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US Professor: Mohammed Bin Salman is world’s richest Zionist
Pro-Israeli campaigners appear to be hunting for another scalp in their assault against free speech. The victim this time is a tenured Columbia university professor whose crime was nothing more than to speak out against Israel. A network of pro-Israel activists surged against comments made by Iranian Professor Hamid...
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Qatar blockade: Between a corrupt US president and impulsive Middle Eastern despots
Like his war on Yemen, heir apparent to the Saudi throne Mohammed Bin Salman no doubt felt confident that adding another belligerent policy to his name – an act of war no less – against another one of his neighbours would deliver a swift outcome. The newly appointed Crown...
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Labour MP calls on colleagues to ‘reassess’ ties to Labour Friends of Israel
Writing for the Spectator this week, journalist and author Peter Oborne asked if the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) is having a chilling effect on British politics. Protesting that “the Tories never condemn the naked racism of Benjamin Netanyahu, Oborne observed that , “he CFI pulled off what looks...
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There should be no room for Labour Friends of Israel within the Labour Party
“Callous disregard for human lives” and putting the interests of a foreign state — a state which is in violation of countless UN Resolutions — ahead of the interests of the progressive values of the Labour Party are just some of the reasons why Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)...
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Palestine Land Day remembered
To protest against the new measures, the Palestinian population declared a general strike. ...
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Trumps ‘deal of the century’ may turn out to be the failure of the century
Declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel was meant to be a major part of US President Donald Trump’s master plan in striking what he called the “deal of the century”. Fast forward one hundred days and the decision to break with international consensus is proving to be more like...
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Did UAE lobbying instigate Tillerson’s sacking?
US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, one week after the BBC obtained emails revealing efforts by the UAE to have him sacked at “a politically convenient time.” Was this an unlikely coincidence? Should Americans not wake up to the power of lobby groups that...
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Megalomaniac Crown Prince fails to win over Londoners with charm offensive
A political disease usually found in countries ruled by insecure megalomaniacs hit London this week: hello, personality cult. In the Middle East, the disease associated with regions in which stunted political growth is the norm, has a distinct characteristic. Large portraits of the ruler and members of his family...
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Do British courts really need to protect the world’s most corrupt industry?
The global arms trade is said to be the most corrupt business sector on the planet, responsible for almost 40 per cent of all dodgy dealings. The estimated statistics show a staggering imbalance in the link between the industry’s value and amount of associated corruption. Consider this: all global...
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Liberal US Democrats are turning their backs on Israel
Israel is losing a battle that it has been desperate to win. Attitudes matter to the Zionist state. They matter to Israel more than most, because since its creation in Palestine its hasbara — propaganda — has crafted an image of itself as a liberal democracy. However, according to...
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Israel assassinates more people than any Western country, concludes new book
Blowing up commercial airliners and an entire stadium full of spectators were just two of the plans ordered by the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his long quest to assassinate the late PLO leader, Yasser Arafat. Sharon was among a group of senior Israeli hawks within the...
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2017 was a year of chaos and instability under the Trump doctrine
It has now been a year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States, and the question on many lips is whether America can recover from what has been a humiliating fall. Its President has been denounced as “vulgar”, “racist”, “ignorant” and “childlike”. Questions are being...
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Trump is a bully, the UN must stand up to him
The torment of waking up to a Trump presidency has been described by some American’s as a glitch in the matrix; of being transported to a parallel universe in which a loutish red-haired charlatan, a bully accused of being a serial abuser of women – while bragging that as...
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Palestine Book Awards 2017 celebrates another year of literary excellence
The PBA ceremony is MEMO's flagship event and the culmination of months of hard work....
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
The author, Ben Ehrenreich introduces readers to his book “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine” with this sharp observation: “The world is made not only of earth and flesh and fire, but of the stories that we tell”. With these comments Ehrenreich makes his intentions...
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Billionaire pro-Israelis offered to fund legal case against Al Jazeera
Billionaire founders of a “charity” that provides funds to Israeli soldiers and bankrolls Canada’s pro-Israel lobby groups privately offered financial support to a former Al Jazeera journalist suing the media network for over $100 million, MEMO can reveal. Egyptian born, Mohamed Fahmy, launched a legal case against his former...
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Leaked emails: UAE wants Qatar to be ‘accountable’ for supporting BDS
Qatar’s support for the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel was a major cause of concern amongst senior UAE diplomats in Washington during the months leading up to the imposition of the Saudi-led siege on Doha. The UAE plays a leading role in the siege on...
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My Name is Rachel Corrie
Fourteen years have passed since 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by Israeli bulldozers in Gaza. The American activists, along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), were taking part in nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition when the...
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The Oslo Accords: A Critical Assessment
This collection of essays analyses the 1993 agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was published originally in 2013 as an e-book to mark the 20th anniversary of the Accords. Although hailed at the time as a historic...
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Remembering the October War
44 years ago, on 6 October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a military campaign to reclaim territories they had lost to Israel six years earlier in 1967...
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Remembering the Iran-Iraq War
22 September 1980 marked the beginning of one of the longest and bloodiest wars in Middle East history...
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Patriarch warns of Christian flight from holy land
A member of the Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarchate in Jerusalem warned an audience in London last week about the plight of Arab Christians under Israeli occupation. “The flight of Arab Christians from the holy land will turn churches into museums,” said Archimandrite Abdallah Giulio Brunella. Arab Christians, he explained,...
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Terrorism won’t be defeated if governments keep their heads in the sand about its causes
The subject of terrorism is rarely off the agenda these days. If the public aren’t being shaken by mindless violence then it’s the security forces foiling an attack which captures our attention. This week it was the turn of a TV drama that piqued the nation’s interest, but not...
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Threats are real but the US has to stop the narrative of perpetual war
How different would American be if it heeded the stark warnings of its 34th President and one of its most celebrated general, Dwight D. Eisenhower? As the most powerful country with a military budget that dwarfs every other nation, one assumes Eisenhower’s remarks about the dangers of the military-industrial...