Inquiry

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic has...

Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has caused an unprecedented global pandemic. This has spread fear, suffering and needless death around much of the world. Due to...

Some of Israel's most successful strategies are simply its intransigence and extremism. Even those of us opposed to Israeli war crimes – apartheid and occupation – should be honest...

Today he may be sitting and rotting in an Israeli cell, but in 2012 Palestinian graphic designer Hafez Omar's posters were setting the internet alight. On Facebook in particular,...

The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel's brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This move was only made after years of...

Britain's Labour leadership hustings held last week by the party's internal pro-Israel lobby were a bizarre sight to behold. Organised jointly by the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends...

In September 2016, the Jewish Labour Movement in Britain held a small barbecue to establish a new youth wing. Thanks to the fact that an undercover journalist from Al...

Labour seems to now formally consider use of the blandly factual phrase 'Israel lobby' to be 'anti-Semitic'

As far as Zionist lobby groups are concerned, the verdict has finally sunk in: they defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to one of them at least; the...

Click here to read Part One. The project to create a Jewish state in Palestine has always been a fundamentally racist one – and will always be so as...

So the administration of US President Donald Trump finally published its "Ultimate Deal", a document being trumpeted as a "peace plan". But in reality, it is nothing of the...

We are about to witness the third Israeli election in the space of one year. The elections for the Knesset, Israel's parliament, which are coming in March, are being...

The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue at hand. In the United States over the last...

A supposed Israeli "civil rights" lawyer once wrote an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post under the headline "Israel needs to invade The Hague". The writer was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,...

Here's a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, as it once again does its best to spoil the festive season for...

You have to hand it to Donald Trump, he knows which side his bread is buttered. Spewing out disgusting remarks that some of the commentariat deemed only "controversial" at...

A long-term strategic aim of the Zionist movement has been to foment sectarianism in Palestine and the wider region. It's a classic trick out of the imperialist playbook: divide...

There's no getting away from the fact that last Thursday's General Election was a disaster for the left in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party lost almost as many seats...

A lot has been written about the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby over the years. Many take the view that the US and Britain have their foreign policy dictated to them...

Here we are, with another General Election and another seemingly coordinated round of allegations to smear Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Labour has found it almost impossible during...

Last week US President Donald Trump's administration made a notable move. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is reversing previous policy which basically accepted that Israel's...

Last weekend, Jordan announced that it would end the lease of two enclaves of land to Israel. As part of the unjust 1994 peace deal signed between Israel and...

Khalida Jarrar is a leading Palestinian activist for women's rights and prisoners' rights. She is a socialist MP elected to the Palestinian Authority's moribund legislative council, as part of...

Recent reports have revealed that a cyber-spying company in the United Arab Emirates has been hiring former Israeli intelligence officers. DarkMatter, which has intimate links with the UAE government,...

Despite what you may have heard, the Palestinian Authority is not a "Palestinian government". Indeed, "Palestinian Authority" is a misnomer, as the entity has no genuine authority, and does...

Nelson Mandela's church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced...

So, another one bites the dust. Louise Ellman MP quit the Labour Party this week. The chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel is the latest in a line of...

Considerable attention is paid by Western media to the governments of official enemies, when they lack democracy. The Western media's long attention span for Syria's democratic deficiencies, as one...

As regular readers of this column will know, the McCarthyite atmosphere in Britain against supporters of Palestinian rights is getting worse. That is down in part to the Labour...

Israelis have just voted in favour of continuing to deny all Palestinians, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, equal rights.

Last week Israel launched its latest attack against Palestinian human rights workers. Israeli army thugs raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers...

The liberal Zionist "two state solution" supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they "condemn" and are "concerned" about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as...