International Middle East Media Center
In an official statement presented by Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared on Friday his resignation as President and handed over the leadership of the…
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days are the Israeli connections. A central and critical reality is that it…
The day after the American pop star Macy Gray announced controversial plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March, we sat down for a drink at Pua, a bar nestled…
Ishmael Khaldi’s lecture at the University of Edinburgh, hosted by the university’s Jewish Society, was cancelled after protest by students acting in support of Palestinian refugees.Khaldi, special advisor to Avigdor…
With protests looming in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced, during an emergency meeting of parliament on Tuesday, that he will not be running for president, and neither will his…
Following protests this weekend, King Abdullah II of Jordon has dismissed his government, on Tuesday.News sources are conflicted to the nature of former Prime Minister Samir Rifai’s exit from office…
Little Town of Bethlehem is a documentary film featuring the perspectives of a Palestinian Christian, a Palestinian Muslim, and an Israeli Jew on the occupation in the West Bank, focusing…
Cyprus announced Sunday that it recognizes a Palestinian State in the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Cyprus is the first European Union member country that officially recognizes…
Massive crowds of Egyptians and supporters held a protest on Saturday outside the UN Headquarters in New York to express support to the ongoing protests against the regime of Hosni…
Paraguayan Foreign Minister, Hector Lacognata, stated Friday that his country recognizes a Palestinian state, free and independent in the 1967 territories.’With the failure of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian…
On Thursday, Palestinian academics and students living in London staged a sit-in at the Palestinian embassy.Press Release from the group: We are not affiliated to any Political faction, or group.…
In the latest revelation to come out of the 1,600 Palestine-Israel peace process documents leaked this week by news outlets al-Jazeera and The Guardian, a transcript from 2009 shows that…
On Tuesday, the Irish government announced it’s decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian mission to the country, the official Palestinian representative office, to the level of an official…
Peru announced on Monday night it recognizes a Palestinian state, becoming the eighth South American country to do so amidst a growing momentum towards global recognition, media agencies reported.Peru recognized…
After Israel released a report absolving its forces from wrongdoing in an attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla last year that left nine aid workers dead, survivors of the attack…
On Friday, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, told a UN Committee that Israel has put up barriers to peace with its continued construction of settlements on Palestinian…
U.S Secretary Of State, Hilary Clinton stated Thursday that the White House rejects the proposal that was submitted by the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations in an attempt to…
In an admission that Israel is losing the public relations battle in the UK with the Palestinians, Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), is to change tack and re-launch itself.Under the…
Finland’s Ministry of Defense has narrowed the field in its competition to provide the Finnish army with mini unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Of the five remaining bidders, four are Israeli…
This is a video of IMEMC Editor-in-Chief, Saed Bannoura, speaking to Middle East Journalism Students at Stanford University. This video was filmed and edited by two Middle East Journalism students,…
In a symbolic move towards the recognition of an independent Palestinian State, the Palestinian mission in Washington raised the Palestinian flag outside its office building. Maan Erekat, the Palestinian envoy…
Interpal has responded in writing to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, published last week, regarding Israel’s ban on 163 foreign charities suspected of ‘supporting terrorism’, the Middle East…
Arab envoys resolved to present a formal draft resolution opposing Israel’s illegal settlement construction at the UN Security Council, AFP reported on Tuesday. Tunisia’s UN envoy Ghazi Jomaa told reporters…
Nearly a year after a number of Israeli Mossad Agents assassinated a senior Hamas member, at a hotel in Dubai, the German Authorities issued an arrest warrant against an Israeli…
Two Pro-Palestinian South African groups are seeking an arrest warrant against Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes, Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, reported Saturday. The Media Review Network (MRN) and the Palestine…
As a strike by Israeli foreign service workers enters its second month, a group of 20 Israeli ambassadors submitted a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister calling for his intervention…
John Lewis, a leading British retailer announced withdrawing all Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics (Ahava products) from all stores as such products are manufactured in illegal Israeli settlements. The Palestine Solidarity…
Because of his vocal support for the Palestinian cause, The South African Zionist Federation demands that Archbishop Tutu be removed or resign from his position as patron of the Cape…
According to Al Jazeera, Guyana has become the seventh South American nation to recognize Palestinian independence. It follows in the footsteps of Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.In a…
The Turkish Humanitarian Foundation (IHH) that led the Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by the Israeli army in international waters last year, announced that Freedom Flotilla 2 will be sailing…
The US State Department signed a deal with a company closely associated with the Blackwater security firm to provide ‘security services in the West Bank’, The Washington Post said on…
The Iranian Authorities stated that spies working for Israel and involved in the assassination of Iranian scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, were arrested in Tehran.The scientist, Mohammadi, was assassinated one year…
