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,...

My heart goes out to the Israeli human-rights campaigners whose plight was highlighted by Rachel Shabi (“Fatah ceasefire in jeopardy”, World). It is one thing for Israel’s propaganda machine...

At a time of year when editors are looking for news items to fill their pages and programmes, one story sticks out: an international aid convoy with 400 participants...

With the first anniversary of Israel’s war against civilians in Gaza upon us, a plethora of articles, analyses and comments about the past twelve months and its context have...

On December 21st, the Israeli ambassador in London, Ron Prosor, wrote a commentary in the Daily Telegraph: “Restore Common Sense to Common Law”. His comment came a week after...

Further to David Pannick’s legal opinion on behalf of the Jewish Leadership Council concerning the possible changes to the law to prevent a warrant for arrest alleging war crimes...

In an article in The Guardian on the 22nd December Nick Clegg, the leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrat Party, called for an end to the blockade of the...

As the 27 December draws near, many of us will look back to the year’s event to note how little has changed with regards to the conditions in Gaza. ...

The British government’s policies on dealing with human rights abuses and having relations with the state of Israel appear to be in continued public disarray in the wake of...

Letters: The Independent Christmas Appeal The Independent’s appeal is to be congratulated. In particular, the article about the young Palestinians and Lebanese who are negotiating a very complicated milieu...

Earlier this week the news emerged that the former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was forced to cancel a trip to London after a British court issued a warrant...

British government guidelines on settlement produce a step in the right direction The UK government has called for clearer labelling of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West...

“Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted.” “I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to...

The “Palestinian problem” is usually perceived to be a “Muslim” problem; a conflict between the Jews and the Muslims and, for the most part, it is. However, it is...

In May of this year, the United Nations Committee Against Torture bought up the issue of Facility 1391, a clandestine Israeli prison where Palestinian, Lebanese, and other Arab prisoners...

In the last week Palestinians have witnessed a spate of detentions and accusations of torture in the West Bank. The perpetrator in question is the Palestinian Authority (PA). Their...

The situation in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories is worsening every day. In blatant disregard of international law, illegal settlements continue to spring up on confiscated Palestinian land....