Middle East

By Khalid AmayrehThe recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial...

By Omar Radwan Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli normIsrael appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or...

By Omar Radwan A new set of photographs taken by Israeli soldiers has appeared on the Facebook page of the Israeli human rights group "Breaking the Silence". These photos...

By Dr. Bouthaina ShaabanNews that a "strategic dialogue" was to take place between Israel and the United States was very brief; the news agencies hardly mentioned it. The names...

By Dr Bouthaina Shaaban When I asked in my previous article, "When will this conspiracy of silence end?" concerning more than eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from their homes...

A conference in Beirut focussing on "European Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian issue" has attracted participants and speakers from across the Middle East and Europe. Organised by Al-Zaytouna Centre...

By Renee Bowyer A group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked and set fire to an old Christian church in Jerusalem (Al Quds) on Friday night, 30th October. The church...

By Jared MalsinGAZA–Israeli soldiers shot a mentally ill Palestinian man in the leg when he ventured near the Erez crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Last Wednesday,...

By Khalid Amayreh Islamist parliamentarians in the West Bank and anguished families of political detainees being held by the Palestinian Authority have urged a visiting delegation of EU politicians...

A conference in Beirut focussing on "European Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian issue" has attracted participants and speakers from across the Middle East and Europe. Organised by Al-Zaytouna Centre...

By Maidhc Ó CathailWhile Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it's worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has...

By Omar RadwanA major reconciliation meeting between Hamas and Fatah is taking place today in Damascus. While this is not the first meeting between the two main Palestinian factions;...

Dr Abdel Sattar QassemSecurity coordination with Israel stands in direct opposition to Palestinian unity, for it is collaboration by any other name. It conflicts with the inalienable national rights...

On November 6th The Jerusalem Post published an article written by G. Steinberg and J. Edelstein titled, 'Turning the Tables on BDS'. The article discusses the need for Israel...

By Nabil AmrBehind the bustle and bluster of the Sixth General Conference of Fatah lay some very serious discussions, kept secret by virtue of the agreed need for a...

By Dr. Robert LambertIn recent months landmark settlements in civil litigation in Britain's High Court have vindicated Mohammed Sawalha, one of London's most industrious and effective voluntary workers. Known...

Occupied Palestine, 23 November 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) urges the French government to immediately cease all undemocratic, repressive measures against its own...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem During his recent visit to Israel and the Gaza Strip, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini revealed rather brazenly his low intellectual capacity, a...

By Ken Reed A new economic squeeze by Israel Government Tourist Office to exclude Palestine from Holy Land pilgrim tours has begun, aided by full page colour adverts in...

By Fuad KhuffashAs part of a series of reports I am preparing to document Israel's violations against Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its jails, this article looks at the...

At a fund-raising event raising money for the Palestine Legal Aid Fund, I was greeted very warmly by a friend who told me excitedly that she had just returned...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The avalanche of top secret cables leaked from the American Departments of State and Defence is still an intriguing enigma to many commentators and political...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineA few weeks ago, a supposedly religious activist, probably from one of the Gulf States, suggested to me that Muslims shouldn't confine our attacks...

By Haneen Zouabi Manifestations of anti-Palestinian racism inside Israel have become aggravated of late, with polls indicating a general refusal by the Jewish majority to live side by side...

By Alastair Crooke A 'peace process' that, from its inception, took Israel's self-definition of its own security needs as the sole determinate of the walls within which any solution...

By Sawsan Ramahi The Oslo Accord restricted the function of the Palestinian Authority (the PA), not only with regard to the control it could exert over the residents of...

15 December 2010RE: The threat to expel us from Jerusalem, our home city You may know that the last Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections were held on the 25th...

Israel has ordered the immediate expulsion from Jerusalem of three elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council – Mr. Muhammad Abu-Teir, Mr. Ahmad Attoun and Mr Mohammad Totah –...

By Fahmi Howeidi It seems that we have come to the moment of truth in the Palestinian conflict, where all the signs indicate that the future of the issue,...

By Renee Bowyer The Gaza blockade has been in place for four years and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have seen their country destroyed around them systematically. Their homes,...

By Pascal Boniface Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs has summoned his country's ambassadors in European countries and given them clear instructions to make use of public relations experts to...

Last week, Brazil gave official recognition to a Palestinian state within the pre-Six Day War 1967 borders, following a written request from the Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas. In...