My book reviewed in the Wall Street Journal: "An exceptional feat of investigative research... [Depicts] the historical moment when the modern overpowered the ancient—a world, now lost, of floridly costumed courtiers, fabled princes, exotic vices and perfumed palaces"

Mothin Ali told me earlier he "welcomed" an amendment to the motion (later rejected in a vote) affirming that Jewish members who attend Zionist synagogues won't be disciplined. The motion's author, who opposed an amendment, said the motion has no bearing on internal processes.

BREAKING: The Green Party has voted to declare Zionism a form of racism and to back a single democratic Palestinian state. Read the full story here, with quotes from the motion's author, as well as from Green Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali: middleeasteye.net/news/green…

A fierce protest erupted outside the Green Party conference in Brighton, with dozens of pro-Israel demonstrators shouting at Green members. The protesters chanted "terrorist supporters off our streets" and "there's no Palestine, there is no Palestine" middleeasteye.net/news/uk-pr…

The Babi Tombs of Junagadh In the Gujarati town of Junagadh lies one of the most extraordinary (and neglected) tomb complexes anywhere in India.

Exclusive: Zack Polanski says UK should defy Israel on fate of British Consulate in East Jerusalem middleeasteye.net/news/zack-…

NEW: Ed Miliband confirms the UK is considering defying the Israeli order to close the British Consulate in East Jerusalem middleeasteye.net/news/ed-mi…

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in his conference speech: "I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right" middleeasteye.net/news/we-he…

Haaretz reveals Israel to postpone the E1 bidding deadline. Would not have happened but for Ed Miliband's principled, astutely managed ban on trade with the settlements. Embarassing for those who dismissed Miliband's decision as performative: haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-0…

I'm very pleased to be chairing this hugely important event at the Labour Conference fringe in Liverpool today. It's about major English football clubs and their complicity in Israel's atrocities. Do come along if you're around:

This is the cover of my new book! It is a new and intimate portrait of some of the child-Holocaust survivors known as the Boys. The publisher is @hurstpublishers. More soon!

In Liverpool Sunday? See our free event outside the secure zone on @premierleague sportswashing of 🇮🇱atrocities against the Palestinians - @ICJPalestine @WarOnWant @tayab_ali_ @THijabis @JessicaLBarnard moderated by @Imran_posts (@LFC invited) Kick genocide out of ⚽️ & Free🇵🇸

A dividing line has opened up. Labour supports international law, opposes Israeli settlement expansion and aligns with public opinion. On the other side the Tories and Reform accuse Andy Burnham of giving into British Muslims and their niche sectarian obsessions. Imran Mulla and I write for Middle East Eye on the birth of a far right conspiracy theory: middleeasteye.net/news/uk-se…

"Ed Sheeran could've done more," said Imran Mulla, MEE's UK political correspondent, expressing a sentiment shared by many on social media after the British singer dropped Macklemore from his tour following backlash over his "Free Palestine" comments on stage.

The UK right wing, in tandem with several British newspapers, has blamed the government's decision to ban importing goods from illegal Israeli settlements on appeasing the Muslim vote. MEE journalists argue that the British public’s support for the move proves otherwise.

Can Muslims negotiate a space in the Western body politic? In the inaugural essay for Autumn 2026, Beyond Fear & Subversion: Muslims Negotiate Western Public Life, editor-in-chief Ahmed Askary (@pashadelics) explores the Nietzschean dichotomy that confronts the Western diaspora. In their state of gurbet (or estrangement), Muslims inherit what Nietzsche calls the condition of “late culture and broken lights”: conflicting religious, cultural, and Western inheritances that can produce either a longing for the repose of a settled identity or a stimulus for creating new forms of belonging. Beset by what Abdal Hakim Murad calls Lahabites and Tanfiris, the diaspora is pulled between two mutually reinforcing extremes: those whose hatred insists Muslims can never belong in the West, and Muslims whose own repellent, reactionary posture appears to confirm precisely that claim. Between gurbet and hijra (self-remigration) lies a third possibility: accepting responsibility for the place in which one actually lives, and engaging with its institutions, arguments, and reciprocal obligations as a participant in the commonwealth. A new generation of Muslim public figures is already negotiating this space—messily and imperfectly—through competence, reciprocity, accountability, and sincere engagement with public life, not merely in defence of parochial Muslim interests, but in service of society as a whole. This, by necessity, requires retiring the notion of themselves as a diaspora and becoming true citizens. Read more on Kasurian. Link below:

RT @NafeezAhmed: EXCLUSIVE: 1/15 Jason Arday was cast as a serial plagiarist. Three formal reviews had found no plagiarism or fabrication.…