Israel

Starring Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot as Captain Jack Sparrow, Tzipi Livni as Elizabeth Swann (one flutter of her eyebrows and grown men swoon) and Benjamin Netanyahu as old slobberchops...

Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday's killings...

Our main media organizations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to fill the airwaves with misinformation. Let's reiterate a few simple facts. It is quite astounding that Israel has been able...

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) released a statement this afternoon in response to Israeli forces attacking and killing international humanitarians on board an aid ship en-route to Gaza...

In the early hours of this morning a peaceful flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was attacked in cold-blood and with brutal force by the Israeli army....

Following the final "prime ministers' debate" the community initiative YouElect conducted a poll which confirms that Palestine and Islamophobia are at the top of Muslim concerns in this General...

Nick Clegg is unpretentious, which is probably why he is capturing the imagination of the British electorate. Most commentators refer to his apparent honesty, despite attempts by the right-wing...

The recent Israeli "military order" for the deportation of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank is an extremely worrying development for the Hashemite Kingdom of...

Britain's party leaders' election debate on global issues will attract as much media attention as the first encounter last week, for the list of issues to be tackled is...

An ominous political storm is gathering across Palestine and the Middle East following the announcement of an Israeli military order due to come into effect this week. The order...

The British Government announced earlier today that it is to expel a senior Israeli diplomat following the assassination of Mahmoud al Mabhouh in January, generally believed to have been...

Business secretary Peter Mandelson's belief that the cash for influence scandal is 'rather grubby' was a striking understatement. The affair is, in every respect, odious. To safeguard our politics...

Finally it seems that the scales are falling from the eyes of the British media and they are seeing Israel for what it truly is; an out of control,...

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said that relations between the two countries have entered their worst crisis for 35 years. When the Israeli government announced a...

Dear Prime Minister,  As you are no doubt aware, government promises to make changes to British universal jurisdiction laws following the issue of an arrest warrant for former Israeli...

"Gilligan's Island" was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was "bumbling, dim-witted accident-prone". Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can't help...

Still reeling from the fallout of the Dubai "passport" scandal, Israel's propagandists in Britain have gone on to the offensive. Short on facts and weighted heavily with innuendo both...

A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (Israel can accelerate peace be exercising restraint, 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in...

Not content with merely dancing to Israel's tune over their policies should they win the next General Election, as revealed by Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones to a conference on Israel's...

The aspect of the Al-Mabhouh assassination that is attracting most attention is the issue of forged passports. Today's Jewish Chronicle carries a short commentary on the tendency of Israeli...

Israeli and British media are alight with commentaries on Tzipi Livni's supercilious remarks about "testing" the British judicial system. The aim of the Israeli politician is to embarrass and...

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has sacked Baroness Jenny Tonge as his party's health spokesperson in the House of Lords. Ostensibly over a reported remark about allegations of human...

lIf the Conservative Party wins the next General Election in Britain, as is expected by many, David Cameron's government will refuse to talk to Hizbullah in Lebanon. You won't...

In December last year, Westminster Magistrates' Court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, under Britain's universal jurisdiction laws. It was granted in the wake...

"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic" "If...

An article was published recently in the New Statesman about Israeli plans to build a "Museum of Tolerance" on the site of the Mamilla (a corruption of Ma'man Allah)...

Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to express my dismay at the biased – and therefore inadequate coverage by the BBC of the Israel–Palestine conflict, the latest example of...

A delegation of 50 European parliamentarians has just returned from a visit to Gaza, where they saw for themselves the human and environmental cost of Israel's invasion a year...

Israel has sent an official apology to Turkey after a diplomatic spat threatened to damage further an already strained relationship. According to Israeli President Shimon Peres, the way that...

The state of Israel means different things to different people. For some, it is a refuge from the rampant European anti-Semitism that culminated in the obscenity of the Holocaust....

When news was released about the proposed visit of the Attorney General to Israel, MEMO contacted her office and was given an assurance by the Press Officer that she...

"Impunity, generally speaking, has come to an end ‑ I don't think there's any person today accused of committing international crimes who can feel happy travelling. That in itself,...