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British historian Catherine Hall has turned down a prestigious Israeli award, citing political reasons. Hall, a feminist historian and Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University...
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Mark Regev, the well-known former spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office, was recently appointed as ambassador to the UK. One of Regev's first public engagements on assuming...
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May 19, 2016
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Alastair Sloan
Back in 2013, a professor in sociology at Boston University found herself pontificating with considerable intellectualism. "What we have here," wrote Liah Greenfeld, "is young people suffering from a...
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More than 300 human rights and aid organisations, church groups, trade unions and political parties from across the continent are urging the European Union (EU) to defend the right...
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Farah Alfarhan is a British national who has seen the horrors of the Syrian conflict at first hand. She lived in Aleppo for 27 years and was detained by...
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"The biggest trauma we have suffered is that when we open our eyes we cannot see our homeland". Dr. Mohamed Altawil, one of the founders of the Palestine Trauma...
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May 17, 2016
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Diana Alghoul
The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) and Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) collaborated in organising a launch event for Dr. Salman Abu Sitta's latest book, Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir....
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The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, a civil society coalition that leads the global BDS campaign, has condemned what it describes as "the ongoing attacks on...
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Human Rights Watch has called on the United Arab Emirates to release an academic and a Jordanian journalist detained last year for criticising Egypt. The organisation said that the...
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Qatar unveiled the world's largest key in a new bid to break the Guinness World Records at Katara Cultural Village yesterday. The huge 7.8 metre long, 2.8 metre wide...
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May 16, 2016
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Amrina Tahira
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign hosted a day conference in London to commemorate 68 years since the Nakba or Catastrophe. The conference focused on the consequences of the events that...
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Israel's ambassador to the UK declared Sunday that there is no Palestinian partner for a peace deal. Mark Regev, who recently began his posting in London, was speaking at...
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The British Embassy in Cairo has revealed that discussions have been held regarding an increase in arms exports to Egypt. The talks were led by Britain's adviser for the...
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On Friday 6 May 2016, Sadiq Khan was declared Mayor of London, the "first Muslim mayor of a major European city".Khan was born in London, where he has lived...
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Dozens of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon protested today in front of the British Embassy in Beirut to mark the 68th anniversary of the Nakba. They demanded the UK make...
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Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), a leading voice in recent claims that the Labour Party has a problem with antisemitism, has published an extraordinary attack on Jewish critics of Israel,...
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Last week the Syrian regime bombed Al-Kamouna camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Idlib. These IDPs had fled from the hell of Aleppo to what they...
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May 13, 2016
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Jessica Purkiss
Today in London a new report entitled The Israel lobby and the European Union is being released. Researched and written by Public Interest Investigations and Spinwatch and published by EuroPal Forum,...
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May 12, 2016
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Diana Alghoul
Middle East Monitor hosted the third annual lecture to honour the memory, scholarship and achievement of Abdelwahab Elmessiri, the late Egyptian thinker, yesterday. The event highlighted how Elmessiri went...
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On the week of Nakba Day, the cover story of New Statesman, a liberal-left weekly British magazine, has dismissed the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 as...
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May 11, 2016
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Alastair Sloan
Review the lists of MPs who are taken on expensive parliamentary jaunts abroad and you will find relatively few names you know; they are more likely to come...
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May 10, 2016
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Jessica Purkiss
Russia's renowned Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra took to the stage on Thursday. They were not performing in their usual setting, the grandiose of Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, but on...
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May 10, 2016
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a witch-hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain's Opposition party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading...
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May 6, 2016
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Diana Alghoul
Since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, there has been much attention in the British media about the UK's arms deals with Riyadh. After the United...
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May 6, 2016
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Nasim Ahmed
Britain's chief rabbi waded into the anti-Semitism row this week with an article in the Telegraph.: "Ken Livingstone and the hard left are spreading the insidious virus of anti-Semitism,"...
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The UK government has been found to be running a covert humanitarian campaign to funnel aid to Syrian refugees while secretly using the organisation as a counter-radicalisation scheme, the...
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The advisor to the Deputy Chairman of Hamas' political bureau Ismail Haniyeh has denied reports that he commented on the UK Labour party and its leader. The American Breitbart...
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May 4, 2016
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Alastair Sloan
Watching Britain's main opposition Labour Party in the past month has been like observing a game of skittles. Another week, another member kicked out or suspended for anti-Semitic and...
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A number of British and Italian Special Forces have been killed and kidnapped by Daesh forces in Misrata, Libya, Moheet.com reported yesterday. Attributing the news to an Israeli news...
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The current debate about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and the ensuing clamour for eradicating this scourge from British politics is one that British Palestinians have followed with...
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A correspondent for Israel's Haaretz newspaper has said that Ken Livingstone's "nonsense" comments last week have touched a "raw Zionist nerve", and pointed out that the Haavara ("Transfer") Agreement...
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The response of the likes of Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson to Labour’s anti-Semitism row highlights that the party is not beyond religious-based discrimination