“Smile for the camera” was the name of an Egyptian movie that was made in 1998, and it has been embodied throughout the ongoing elections in Egypt from 10 December to 12 December. “Let’s all take a picture”. This was a scene in front of a poll centre in Giza near the capital. The...
Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has rejected the idea of an independent Palestinian State and the two-state solution, as a whole, in comments which further shed light on the Occupation’s intentions to avert Palestinian statehood. In an interview with Sky...
Iranian pilgrims will undertake the lesser pilgrimage, Umrah, by heading to the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia next week, the first time in eight years. According to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, flights carrying Iranian pilgrims will take off from ten airports...
You may be unaware that currently eight people are standing trial for shutting down an Israeli weapons factory, amongst other actions. Over the course of the last few weeks I have managed to attend some of their hearings at Snaresbrook Crown Court. For the duration of that time, the...
Dutch Mayor, Roelof Bleker, refused to be photographed in close proximity to the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands after receiving an invitation to a Hanukkah celebration in Enschede. Jaap Hartog, the chairman of the Enschede synagogue, had extended the invitation to Bleker for the...
