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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has issued a statement of support for Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign following concerns raised by some of its members over Congressman Jamaal Bowman's visit to Israel earlier this month. The Democrat lawmaker, who is a member of DSA, visited Israel and the...

The Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) invited the Turkish ambassador for a private meeting yesterday, in another sign of improved relations between Ankara and Abu Dhabi. Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed, hosted ambassador Tugay Tuncer at his court yesterday, holding a private meeting with him at...

Palestinian students at George Washington University (GW) were denied trauma support services following a complaint by a pro-Israel group that it is anti-Sematic to attend to the Palestinian students' mental and physiological pain. The anti-Semitism allegation was made after GW's Office of Advocacy and Support (OAS), which is tasked...

Students, academics and sabbatical officers from a number of UK universities have come out in support of London School of Economics (LSE) students in protesting against the on-campus appearance of Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely. A statement signed by over 120 people, said: "Hotovely has a well-documented history of...

From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the main fortress of Arab reactionism. This was due to the size of the Kingdom, its location in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, its custodianship over the Muslim...

High poverty rates among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have exacerbated the child labour phenomenon, the Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness) said yesterday. The foundation said in a report that school dropouts, the additional economic shocks and closures of schools caused by the coronavirus pandemic forced a large number...

The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources yesterday warned Turkey that its plan to build a new dam on the Tigris River would affect Iraq's share of the river's waters. Ministry spokesperson, Ali Radi, said Turkish authorities had been contacted via the Foreign Affairs Ministry to warn them of the...

Turkish police are reported to have detained internationally-renowned Syrian musician Omar Souleyman yesterday over alleged links with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). According to AFP, Souleyman, whose real name is Omar Al-Masikh, was taken into police custody for questioning after a search warrant was issued. He was arrested...

Egypt's Emergency State Security Court yesterday sentenced five political activists to varying prison terms ranging from three to five years for allegedly spreading false news and "disturbing public peace". Ikram Yousef, the mother of detainee Zyad El-Elaimy, said her son was sentenced to five years in prison. El-Elaimy is a...

Britain's Prince Charles said yesterday that Jordan's custodianship over Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem is "vital" to achieving peace in the Middle East. "The United Kingdom views Jordan, under the leadership of King Abdullah II, not only as a friend, but as a consistent voice of moderation...

Qatar and Egypt have signed agreements to supply fuel and basic building materials to the Gaza Strip, which has been under strict Israeli siege for more than 15 years, the Qatari Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. According to Qatar's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Soltan Bin Saad Al Muraikhi, these joint collaborative efforts...

International leaders and diplomats met in Paris on Friday, discussed the situation in Libya, and decided that the oil-rich North African country should stick to the UN plan to hold presidential and parliamentary elections next month. "We stress the importance for all Libyan stakeholders to mobilise resolutely in favour...

The former Yemeni regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh maintained secret contact with Israel, Rai Al Youm online newspaper reported an official saying yesterday. According to the Deputy Director of Moral Guidance Department for Media Affairs in the Houthi government, Brigadier Abdullah Bin Amer, Israel widened its operation and activities in Yemen during Saleh's time as president. He said...

Over 100 Hollywood celebrities have signed a letter criticising Israel's labelling of six Palestinian NGOs as terror groups, international news agencies reported yesterday. Among the signatories were Hollywood stars Richard Gere, Claire Foy, Tilda Swinton and Susan Sarandon; director Ken Loach, musician Jarvis Cocker, the band Massive Attack, and authors Philip Pullman, Colm Tobin and Irvine Welsh....

On 21 October, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers,...

Palestinian NGOs yesterday called for boycotting American envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield over her decision not to meet with represenatives of the six Palestinian NGOs banned by Israel, a statement said. This came as Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported an American official saying: "Thomas-Greenfield will not meet any of the representatives of the Palestinian civil society and...

Two Israelis detained last week in Turkey after they were reported for taking photos of the presidential palace in Istanbul were released and arrived in Israel on board a private jet sent by the Israeli government, local media reported this morning. Husband and wife, Mordy and Natali Oknin, were detained last week after taking...

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The arrest of two Israelis for filming the home of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to provoke angry reactions in Israel, despite the apparent keenness not to enter into a new political crisis with Turkey. However, media coverage suggests that there are fears in Israel that the issue...

The Egyptian cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision submitted by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to amend some provisions of the regulation of the Human Organ Transplant Law. The amendment stipulated that the age of the donor "should not be more than 60 years for kidney transplant surgery, and less...

At least ten protesters were killed by the Sudanese army and others were wounded as thousands rallied yesterday against last month's military coup. According to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD), 14 protesters were killed. "There are more than 80 wounded, a large number of them seriously, and...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday denied Israeli claims that it would cut the salaries of the families of Palestinians killed by Israel and those detained in Israeli jails, Quds Press reported. Speaking to the news site, PA spokesman Ibrahim Melhim said: "The PA has never and will never give up its...

Paris has just hosted yet another international conference on Libya that ended with a very long communiqué expressing support for the country's planned 24 December elections and threatening with sanctions those who might attempt to spoil the polls in any way. The gathering that brought together over 30 countries...

Israel, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will sign an agreement next week to establish a solar power plant in Jordan, Israeli officials said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Axios news website in the US reported that the deal is expected to be inked Monday in Dubai...

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, met Wednesday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi for talks focusing on worsening crises in Ethiopia and Sudan, Anadolu News Agency reports. Blinken said he told Kenyatta that "our special envoy Jeffrey Feltman is working with high representative...

Two men who were convicted of the murder of Black leader, Malcolm X, in the 1960s will have their convictions overturned, according to a report published on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam's convictions will be thrown out on Thursday, lawyers for the men and...

