Is the UK’s pro-Israel lobby starting to lose?
I was pleased to be invited to be August’s guest writer for MEMO, the Middle East Monitor. I was asked to write about the Raed Salah case, so used the opportunity to revist some of the evidence. The...
View Article#NSAfiles — The Israeli connection
My new opinion/analysis piece on the Israeli connection to the revelations about the NSA’s massive internet spying program: Because these are only rough indicators we are into uncertain territory here,...
View ArticleMEMO column: Arab Idol will not liberate Palestine
In which I poop the party: But a victory in a singing competition will not remove a single Israeli occupation checkpoint. Arab Idol will not release one prisoner, suffering in Israel’s torture...
View ArticleEgypt’s military regime demonizes the Palestinian people
Updating the site with my recent MEMO columns. In these turbulent times, many things remain uncertain. But there seems to be one reliable constant: the oppression of the Palestinian people throughout...
View ArticlePalestinians of all faiths face persecution by Israel
MEMO column on Zionism’s sectarian conspiracies: Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre dates back to the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. It a cruel irony that tourists often have far more...
View ArticleThe peace process merry-go-round
Yes, they are still playing this stupid “peace process” game: The 13th of September will mark 20 years since the White House lawn signing ceremony between Yasser Arafat and Yitzak Rabin, flanked by...
View ArticleIsrael’s new plan of ethnic cleansing in the desert
I write on Prawer: The latest incarnation of this on-going Nakba is Israel’s Prawer plan. Passed by its parliament in June as the Prawer-Begin law, this new wave of ethnic cleansing aims to empty the...
View ArticleDon’t be fooled by Israel’s “negotiations”
The farce that is the “peace process”: Israel’s own housing minister, Uri Ariel is himself a settler who lives the West Bank colony of Kfar Adumim, between Jerusalem and Jericho. Indeed, the main...
View ArticleIsrael’s military dictatorship jails peaceful Palestinian activists
Israel’s system of racist political imprisonment does not care about the methods Palestinians use to resist Israel, so much as the fact of resistance to Israel. Anyone who lifts a fist of protest or a...
View ArticleWestern powers “doing nothing” in Syria? If only
Here we are again. A decade on from the American-British war of aggression against Iraq, the cruise-missile liberals are demanding that “something must be done” about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
View ArticleInventing a genocide as pretext to bomb Syria
This week’s column over at MEMO. An extract: Claiming that all the killing in this war is being done by Assad alone, is a way to increase the propaganda beat of the war-drums against Syria. If in fact...
View ArticleAre Israeli spooks reading your emails?
On the latest Greenwald-Snowden revelations: This means Israel is spying on America – its biggest ally — more than most other states in the world. If this was a Facebook friendship, it would be listed...
View ArticleIsrael and Saudi Arabia: the permanent counter-revolution
The “moderate” Saudi regime’s alliance with Israel is now in the open: The two regimes are both military dictatorships in very different ways. The two regimes are also theocracies, each in their own...
View ArticleEdward Said’s legacy lives inside us
MEMO column: Said was a moral inspiration, not least because of his refusal to be bowed or intimidated by systems of power. These systems included Arab regimes, as well as imperial America and colonial...
View ArticleIs Zionism more “Christian” than “Jewish”?
On the influence of Christian Zionism: Pew found that 82 percent of white evangelicals “believe God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people” compared to less than half of many of Jewish Americans...
View ArticleTime to start talking about Zionist anti-Semitism
On why Zionist anti-Semitism is a thing: To return to Brummer’s comments, there is a more sinister element to what he told the Today programme – something that went almost entirely unnoticed by...
View ArticleRecognising the right of return is not optional
My latest column, on the centrality of the Right of Return to the Palestinian struggle: For all the tragedies and hardships faced by the Palestinian people today there is one constant root,...
View ArticleBDS campaign is erecting counter-siege on Israel
Me on the psychology of of BDS: The very fact the bogus story spread around so quickly before being debunked (even making it onto popular American blog The Huffington Post) tells us something about the...
View ArticleIsrael likely behind cyber-spy hacking on French president
The NSA papers revelations continue: In a Le Monde article co-written with a French journalist, Greenwald revealed that Israel had almost certainly been behind a May 2012 hacking attempt on the French...
View ArticleIsrael and America spy on each other
A long article published in last weekend’s New York Times revealed that Israel is a high-priority target for NSA spy operations. Scott Shane wrote of documents showing NSA’s “tracking of ‘high priority...
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