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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The British government will move to ban the activist group Palestine Action and proscribe it as a terrorist organisation, after two activists broke into the UK's largest airbase on Friday on electric scooters and damaged two Royal Air Force (RAF) planes. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will submit a statement before parliament on Monday which if passed will make it illegal to be a member of the group, the BBC reported.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The BBC has announced it has dropped a film about doctors working in Gaza after delaying its broadcast for months. The documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire, was ready to broadcast in February but was pulled because of a scandal that erupted over another BBC documentary on children in Gaza, entitled How to Survive a Warzone. Britain's public broadcaster said it would broadcast Gaza: Medics Under Fire after the review into the earlier documentary was concluded.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
A former Israeli defence minister with an international warrant out for his arrest has co-written a column with prominent British-American historian Niall Ferguson for The Times of London newspaper urging the US to enter Israel's conflict against Iran.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
Pro-Palestine activists have damaged two Royal Air Force planes after breaking into the largest air base in Britain early Friday morning on electric scooters. Footage shared by Palestine Action (PA) shows two protestors riding electric scooters towards the RAF planes on the runway at the Brize Norton air base, where they used "repurposed fire extinguishers to spray red paint into the turbine engines" and "caused further damage using crowbars".
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer chaired an emergency Cobra meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Britain's response if the US enters the conflict between Israel and Iran. Much of the discussion hinged on Diego Garcia, a shadowy UK-US military base deep in the Indian Ocean. The strategic base puts US bomber aircraft within 5,300 kilometres of Iran and could allow them to attack Iran while avoiding Gulf airspace.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
A major upcoming review of the EU-Israel trade agreement has found that Israel has violated the agreement due to its conduct in Gaza, Middle East Eye understands. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas commissioned the review last month in response to a request by the Dutch government. Now MEE understands from diplomatic sources in Brussels that the review finds that Israel has violated the trade agreement's human rights and international law clauses. The EU is Israel's biggest trading partner.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
When Israel launched its first wave of attacks on Iran last Friday, Keir Starmer's government was quick to announce that Britain played no role in the offensive. The government also made clear it had not helped defend Israel against the retaliatory Iranian drone attacks, in contrast to previous episodes. Since then the UK has voiced support for "Israel's right to defend itself" and moved Royal Air Force jets and other military assets to the Middle East for "contingency support".
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The Oxford Union, founded in 1823, describes itself as the most prestigious debating society in the world. The student-led organisation at the University of Oxford says its "roots lie in free speech". It has hosted scores of world leaders and multiple British prime ministers. William Gladstone, Ted Heath and Boris Johnson were once union presidents. But now, the institution has been plunged into chaos over a debate it held last year on Israel's war on Gaza.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla
The British government is lobbying the US against sanctioning the International Criminal Court - having so far successfully lobbied the Trump administration not to sanction UK nationals involved in the court's issuing of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Middle East Eye can reveal. The US has already imposed sanctions on the court's British chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and four of its judges, but sanctioning the court itself could deal a fatal blow to its ability to function.
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2 weeks ago | 
themuslimtimes.info | Rafiq A. Tschannen |Imran Mulla
By Imran Mulla12 April 2025 MEE speaks to Mourad, a Legion d’Honneur award recipient for her writing, on her extraordinary life and family historyIn 1945, an Indian prince sent two women to a convent in France to find his young daughter and bring her to him. The Second World War had just ended and Syed Sajid Hussain Ali, the raja of the northern Indian princely state of Kotwara, was busy campaigning with the Congress Party for Indian independence.
