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Items by Nasim Ahmed
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Ben & Jerry’s is wrong, Israel and apartheid are one and the same just ask its leaders
The founders of Ben & Jerry’s doubled down on the company’s decision to end business in the Israeli occupied West Bank with a compelling article in the New York Times yesterday. Demonstrating rare moral leadership and courage where none seems to exist in the profit-seeking world occupied by multinational...
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UAE denounced by victims of hacking scandal as Israel seeks to save-face
The global hacking scandal involving Israel’s notorious NSO Group has sparked fury around the world as the full extent of the industrial scale spying operation targeting politicians, academics and activists begin to emerge. As many as 50,000 phone numbers were said to have been targeted for surveillance by NSO Group’s...
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UK Labour Party reinstates controversial member accused of Islamophobia
The British Labour Party has become embroiled in another major race row following its decision to readmit Trevor Phillips to the party just over a year after he was suspended for alleged Islamophobia. The 67-year-old writer and broadcaster is one of the most high-profile members of the party. As...
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Unpacking the appointment of an ‘unapologetic’ Israel supporter as Britain’s Health Secretary
Sajid Javid made a surprise comeback to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet this weekend following the resignation of Matt Hancock. The former health secretary fell on his sword a day after his secret affair with an aide was exposed by British tabloids. The appointment of Javid, who has served...
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US cannot claim to lead the world on combating racism if it continues to support apartheid Israel
The UK plans to boycott a UN sponsored anti-racism conference in South Africa citing anti-Semitism concerns...
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MEMO in conversation with Prof. Norman Finkelstein
Prof. Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust....
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Israel’s Palestinian citizens are key to ending apartheid
Despite Israel’s efforts to “spirit the Arabs out of their homeland” and the vain hope of its first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, that “the old will die and the young will forget”, just over half of the Palestinian people not only live in their historic homeland but have also...
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MEMO in conversation with Omar Shakir
Watch our conversation with the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, discussing the organisation's latest report which found that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians....
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The lives of four Yemeni journalists are on the line, but Joe Biden could save them
The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the details of their campaign for their release. Ibrahim is the Executive Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, while...
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MEMO in conversation with Justin Scheck
Scheck has been writing about Saudi Arabia since 2016. A graduate of Bates College, he worked at small newspapers in California before starting his career at the Journal in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Emmy nominee....
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Remembering the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative
A Saudi-led peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League's 22 member states offered Israel a comprehensive formula for peace based on international norms...
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The already ‘messy break-up’ of American Jews over Israel is getting messier
An alliance of far-right groups including Jewish Power, a party so extreme that even unflinching supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in the US cannot stomach, are poised to enter Israel’s parliament, if exit polls for the latest General Election are to be believed. Ideological heirs of Meir Kahane, who...
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MEMO in conversation: Decolonising Israel, Liberating Palestine
Watch our interview with anthropologist, author, lecturer and political activist Jeff Halper...
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MEMO in conversation with Dr David H. Warren: The Gulf contest over the Arab Spring narrative is shaping regional geopolitics
Arguments presented by Dr Warren highlight the ongoing battle to control the narrative about the Arab Spring...
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Why did the United States add Israel to CENTCOM?
Having aligned their security interest with Israel, Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state....
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Reviewing US policy on Palestine, with Professor Rashid Khalidi
Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs....
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Israel is an apartheid state, says B’Tselem; time to ditch the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism?
When B’Tselem described Israel as an apartheid state in a position paper last week, it did more than just dispel long held delusions about the Zionist state. In saying that Israel “promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River,” the country’s largest human rights...
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Trump’s dictatorial impulses have been indulged, now the chickens have come home to roost
How the mighty have fallen. In the space of a few months, Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has gone from the dizzy heights of Nobel Peace Prize chatter to the infamy of instigating the most disgraceful act of domestic terrorism in the country’s history....
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MEMO in conversation with Jeremy Wildeman
Watch our interview with Jeremy Wildeman, a fellow at Ottawa University's Human Rights Research and Education Centre...
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Starmer’s refusal to challenge a far-right conspiracy theorist was shocking
British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is facing fierce criticism for failing to challenge a caller to a radio phone-in who advanced a racist conspiracy theory that has inspired several far-right terrorist attacks. The same caller then hailed Israel as an ethnonationalist utopia which Britain should seek to replicate....
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Starmer is failing to unite Britain’s Labour Party
The UN’s International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People — commemorated on 29 November every year since 1977 to remind the world that the question of Palestine remains unresolved — could have been an occasion for Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Kier Starmer to unite his party. But it...
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Barack Obama and the shattered hopes of a new Middle East
In his new book, A Promised Land, former US President Barack Obama admits that he has a lot to say. So much so, that he felt the need to explain why he was unable to tell the story of his presidency in a single 900 page volume. “I’m painfully aware...
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Obama follows in Jimmy Carter’s footsteps and speaks out against Israel and AIPAC
Upon leaving office, US Presidents have, on occasion, mustered the courage to speak their mind about America’s relationship with Israel and the influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington. Jimmy Carter is perhaps best known for this. The 39th President of the USA, despite his role in mediating the...
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There Where You Are Not
On the very day that Jerusalem came under Israeli occupation in 1967 “exile became a central reality in my life,” recollects Kamal Boullata in the opening passages of the colossal volume that brings together the writings of celebrated Palestinian artist. Only 25 years of age, as Israeli occupation forces...