Monthly Archives: February 2015

Binyamin Netanyahu’s expensive speech

Netanyahu’s expensive speech Uri Avnery says by spiting President Obama in Congress Netanyahu may succeed in outflanking his opponents in Israel’s coming elections, but the price could be Israel’s lifeline – the alliance with Washington. Read more [...]

The poisonous State of Qatar

Qatar map Mohamed El-Doufani examines Qatar’s policy of reliance on the USA and support for Islamism, and its media strategy, as represented by Aljazeera, which talks democracy to Westerners but espouses Islamism to Arabs. Read more [...]

Palestine at the International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court1

Lawrence Davidson assesses the potential and problems of the Palestinian request to the International Criminal Court to begin a preliminary investigation of Israel’s actions during the 2014 invasion of the Gaza Strip. Read more [...]

Israel’s new Asian allies

China loves Israel

With Israel turning to Asia to compensate for its loss of Western support, Jonathan Cook wonders how long it will be before it starts replying on a Chinese veto at the UN. Read more [...]

Israel holds pregnant Canadian woman hostage

Marianne Azizi writes:

Hana Gan, Read more [...]

How to defeat violent Islamic fundamentalism

Islamic State terrorists

Alan Hart says Western foreign policy and repressive Arab and Muslim regimes are at the core of violent Islamic fundamentalism, and that Western leaders could change both, but they will not. Read more [...]

The myth of rising anti-Semitism in Europe

Myths of Zionism

Uri Avnery debunks the flurry of Israeli and other Zionist propaganda which claims that European anti-Semitism is rising, blaming instead local historical baggage and Israeli behaviour for recent attacks on Jews. Read more [...]

Church of England’s hidden Zionist agenda 

Christian Zionism

Stuart Littlewood says the Church of England is home to a mission preaching the Zionist gospel, and that is why truthseekers such as Rev Stephen Sizer are hounded out of their jobs. Read more [...]

Why we need the International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court

Lawrence Davidson explains why the implications of the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation of Israeli war crimes during the 2014 invasion of the Gaza Strip go far beyond the Middle East. Read more [...]

Hundreds of UK artists join cultural boycott of Israel

More than 100 British artists have Read more [...]