Inquiry

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...

The US and several other nuclear-weapon-owning states recently signed an agreement with Iran that would allow the Islamic Republic to continue its peaceful nuclear energy programme while sanctions are...

The American journalist Max Blumenthal's last book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, was infamously and sarcastically denounced as part of the "Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club" by Blumenthal's former...

News broke Monday morning that a deal had finally been reached between the left-wing Greek government and its European Union and IMF creditors on how to impose a regime...

Books by former intelligence, military and political leaders are frequently tedious and self-serving. Obsessed with securing their own legacy, and proving how right they were about some long-standing grudge...

Israel's most unlikely alliance is that it currently engages in with Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. Despite a long history of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric, the main victims...

One result of 2011's democratic uprisings in the Arab world was to bring a secretive regional alliance increasingly into the the light. That alliance is the one between Israel...

Palestinian student Lina Khattab was released last week from Ofer, an Israeli prison in the West Bank, infamous for torture and injustice. The 18-year-old journalism student had spent almost...

Since January, I have been ploughing a lonely furrow in this column by covering what is certainly one of the most under-reported stories in the world right now: Israeli...

Earlier this month a conference was held in Jerusalem which Israel used as a way to brainstorm changes to international humanitarian law in order to make it easier for...

Recent events in the war in Syria make for pretty grim reading. The death toll continues to rise, to the point where the UN is no longer seriously counting....

Sedqi al-Maqet, a Syrian activist who lives in the Israeli-occupied part of Syria known as the Golan Heights was interned after a dawn raid on his home by Israeli...

For years now, analysts and observers of Palestine have predicted a third intifada, or uprising against occupation. The first intifada which, lasted from 1987 until 1993, caught everyone off...

That racket you can hear coming from the general direction of liberal Zionists is the sound of lamenting and wailing at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu's election victory. They...

Monday was all set to be the day that the government finally published its long-delayed report into the British activities of the Muslim Brotherhood. But it has now been...

An under-noticed news report last week confirmed previously-held suspicions and strong implications that Israeli troops are aiding the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate. Speaking to Israeli occupation troops...

Around about the same time that Al-Jazeera started to publish the Spy Cables, another story about Israel broke in South Africa, and was covered a fair deal in that...

In December, Peter Oborne, then the chief political commentator at The Telegraph wrote a long, thorough and well-researched piece with Alex Delmar-Morgan about several prominent British Muslims whose bank...

The full implications of the latest scoop from Al Jazeera's investigative unit are still being digested, and the story is not over quite yet. But the leaked documents published...

The publication by Al Jazeera and The Guardian this week of a cache of cables leaked from the files of the South African intelligence services has been enlightening. Some...

A common pretext when human-rights-abusing regimes arrest and detain journalists is to accuse them of being spies for a hostile power. In many cases such accusations are baseless. For...

Long-standing Israeli propaganda has it that Israel is the "only democracy in the Middle East". The statements of Western political leaders, particularly from the US and UK, often also...

At the end of January, Israeli occupation forces in the south of Lebanon came under attack by Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement. Two days later a piece in the...

A perennial PR theme of the Syrian regime since the civil war and uprising erupted in March 2011 was that the opposition was all Islamist extremists and Al-Qaeda, and...

Yesterday, Hezbollah, Lebanon's Islamic resistance movement, responded to recent Israeli aggression by attacking Israeli occupation forces on patrol in the south of Lebanon. The operation came in response to...

The parochial Israeli press has been reacting with concern to the election victory in Greece of Syriza, the left-wing anti-austerity party. While the parochial British press has been fretting...

The British media's coverage of the civil war in Syria since 2011 has been simply woeful. From the start is has been dominated by the illusions and self-interest of...

I recently completed reading an old book: Bible and Sword: Britain and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. Originally published back in 1956, it was written by Barbara...

In the immediate wake of last week's hideous attacks on the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, a former deputy director of the CIA told the New York...

Just who is Mohammad Dahlan, the deposed and disgraced Gaza warlord, who "lost" Gaza for Fatah back in 2007? And how true are recent media reports that he may...

While the group was removed this week from the European Union's "terrorist" list, there has always been an inherent contradiction at the heart of Hamas, Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement....

A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry on Sunday had something quite interesting to say. Seizing on the growing movement in the US that is pushing for justice for...