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Items by Nasim Ahmed
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We all deserve an investigation into BBC Panorama’s propaganda
The British public were subjected to an hour of anti-Palestine propaganda by the BBC last week when it aired a Panorama programme on the “anti-Semitism” row within the Labour Party. The public service broadcaster appeared to be doing very little public service when it unleased what was, by any...
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Khashoggi’s murder reflects our age of impunity
We are witnessing the global retreat of democracy under an “age of impunity,” warned former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a Fulbright Lecture last month. The former Labour MP who is now the chief executive of the International Rescue Committee spoke at length about the dark cloud that...
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PalExpo knocks down Israel's Separation Wall
The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend! ...
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There is no parity between ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Jews’ exodus from Arab states
British Conservative MP Theresa Villiers blundered into a debate on Israel and Palestine last week. In doing so, the former Northern Ireland Secretary rehashed discredited myths the function of which has historically been to shield Israel from taking responsibility for the plight of Palestinian refugees. During deliberations in the...
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With the ‘taboo’ lifted on the Israel lobby, now it’s time to register AIPAC a foreign agent
Since US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar stirred controversy with tweets about the power of the US’ Israel lobby, a flood of articles has followed exposing not only the hypocrisy of those attacking her, but lending support to claims made by the Minnesota representative about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
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The core of Zionism is settler-colonialism, not democracy
"Zionism has never been a movement for self-determination"...
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Purging critics of Israel is no way to fight anti-Semitism
With Israel seeking to purge public spaces of its critics, the decision by the New York Times to ban its publication of political cartoons entirely over alleged anti-Semitism, perhaps should not have come as a surprise. Nevertheless, few expected the 168 year old paper, with 43 million Twitter followers...
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‘Israel’s extreme right wing government has finished any hope for a Palestinian state’
For the 1.8m Palestinians who make up almost 20 per cent of the population of Israel, discrimination and institutional racism has been a reality since the Nakba...
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Israel is ‘weaponising culture’, erasing Palestinian history with Eurovision
Calls to boycott this year’s Eurovision song contest have focused on Israel’s brutal occupation. Mercury Prize-winning rock band Wolf Alice, for example, gave their backing by evoking images of Israel’s domination over Palestinians saying that it was “weaponising culture” and that the Zionist state was a “serial human rights...
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A new civil rights movement unites Palestinians and Black Americans
Since its launch in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has evolved into one of the most effective campaigns against racism. This year’s IAW kicked off in South Africa earlier this week in customary fashion, with leaders of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), whose former leader the late Nelson...
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Jeremy Hunt’s hostility towards the UN shows he is not serious about the Israeli occupation
In their desperate attempt to divert attention from the brutal reality of its military occupation, Israel and its supporters have successfully employed a number of tactics. None, however, have been more effective than the claim that institutions like the UN and human rights organisations such as Amnesty International are...
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Israel’s treatment of Bedouins is a ‘heinous crime’ says Knesset member
As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future. ...
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Debunking the myth of Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’
Pro-Israel groups aided by the mainstream media have led the assault on the Labour Party over its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism. Their goal, it seems, is no less than the removal of Jeremy Corbyn as leader with the unfounded claim that he is partly responsible for the surge...
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What would a non-colonial State of Israel look like?
As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future. ...
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63% of a British audience would prefer to cut ties with Saudi Arabia
A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that “The West should cut ties with Saudi Arabia”. The debate was organised by Intelligence Squared and began with a not insignificant...
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Is Labour’s anti-Semitism row fuelled by pro-Israel online ‘guerrilla warriors’?
The Labour Party in Britain has been dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism ever since Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the 2015 leadership contest. The crisis has since threatened to tear the party apart. Now, though, what appears to be an organised campaign to fuel the row has been uncovered, raising...
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To Israel ‘the mere existence’ of a Palestinian Muslim Congresswoman is a menace
One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people. Tragically this myth served the country to great effect especially in denying the return of refugees (750,000, half the population) to their country following their expulsion in 1948 and in continually hindering the Palestinian people’s...
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Source of pro-Israel guerrilla warriors on social media exposed
A number of prominent Jewish-American leaders are funding covert, anonymous campaigns targeting pro-Palestinian student activists, The Forward has found. The Jewish daily newspaper, which has been publishing valuable information concerning the source of funding for these hyper-aggressive and shadowy groups – which spearhead coordinated hate campaigns against critics of...
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Turkey is indispensable to peace and stability in the region, prominent experts conclude
Turkey’s location in a strategic part of the world is a “blessing and a curse,” Professor Gülnur Aybet said this week at a major panel discussion in Central London. Speaking under the heading of “Turkey in a Changing Middle East”, Prof. Aybet explained the Republic’s foreign policy to the...
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Generation Hate Part 1
Al Jazeera have released a new documentary on the racist group Generation Identity in France...
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George Bush Snr leaves behind a tainted legacy
For centuries, the Middle East has cast a long and dark shadow over the legacy of many a statesman wanting to leave his mark on history. Unlike Europeans, the Americans largely resisted the allure of the region until 1945, when President Franklin D Roosevelt met with Saudi King Abdul...
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About a War
Rating 4/5 Why do people who are normally good commit acts of evil? A great many have been bedevilled by the question but the answer is as elusive as when it was first posed in many foundational stories within religious traditions and cultures that too have grappled with the question...
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UAE links damage the integrity of universities upholding democratic freedoms
Relations between Britain and the UAE came under scrutiny after a judge in the Emirates sentenced a British academic to life imprisonment last week. Matthew Hedges, a PhD student from Durham, was charged in a five-minute hearing in Abu Dhabi with spying for the British government. He had been...
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How far will Saudi Arabia go to make sure that Bin Salman survives?
A Saudi campaign to save Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has been gaining momentum since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on 2 October. With each passing day, the likelihood that he will survive the biggest crisis to hit the Kingdom since the 9/11 terrorist attacks — 15 of...