpowers, which are able to pursue national...

We all remember the infamous comical moment when Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN back in 2012 and made his fabricated case for striking Iran. In his desperation to convince...

With the appalling rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes across Europe, arguably as a consequence of political decisions being implemented elsewhere, there is an urgent need to separate Jews and...

The US-Israel special relationship is acknowledged universally as the unswayable force of politics in the Middle East. The theme is confessed ritually by every US president and Israeli prime...

When Egypt's 25 January Revolution began in 2011 calling for the removal of the regime, few anticipated the speedy dismissal of the man who had held the reins of...

The academic boycott of Israel was the theme of a discussion at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) this week. An event organised by the student...

One could be forgiven for thinking that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is God's unique way of revealing the depth of human hypocrisy. It's not just that the US State Department...

There is no doubt that 2014 will be remembered as one of the most tragic in Palestinian history. There are reasons to believe, though, that the year was also...