Inquiry

This is going to be my last MEMO column for a few months. I'm taking some time off to focus on finishing a long-term project which I've been working...

The latest episode of European Union hypocrisy over Palestine came to light this week with the case of Amal Nakhleh. Nakhleh is a Palestinian teen who was still a...

Where in the world exists the most repression of solidarity with the Palestinian people? The correct answer, of course, is within occupied historical Palestine itself. Palestinians are subjected by...

Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the West Bank. He was found dead soon after. It's the...

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson was smeared on Monday by a racist Israeli official. More on this later. But first, it's important to note that the Israeli government has...

I wrote in this column last month condemning the feigned national outrage among the political class and corporate media elite against students who had protested against the Israeli ambassador....

Throughout most of 2021, the Israel lobby waged a war at the University of Bristol. Its main target was David Miller, then a professor of sociology there. Backed by...

As I write this, the news is breaking of a terrible tragedy for justice and humanity – a serious blow for press freedom worldwide. The UK High Court has...

On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and Islamophobia. They did not...

This week it emerged that Silicon Valley giant Apple is suing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The creators of the iPad, the iMac, the iPhone and so many other...

Last week, I was struck down with COVID-19 and was forced to have some time off. I was hit quite hard in the end. Thankfully, I did not have...

This week, students at the London School of Economics (LSE) protested on campus to oppose a lecture by Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. Their protest was not only entirely peaceful,...

Last Friday, Israel outright banned six leading Palestinian human rights groups. To do so, "Defence" Minister Benny Gantz and his government unilaterally designated them as "terrorist" groups. The Israelis...

Mohammed El-Halabi is a senior Palestinian aid worker with the global Christian charity World Vision. He was kidnapped by Israeli army thugs in June 2016 during a routine trip...

The Palestinian citizens of Israel "are here by mistake—because Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and throw you out in 1948." That was the latest rant this week from fascist...

"Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the State of Israel and its advocates," David Miller wrote in February. Since then, almost as...

It's rare for Israeli apartheid to be a topic of conversation in Britain's House of Commons, but from time to time it does happen. In May, for example, Labour...

Treason is commonly defined as the betrayal of a trust or allegiance, especially to one's country or government. But what about when one faction of the government or establishment...

Covering the topic of Israeli oppression against Palestinians and pro-Israeli propaganda in the West for a living is exhausting. Merely researching and writing about the issue is mentally and...

So much for the Israeli army supposedly wanting to "reduce" the number of Palestinians it shoots. An Israeli soldier shot and killed another Palestinian child in the besieged Gaza...

Online Palestinian outlet Quds News Network resurfaced a video clip this week from over a decade ago featuring current Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The video shows Bennett helping...

Liberal Zionist newspaper Haaretz wrote an especially galling headline this week: "After String of Fatalities, IDF Chief Urges: Reduce Shooting of Palestinians," it read. In the article itself, the...

The British comedian David Schneider is well known for his memorable bit parts in sitcoms and his writing for shows such as faux news bulletin "The Day Today". Unfortunately...

"I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious." Those are the words of Mohammed El-Kurd, the renowned Palestinian activist...

This week, Israel's Parliament the Knesset failed to pass an extension to Israel's racist marriage law. The law bars the spouses of Palestinian citizens of Israel from receiving citizenship....

Many people object when first learning that Israel participates in the Eurovision Song Contest. Why is such an obscenely violent and racist human rights-abusing regime allowed to participate in...

If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month, it was a new sense of unity...

Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a...

Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes. Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London...

Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn't bank on it quite yet, for two related reasons. Since 2019, there have been no less than...

Palestine awoke last Friday morning to a new reality. The death and destruction Israel had been visiting upon Gaza came to an end with a 2am ceasefire. More than...

The scenes we've been witnessing on our screens coming out of occupied Palestine this week are unprecedented. What has been happening is a unified national uprising of the entire...