Inquiry

"The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...

The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...

One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week's news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...

It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that "Israelis want peace" and do not support their government's policies of oppression...

A nine-year-old boy shouts: "Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn't scare me!" The boy's home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...

The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that's how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...

Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...

It is common to think of Black Lives Matter as a single group when it isn't; it is a movement. Indeed, it is a movement for Black liberation which...

Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has policed Palestinians in the West Bank and, until 2007, the Gaza Strip. Under Israel's apartheid regime, the PA has no authority to...

Recent Black Lives Matter protests in Britain have thrown a light on the country's history of colonialism, racism and slavery. Throughout the 17th century, and much of the 18th,...

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...

Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...

Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians...

US Federal Bureau of Investigation documents obtained by The Intercept and published at the start of April made for fascinating reading. They showed that federal officers conducted a 2004-2006...

In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel's global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...

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...