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The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business...

A coalition of 17 UK charities has urged incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham to impose sanctions on Israel and end UK complicity in Israeli violations of international law, with campaigners telling The New Arab that Palestinians are paying the price...

Israel's approval of more than 2.3 billion shekels ($790 million) for illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank marks a shift from politically approving settlements to directly financing their establishment on Palestinian land, Palestinian officials told The New Arab ,...

The senator represented my state in Congress for three decades. This is what I saw. By Jack Hunter Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died unexpectedly on Saturday at the age of 71. I...

Nigel Farage is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century. Certainly a more important historic figure than any of the last eight Prime Ministers. Tony Blair is the only realistic rival. By Craig Murray Join us on Telegram , X...

When Israel occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000, maintaining control meant thousands of soldiers stationed inside the territory, with reinforced military outposts and daily clashes with fighters from a newly founded Hezbollah waging a guerrilla insurgency. Nearly three decades later,...

Four announcements were made on Monday, 13 July. Read together, they are the European Union's Palestine policy, complete. In Brussels, the Foreign Affairs Council — the first under Ireland's new presidency of the Council — spent its Middle East session on...

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team have announced a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and private organisations alleging a conspiracy to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, a move that could be an important case at a time of severe government crackdowns...

Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip have intensified in recent days, with homes, displacement camps , markets and public roads coming under near-daily attack, as residents and political analysts warn that the expanding military campaign is steadily shrinking the...

Bethlehem /PNN/ A new public opinion poll has found that the Palestinian clearance revenue crisis has expanded beyond public finances to become a widespread cost-of-living emergency, affecting household incomes, purchasing power and debt levels, while raising concerns over deeper economic fallout...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. "Regional...

On 26 June 2026, Ibrahim Traoré , hailed as Africa's anti-imperialist hero, issued France an ultimatum to close its embassy in Ouagadougou, accusing Paris of "blatant neocolonial ambitions." Concurrently, he received the credentials of Israel's ambassador pledging to deepen bilateral cooperation...

The Abraham Accords sought to succeed where decades of negotiations had failed. By separating Arab normalization with Israel from the Palestinian issue, the effort bypassed the core concept of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which explicitly tied the normalization to...

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

Restoring some semblance of a moral core to the Labour Party won’t be easy, but is politically necessary for Andy Burnham. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and...

GAZA, (PIC) When a residential apartment is reduced to rubble within minutes, and when a doctor leaves an operating room only to find the hospital itself under threat, the issue is no longer about abstract numbers or “collateral damage.” Israel’s assault on...

As the United States marks 250 years since its founding as an anti-colonial republic, its global power and democratic system are facing a profound crisis, according to Khalil Jahshan, executive director of Arab Center Washington DC. In an interview conducted byThe...

England captain Harry Kane has displayed a "clear double standard" by speaking out on Qatar before the 2022 World Cup while warmly discussing Donald Trump and remaining silent on controversies surrounding this year's tournament, British-Palestinian commentator Hamza Yusuf told The...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Anxiety inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps is no longer limited to shrinking healthcare and education services provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As calls to sideline or replace the agency intensify, refugees are...

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . The recent swathe of electoral victories by the Democratic Socialists of America has provoked a predictably delicious meltdown throughout the political establishment. James Carville is apoplectic . Centrist Democrats are suddenly...

Political sources and others close to the Iraqi government said to The New Arab on Tuesday, 14 July, that the US administration is seriously pushing a plan to strip Iran-backed Iraqi armed factions of drones and advanced long-range missiles with...

LONDON, (PIC) The Red Ribbons Campaign for the Release of Palestinian Hostages and Prisoners held in Israeli prisons has renewed its urgent call on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take immediate humanitarian action to ensure the practical...

There are, and perhaps always have been, two American republics. The first declared that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed". This US Republic, founded through revolutionary war in 1776 by "enlightened Englishmen", defined itself against kings,...

BRUSSELS / PNN / Palestinian Minister of Finance Dr. Istifan Salameh said the Palestinian government has received broad international support and praise for its reform agenda, adding that growing confidence among international partners is helping mobilize additional political and financial backing....

Imprisoned Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was wounded and left bleeding after an Israeli prison guard shot him in the leg with a rubber bullet at close range, his family said on Monday. Barghouti had informed his lawyer of the violent...

After multiple attempts to expel Palestinians from Gaza since the war began in October 2023, Israel's latest effort to rebrand mass displacement as "free movement" appears aimed at winning foreign backing for a policy that would otherwise constitute a war...

Lindsey Graham was a degenerate and a disgrace, even if viewed entirely within the context of his public life. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su De mortuis nihil nisi bonum , goes the adage of the...

Iranian ballistic missiles targeted a US air base in Jordan on Tuesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said, while calling on Jordanians to dismantle American bases in the kingdom and elsewhere in the region. "You know very well that not only...

The United States launched a five-hour wave of strikes across southern Iran overnight, targeting military sites in at least six locations as President Donald Trump escalated Washington's campaign against Tehran despite insisting that an agreement remained possible. Iran responded by firing...

BRUSSELS (PNN) – By Fairoz Odeh – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa signed a new financial support agreement with the European Union on Friday during a ceremony with European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica, on the sidelines of the High-Level...