Antony Loewenstein

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The Guardian's Israel correspondent, Chris McGreal, has produced some of the best reporting from the region. His latest reports (part on...

- Craig Murray - the UK's former ambassador to Uzbekistan and now critic of the "war on terror - is facing hurdles in publishing ...

John Pike, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.Org, argues that the Bush administration should rename its ideological struggle, The Foreve...

David Frost, The Observer, February 12 : "But I think when viewers watch al-Jazeera International, they will be closer to watching CNN....

While Israel's supposed leftist Labor Party prove their dedication to the extreme Zionist cause , the UN releases a report on the ongoin...

China's insatiable appetite for natural resources is taking the growing superpower to predictable places in Africa . For example, Sudan ...

John Bunzl, Haaretz, February 10 : "It was the late Edward Said who thought differently. He argued convincingly that recognizing the Ho...

Iranian Jews deserve support for their courageous stand : "Iran's Jews have sharply criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for de...

Saree Makdisi, Counterpunch, February 10 : "...There can be no doubt that the Hamas charter is not only xenophobic, sectarian, and raci...

Conservative US commentator Andrew Sullivan publishes some "liberal" thoughts on the Danish cartoon controversy. Take this exampl...

Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio - "a fascist but not a racist" - has been given some appropriate punishment : "Paolo Di Can...

Leonard Fein, The Forward, February 10 : "Here's a puzzle, a small piece of a much larger set of nagging issues that bubbles just b...

After a group of British academics decided to boycott Israel in 2005 (though later overturned), the inevitable second stage is upon us: &q...

Brokeback to the future .

Yet more evidence that Guantanamo Bay is the " gulag of our times ": "More than half of the terror suspects being held at Gu...

- Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez tells Tony Blair to " go right to hell " and accuses him of being a "pawn of imperialism.&...

The head of Israel's domestic security agency, Yuval Diskin, proves Israel’s belief in Middle Eastern democracy: "When you dismant...

While Nato dismisses the possibility of Israel entering the club as a "security umbrella" to protect the Jewish state from Iran a...

Amira Hass, Haaretz, February 8 : "The attempt to explain to Israelis that such acts of vengeance are puny compared to the intensity of...

Eva Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, explains why his country will continue to cultivate coca : "You have to realise ...

Israel proves its expertise in cultural sensitivity : "A dispute over the fate of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem threatened We...

While the over-heated debate continues over Iran, some uncomfortable facts are surfacing : "The George W. Bush administration's ad...

Following the recent controversy over Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and its simulation prog...

- Hysterical hack David Horowitz - a man rather fond of a former oil man - has just released a new book, " The Professors: The 101 Mos...

The Bush administration likes to tackle terrorism in its own special way : "State Department officials appointed by President Bush have...

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni openly admits the failings of the Jewish state : "When a state is being led by terrorists, then th...

Voices of reason emerge over the cartoon controversy: "Thousands of Muslims are expected to attend a rally in London at the weekend to...

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib says he was defamed by the Murdoch press: "His barrister Clive Evatt QC today showed the fo...

Let's hope and pray that former UN weapon's inspector Scott Ritter is wrong about these comments about war with Iran : "First, ...

Israeli's Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - and likely future Prime Minster - has announced his plans if Kadima wins the March 28 ele...

Daniel Pipes reminds readers that some Muslims aren't so bad after all : "It is a tragic mistake to lump all Muslims with the force...