The Defence ministers of Qatar and Brazil signed a military cooperation agreement in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to a statement by Qatar's royal court, Defence Minister, Khalid Al-Attiyah and his Brazilian counterpart, Walter Souza Braga Netto signed the deal in the presence...

Turkish aerospace firm, Baykar Defence, will supply more Bayraktar TB2 combat drones to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to bolster the country's defence capabilities amid evolving aerial threats, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry announced. According to the Ukrainian Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, the country will acquire more Bayraktar drones next year. He pointed...

The US has resettled the last group of Afghan nationals at the Fort Lee Virginia military installation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday. "To date, more than 25,000 Afghan evacuees have been resettled in communities across our country," the agency said in a statement, Anadolu News Agency...

A family member of Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, has admitted that the Syrian military has been using barrel bombs against civilians and the opposition throughout the ongoing decade-long conflict, saying that the weapons "cleansed" Syria. In a livestream on his Facebook account on Saturday, Rifat Ali al-Assad—part of the...

Turkey continues its hydrocarbon exploration with the launch of a fourth drillship, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, addressing ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputies in Ankara for the parliamentary group meeting, Erdogan said: "Unlike other ships, this vessel...

New evidence has been discovered proving that more spyware developed by an Israeli company had been used to target and hack computers belonging to critics of autocratic states in the Middle East. In a report released by researchers from the Slovakian internet security firm, Eset, based in Montreal, the Israeli...

Thousands of children staying in orphanages had to be sent to their relatives' homes due to the economic crisis that deepened with the Taliban's takeover of power in Afghanistan, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the information gathered from officials, there are 68 orphanages, including private orphanages, but 26...

France has no right to comment on Turkey's military presence in Libya, which is part of Ankara's deal with the legitimate Libyan government, the Turkish Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a strong rebuke to Emmanuel Macron, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the French President's recent call...

The selection process for Miss Universe Morocco has led to controversy because the lady who was crowned relinquished her title. Morocco returned to the Miss Universe contest this year after an absence of four decades. Miss Universe Morocco announced on social media that Fatima Zahra Khayat, who won this year's...

Oman's ruler, Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik has pardoned more than 200 prison inmates as a goodwill gesture ahead of the country's 51st National Day celebrations. According to the Oman News Agency (ONA), a statement read "His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, the Supreme Commander, issues his special pardon for...

Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, the National Assembly in France will tomorrow debate a bill regarding an "apology" for the Algerians who fought alongside the French army and experienced a "tragedy" in France when the war ended. President Emmanuel Macron mentioned this in...

Before the Separation Wall was built around East Jerusalem it was easy for residents of Tabaneh village in the West Bank to get to Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem. Now they must go to Jericho and a simple check-up can take the whole day. Because of the effort involved,...

The crisis on Poland's border with Belarus will last months, the Polish Defence Minister said on Wednesday, as several thousand migrants remained stranded on the EU's eastern frontier in what the bloc calls a deliberate blackmail campaign by Minsk. Nine Polish service members were injured on Tuesday and Poland...

The Israeli occupation army yesterday delivered demolition and stop-work orders against 13 homes and structures in western Ramallah, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. According to the municipality of Ni'lin town, Israeli forces stormed the town and put up notices informing local residents of its intention to demolish a number of homes,...

Join us for a live conversation with British anti-Semitism specialist Antony Lerman to discuss the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism and the UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer's speech to Labour Friends of Israel this week, in which he attacked 'anti-Zionist anti-Semitism'. Antony Lerman is the former founding director of...

Over the past two months, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly warned of the dangers of running out of the hormone erythropoietin, which helps treat patients with kidney failure and symptoms from anaemia who are not yet on dialysis. Dr Alaa Helles, director of...

Morocco is preparing to reintroduce military conscription as tension with Algeria rises. Conscription has been suspended during the coronavirus pandemic. "The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces is developing a plan to organise the process for receiving new recruits for military service," explained the minister delegate to the Prime Minister for...

Turkey has granted the Somali National Army (SNA) military vehicles, including trucks and ambulances, amid escalating clashes with the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group, Al-Shabaab. The vehicles were received during a ceremony attended by the SNA chief of staff, Odowaa Yusuf Rageh, at the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital of...

Israel will continue to confront Iran on all fronts, including Lebanon and Syria, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz warned yesterday. "We have been seeing Iran's policies in terms of its nuclear programme and its armaments outside the country," said Gantz, "as well as its influence in Syria and Lebanon."...

A 2,700-year-old mosaic, thought to belong to a wealthy Roman, was unearthed in a house-shaped compartment 10 meters below the ground in western Turkey, Anadolu News Agency reports. Turkish police learned that illegal excavations were carried out in the garden of a residence close to the historical Kemeralti Bazaar...

Israeli soldiers have forcibly awakened 13 Palestinian children in the middle of the night and illegally photographed them during a raid in the West Bank, according to Israeli rights group, B'Tselem. A video posted by the rights group showed soldiers waking up the 13 children inside a house in...

Thirty years after the failed Madrid Peace Conference, which began the process of the surrender of the Palestinian people and led to the Oslo Accords, the Spanish city hosted a new conference to forge an alternative revolutionary path for the liberation of Palestine; a new chapter in history. The...

Qatar's foreign policy has been described by many as "maverick". Unlike most countries in the region which have at best been regarded as client states, Qatar has demonstrated a confident and pragmatic foreign policy in its dealings with powerful Western governments, including the US. When Qatar decided to support...

Saudi Arabia has launched Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot guides at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, which will help answer visitor questions and offer guidance on obligatory rituals. The four-wheeled robots are equipped with smart technology and 21-inch touch screens reported the Saudi Press Agency, and will...