Europe & Russia

"It's better to die as a Fidaï than a man of the people," says Med El Hadi Benadouda on his life as one of the mujahideen soldiers whose goal...

On the occasion of their party Spring Conference taking place this weekend, the Liberal Democratic Friends of Palestine (LDFP) have isued a new position paper on Palestine. MEMO has...

We, citizens of the world, celebrating the human pursuit of freedom and independence, adhering fully to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rejecting the ideology and practice of colonization...

By John McHugoUJ is the legal power which allows suspected perpetrators of crimes such as war crimes, torture and genocide to be prosecuted in the national courts of countries...

The pro-Israel lobby in Britain: FULL TEXTDispatches investigates the pro-Israel lobby in Britain which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. We have obtained...

Israel rejected a Russian request one month ago to anchor a missile ship in the port of Haifa, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Wednesday. An Israeli official told the...

Swedish authorities refused on Sunday to allow the plane of Israeli President Shimon Peres to cross into its airspace en route to Norway, causing him to arrive late to...

A Caabu Briefing Paper 1. Introduction 1.1 The Oslo Accords which were intended to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians were signed as long ago as 1993. Yet...

A group of international activists involved in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition held a press conference in London on Monday to debrief the media about the terrorist attack against Gaza's...

The Israeli police requested a welcome poster for Pope Francis be removed from a building belonging to the church near Jaffa Gate to avoid "inflaming Jewish passions". The National...

There has been much talk over the past ten years about the "new Middle East" which America has called for. This US project is based around four main areas:...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that peace in the Middle East is not achievable because Israel continues to occupy Palestinian lands. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...

The Council of the European Union has adopted the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression online and offline, adding to the EU's Human Rights Guidelines. The EU hailed the...

The Muslim Brotherhood praised the Brussels Declaration which was announced last week by a number of leading Egyptian political figures. The initiative seeks to unite all the revolutionary forces...

The battle over the presidency of the Turkish republic will be settled on its scheduled date in August as 300 deputy ministers from the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

The Council of Catholic Churches in the Holy Land has criticised the escalation of "price tag" attacks against Palestinian Christian and Muslim properties, as well as the Israeli police's...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized a lengthy speech delivered by the head of the Bar Association Metin Feyzioğlu, a former CHP official, for being "inappropriate" and "irrelevant."...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) The last decade has seen some major welcome developments by the international community to promote universal justice and human rights. This is manifest, for...

Briefing Paper – April 2010 Last month, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, outlined a new foreign policy framework for a future Conservative government to an audience at RUSI –...

It is not important whether the British government comes up with an answer that designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group or as a democratic one. The massive...

FACT SHEET Sheikh Raed Salah came to Britain at the invitation of the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) last June for a 10 day speaking tour. He was invited to...

URGENT MEDIA FACT SHEET BREAKING NEWS ON VIVA PALESTINA Friday, 8th January 2010 The Viva Palestina Convoy left London on 6th December 2009 to deliver humanitarian to Gaza ;...

The Turkish elections garnered a large amount of media attention in the Arab world. The masses' interest in them largely outweighed the interest they had in their own local...

UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sir John Jenkins, tasked with the Muslim Brotherhood inquiry, has visited Egypt this week and met with government officials, the London-based Al-Araby Al-Gadid reported....

On April 15, 2014, France plans to arrange an informal confidential gathering of Security Council members (a so-called "Arria-formula" meeting) in order to consider a report on the mass...

Veolia is a French company specialising in environmental work in the fields of water, recycling, energy and transportation. The company has recently had a lot of media coverage given...

Natural gas resources in the Mediterranean Sea will become a principal reason for conflicts in the region between Israel and its allies on the one hand and the neighbouring...

"Our foreign policy should always have consistent support for human rights…as its irreducible core," claimed Foreign Secretary William Hague when he took office in 2010. Despite the rhetoric, which...

Renewed 'peace talks' between Israeli and the Palestinian Authority officials have quietly been going on behind closed doors and a U.S.-imposed media blackout for three months now. Like all...

In a recent debate in parliament, it was reported that former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had said that the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel, Palestine, and its...

Introduction On 25 June 2011, the celebrated Palestinian social, political and civil rights leader Sheikh Raed Salah arrived at London's Heathrow airport at the invitation of the independent media...

The Conservative Middle East Council have just launched their very first publication, The Arab Spring: Implications for British Policy. It is a compilation of essays which brings together some...