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While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception Jonathan Cook is the author of...

Today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible:...

A new Connecticut law directing the development of optional Islamic and Arabic studies resources for public schools has sparked backlash from MAGA activists and right-wing commentators, who have accused Democrats of promoting "Islamisation" in schools, while advocates insist the measure...

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has launched legal proceedings in Portugal against an Israeli soldier, alleging his involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza, the organisation told The New Arab on Friday. According to a criminal complaint...

Donald Trump's ambitious plan to rebuild Gaza has shrunk from a blueprint to fully reconstruct the devastated enclave into a limited pilot project near Rafah , raising fresh questions over whether months of Israeli military operations and restrictions have rendered...

Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha and her husband, film producer and councillor Mark Adderly, won their defamation case on Wednesday against prominent British newspapers The Daily Mail and Metro. Sawalha and Adderly secured a full apology and damages after the two...

A Paris court overturned a ruling on Wednesday cancelling a conference on Palestine at the Collège de France, which was due to take place late last year. The conference, titled "Palestine and Europe: The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics,"...

England’s World Cup semi‑final against Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday night was played under the roof of one of the tournament’s flagship arenas – a stadium owned by a US billionaire whose fortune and philanthropy are deeply entangled with Israel...

The grandson of one of Africa’s most iconic post-colonial leaders has told a court in London why he helped the protest group Palestine Action. William Nyerere Plastow, 35, is charged with criminal damage in connection with a Palestine Action raid at...

For nearly three years, Gaza's children have learned wherever they could inside overcrowded tents , makeshift shelters, or, for many, nowhere at all. Classrooms were reduced to rubble, school buildings became shelters for displaced families, and the routines that once defined...

For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...

Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate...

Dozens of Palestinians from Gaza remain imprisoned after completing their sentences, with at least seven more expected to face the same fate by the end of the year, a Palestinian prisoners' rights expert has told The New Arab. Riyad al-Ashqar, director...

Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday. The idea has been discussed within the Islamic Republic's leadership, and...

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank / PNN / Palestinian prisoners' organizations announced Tuesday the launch of an international campaign aimed at ending sexual violence against Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli prisons, saying such abuses constitute a systematic policy that requires urgent...

For nearly two years, Um Mohammed, a Palestinian woman from Khan Younis City in the southern war-torn coastal enclave , dreamed of the day she would return to Gaza. The elderly Palestinian had travelled to Egypt for medical treatment, spending months...

Morocco has signed an agreement to join the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Gaza , becoming the latest state to back a controversial US-led security blueprint that still lacks Palestinian consent and the conditions for deployment on the ground. Morocco signed...

Frieden schaffen wir nicht durch noch mehr Waffen und Kriege, sondern durch Abrüstung, Annäherung, Austausch und den Verzicht auf unipolare Machtansprüche. Um zu verstehen, in welcher dramatischen nationalen und internationalen Lage wir uns befinden, ist es wichtig, die westliche Kriegs- und Aufrüstungsbereitschaft,...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Panel on AI. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2026 (IPS) As the international community continues to weigh the good, the bad and...

On 17 June 2026, the European Parliament approved new EU-wide rules aimed at speeding up the return of "non-EU nationals who no longer have the right to remain in the bloc." Passing with 418 votes in favour, 218 against, and 30...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to block an amendment to the National Security and State Department appropriations bill that would have struck $3.3 billion in aid to Israel. The amendment, introduced by outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), was never expected...

Kamala Harris’s reported outreach to pro-Palestinian activists should not be mistaken for moral courage. It is not a late conversion born of the ruins of Gaza, nor an act of repentance for the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war....

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...