The illegal Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights has now been in place for more than 50 years. This substantial territory, part of southern Syria, was conquered by...

Solicitors acting for former government minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi announced last week that she had won £20,000 in libel damages plus costs from the Jewish News, after it published...

The Egyptian regime has signed a long-gestating deal to begin importing natural gas from Israel. The Financial Times reported this week that Israeli company Delek has signed a deal...

As I’ve written in this column several times before, the “Palestinian Authority” is, at best, a misnomer. It is neither particularly Palestinian nor even remotely authoritative. Since its inception...

Exactly a hundred years ago, a famine which had been growing slowly across Iran suddenly hit the whole country. The disaster would go on to claim anywhere between a...

Reports in the Jordanian and Israeli media this week say that Israel will soon reopen its embassy in Amman, which was closed following a deadly incident last July. That’s...

Secret files released by MI5 in December give a fascinating new insight into a bombing campaign which terrorised London in the years following the Second World War. This was...

When former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was asked by a BBC interviewer if what Hitler did was legal, his response included the historical facts about a deal...

A strand of Israeli propaganda with a long history has been to misrepresent the Zionist movement as a “progressive” cause. For example, over the past few years we have...

One of the most under-reported aspects of security policy in the Middle East is Israel’s nuclear weapons programme. This apartheid state is estimated by the US government to have...

One of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s few allies in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been Emily Thornberry. It was all the more disappointing, then, when she gave a...

One of the most boring refrains of liberals on the rare occasions they talk about Palestine is, “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?” This tedious argument is periodically dredged up...

When former US General Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the media hype train about supposed Russian interference in last year’s US election went into overdrive...

Viewers watching the televised emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday may be forgiven for thinking the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representative to the UN was trying...

Privately, it has been well understood by US officials since the 1960s that Israel has the capacity to build its own nuclear weapons. Publicly, Israel has a policy of...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been preparing a list of some 150 companies which operate in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Zeid Ra’ad...

Campaigners on Friday unveiled a legal challenge to the British print media’s self-regulating body over inaccurate coverage of a Palestinian meeting in Parliament last year. Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine activist Jonathan...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it’s true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein...

For years now far right groups across Europe have sought increasing links with Israel despite the fact that 20-30 years ago these fascistic groups held Jews as their number...

The shock “resignation” of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier this month was part of larger domestic political machinations within Saudi Arabia. With the Saudi-Israeli alliance now in overdrive,...

The Priti Patel affair is an insight into the power of the Israel lobby to influence the British political system. But it is only a symptom of the rot....

Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah have signed another unity deal. Hopes have, once again, been expressed that the deal brokered by Egypt could end the political impasse and...

The new leader of Israel’s Labour Party made it clear once again earlier this month that the supposedly progressive and left-wing of Zionism is as racist as its right-wing...

British peace activists Sam Walton and Reverend Daniel Woodhouse were arrested in January for breaking into a BAE Systems factory. Their aim was to “disarm” Typhoon fighter jets. “We did...

When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left...

Elor Azaria, an Israeli solider who murdered a Palestinian in cold blood, just had his already-derisory sentence reduced by the army chief of staff. Azaria become a hero to...

There is a relatively-new “Cyber Unit” within the Israeli government which is censoring Palestinians on social media. Its existence was publicised earlier this month by Adalah, the legal centre...

In Israel’s propaganda narrative, the apartheid state attempts to portray itself as upholding law and order in the “rough neighbourhood” that is the Middle East. In explicitly racist terminology,...

Probably the most common Israeli propaganda tactic is the smear: an attempt to discredit enemies by making spurious associations and linkages, as well as outright fabrication of allegations of...

While most right-thinking people were condemning Donald Trump’s coddling of the American neo-Nazi movement in Charlottesville, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister was backing him all the way....

The fact that an obnoxious, racist and sexist columnist wrote something for the Sunday Times is not exactly news. Last month, though, one of them, Kevin Myers, came out...

Read part one of this article here. Unlike both Trump and Macron, who have both ultimately done their best to suppress voter turnout, a genuine political revolution, such as...