Oscar Rickett

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett

Six years ago, the British photographer Zed Nelson began a project about "how humans have created curated versions of nature, while destroying the real thing". Nelson, who since 1990 has won numerous awards for his film and photographic work, could see that human beings are now alienated from the land and from other animals, but that “somewhere deep within us the desire for contact with nature remains”.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett

The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza is “systematically biased against Palestinians”, according to an analysis of over 35,000 pieces of content produced by the UK's public broadcaster. The study, conducted by the Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM), which monitors how the national media reports on Islam and Muslims, found that the BBC gives Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage than Palestinian ones.

2 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett

Two Palestinian peace activists who were detained upon landing in the US during a trip sponsored by a synagogue were deported from San Francisco on Friday, friends and fellow activists have told Middle East Eye. Eid Hathaleen and Awdah Hathaleen, cousins from the Masafer Yatta village of Umm al-Khair in the occupied West Bank, possessed valid visas and, after being detained, had their visas revoked upon landing in the US on Wednesday.

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett |John Rees

Jeremy Corbyn has told Middle East Eye that the British government must decide whether it will support an inquiry into UK involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza, or “block our efforts to expose the truth”. On Wednesday, the former Labour leader presented in parliament his bill for an independent, Chilcot-style public inquiry into Britain’s support for Israeli military operations in Gaza.

3 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett

A prominent Israeli diplomat has told Middle East Eye that French President Emmanuel Macron’s push to recognise Palestinian statehood “is serious and has the backing of most of the European Union and Saudi Arabia”. Alon Pinkas, who was an adviser to four Israeli foreign ministers and served as the country’s consul general in New York, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is unsettled because he knows Donald Trump’s support is brittle and tentative”.