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  • June 16, 2015

    PA: UN report should condemn Israeli crimes

    Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday that he expected the UN fact-finding mission to condemn Israel’s crimes, Al-Quds newspaper reported. Erekat said that the PA representative...

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  • June 16, 2015

    Israeli PM likens BDS to Nazis

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday compared the BDS movement to the Nazi practices against Jews, his office said after a meeting with the Polish foreign minister. According to...

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  • June 16, 2015

    EU parliamentarians call Israel to end its siege on Gaza

    Sources from the Freedom Flotilla Alliance revealed that around 100 EU parliamentarians have signed a petition calling for the end of the eight-year Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip,...

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  • June 16, 2015

    Khader Adnan – 43 days and counting

    43 days ago Khader Adnan launched his latest hunger strike for collective dignity and rights. Adnan’s name has been intrinsically linked with the hunger strikes of Palestinian political prisoners...

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  • June 16, 2015

    How America keeps alive the ghost of the inquisition in Guantanamo Bay

    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.”...

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  • June 16, 2015

    Herzliya 2015: A map of opportunities and threats

    The 15th Israeli National Security conference, organised by the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre, ended a few days ago. The conference addressed, as it has done previously, the map of strategic...

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  • June 15, 2015

    A cry for help from inside a Saudi detention centre

    Last week a short video clip made its way onto my desk, taken on a mobile phone in Saudi Arabia. It was only a few seconds long, but it...

    Article

  • June 15, 2015

    Sewing together Palestinian history

    For some, when you mention Palestine, images of war, bombings and destruction come to mind, most forget that Palestine has a rich and beautiful history and a colourful culture....

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  • June 15, 2015

    Will the UK’s support for violent resistance extend to the Brotherhood’s peaceful struggle?

    In December 2013 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organisation by what was then the interim, military-backed government. The new decree criminalised the group’s activities and promised to...

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  • June 15, 2015

    Why are journalists surprised that Israel kills children?

    There was nothing surprising about Israel finding itself not culpable for the killing of four boys on a Gaza beach in July last year, as it did in a military judgment released...

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