Inquiry

In December the US weapons industry trade publication Defense News carried a telling interview with two top big-wigs in the Palestinian Authority. These were PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and...

Ireland's second-largest company announced earlier this month that it had entirely sold-off its 25 per cent stake in the holding corporation of Israel's only cement-making firm. This withdrawal followed...

At a "security" conference in Tel Aviv last week, top-level Israeli speakers argued the case for viewing Israel as being in the same trench as the so-called Islamic State....

A fascinating article by a Jerusalem Post Knesset reporter earlier this month gives quite the insight into the increasingly desperate state of the Israeli "war" against BDS. The boycott,...

Last month I wrote about Israel's high-tech industry and how integrated it is with with state intelligence and military agencies. Top figures in the same agencies that systematically spy...

Just before Christmas, a shocking video was broadcast on Israeli television. It showed a large group of Israeli settlers at a wedding celebration dancing and singing. The clip was...

For several years now in this column I have argued that the strategic aim of both Israel and the US in the Syria conflict has been to to actively...

The United Nations is supposed to be the guardian of peace and justice in the world. Founded in 1945 "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which...

Israel has long been a global hub of terrorism. It is part of a global terrorist network run by the US empire. Israel’s spy agencies, such as the Mossad,...

One year ago I wrote about the Mossad's strategy to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. In part, I based my argument on the analysis of former...

So here we are again. David Cameron seems determined to plough Britain into another war in another Arab country. This time in Syria. To be precise, Britain has been...

Syriza was a popular leftist political party which was swept to power in Greek elections on its promise to end years of IMF-and EU-imposed austerity. By now, though, the...

The terrorist bogeyman de jour is nowadays of course the so-called "Islamic State". Do you remember back in the decade or so following the 9/11 attacks on the US?...

A bizarre and disturbing story earlier this month shed a tiny sliver of light on the under-reported and murky role of Israel in the increasingly complex Syrian civil war....

Last month the heads of four major Israeli arms firms warned their government of a "major crisis" in the country's arms industry. The value of arms exports is falling...

This week an influential think tank in the US invited the leader of Israel to address it in Washington DC. Nothing unusual in that you may think. True; except...

Read part one here. Since the start of October, at least 61 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces (although the death toll is rising, literally as I...

Last week top leaders from Hamas, Palestine's Islamic liberation movement, made an official visit to South Africa. The delegation, led by Khaled Meshaal himself, visited the country at the...

Last week Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech to the World Zionist Congress with an extraordinary claim. "Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time"...

A new report by Human Rights Watch has cast light on the scale of the Egyptian dictatorship's crimes against its own people in the Sinai region. The report on...

Israel takes great pride in its propaganda claim to be the "only democracy in the Middle East". This is something it bangs on about at sanctimonious length in every...

In 2013, the Australian press broke the story of Israel's "Prisoner X". Ben Zygier was an Israeli-Australian who had become a Mossad agent. But he was effectively disappeared by...

There's been much talk by political and media elites in recent days about the supposed need to start a bombing campaign in Syria targeting Daesh, the so-called "Islamic State"....

On Saturday, there was a surprise verdict in an Egyptian court. Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for three years each in a widely-covered retrial. The three had previously...

Earlier this month, a strange thing happened: a Jewish extremist was held in "administrative detention" by Israel. This practise, internment without charge or trial, dates back to the British...

Liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretzreported on Thursday that this year, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe did not host a single Israeli act for the first time in years. "Because of the...

On Monday, Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar faced a military hearing at Ofer, an Israeli army base in the illegally-occupied West Bank. Jarrar's only "crime" is speaking out against against...

Reports have trickled out over the summer that Israel and Hamas are engaged in indirect negotiations in Doha. The reports, some of which have originated with Middle East Eye,...

It has been the story of the summer, but there are still almost three weeks left to run in the Labour Party leadership election, believe it or not. What...

Earlier this month, The Scotsman reported that US presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton had tried to stop a cultural boycott of Israel in Edinburgh. In 2009, the Edinburgh film festival...

In 1968 in New York City, an American rabbi named Meir Kahane founded an organization called the Jewish Defence League. Despite the claim in the name to be defending...

Dirar Abu Sisi was once the technical director of Gaza's only electricity plant. One night in February 2011, traveling on a train to visit his brother in Ukraine he...