Alex MacDonald
Reporter and Analyst at Middle East Eye
Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly tweet about Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Israel-Palestine and UK. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
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3 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald
A majority of British people support a full arms embargo on Israel, according to a new poll commissioned by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The poll, conducted by Opinium Research between 30 May and 2 June, found that 57 percent of people think the UK should impose a full arms embargo, with only 13 percent opposed. The poll also found 53 percent of people think Israel should be expelled from the United Nations, while 50 percent said Israeli products in supermarkets should be boycotted.
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3 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald
YouTube and Spotify have been accusedof "censorship" after the Turkish government blocked videos and songs by the left-wing folk band Grup Yorum. According to Turkish freedom of expression organisation IFOD, Turkish authorities blocked access to more than 450 videos by Grup Yorum on YouTube last week in the name of "protecting national security and public order". They said the 454 clips, shared since 2006 by dozens of YouTube accounts, had totalled more than 205 million views.
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5 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald |Jonathan Cook
A ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on Sunday set off from Sicily, Italy to the Gaza Strip carrying "symbolic" aid to break the Israeli siege on the Palestinian enclave, and a group including actors Guy Pearce and Liam Cunningham. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was among the 12-person crew of the Madleen, which is expected to take seven days to reach Gaza.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald
After almost half a century, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has agreed to disband following an order given by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan. The founding of the party in 1978 by a group of left-wing Kurds in southeastern Turkey was driven by a belief that parliamentary politics in the country was cut-off to those seeking Kurdish autonomy or independence, something that appeared confirmed by the imposition of military rule two years later.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Alex MacDonald
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed an army general as head of the Shin Bet internal intelligence agency despite a warning from the attorney general that it would be a conflict of interest. The appointment comes just one day after the High Court ruled that the dismissal of former Attorney General Ronen Bar on 16 March was "unlawful".
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