EasyJet is refusing to fly Palestinian campaigners to Tel Aviv, after Israeli authorities sent a list of named suspected activists to airlines.
Lady Tonge has had the whip withdrawn for saying "Israel is not going to be there forever". But why shouldn't we question it?
Fence-building is a lazy policy solution. So why are so many countries still doing it?
Three ways in which Palestine's UN bid damages their own cause.
Negotiations and tough compromises are the only way to achieve two states for two peoples.
This week the Palestinians will make representations for statehood to the UN. Britain should support them.
Time is running out for Colonel Gaddafi following sustained helicopter attacks on the Libyan capital, the foreign secretary has said.
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is understood to have raised concerns about British law during his visit to No 10.
Unrest across North Africa and the Middle East could set the peace process back by decades, William Hague has warned.
There remain shocking human rights abuses in the West Bank.
Historical one-upmanship in the Middle East risks being never-ending. Britain must encourage leadership on both sides to end the destructive blockade of the Gaza strip.
Israel has postponed "strategic dialogue" with the UK over security issues, just as William Hague arrives in the country.
The Jewish community have reportedly offered a mixed reaction to the election of Ed Miliband to the Labour leadership.
Israel's decision to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip prompted relieved statements from foreign secretary William Hague and Quartet envoy Tony Blair last night.
Israel had rejected UN demands for an independent international inquiry into its attack on an aid flotilla, but appointed two foreign observers to its domestic committee.
Britain and France have issued a joint demand for an international presence on a probe into the Israeli military's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.
Israel is preparing to deport the 11 campaigners and eight crew members of the Rachel Corrie aid ship after it unsuccessfully tried to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The first trickle of British activists arrested on board the Turkish aid ships at the centre of an international crisis have finally begun returning to the UK.
William Hague has ratcheted up the criticism of Israel's strike against an aid ship, saying the episode went beyond "what was warranted and proportionate".
The foreign secretary has joined the growing chorus of criticism of Israel's strike against an aid shipment with a demand for the blockade of Gaza to end.
The government found itself under intense pressure today to explain when it found out about the use of British passports in the assassination of a senior Hamas figure in Dubai.
The dispute over the assassination of a senior Hamas official threatens to derail relations between Britain and Israel today, as the government steps up pressure.
The prime minister called for an investigation into the murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai which used the stolen identity of six British citizens.
Gordon Brown has called last year's highest levels of anti-semitism on record "deeply troubling".
Israeli vice prime minister Moshe Ya'alon is alleged to have cancelled a planned visit to Britain over fears he could be arrested on war crimes charges.
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