Inquiry

Palestine solidarity campaigners and the Labour Party left should be under no illusions: this strategy will in all likelihood be used again in the months and years ahead.

The Chilcot inquiry into the British decision to invade and occupy Iraq in March 2003 was established by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It is only now, two...

With the debris from the Brexit fallout still causing political chaos in the country, it may be too easy to forget that less than two weeks ago a Labour...

    Israel is a state that owes its very existence to ethnic cleansing, massacres and seemingly perpetual wars. The events of 1947-48 when the state was founded are...

At a cyberwar forum in Tel Aviv in January, Israeli officials threatened to use the country's spy agencies to attack the BDS movement, the Palestinian-led global campaign to boycott,...

With the assent of Israel's hard-right new defence minister Avigdor Lieberman, the man he replaced warned of the direction Israeli political life is now taking. "Extremist and dangerous forces...

There is nothing fundamentally incompatible between Zionism and fascism. These far-right racist parties have a certain admiration for Israel for several reasons...

The reality, the report concludes is that the human rights group's "cooperation with the military investigation and enforcement systems has not achieved justice, instead lending legitimacy to the occupation regime and aiding to whitewash it."

The propaganda goes that Israel is the "only democracy in the Middle East". But for anyone familiar with the realities that Israel imposes on the Palestinians and on its...

The truth is that liberal Zionists are complaining about Lieberman's appointment, not because of his aggressive policies but because they see him as bad for Israel's international image – too frank, too crass and not a good enough propagandist.

When it comes to Israel, and to supporting Palestinian rights, at the far reaches of acceptability in mainstream British party politics is the idea of supporting a Palestinian state...

Israel tries to present itself in front of the world as "the only democracy in the middle east". In more explicitly racist and colonial terms, it sometimes claims to...

Israel's most recent anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem had some fall-out in terms of negative global coverage, but only in alternative and independent media. The fact that the Israeli intelligence...

The Labour right, in close coordination with pro-Israel propaganda organizations like BICOM has orchestrated this entire scandal out of thin air.

There is a concerted campaign going on in the UK, in France, in the US and in the entire western world to suppress any form of criticism of Israel...

A recurring theme of this column has been Israeli propaganda. More specifically, I have looked at some of the ways in which Israeli government entities, and Israeli corporations like...

For the last decade, a central plank of Israel’s strategy to combat its global critics has been something it terms “lawfare” – using courts around the world to attack,...

The octogenarian leader of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank will not be around forever. Elected as president of the PA back in 2005, the democratic mandate of...

Out of all this week’s speeches of presidential candidates to AIPAC, the powerful Israel lobby group, Hilary Clinton’s was in my book the most convincingly pro-Israel. But she has...

The carnival of reaction that is the preposterously over long US presidential election period rolls on and on. The Republican candidates seem to be doing their best to outdo...

What a disgusting show. The annual policy conference of AIPAC, the most influential pro-Israel lobby group in the Unites States, has just been held. Most of the main candidates...

Last month the American reporter Eli Clifton revealed a secret "Anti-Israel" enemies list maintained by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL was founded 103 years ago as a civil...

It seems like no sooner did the British government issue its new regulations aimed at "banning" boycotts of Israel than the move backfired. "BDS," the boycott, divestment and sanctions...

At a cyberwar forum in Tel Aviv in January, it came out that Israel has allocated almost $26 million in this year's budget to fight the ever-growing movement to...

It is not sensible to have any hope that the Israeli public will ever support ending the occupation, let alone support equal rights for Arabs, or return of Palestinians...

Earlier this month Haaretz, Israel's influential liberal daily, published a blood-curdling article. It openly argued for war crimes on a massive scale against the civilian population of a neighbouring...

An article in Haaretz this weekend laid out an analysis purporting to show that the Israeli government is changing its approach to the war in Syria. Amos Harel, the...

Last week the government made an announcement intended to intimidate supporters of Palestinian rights. It was trailed in the media as a "ban" on boycotts of Israel, which The...

This is the story of two journalists treated unjustly by Israeli occupation authorities. Yet they are not being equally treated by the media. Indeed, they should not be equally...

This week the prime minister of Israel slandered Arabs in disgustingly racist terms. This was nothing new for the man who, during the last election, warned the Israeli people...

The latest revelations from the documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden once again concern Israel. Glenn Greenwald's site The Intercept revealed last week that American...

A Parliamentary debate on the war in Yemen Thursday resulted in ridiculous scenes. A Tory minister with the Foreign Office claimed of a vital UN report that he "hadn't...