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  • January 30, 2014

    Time to start talking about Zionist anti-Semitism

    During the recent media dust-up over the Daily Mail’s attack on Labour leader Ed Milliband’s father, many people on the left called attention to the right-wing tabloid’s history of...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Recognising the right of return is not optional

    Fortress Europe’s tyrannical border continues to claim lives. Last week there was another terrible shipwreck in the Mediterranean which claimed the lives of dozens of desperate, fleeing refugees. It...

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  • January 30, 2014

    BDS campaign is erecting counter-siege on Israel

    This week, the pop star Rihanna played a gig in Tel Aviv, despite many requests made to her by Palestinian and solidarity activists to observe the cultural boycott of...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel likely behind cyber-spy hacking on French president

    Glenn Greenwald is on a roll. This column has followed his historic coverage of Edward Snowden’s leaked National Security Agency documents with great interest. Last week there was another...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel and America spy on each other

    Only a week ago I wrote in this very column of my hope for more revelations about Israel emerging from the cache of secret National Security Agency documents leaked...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Enough conspiracy theories about Yasser Arafat's assassination

    Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Syria: the revolution that never was

    Due to the large number of complaints we’ve received which deemed this article to be offensive to the sacrifices of the Syrian people in their struggle for justice, it...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Time to shed more light on the Israel lobby

    The new Spinwatch report into BICOM, a leading force in Britain’s Israel lobby, makes for essential reading. MEMO is to be commended for funding its publication. The Britain Israel...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Nelson Mandela's long history of support for Palestine

    The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...

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  • January 30, 2014

    In broad daylight, a Saudi-Israeli alliance

    The alliance between the apartheid state of Israel and the absolutist monarchy of the Saudi royal dictatorship is no longer merely tacit. After recent diplomatic moves to cool tensions...

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