The New Arab

The Daily Mail published an article suggesting that Mark Adderly - a film producer and councillor married to British Jordanian actor and celebrity chef Nadia Sawalha - had praised the 7 October attacks and had blamed Israel for recent antisemitic attacks, including in Golders Green in London and Bondi Beach in Australia.

The Metro claimed that Sawalha fully supported her husband, suggesting she endorsed the statements and videos.

Both Sawalha and Adderly have now secured a full apology and damages from the two newspapers.

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The conference, titled "Palestine and Europe: The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics," was set to discuss Europe's historical and contemporary relationship with Palestine from historical, political, legal, and diplomatic perspectives.

It was due to take place last year at College de France but was cancelled after protests from the French right, who deemed it lacking in "neutrality" and "anti-Zionist".

A court in Paris has now overturned the ban, and lawyers and pro-Palestine activists are hailing it as a win.

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"There is no justification for withholding an unclassified accounting of what happened, what went wrong, and what the Department is doing to prevent recurrence."

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Donald Trump's reported call urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to withdraw from occupied areas of southern Syria reflects growing frustration within the White House over Israel's regional policies, an expert has told The New Arab.

The reported call followed Trump's meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara last week.

The US has been facilitating separate negotiations between Israel and the governments of Syria and Lebanon.

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More than half the House Democrats voted Wednesday to strip $3.3bn in US aid from Israel, the most substantial signal yet that once rock-solid bipartisan support for the country is disintegrating in the aftermath of its genocidal war on Gaza.

The vote tally, 104-314, was not enough to attach the amendment to a broader national security spending bill, but stands as a stark accounting of the shifting attitudes that are dividing the Democratic Party and the nation over Israel.

The House's Democratic leadership split over the issue in what was largely seen as a test vote ahead of the US midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

More than 100 Democrats voted for the amendment to strip foreign military aid funding, and almost as many voted against it. Most Republicans voted to preserve the Israel aid.

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"There are some people within their system, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely," the US Vice President said. "Not toward any objective, but just indefinitely."

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Speaking to The New Arab, Nanar Hawach, Senior Analyst for Syria at the International Crisis Group, said the reported intervention "appears to reflect a sign of frustration" over Israel's continued occupation of southern Syria and parts of southern Lebanon.

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A coalition of 17 UK charities has urged incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham to impose sanctions on Israel and end UK complicity in Israeli violations of international law, with campaigners telling The New Arab that Palestinians are paying the price for "every day of political inaction".

"For almost three years, Palestinians have heard expressions of concern while the situation has continued to worsen. The new Prime Minister must do more than acknowledge the suffering; he must use the UK's influence to protect Palestinian lives and end the UK's complicity in Israel's egregious violations of international law," Halla Keir, Advocacy and Research Manager at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), said

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Iraq's Ministry of Finance has circulated an internal directive notifying banks and affiliated institutions of US sanctions targeting entities linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah, according to an official document obtained by The New Arab.

Although the directive has not been publicly announced by the Ministry of Finance or the Iraqi government, a ministry official confirmed to The New Arab that the document is authentic.

Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported that Iraq had withdrawn the directive following political backlash. However, The New Arab has not independently verified the reported cancellation, and Iraq's Ministry of Finance has not publicly commented.

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The US State Department is offering grants of up to $250,000 for programmes in Lebanon that put a positive spin on Washington's involvement in the country, with one Lebanese commentator telling The New Arab the initiative amounted to paying people to "promote American and Israeli hegemony in the region" amid a US attempt to whitewash its image and push for normalisation with Israel.

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