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By Jonathan Cook Israel has been having its own internal debate about the significance of the Paris killings this month, with concerns quite separate from those being expressed in Europe. While Europeans are mired in debates about free speech and the role of Islam in secular societies, Israelis generally – and their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in particular – view …

By Jonathan Cook The Israeli prime minister was asked to avoid Sunday’s march in Paris, out of a fear he would use the occasion to exploit divisions in French society Al-Araby – 12 January 2015 It was hardly surprising that France’s president, Francois Hollande, is understood to have implored Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to participate in Sunday’s mass …

By Natalie Shooter – REORIENT In the midst of a nascent film industry, a handful of female filmmakers have emerged in the Arabian Peninsula, pioneering film in the region and using it as a tool to fight for change. Saudi Arabia and Yemen both present volatile environments for any director; in the former, cinemas are illegal, and in both, authorisation …

Muslims in Paris gathered on Friday to answer the call by Muslim leaders to condemn the “barbarism” of the Islamic State (IS), as flags all over France flew at half-mast after the beheading of a French citizen. Muslims in the country rallied to denounce the execution of Herve Gourdel, a 55-year-old mountaineer, this week by extremists in Algeria with ties …

On Wednesday, Paris braced itself for a protest against Israel’s aggression in Gaza after other similar rallies ended in looting and violence. The French government had banned several weekend rallies, but the ban had failed as the rallies went ahead despite the ban; the rallies descended into violence and chaos. The government subsequently decided to permit Wednesday’s protest after talks …

France-based international Media organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday hit out at Algerian authorities for delaying the issue of visas for foreign journalists who want to cover the Presidential elections in the country. Many journalists were “issued visas late in the day accompanied by drastic restrictions”, the Paris based organization said in its statement, issued on the eve of …