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Robert D. Kaplan's article "Why I Love Al Jazeera" (The Atlantic – Oct. 2009 – pp55-56.) Review by Dr. Hanan Chehata, Middle East Monitor, (MEMO), London In his article...

British human rights activist Toby Kidman held the British Government responsible for the "coup path" taken by Egyptian interim leaders, and called on it to change its positions vis-à-vis...

When does the life of one child become more precious than another? The answer should be that all children are valued in equal measure unless you use the double...

"If the Nakba signifies the expulsion of the Palestinian citizen from his land, and seizing his land by force, then the Nakba began decades before 1948." It is this...

The British government has granted temporary diplomatic immunity to Israel's Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni during her visit to London this week, which serves to protect her from an arrest...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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....

"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...

Liberal Democrats Fact sheet on Israel/Palestine and the political parties – Download Here  ...

Saudi Arabia requested the Arab League foreign minister's meeting on the crisis in Syria, due to be held on Monday, be delayed, Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League Ambassador...

Syria still has enough chemicals to produce enough nerve agents to carry out attacks similar to the deadly attack on Damascus last August "many times over", Britain warned yesterday....

The Muslim Brotherhood will send the British government documents outlining the group's principles and values while rejecting accusation of terrorism, a leader of the group said yesterday. Ibrahim Munir...

Britain's Foreign Office denied claims that Egypt's Justice Minister asked the British ambassador to Cairo to freeze the Muslim Brotherhood's funds in Britain and return them to Egypt. Media...

Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) Hamza Mansour and the Deputy Comptroller General of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Jordan Zaki Bani Irsheid have met with the...

Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat has ordered an investigation into allegations that US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime...

A week after over 500 anti-coup protesters were sentenced to death by Field Marshall Abdul Fattah Al Sisi's regime in Egypt, the British Prime Minister David Cameron has launched...

Last weekend the Guardian newspaper reported the tragic story of six young Egyptians who drowned off the Sicilian coast. Aged between 17 and 23 years old, they were on...

Last month, the South African international lawyer, Professor John Dugard, spoke at the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine fringe meeting during the party's annual conference in Brighton, co-sponsored by...