In a new confidential report published by The Independent on Monday, the European Union proposed having EU officials observe at sites of imminent house demolitions or evictions in East Jerusalem,…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sent on Tuesday a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he releases Jonathan Pollard, who was spying on Israel’s best ally, the United States,…
Catherine Ashton, the Foreign Policy Chief of the European Union, is on her way to Israel and Palestine Wednesday, and told reporters as she headed to the region, “There is…
Prime Minister Fayyad and an E.U. Representative agreed today to support the P.A.’s institution building plan, a European information centre claimed on Friday. European Neighborhood Partnership Institute (ENPI) Information Center,…
U.S. President, Barack Obama, issued an order appointing a temporary ambassador in Damascus after near six years of a total diplomatic boycott. The new order, signed by Obama on Wednesday,…
Britain plans to support an upgrade of the diplomatic status of PLO officials in the UK, media agencies reported on Monday. British Foreign Secretary Hague may raise the status of…
After the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, officially recognized an independent Palestinian State on Friday, Paraguay announced that is planning to make the same decision next year. Palestinian President Mahmoud…
Dozens of thousands of Turkish and international activists welcomed on Sunday the Mavi Marmara ship at the Istanbul Port seven months after the deadly Israeli attack in international waters that…
A group of peace activists based in Seattle, Washington has launched a series of ads on city buses reading ‘Israeli war crimes: Your tax dollars at work’. A poll by…
In the latest revelation to come out of the hundreds of thousands of leaked diplomatic cables provided by the website ‘Wikileaks’, a diplomatic exchange between then Israeli Director of Military…
On Monday, Brazilian government authorized the construction of a Palestinian embassy in the capital of the country, Brasilia. Lula da Silva, coinciding with his farewell party in Rio, doubt about…
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced on Friday that Bolivia recognizes a Palestinian state along the 1967 border with Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has also started conversations with…
Wealthy Israeli citizens on ‘transplant tours’ were the main recipients of trafficked organs in the recently-exposed ‘Kosovo ring’, according to an investigative report by the British ‘Guardian’ newspaper.The Kosovo Liberation…
The Asia solidarity convoy heading to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies arrived in in Turkey on Friday after it left Iran on its way to deliver humanitarian supplies…
The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to condemn recent efforts by the Palestinian Authority to achieve unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, a resolution that was cheered by the…
On December 14 the United Nations celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, being aware that many territories have not…
The US Congress mounted pressure on the Palestinian Authority to resume peace talks, warning against a unilateral declaration of statehood, media sources reported.Howard Berman, chairman of the US House Foreign…
Freedom Flotilla 2 solidarity ships will be sailing to the Gaza Strip next spring in order to challenge Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip by delivering much needed humanitarian and…
The United Nations celebrates, on December 14, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, despite being aware that many territories have…
On December 1st, the British government announced new proposals in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill which included legal changes restricting citizens’ right to seek the arrest of officials…
More than two-thousand years ago, a miracle happened in Bethlehem and the prophet of peace, love and forgiveness was born. Now Bethlehem, as well as every Palestinian city, town and…
Addressing the Saban Forum on Friday evening, U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, stated that Washington is serious about perusing a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, and for…
A group of former EU leaders are calling for sanctions against Israel in response to its refusal to end settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, media agencies reported. A…
The leader of a Tel Aviv based neo-Nazi gang who eluded Israeli intelligence for years was arrested, Friday, after a Russsian investigative television show found him “living openly” as a…
The Israeli government made an offer to pay thousands of U.S. Dollars to the families of the of the nine Turkish citizens who were killed during the Israeli violent military…
A ship organized by The Asian People’s Solidarity for Palestine, carrying 55 activists and humanitarian aid supplies arrived in Tehran while on its way to impoverished and besieged Gaza Strip.The…
France declared it will recognize a free and independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, a Press TV report said. Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry,…
After several months of attempted negotiations with Israel to try to push them to comply with international law and signed agreements, the U.S. government announced, Tuesday, that it is abandoning…
Former British M.P. George Galloway promised, publicly, that new humanitarian aid convoys would be sent next year via land, air, and sea to the Gaza Strip to break the four-year…
Turkish and Israeli diplomats met in Geneva on Sunday, and discussed repairing relations between the two countries cooled since after Israeli military raid on the Gaza flotilla last May, Ha’aretz…
Among the revelations revealed by the US diplomatic cables released last week are a number of discussions between Israeli and US diplomats. In one such leaked conversation, an Israeli official…
Asia’s first humanitarian convoy is due to begin its journey to the Gaza Strip, trying to break Israel’s siege, Press TV reported. A convoy of activists bound for Gaza is…
On Thursday, four Palestinian students were killed and others were injured due to a car accident in the city of Aden, western Yemen, the Maan News Agency reported. The students,…
Several Spanish and Latin American actors, writers and singers, with the support of the UNRWA Committee in Spain, have begun a humanitarian campaign called Aid Chain, to raise funds to…
NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation’s financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of ‘anti-Semitism.’ NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing…
