During a recent session of UNESCO, the Israeli representative asked a number of his fellow representatives to join him in a minute’s silence in memory of Holocaust victims. The...

In the early hours of last Monday, the acting president of Baghdad’s Air Force Club, Bashir Fadhel Ahmadani, was found lying in a pool of his own blood in...

Mistakes and stubbornness still characterise Morocco’s state reactions to the Rif Hirak (“mobilisation”) subsequent to Mouhcine Fikri’s sordid death. Protests, meanwhile, have been relentless and mostly peaceful. Any “violence”...

The army in Egypt has suddenly remembered Egypt’s first President, Mohammed Naguib; his army officers staged a coup against him, imprisoned and insulted him, and then erased from their...

Regardless of the outcome of the current confrontation at Al-Aqsa Mosque, which erupted as a result of the Israeli government’s decision to install metal detectors to search worshippers, there...

No one knows Israel’s schemes, games, lies and manoeuvres better than the Palestinians. Their experience was moulded after over 100 years of confrontation with the Zionist organisations, gangs, state...

Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...

The latest ceasefire in south-west Syria, negotiated by the United States and Russia, is a clear reflection of increasing US-Russian cooperation in the country. Whilst this is a welcome...

On 5 July, right wing counter extremism think tank the Henry Jackson Society, released a report citing Saudi Arabia as the foremost promoter of Islamic extremism in the Muslim...

The Al-Aqsa Uprising posed a double dilemma for the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as for the PA President, Mahmoud Abbas. Netanyahu became a target of harsh...

Scotland has a proud record of standing up with persecuted minorities, including those who are targeted purely for their faith, ethnicity or culture. It is the only European country...

Egyptians have not yet recovered from the shock of the government’s decision to sell the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia despite the fact that a court...

The President of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, declared a freeze on Friday on all contacts with Israel. His move was in protest...

One year ago this month Sir John Chilcot, a leading former civil servant, finally published the report of his long-awaited enquiry into the British role in the illegal and...

Last month, Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon made a disgusting and dangerous speech to the media outside the Security Council. In it, he continued a long-running campaign...

The diplomatic curtains parted recently to reveal the source of the hacking that ignited the current Gulf crisis and led to the air, land and sea blockade of a...