United States diplomats have pressured lawmakers and officials in certain European countries to oppose moves to boycott Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, in a...

A major Irish charity has renewed calls for the government to pass legislation banning the import of produce made in illegal West Bank settlements. Trócaire made the call as...

Gaza. The very name evokes images of Israeli bombardment, crumbling infrastructure, keffiyeh-clad protestors standing defiantly with Palestinian flags and slingshots, and screaming children shot by snipers in a fog...

Ainle O Caireallain tells MEMO why he’s raising money to set up a gym in the West Bank

Belfast councillors have voted against sending a representative on a business and investment mission to Israel, reported the Belfast Telegraph. According to the report, councillors rejected a plan to...

Direct Arab investments in Morocco declined by 10.5 per cent during 2018, for the third year in a row. The share of Arab investments in total foreign direct investment...

The Irish Foreign Ministry is to host a meeting in Irish capital Dublin about the Palestinian cause next week. The guests expected to attend hail from France, Sweden, Bulgaria,...

The Israeli Knesset has cancelled an official visit to Ireland scheduled for March in protest of the latest Irish bill that supports a boycott of Israeli settlement goods, Israeli...

Israel summons Irish Ambassador over the BDS bill

A missing Dubai princess has been pictured alive for the first time since being returned to the UAE. Princess Sheikha Latifa, 33, was last seen on 5 March being dragged into a rubber...

Israel’s recently-appointed ambassador to Ireland has slammed draft legislation targeting West Bank settlement produce as “the most extreme anti-Israel legislation in Europe”, reported Jewish News. The bill, if it...

Ireland has become the first country to push through a bill that will criminalise the import of goods from Israeli settlements and impose a five year jail sentence or...

A group of Irish celebrities have called on songwriters to boycott Eurovision 2019, which is scheduled to take place in Israel next May, reported news site Extra. According to...

Ireland’s national broadcaster “will not be sanctioning any staff members who refuse to travel to Israel for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019”, according to reports by TheJournal.ie. The...

Ireland may recognize Palestine as a state if talks over a two-state solution with Israel keep failing, the Irish foreign minister said Saturday. Simon Coveney made the remarks during...

African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had...

Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants’ ordeal and a bitter...

After claiming success for Argentina’s cancellation of the friendly football match with Israel in June,    the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has placed another controversial match under their...

The city council of Glasgow, Scotland, has vowed not to sponsor any future military exhibitions in response to months of widespread protests against its decision to sponsor the Conference...

A British MP who was handed a 30-day suspension after being found guilty of lobbying for a foreign state is one of six Northern Irish politicians that failed to...

An Algerian man accused of recruiting an American woman known as “Jihad Jane” in 2009 and who originally pleaded not guilty to a US charge of supporting terrorism, is...

Italy has asked the European Commission to set up an agency to oversee the distribution of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday. The...

The Arab League yesterday welcomed the Irish Senate’s vote in favour of a bill that would ban the import of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian...

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman called to shut down the Israeli embassy in the Irish capital Dublin, Thursday, in response to the Irish Senate’s decision to boycott Israeli settlements products....

The Palestinian people are in need of some good news to boost their morale at an extremely difficult time in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality. There has...

The Irish Senate has voted to approve a bill that would see the country boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, paving the way for...

Ireland’s Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would prohibit “the import and sales of goods, services and natural resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied...

Ireland’s parliament will discuss a bill promoting a ban on Israeli settlement goods next month, after a postponement in January, reported Haaretz. In a tweet posted yesterday, Irish Senator...

Asylum seekers moving to Europe have raised their adopted nations’ economic output, lowered unemployment and not placed a burden on public finances, scientists said on Wednesday, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation....

Sinn Féin will consider a motion this weekend calling on RTÉ and the Irish government to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest next year, which is set to be held...

The Libyan Presidential Council has criticised a UK parliamentary proposal that would allow the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s frozen assets in the UK to be used to compensate...

Palestinian cultural groups and journalists are urging a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest to be hosted by Israel, in a new statement published Tuesday. The statement, signed...