Omar Radwan

By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israel stopped Professor Noam Chomsky, the prominent American dissident academic, from entering the West Bank to give a lecture on American foreign policy at...

By Omar Radwan The relationship between Turkey and Israel, which was severely tested following Israel's assault against the Gaza Strip one year ago, has deteriorated yet further in the...

By Omar Radwan This month has seen the first anniversary of Israel's assault on Gaza in which more than 1,400 Palestinians – one third of them children – were...

By Omar Radwan Following Israel's murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza, it is hard not to conclude that sections of the media in Britain...

The phone hacking scandal which has hit Rupert Murdoch's publishing company News International is getting bigger every day and shows no signs of dying down. The effect on British politics...

By Omar Radwan On Wednesday 28th July, a unique event will take place at the House of Commons.  Three Arab members of the Israeli Knesset, Jamal Zahalka, Haneen al-Zoabi,...

By Omar Radwan Last week Israel agreed unexpectedly to cooperate with a UN investigation into its raid on the Freedom Flotilla in May. This is the first time in...

By Omar Radwan This week is the sixth annual "Israeli Apartheid Week", a series of events including lectures, film screenings, workshops, rallies and other activities highlighting Israel's ongoing oppression...

By Omar Radwan The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, has come under renewed attack in recent days.  Professor Falk's remit...

By Omar RadwanLast week, the Israeli Ministry of Interior issued Palestinian geographer Khalil al-Tafakji with a six-month travel ban. Tafakji's activities are largely confined to surveying and cartography, he is...

By Omar Radwan There has been much concern in Israel recently about alleged efforts by individuals and groups in the West to "de-legitimise" Israel. The Reut Institute, an Israeli...

By Omar Radwan Following the Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which resulted in the murder of at least nine civilian activists (some are, apparently, still unaccounted for)...

By Omar Radwan Following Israel's attack on the Freedom Flotilla at the end of last month, the siege of Gaza has come under the spotlight. In Europe and the United...

By Omar Radwan Yesterday, an Israeli military inquiry committee published a report about Israel's raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. While criticising "mistakes" made by the Israeli navy, such...

By Omar Radwan The Israeli government has announced that it will refuse any invitation to start direct negotiations with the Palestinians issued by the diplomatic Quartet responsible for mediating...

By Omar Radwan Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that any Palestinian state that is created at the end of peace negotiations must be demilitarized and must recognize...

By Omar Radwan Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Spiritual Leader of Shas, an Israeli Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party, delivered a sermon at the weekend in which he prayed for the death...

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 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;...

By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israeli bulldozers demolished the historic Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.  This hotel was built in the 1930s as a...

The success of the Egyptian revolution has cast a shadow of uncertainty over future relations between Israel and Egypt.  Even though it is too early to predict the course...

After protests calling for the removal of dictatorial regimes broke out across the Arab world, Palestinians echoed them with their own protests.  However, they were not calling for the...

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has destroyed any hope for peace in the Middle East in the short term. In his speech to the US Congress on the 24th...

In their 63 year struggle against the occupation and colonisation of their homeland, the Palestinians have been short of friends and allies.  The main world powers have taken Israel's...

Last week, on the orders of President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian security forces raided the home of their former leader, Mohammed Dahlan.  They said that they seized a large cache...

The Quartet's envoy to the Middle East, Tony Blair, is trying to improve his perpetually tarnished image and convince the world that his job actually matters.  Speaking at the...

The Israeli government has adopted a new plan to "resettle" the Bedouin residents of unrecognised villages in the Negev Desert into larger recognised settlements.  This plan will affect tens...