Ibrahim Hewitt

Israel's Minister of Finance has called for the elimination of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas in response to the bid for full membership of the United Nations...

Media reports claim that the Israeli Defence Ministry has ordered its forces to throw a security cordon around the occupied Palestinian territories in September. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF)...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Miles of Smiles Convoy to Gaza arrived in the Strip through the Rafah border crossing with a number of convoy participants riding pneumatic bicycles lending a very...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Miles of Smiles Convoy 3, which is made up of 50 Palestinian solidarity activists from several different European countries, has reached the Gaza Strip. The convoy...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A British parliamentary delegation accompanied by aid workers begun a visit to the Gaza Strip today. Among the delegation's members were Lord Raymond Hylton, Yasmin Quraishi MP...

Human rights campaigner Mazin Qumsiyeh has published online the Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in order to remind everyone, Palestinians included, that the charter has never been amended...

Ambassadors of African countries in Israel have expressed their concern over racial discrimination against African employees and migrants in Israel. According to Israeli media sources, Ghana's ambassador complained to...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his Facebook page on Tuesday to insist that he refuses to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. Netanyahu was seeking to counter...

An Israeli gunboat attacked some Palestinian fishing vessels off the north coast of Gaza just after 8am local time today. According to MEMO's Ibrahim Hewitt, who witnessed the attack...

Israeli media reports claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to the President of the Palestinian Authority calling on him "to take the necessary measures to calm down...

Israel's President Shimon Peres has said that Canada could play a significant role in the peace process, especially with regards to the Palestinian refugee issue. Mr Peres made his...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will not ratify any agreement with the Palestinians before it has been subject to a public referendum. He announced this...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for the West to adopt a new "Marshall Plan" for the Egyptian economy in order for the coup to succeed. He is...

A spokesman for Fatah has claimed that the Egyptian coup, which he called a "revolution", has "downed the establishment of a mini-state in Gaza and Sinai". Osama Qawasmi referred...

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has warned of a "health catastrophe" in the beleaguered territory due to the ongoing Israeli-led blockade. Top of the crisis list is the...

The Minister of Health for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza is visiting South Africa to give the government, trade unions and pro-Palestine activists details of the growing health crisis...

Reports in the Israeli media claim that around 100,000 American Jews have signed a petition to be presented to President Barak Obama, asking him to use the US veto...

During her Senate confirmation hearing, the newly-nominated US representative at the UN has pledged to fight for Israel to have a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council. Samantha...

In response to a report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Wednesday 12th January that the State of Israel has "blacklisted 163 foreign charities suspected of supporting terrorism", in which...

British charity Interpal has welcomed the announcement of the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) that it has agreed to give £1.5 million in new funding for UNRWA in...

In the traditional State of the Union speech yesterday, President Barack Obama mentioned one group of people (politicians aside) more than anyone else: the lobbyists. In pointing to their...

Andrew Roberts is a historian of note, but his robust defence of the state of Israel in the Financial Times (Israel is no more rogue than America, 3 March)...

Nick Clegg, the coalition's Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats, attended the Liberal Democrats Friends of Israel fringe meeting on Monday 20 September alongside LDFI President...

It is one of the long-standing riddles of the Israel-Palestine conflict that Britain and other democratic states do not appear to support genuine justice for Palestinians. While all MPs...

As the news of the Connecticut school massacre sinks in, it would take a hard-hearted person not to feel for the parents, families and friends of the victims. It...

I am writing this in Malta, a small island state in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Sicily. It is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean...

The Independent columnist Johann Hari is someone I don't always agree with, but that's the nature of freedom of speech and democracy. He's just as entitled to his opinion...

In an interview with the Times (6 May), Israel's ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, is reported to have "complained about "extremism in British universities" which caused his deputy...

He's two weeks into his new role as Foreign Secretary, but already the Zionists' guns are out to get William Hague. The editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard,...

It is heartening that a senior British politician can still find the time to attend a minority community function to offer praise and support for its contribution to British...

In his speech in Germany a couple of weeks ago, Britain's Prime Minister said that his government will not give funds to Muslim organisation unless they believe in "universal...

It has been an interesting couple of weeks watching the reactions to the latest Islamophobia emanating from Western sources; first that film and then, almost inevitably, it seems, more...