Simon Hooper

Exclusive by @SondosAsem1 for @MiddleEastEye: Judges clear ICC’s Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims middleeasteye.net/news/judges-cl…

MEE reports that after endorsing Nick Timothy's attack on British Muslims, Kemi Badenoch seems not to have sent out a message marking Eid al-Fitr. Leaders of other main parties, apart from Reform, all did so. Badenoch HAS marked Hanukkah and Diwali. middleeasteye.net/news/conservat…

Edward Heath sacked Powell. Kemi Badenoch defended Timothy on the basis he was defending British values. In this column for Middle East Eye I argue that last week was the defining moment for Badenoch's Tory Party as a cesspit of hatred and bigotry: middleeasteye.net/opinion/nick-t…

Exclusive: Israel to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed through Eid al-Fitr and beyond middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive…

'Suez moment': US missteps in Iran echo across East Asia to the Gulf and Europe middleeasteye.net/news/suez-mome…

NEW: Great fanfare has surrounded the anti-Muslim hatred definition. But the Labour government has also brought in sweeping new counter-extremism measures which will use an "authoritarian" definition of extremism first introduced by Michael Gove: middleeasteye.net/news/uk-govern…

This Home Office graph reveals the shocking spike in terrorism arrests in the UK since Palestine Action was banned last July. middleeasteye.net/news/uk-home-o…

'Most of us don’t even know where our relatives are': Families of detainees in Syria, including Sally Lane (@CampaignforJack), fear 'extraordinary rendition' as US starts moving prisoners to Iraq. w/ @are_eb middleeasteye.net/news/families-…

NEW: The UK admits for the first time a phone call between David Cameron and Karim Khan in which the then British foreign secretary is alleged to have threatened the chief prosecutor of the ICC over his investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Further to @middleeasteye's story about the cargo plane flying between the UAE, Israel, Bahrain and Ethiopia. On Thursday it returned to Abu Dhabi from Thailand and today it flew to Leipzig in Germany middleeasteye.net/news/uae-fligh…

A massive cargo plane previously linked to the alleged supply of weapons to UAE-backed fighters in Libya and Sudan has been shuttling between military bases in Abu Dhabi, Ethiopia, Bahrain and Israel in recent weeks. w/@oscarrickettnow middleeasteye.net/news/uae-fligh…

Berbera on the Gulf of Aden coast has been in the news in connection with Emirati scheming in Sudan and Yemen, and Israel's recognition of Somaliland. What's more surprising is that the UK government is a co-owner of the port. With @oscarrickettnow middleeasteye.net/news/uk-govern…

Bulldozers are at work building an Israeli settlement in Shepherds' Field where, according to Christian tradition, angels brought news of Christ’s birth to “shepherds tending their flock by night.” Lubna Masarwa and I report for Middle East Eye: middleeasteye.net/news/christmas…

ICC rejects Israel's appeal that sought to invalidate Netanyahu arrest warrant middleeasteye.net/news/icc-rejec…

UK faces mounting pressure to repatriate British nationals held in Syria middleeasteye.net/news/uk-faces-…

NEW: How ICC prosecutor's removal from Venezuela case is being used to target him on Gaza file - my dispatch from The Hague with @simonbhooper middleeasteye.net/news/icc-remov…

Karim Khan was forced to recuse himself from the ICC's investigation in Venezuela over a conflict of interest complaint. Now Israel is also calling for him to be removed from the Gaza war crimes probe. With @Imran_posts in The Hague middleeasteye.net/news/icc-remov…

Manfred Goldberg: Holocaust survivor who said he was 'heartbroken' by Gaza dies aged 95 middleeasteye.net/news/manfred-g…

Labour ministers nonetheless pushed for Maccabi fans to be allowed to attend the match, despite police also warning that their presence posed a risk to Birmingham's Muslim communities middleeasteye.net/news/how-labou…

Two important stories by @Imran_posts for @MiddleEastEye on the banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from tonight's Europa League match at Aston Villa. Police warned experienced fighters linked to the Israeli army were 'intent on causing serious violence' middleeasteye.net/news/violent-m…