International Middle East Media Center
The University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union and professional for professors and lecturers in the United Kingdom, voted overwhelmingly this week to support a motion that calls…
At least 200 Jews, including peace and human rights activistis, writers and artists and others, representing themselves and a number of groups and organizations from a number of countries around…
Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, described the EU’s position towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ‘ supine’, urging the EU to break up with the U.S and lift the embargo on Gaza.…
The Former US president Jimmy Carter has broken the silence about Israel’s nuclear power and told reporters at a literary festival in UK on Sunday that Israeli has an arsenal…
Hamas’s exiled top leader, Khaled Mash’al, reiterated his ruling party’s determination to break up the ongoing Israeli blockade on Gaza, warning of what he termed ‘inactive’ international community’s role towards…
U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama made an appearance at a Florida synagogue Thursday in an effort to get support from Jewish voters. Speaking at the the "B'Nai Torah" synagogue in…
Paris asserted yesterday that it stance towards Hamas has not changed and that reported contacts with Hamas were done by a former French diplomat and had nothing to do with…
Palestinian media sources reported on Monday that an official delegation from the ruling Hamas movement in Gaza has arrived in the Egyptian capital to meet Egyptian officials regarding the proposed…
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, issued a press release calling on the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud…
Monqith Abu Roomy, head of the media office of Asrana (Our Detainees) center, which defends the rights of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, voiced an appeal to the US President,…
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said yesterday that it is unacceptable that the problem of Palestinian refugees remain unsolved. During an inauguration ceremony of photo exhibition, marking the 60th…
The White House said on Wednesday the during his second visit to the region this year, which is expected to start next week, the U.S President Bush will try to…
Paris has proposed installing an international peace-keeping force in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Sunday. Ac cording to the JP, Israeli Prime Minister, Fransou’ Filoun,…
If four Israeli children, ranging from one year old to six years old, were killed by a Palestinian bombing, it would likely make the front page of most major US…
Members of the Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East called on Israel to freeze all of its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon…
A group of 100 famous academics, authors, actors and public figures of the Jewish population in The United Kingdom signed a letter stating that they will be boycotting the Israeli…
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, reiterated yesterday that Washington would keep up sidelining the Islamist Hamas party in Gaza, wondering of what she considered ‘negotiating with a group that…
The United Nations voiced yesterday grave concern over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip in the shadow of strict Israeli blockade and deadly Israeli army attacks. Mr. Ban…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said that his talks with the US President, George Bush, and US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, have failed in achieving any positive results.Abbas stated that…
Egyptian security sources reported on Friday that Egyptian authorities sent hundreds of policemen to the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to enforce security and to prevent the Palestinians…
Representatives of some Western countries walked out of a session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday after a speech which was delivered by the deputy of the Libyan representive,…
Calling all community radio broadcasters: You are invited to join an international collaboration and historic radio opportunity. We would like to confirm your station’s participation on Thursday, May 15th. This…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met on Wednesday with King Abdulla II of Jordan in Washington and discussed with him the outcome of his meeting with the US President George W.…
The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that officials of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will inform the Congress that Syria and North Korea have secret relations, and that the…
Five years after the Israeli army shot and killed James Miller, a British Cameraman, Israel decided to compensate his family under a deal in which the family would drop its…
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, said that Hamas should prove its willingness towards peace by taking some necessary steps. Rice told reporters in the Bahrini capital of Manama, following…
The Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) decided on Friday to grant Palestine full membership in the Union as of next October, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported.The decision came…
At their annual national convention, delegates of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)representing 50,000 workers across Canada, voted overwhelmigly in favor of resolution 338/339. The resolution commits the union…
On Sunday, there were no US flags and lots of Israeli flags in a "street fair" dubbed "Ben Yehuda, Jerusalem Street fair" in Teaneck, NJ. I came a bit early…
On Friday Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, slammed ex-US president Jimmy Carter for planning to meet Hamas official during his imminant visit to the region. A press release was…
Sources at the Norwegian government stated on Friday that the Israeli Nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, filed a second appeal to the Norwegian government to grant him political asylum. The sources…
A mural commemorating the Sixtieth anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre and the Palestinian Nakba was on Friday unveiled in the predominantly Nationalist area of the Falls Road, located in…
A senior Palestinian official announced on Tuesday that a trilateral summit attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in addition to…
