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Nov 1, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mohamed Hashem |Imran Mullah |Hamid Dabashi
African-American writer and public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates has said he doesn't "give a fuck" if he is sidelined in the media for calling Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Middle East Eye, the award-winning author discussed his new book, , his evolving views on Israel and Palestine and the 2024 US election, amongst other issues.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah |Peter Oborne
Over 300 prominent Arab public figures have demanded an apology from British Foreign Secretary David Lammy over his statement on Monday that there is no genocide in Gaza because millions of people have not been killed. An open letter, initiated by the Arab Assembly in Britain, expressed "profound condemnation of Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s recent statements that deny classifying the events in Gaza as genocide, despite the extensive destruction affecting civilians there.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
The UK's Foreign Office has declined to comment after British Foreign Secretary David Lammy was accused of implying that atrocities in Srebrenica, Myanmar and elsewhere did not constitute genocides because fewer than millions of people were killed.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
Chris Law, MP for the Scottish National Party, has accused British Foreign Secretary David Lammy of taking a position that "outrageously diminishes and minimises the seriousness of the crime of genocide". The UK's Foreign Office declined to comment earlier on Tuesday after Lammy was accused of implying that atrocities in Srebrenica, Myanmar and elsewhere did not constitute genocides because fewer than millions of people were killed.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
Nobel Prize-winning authors Annie Ernaux and Abdulrazak Gurnah are among hundreds of writers, publishers and other book workers who have pledged not to work with Israeli cultural institutions that are "silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians".
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
Tension has been brewing ahead of the Commonwealth Summit in Samoa this week, with conversation around the biennial event dominated by demands from Caribbean leaders that Britain pay reparations for its colonial past. Initially, the British government insisted the issue was off the agenda, saying it would neither pay reparations nor apologise. Defying British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leaders of 15 Caribbean nations called for a communique to discuss reparations.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
Nearly 50 British MPs from seven political parties have backed a motion calling for the Labour government to impose sanctions on Israel.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
David Cameron, the former British prime minister and foreign secretary under the previous Conservative government, said he planned to impose sanctions on two senior members of the Israeli government - but stopped short of doing so because of the general election in July. In an interview with the BBC on Tuesday morning, Cameron said he wanted to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
Sky News has provoked outrage online after publishing a headline on Monday saying "Israel names teenage soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack - as '23 die' in Gaza school strike". The headline refers to the soldiers as teenagers and says they were killed by Hezbollah. By contrast, it puts Palestinian deaths in quotation marks and does not clarify that the school strike was carried out by the Israeli military.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mullah
The former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who died unexpectedly during a conference in North Macedonia at the weekend, was one of the most vocally pro-Palestinian western leaders of his generation and a vociferous opponent of the Iraq war. Salmond, who died at 69, on 12 October, was one of the UK’s most significant and influential politicians in the last 20 years.
