Commentary & Analysis

The best opportunity to definitively prove What Killed Arafat – the name we gave the documentary investigation that appeared on al-Jazeera earlier this month – is fast approaching. The...

Israel has learnt nothing from the Arab Spring. This week, its army commander, Avi Mizrahi, issued a military order classifying the Islamist Change and Reform bloc as an illegal...

Has the struggle for occupied Jerusalem finally revealed its religious character? The recent claim by Israel's Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, that Al-Asqa Mosque is part of Israeli territory has...

The Arab world has recently gone through its most anxious period since the start of the Arab spring 19 months ago. People held their breath before their television screens,...

My people of great Egypt, who today celebrate democracy in our country; those of you standing in the public squares, in Tahrir Square, and all the public squares of...

Abstract: While the subjugation and abuse of Palestinians living within Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are well documented, what is less well known is how ingrained racism...

For the moment everything is on hold in Palestine. In the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, there is a tense wait to see how things unfold...

Millions of Egyptians went to bed last night thinking they had elected a president with full executive powers and woke up this morning in a military dictatorship. Just after...

The ruling by Egypt's Constitutional Court that dissolves the country's parliament and allows the presidential candidacy of Ahmad Shafiq, the former Mubarak prime minister, has cast serious doubts over...

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake...

Israeli leaders have an unusual appetite for unilateral action. Some say it's rooted in Zionist DNA. The incumbent government has spent most of the last three years term either...

Now that the votes have been cast, Egyptians are holding their breath. They are not alone; the entire Arab nation and others in the region are also fixated with...

Love it or hate it, the BBC is perhaps the most powerful media institution in the world. Not even the Murdoch empire in its heyday matched the scale and...

Given the contrasting reactions of Western leaders to the case of the former Ukrainian prime minister and that of the Palestinians in Israeli jails, one may think that the...

As Israelis celebrate the 64th anniversary of the creation of their state in the land of historic Palestine, officials are warning of a new security threat. This, it seems,...

In June 2011 I came to Britain to begin a speaking tour to draw attention to the plight of my people, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. The tour was...

The office of Secretary of State for the Home Department is one of the great offices of state but is regarded widely as a poisoned chalice. It is one...

Antisemitism is a fact of life, and all too often, a fact of British life. We do not need the events of Toulouse to remind us of that. They...

Palestinians have observed Land Day on 30 March every year since 1976. It was then that Palestinians in Israel organised a general strike to protest against the seizure of...

Jerusalem is a city that embodies the cultural heritage of three religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Yet Palestinians – both Christian and Muslim – are being driven out of...

The Americans would be foolish to commit themselves to an attack on Iran based on Israeli intelligence, for the latter's claims about a nuclear threat from Tehran go back...

This is an all too familiar script. A British politician expresses views on the conflict in Palestine. The Israeli ambassador and lobby demand an apology. The politician is given...

There is something ominous about the current wave of attacks on Christian and Muslim religious sites in and around Jerusalem. The pro-Israel media asserts that these attacks are the...

The name of my husband, Khader Adnan, has now become known across the world. Four months ago he was unknown outside of our homeland, Palestine. His hunger strike of...

After sixty days on hunger strike, Palestinian detainee Khadr Adnan remains shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital in Safad. Mr Adnan is not an Israeli citizen and...

While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and...

When Professor Paul Whiteley of the new Essex Centre for the Study of Integrity published his study "Are Britons getting more dishonest?" this month, he didn't have to wait...

Nick Clegg's condemnation of Israel's settlements as "an act of deliberate vandalism" was the understatement of the week, but it still managed to provoke the wrath of the Israeli...

The bad news from Israel keeps coming thick and fast. If the report by European embassies in Tel Aviv on Israel's discrimination against Palestinian Arabs was bad, then surely...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stressed in discussions on the sidelines of reconciliation talks in Cairo that he refuses to let the Palestinian Authority become a security apparatus protecting...

Throughout 2011, as in previous years, the British political class remained pitifully indifferent to the tragedy of Bethlehem. When the Archbishop of Canterbury moved a debate in the House...

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the...