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AIPAC is in a losing battle to preserve Israel’s bipartisan status in America
The latest clash in the American civil war over Israel, which pits liberal progressives against right-wing reactionary nationalists, ended with an apology at the weekend by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Better known as AIPAC, the anti-Palestinian group issued a full apology for posting an advertisement accusing the...
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Peace plans have no function except to serve Israel’s colonial takeover of Palestine
It will prove to be Israel’s misfortune that the Zionist project to take over Palestine got underway at a period when settler-colonialism was coming to be viewed with moral and legal contempt. Nevertheless, such has been the effectiveness if its hasbara — propaganda — that even as the world...
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UK mosque cancels event with pro-Israel group
The UK’s most high-profile pro-Israel group, spearheading the campaign to conflate anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel, has been forced to cancel an event with London Central Mosque following a letter of protest highlighting its anti-Palestinian views. British Muslims expressed shock over the event organised by pro-Israel Board of Deputies of...
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Hasn’t the US been a greater source of instability in the Middle East than Iran?
During a televised discussion over which country has been the main source of instability in the Middle East, I struggled to place Iran ahead of the US. While it is self-evident that no single country can be held responsible for all of the region’s pain and suffering – just...
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Hindu nationalists are seeking the Israelification of India; they must be stopped
In their quest to refashion India as a Hindu state, Hindutva extremists have placed themselves on a collision course with the country’s secular constitution. Their goal is no less than the reformation of India as an ethno-religious state affording special rights and privileges to Hindus within a multi-tier system...
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‘The concept of Islamophobia’ is anti-Semitic claims pro-Israel commentator
Cries of anti-Semitism took another extraordinary turn yesterday after one of Britain’s leading advocates for the state of Israel insisted that the charge of Islamophobia was itself anti-Semitic in an article titled “Don’t fall for bogus claims of ‘Islamophobia’”. This remarkable claim, which dismissed serious concerns over the rise in...
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UAE targeted UN and FIFA using American Al-Qaeda spy programme
US officials and former NSA employees build UAE secret surveillance unit...
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It’s not just Muslims threatened by Israeli groups churning far-right hatred
Last week, a Guardian investigation traced a network of Facebook accounts fuelling far-right Islamophobic pages around the world to Israel. Journalists at the UK daily uncovered a plot to take over some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages in an attempt to foment hatred towards Islam and Muslims while fostering...
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UK’s chief rabbi urges voters not to back Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn
With three weeks to go until the British public cast their vote in what is expected to be a close race in the country’s most important general election, and with the Labour Party closing the gap on the Conservatives, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis launched a scathing attack yesterday by...
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Guardian columnist peddles fake news to accuse Corbyn of anti-Semitism
Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian has successfully constructed an image for himself as a vanguard of truth. The newspaper columnist’s most recent novel, To Kill the Truth, published under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, attests to the anxieties he suffers over the proliferation of fake news and the erasure of...
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Jewish Chronicle urges Britons not to vote for Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn
With just over a month to go until the British public cast their vote in what is expected to be a close race in the country’s most important General Election in recent history, a pro-Israel Jewish community newspaper with a worrying track record of making libellous allegations has urged...
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Where the Bird Disappeared
One would be at stretch to find another place on earth where the mining of history evokes as much controversy as Palestine. You would struggle even further to name a political movement more successful than Zionism in its ability to excavate history and string together a political narrative connecting...
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MEMO’s Palestine Book Awards gets underway in London
The 8th awards evening will take place in London tonight, with the shortlisted authors joining members of the public to discuss their works ...
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‘Palestinianised’ Chileans revolt against their ‘Israelised’ government
Watching Chilean President Sebastián Pinera brutally cracking down on protestors in the capital Santiago, I begin to recollect reflections of Israeli activists and author Jeff Halper. In his 2015 book, “War Against the People”, the former director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, suggested that people across the...
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‘Ethnic cleansing is a dishonest and baseless smear’, says Turkey official
Turkey rarely gets a fair hearing in the Western press, I am reminded by Abdurrahim Boynukalin, chairman of AK Party UK, when I press him to answer questions about Ankara’s military incursion on its south-eastern border with Syria. The former deputy minister of Ankara and a member of parliament...
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With all eyes on Turkey, is this the moment for it to rise?
US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria and green light a Turkish military incursion in the north-east section of the country was greeted with dismay. It has even confounded those closest to him like Senator Lindsey Graham, one of his staunchest supporters. The Republican senator...
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MEMO hosts Remembering Jamal one year on
It is exactly one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he was met by a team of Saudi assassins, hand-picked presumably by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia himself, determined to follow the instructions of their superiors who demanded nothing less than the...
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Iran may dodge a bullet thanks to Trump’s misfortune
It is hard to view US President Donald Trump’s Iran policy as anything but an own goal. His decision to unliterally withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal and embark on a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, cheered on by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was meant...
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Netflix is obsessed with telling heroic Israeli spy stories which distort reality
It should come as no surprise to find Israel’s name being mentioned whenever new declassified intelligence records are released. Mossad spies are often found behind sinister plots, including those against countries that have traditionally been seen as Israel’s friend, most recently against its greatest ally, the US. Tel Aviv’s...
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Remembering the Sabra and Shatila massacre
For the Palestinians, the tragedy of Sabra and Shatila remains as a powerful reminder of their apparently endless cycle of displacement....
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Legal victory over FBI 'Muslim registry' - demands review of "war on terror" policy
Civil rights groups have long suspected security agencies of keeping what they call a “Muslim registry”, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack. The tide of anti-Muslim hostility that has spread across the US, and subsequently throughout Europe- with little resistance it should be said- they argue...
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Saudi-backed Yemen government calls for legal action against the UAE
“A civil war within a civil war,” is how the International Crisis Group (ICG) — an independent NGO — has described the situation in Yemen. The observation summed up perfectly the chaos that inevitably follows misguided military intervention in a country where tangled politics guarantees that friends and foes...
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Is Britain going to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?
The administration of US President Donald Trump has come to be defined by racism on the domestic front and recklessness on the international stage, and yet the British government under Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to follow Trump’s lead in what has been his most controversial policy to...
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India annexes Kashmir under the dark shadow of Netanyahu and Modi’s far-right embrace
The depth of love between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has few parallels. Many traits unite the current crop of populist, power-hungry, authoritarian strongmen that have been on the rise of late, but few have enjoyed the kind of relationship that has blossomed...