The French division of multinational Veolia has dropped out of the controversial Jerusalem tramway project in favor of an Israeli bus operator, a spokesman for the group told AFP on…
Monday 29th November was marked as the world Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with the Palestinian Authority appealing to the UN to act in order to end Israel’s…
A group of Princeton University students proposed a boycott of the Sabra hummus brand for its donations to the Israeli army. On Monday, a referendum was organized by the Princeton…
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, stated during a UN Speech marking the International Day for Solidarity with the Palestinians, that Israel’s settlements are a ticking time bomb that is capable of…
The French tour company Voyageurs du Monde (World Travelers) has launched a new brochure to promote tourism in Israel and Palestine as a whole, under the slogan ‘peace and love’…
After some documents regarding the U.S. Palestinian relations and alleged plans prepared by Washington to foil Palestinian reconciliation attempts, the White House told the Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas…
The Jewish Chronicle reported that the United Kingdom will be taking measures meant to prevent British courts from issuing arrest warrants against Israeli military and political leaders accused of committing…
Members of ‘The Jewish Defense League’ attacked earlier this week a photo exhibition of the German photojournalist Kai Wiedenhöfer ‘depicting the massacres in the Gaza strip during the Israeli Operation…
Activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (http://www.bdsmovement.net) claimed another victory on Wednesday as Swedish and Norwegian pension funds announced their divestment from companies doing business in Israeli settlements…
The violent dismantling of Gdaim Izik protest camp in Western Sahara by the Moroccan police has become the last straw of the Saharawi people’s patience. What began as a protest…
During his last official visit to the U.S., the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to apologize to a Republican congresswoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for having praised Fidel Castro, after the…
Syrian and Palestinian officials condemned, on Tuesday, a new Israeli law that mandates a referendum must be held ahead of any withdrawal from annexed East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights,…
An 1,389 page filing, demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC’s) tax exempt status be revoked, was received by the Internal Revenue Service, on Tuesday, the Middle Eastern…
On Monday, the international press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), denounced that, in the enmity between Hamas and Fatah, Palestinian journalists are victims of ‘collateral damage in the years-long…
A statement by the UNICEF, issued on the 21st anniversary of the Geneva Convention to protect children’s rights, accused Israel of failing to uphold international law and live up to…
European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, lashed out at Israel for failing to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Ashton stated that despite Israeli vows to the International…
The new NATO Strategy was adopted last week at a meeting in Portugal by heads of state of the 28-member NATO alliance while outside over 10,000 marchers shouted ‘no to…
More than a hundred British MPs have opposed the coalition government’s plans to alter the law prosecuting Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes, Press TV claimed on Friday.A parliamentary Early…
George Sluizer declared that in 1982 he saw then Israeli defense minister Ariel Sharon shooting Palestinian children from near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp, Beirut, while he was filming a documentary.…
A website that placed pictures, names and personal information of some 200 Israeli soldiers, topped by Israeli Army Chief of Staff, all dubbed by the publisher as war criminals, was…
The worldwide campaign to boycott Israel to pressure the country to end its apartheid system has claimed a small victory, after Israel’s largest food chain, Strauss Foods, removed from its…
Starting from November, the exhibition ‘Cartoons in Conflict’, organized by the Israeli-Palestinian association Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF), will visit different cities in Europe, such as Rome, Paris and Berlin, to…
U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Philip J. Crowley, stated that Washington still believes that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, but added that such a deal requires…
Israel’s security cabinet approved, on Wednesday, a plan to pull out troops from the northern half of Ghajar, a village on the country’s border with Lebanon, local agencies reported.The Israeli…
A meeting of the left-wing advocacy group ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ in San Francisco Sunday was attacked by right-wing Zionists from ‘SF Voice for Israel’ who, wrapped in an Israeli…
According to Ma’an News, a proposal from the United States for a 90-day temporary freeze on construction in Israeli West Bank settlements might not be enough to entice the Palestinians…
After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the Israeli Prime Minister on Friday, the US set out an offer of additional military assistance to Israel in exchange for…
Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, stated Friday, that should the United States fail in obliging Israel to halt its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and in occupied…
U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, assured Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that all of Israel’s security needs will be taken into full consideration under any future peace deal with…
At least a dozen international aid volunteers are on board a boat off the coast of Libya, where they are allegedly being held captive by the boat’s captain, according to…
State Department Spokesperson, Philip J. Crowley, reaffirmed the stance of American President, Barack Obama, against the new Israeli plan to build hundreds of units for Jewish settlers in occupied East…
European Union Higher Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, stated that she is ‘extremely concerned” by Israel’s new plan to build 1,300 units for Jewish settlers in…
On Tuesday, during a trip to Indonesia, U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that Israeli plans to build new settler homes in occupied east Jerusalem are not helpful for the…