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The Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) has voted to endorse the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Meeting on Thursday night, the Student Council passed the...

Independent Label Market (ILM), an international record fair, has refused an offer to take its market to Tel Aviv, citing the cultural boycott of Israel. An Israeli distribution company...

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday said that his country supports political transition in Syria that does not include President Bashar Al-Assad. “Bashar Al-Assad talks about a unity government,...

Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy said that he broke the law many times during his work in the Mossad, but did not reveal where or how. During a lecture...

The Lebanese army yesterday received three US-made helicopters worth $26 million and British aid worth about $29 million to help boost security along its border with Syria. US Charge...

One of the many disturbing sentences written by Boris Johnson in his column for Britain’s Telegraph newspaper is this: “The victory of Assad is a victory for archaeology, a...

The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) been sharply criticised for the behaviour of British diplomats in Geneva last week, who tried to pressure the Palestinians to water down...

Amnesty International sent a petition signed by more than 1,500 people to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing their “deep concerns” regarding the future of Atir village resident...

In order to help people understand and appreciate Iraq's rich culture and the true essence of the people, Philip Juma is hoping to connect Londoners with the country's rich and varied cuisine.

Yesterday, activists from Inminds human rights group protested outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London urging the theatre not to breach the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel...

British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood has expressed his concern over what he called "the growing restrictions on civil society in Egypt". According to...

A new report examines how “Israeli agricultural export companies are profiting from the Israeli colonisation of Palestinian land” – and how their produce ends up in British supermarkets. ‘Apartheid...

Is calling for the destruction of a state an expression of xenophobia, racism or bigotry? It might be radical, but it's not anything more than that. Take anarchists, for...

British newspaper, The Independent, said the terrorism which strikes Europe today comes mostly as a result of the West’s policies committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. In its Saturday...

An estimated 15,000 people marched through central London on Saturday during a 'Refugees Welcome/Stand Up To Racism' demonstration that was implemented to coincide with the United Nations' 'Anti-Racism Day'...

Demonstrators held a protest outside UNICEF's office in London on Friday evening urging it to end its contract with British security company G4S. Activists from Inminds human rights group...

US President Barack Obama will participate in the Gulf Cooperation Council summit during his visit to Saudi Arabia on 21 April, the White House said yesterday. The White House...

Mark Regev, the infamous mouthpiece who tried to justify Israel’s three brutal wars on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, is about to take up his position as the...

British ambassador to Egypt John Casson yesterday reiterated his country's concerns regarding the human rights situation in Egypt. In a tweet, Casson said: "UK deeply concerned about detentions of...

A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others,...

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...

Amnesty International has condemned Israel’s use of administrative detention to imprison Palestinians and demanded Tel Aviv release all administrative detainees or give them a fair trial. The organization expressed...

A simple statement in a BBC Arabic documentary captured the whole nature of what was once the third largest city in Yemen: “Taiz is now shattered.” Seeing the devastating...

One of President Obama’s first acts after taking the oath of office for the first time in 2008 was to sign an executive order that was intended to close...

British private security giant G4S has announced plans to sell its entire Israeli business within the next 12 to 24 months. The news has been welcomed by activists in...

University College London Union (UCLU) voted Tuesday night to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in what campus-based human rights campaigners hailed as a "tremendous victory." The...

British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday called on the international community to support Turkey in its dealing with the refugee crisis. Speaking during the Turkey-European Union summit held in...

A protest was held at the Department for Communities and Local Government on Monday by campaigners angry at the British government's recent attempts to undermine local authorities' ability to...

The security situation in Iraq has been on the agenda of the international community since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Following the American-led invasion, stability in the...

Barclays Bank announced on Wednesday its intention to pull out of Egypt as part of a wider Africa exit plan to focus on the group’s core British and US...

Yuli Edelstein is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party as well as the Speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset; he also happens to be addressing British MPs...

This is the second in a two-part report on how Israel and its friends are battling the boycott. The first part was published yesterday and can be read here....