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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...

Love it or hate it, the BBC is perhaps the most powerful media institution in the world. Not even the Murdoch empire in its heyday matched the scale and...

In June 2011 I came to Britain to begin a speaking tour to draw attention to the plight of my people, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. The tour was...

The office of Secretary of State for the Home Department is one of the great offices of state but is regarded widely as a poisoned chalice. It is one...

Antisemitism is a fact of life, and all too often, a fact of British life. We do not need the events of Toulouse to remind us of that. They...

This is an all too familiar script. A British politician expresses views on the conflict in Palestine. The Israeli ambassador and lobby demand an apology. The politician is given...

When Professor Paul Whiteley of the new Essex Centre for the Study of Integrity published his study "Are Britons getting more dishonest?" this month, he didn't have to wait...

Nick Clegg's condemnation of Israel's settlements as "an act of deliberate vandalism" was the understatement of the week, but it still managed to provoke the wrath of the Israeli...

Throughout 2011, as in previous years, the British political class remained pitifully indifferent to the tragedy of Bethlehem. When the Archbishop of Canterbury moved a debate in the House...

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the...

The immigration tribunal ruling against Raed Salah is a classic example of what happens when judges follow politicians instead of the law. Contradictions and double-speak abound as they drag...