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There was nothing surprising about Israel finding itself not culpable for the killing of four boys on a Gaza beach in July last year, as it did in a military judgment released...

The Muslim Scholars Committee in Iraq condemned on Friday US and British plans to send additional military trainers to the country, stressing this is "not a useful measure", Quds...

Millions of ordinary citizens across Europe marched against the impending invasion of Iraq in 2003, so convinced were they that the war was wrong. Tens of thousands had never...

Palestinian and Egyptian media agencies reported this week that the outgoing Quartet Envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with Khaled Meshaal in Doha recently. Since neither...

A final nuclear deal between the world powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme is "achievable" by the 30 June deadline, Anadolu Agency reported Iran's ambassador to the International...

Informed Palestinian-Egyptian sources claim that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, in Doha a few weeks ago. According...

A new report by Spinwatch, a public interest investigation group, provides an in-depth scrutiny of The Henry Jackson Society and the Degeneration of British Neo-conservatism; it examines the history,...

There is no risk of mission creep in Iraq, for Britain at least. This is worth saying as speculation mounts in the media each time even a handful more...

Emad Burnat, director of 5 Broken Cameras, speaks to MEMO: "I tell Israeli activists they should work inside Israeli society and not just come to our village."

Labour's catastrophic defeat at the general election was obviously surprising. To many people who are committed to a more honest and just approach to British foreign policy in the...

Britain is to increase its support of the Iraqi government in its fight against Islamic State (ISIS), the foreign minister said yesterday, adding that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was...

The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed "the sea cemetery"—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...

Israeli security sources have said that the French, British, German and Scandinavian boycotts of the Israeli Defence Exhibition (ISDEF) affect the Israeli army. They also stated that the boycott...

The National Union of Students (NUS) has reaffirmed its support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) on...

"How had I ended up in such a role…? I had come to Iraq to apologise for the war. Now I was sitting like some colonial administrator in the...

Le Trio Joubran, a Palestinian band comprising of three brothers from Nazareth, played to a packed audience at the Barbican, London on Sunday night. They sang alongside renowned Algerian...

The UN envoy to Syria and the British foreign secretary both condemned Sunday the Assad regime's barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo in northwestern Syria. At least 136 people, including...

Millions of Muslims around the world are buying dates for the coming month of Ramadan. Many will be careful not to purchase those produced by Israel in occupied Palestinian...

Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza yesterday called on Amnesty International to be more accurate in its reports, describing a recent report regarding Hamas as "non-professional", Quds Press reported. The...

At last, Tony Blair has ended months of speculation and quit as Middle East Peace Envoy. His role as the representative of the "Quartet" (the UN, EU, US and...

Tony Blair resigned as Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, a source close to the former British prime minister said on Wednesday. "He remains fully committed to assisting the...

On 6 May, just hours before the constitutional deadline, Benjamin Netanyahu assembled a shaky coalition government after heated negotiations with potential partners. The final agreement put together a cabinet...

Now that the Lib Dems are back in opposition, it is worth reflecting on how the Conservatives are likely to act without their restraining hand. That hand will be...

It's April 2002 and the Second Intifada has engulfed cities across the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In Bethlehem, a group of armed fighters have fled to one of the world's...

Last November, a post appeared on the blogging platform Medium which claimed that between March 1, 2014 and August 31, 2014 – a period of six months – some...

Earlier this month a conference was held in Jerusalem which Israel used as a way to brainstorm changes to international humanitarian law in order to make it easier for...

There's nothing like a bit of cultural vandalism to get people hot under the collar and a prime example came in the wake of David Cameron's surprise victory in...

Barely has the dust settled following the drama of last week's election, it seems, that the now (narrow) majority Conservative government led by David Cameron has already started re-aligning...

Those seeking a full and open discussion of Middle East affairs, especially in relation to Israel/Palestine, will bear the brunt of the government's promised gagging legislation. It is both...

The occupation was only partially successful in implanting the culture of defeat and surrender, even 67 years after the Nakba. This is because people are alive and will not...

A spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that her organisation currently holds 15 files on Palestinians who have been missing since the recent...

Leading actors, directors and other figures from the theatre world have condemned efforts by pro-Israel groups to silence a Palestinian production set to tour Britain. 'The Siege', by the...