Javier Solana, EU high commissioner on Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that reaching a resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict before the end of 2008 is still possible, indicating that…
Israeli sources reported that Israel and the United States decided to boycott the Durban II Anti-Racism conference which will be conducted in early 2009. The Israeli and US decision was…
Israel second only to Iran in negative image worldwide, according to the results of a BBC poll released Wednesday. 54% of those polled viewed Iran negatively, and 52% viewed Israel…
Israeli daily Newspaper, Maariv, reported on Tuesday that The Israeli Foreign Ministry decided to prevent Professor Richard Black, a high profile Jewish leader at the United Nations, from becoming the…
Nayef Hawatmeh, Secretary General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirmed on Tuesday that the truce with Israel should be a simultaneous, total and comprehensive one in…
The daily Arab newspaper of al Hayat based in London reported on Tuesday that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will arrive in Cairo on Wednesday.The Palestinian president is expected to take…
On Sunday a new Jewish leftist movement which opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestine was formed in Canada. The movement calls itself the Jewish Canadian Coalition, and officially announced that…
U.S Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice, said Sunday that the U.S would observe implementation on the ground of Israel’s pledge to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement across the West Bank.…
Khalid Masha’al, head of the Hamas’ political bureau, had called on Friday the Arab leaders and their representatives for the Arab summit that will convene on Saturday in Syria to…
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting on Thursday with King Abdullah of Jordan, in Amman, and renewed his rejection of withdrawing or modifying the Arab peace initiative which he…
US Vice-President Dick Cheney expressed the hope that a "viable, democratic and peaceful Palestinian state be born soon" and criticized Palestinian homemade shell fire in to Israeli areas. Cheney was…
Talks between the Hamas and Fatah delegations over the Yemeni initiative had resumed on Saturday in the Yemeni capital of San'a.A'zam al Ahmad, head of the Fatah bloc in the…
The Central Council of Jews in Germany intends to file a law suit against Google based on claims of "citing racist anti-Jewish ideas." This action was a result of a…
Protests were held throughout the United States on Saturday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and calling for an end to the dual occupations of…
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon , called on Israel to halt its disproportionate and excessive use of force against the Palestinians people. The statement of the UN Chief came during a…
Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of Sderot on February 27, killing Roni Yechiah and sparking an Israeli ‘retaliation’ that has…
EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs debated how to deal with the Hamas movement with regard to the peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Hamas has been accused of…
Javier Solana High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the European Union, stated on Monday evening that if Israeli continues to built settlements it would not…
France slammed on Monday the ongoing Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and considered settlement activities as obstacles that are limiting the ability to create a viable Palestinian…
Paris was the scene of massive nonviolent protests on Saturday against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and against the visit of Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, to the country…
The Security Council held an urgent session following an attack against a Yeshiva in Jerusalem where eight Israelis were killed and thirty others were injured, including three who suffered serious…
U.S secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, stated on Wednesday in Jerusalem that Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are likely to meet on Thursday after they were halted when Israeli initiated its…
US president, George Bush, stated on Tuesday that he is still “optimistic that Israel and the Palestinians will achieve a peace deal” before he leaves office in ten months, despite…
Condoleezza Rice, the U.S Secretary of State, arrived at Egypt’s capital Cairo, on first stop during her visit to Middle East.Rice is expected to arrive in Israeli on Tuesday afternoon.…
The White house announced on Friday that that U.S President Bush has completed preparations to send 150 Million USD in aid, as a matter of urgency to Palestinian President Mahmoud…
The U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stated that she ‘had concerns’ over the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Gaza Strip, due to the recurring deaths of Palestinian civilians…
Members of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Union met on Wednesday with the Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Ashraf Al Ajrami, and Fadwa Ibrahim, of the Free Marwan Barghouthi…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah movement accused their rivals Hamas of providing aid to Al Qaeda to establish a base of operations in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.…
The BBC reported on Wednesday that the Jordanian police arrested five men, believed to be spies for the Palestinian Hamas movement. According to BBC arabic.com, the five were taking photos…
EU Parliament Vice President, Luisa Morgantini, called on the Palestinian National Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad to hold an independent and serious inquiry into the death…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert were pessimistic about achieving a peace deal by the end of 2008, Palestinian and Israeli sources reported on Tuesday.…
Israeli media sources reported on Monday that the Qatari Foreign Minister Shikh Hamad Bin- Jassem al-Thani said that his country is willing to mediate a truce between Hamas and Israel.…
In partnership with Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), Friends of freedom and Justice-Bilin, and Gaza On My Mind, dozens of groups worldwide held protests in solidarity with the people…
