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3 days ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis
The British government believes the US could sanction prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney over her role advising the ICC chief prosecutor on arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal. In April it emerged that the British Foreign Office had warned senior British lawyers involved in the ICC’s war crimes case against two senior Israeli leaders that they are at risk of US sanctions.
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4 days ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Avi Shlaim |Anna Stavrianakis
The US has warned Britain and France against recognising a Palestinian state at a UN conference later this month, Middle East Eye can reveal. France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a major UN conference on the two-state solution beginning on 17 June in New York. France is reportedly gearing up to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the conference. MEE understands that France has been lobbying Britain to do so as well.
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1 week ago | 
themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Imran Mulla
Diana Darke’s monumental book argues the world of construction in medieval Europe involved a significant Muslim contributionA tourist takes a photo at sunrise on 8 May, 2011 of the leaning tower of Pisa in an empty square. (AFP)By Imran Mulla10 January 2025 11:05 GMT | Last update: 4 months 1 week ago283SharesIn twelfth century Wales, a knight returning from the Crusades came home accompanied by a Palestinian mason.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
Relations between Israel and its historic European allies, Britain and France, have rapidly deteriorated in recent weeks. It was just last Monday that the two countries issued a statement with Canada condemning Israel's expanded military operations in Gaza and warning they could take "concrete actions". A day later, Britain announced it was summoning the Israeli ambassador in London and suspending its free trade agreement talks with Israel.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
The UK has sent its Israel trade envoy, Lord Ian Austin, to Israel to "promote trade" - less than a week after suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel over its attacks on Gaza. On Monday Austin was in Haifa, where he visited the customs scanning centre, Haifa Bayport and the Haifa-Nazareth Light Rail project. "Greetings from Israel!" the envoy said in a post on X on Monday.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
The UK has sent its Israel trade envoy, Lord Ian Austin, to Israel to "promote trade" - less than a week after suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel over its attacks on Gaza. On Monday Austin was in Haifa, where he visited the customs scanning centre, Haifa Bayport and the Haifa-Nazareth Light Rail project. "Greetings from Israel!" the envoy said in a post on X on Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
Piers Morgan has posed for a photo with former BBC presenter Gary Lineker and defended him against claims of antisemitism after the public broadcaster's former star left without a payoff last weekend. Lineker previously presented the BBC's Match of the Day and was the broadcaster's highest-paid on-air employee. He has been repeatedly attacked by pro-Israel commentators and organisations for his vocal opposition to Israel's war on Gaza over the past two years.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The British government is facing fresh questions about its Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights over Gaza - which have continued even as Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that the UK was suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel. Lammy made the announcement in parliament on Tuesday in response to Israel's expanded military operations in Gaza.
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2 weeks ago | 
themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Imran Mulla
Ali Khan Mahmudabad was arrested after praising India’s military operations against Pakistan while criticising attacks on Indian Muslims Ali Khan Mahmudabad, 42, is a British-educated associate professor of political science at Ashoka University (Ashoka University) By Imran Mulla Published date: 18 May 2025 Outrage has erupted in India after a Muslim professor was arrested over a social media post which praised India’s military operations against Pakistan while criticising attacks on Indian...
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The UK has announced it will sanction several prominent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including veteran settler activist and head of the Nachala movement Daniella Weiss. Weiss appeared in a highly publicised recent BBC documentary on the occupied West Bank, presented by British documentarian Louis Theroux. In the film, Weiss boasted that she can phone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides anytime.