The Egyptian ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, stated yesterday that his country will not allow Gaza to be isolated from the outside world. ‘ Cairo will make every possible effort…
Free media is an important institution in a democracy. The media in a democratic society must be responsible for conveying the sort of facts and analysis that is necessary for…
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stated his doubts on Tuesday over the progress Palestinian-Israeli talks will achieve in reaching a peace deal this year.Prime Minister Fayyad revealed that his doubts…
Joining a growing list of high-profile institutions, unions and citizen’s groups that have chosen to divest from Israel, the Student Union at the prestigious London School of Economics voted overwhelmingly…
Spokespman of the U.S State Department, Jhom Mackromk, stated on Wednesday that the American administration will ask for clarifications from Israel with respect to a new settlement project on the…
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad accused Israeli of not fulfilling its obligations regarding the freezing of all settlement activity in the West Bank and not removing the…
Several nongovernmental organizations and student societies in the United Kingdom are set to launch the Antiapartheid week in order to protest the Israeli apartheid policies on Monday February 11, 2008.…
Lebanese media sources reported on Monday that the Israeli army shot and killed one Lebanese civilian and kidnapped another from a village at the southern Lebanese Israeli borders on Sunday…
The United Nations Security Council failed on Tuesday evening to issue a statement condemning Israel for its siege on Gaza.The Libyan representative of the UN, who this month holds the…
Hundreds of Arabs and Russians protested in Moscow on Tuesday against the unjust Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip and demanded the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem…
Over the weekend, protests were held in a number of US cities and towns calling on Israel to end the imprisonment of 1.5 million Palestinians inside Gaza without access to…
Around 5.000 protested opposite Downing Street in London on Satrurday, residence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, calling for Israel’s brutal illegal siege of Gaza to be immediately lifted.They were joined…
We, as members of the Palestinian community in Montreal, are worried about the plight of the people in the Gaza strip who are currently under siege. The Israeli government by…
The United Nations Security Council failed again on Friday to issue a statement calling for the end of the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip and the halt of…
Several protests were organize on Friday evening in several European cities, the protests had one thing in common they all called for the immediate left of the Israeli siege imposed…
In a joint statement issued on Thursday by all the participants in the Palestinian National Conference for Palestinian National Rights said that this conference is to bring unity to the…
Dozens of Palestinians and Canadians held a vigil on Wednesday in Montreal – Canada, against the ongoing and unjust Israeli siege and attacks against the Palestinian residents in the Gaza…
USA blocks statement by the UN Security Council criticizing the Israeli siege of the Gaza strip. The US representative in the UN, Zalman Zad, said that this statement ‘is not…
The United Nations Security Council has called for an emergency session on Tuesday to respond to the heightening crisis in the Gaza Strip. The crisis came to a head Sunday…
A British peace group has called for protests against the Israeli government, after Gaza’s only power station was forced to shut down Sunday, when Israel cut fuel supplies to the…
Khalid Mashal the President of the Hamas political bureau expressed dissatisfaction towards the Arabic and International communities silence towards the continued daily attacks on the Palestinians by Israeli.Mashal also expressed…
In an interview with the BBC World Service, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, lowered expectations in terms of likely outcomes of President George W. Bush’s visit to the region…
Lev Leviev, Israel's richest man, and a major funder of the illegal Israeli settlements scattered across Palestinian land, has bought himself a $70 million bulletproof mansion in the suburbs of…
In the lead-up to his first ever visit to the Middle East as President of the U.S., George W. Bush stated Friday that he is encouraging Israel to take down…
No country in the world has been able to defy international law as much as Israel in the four decades since the Six Day War, the South African government said…
In May the human rights group Amnesty International released its 2007 report on “Israel and the Occupied Territories,” summarising 2006. During the year Israel killed more than 650 Palestinians, which…
Recent infighting in Lebanon has spread to the Ein al Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. Reports say that two Lebanese soldiers were killed as they fought Jund al Sham militants in…
Haaretz.com reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is set to deliver his official response to the American benchmark plan. It is expected that Olmert will ask the…
In a special report published on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories Monday, Amnesty International accused Israel of widespread human rights abuses.…
The Hamas delegation to Egypt has reportedly rejected any ceasefire with Israel which does not apply to both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.In negotiations currently being held in Egypt,…
US Senator and potential Democratic presidential nomination Barack Obama has outlined his vision for the Middle East, arguing that peace in the region will only be secured through “a clear…
The hijacking of an Israel-bound plane in 1976 by a Palestinian resistance group was used by multiple Israeli administrations as justification for their continued military occupation of Palestinian land. Yitzhak…
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Palestinian Minister of Information welcomed on Friday Norway’s decision to resume direct aid to the Palestinian people. Barghouthi, who is the spokesperson of the Palestinian government, said…
Unlike members of the quartet, Norway has ignored the international financial embargo placed on the Palestinian Authority and has resumed with direct aid to the administration.In a statement released to…