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Or Ben-David, a 19 year old member of the Shministim, spoke at two electrifying meetings in Scotland last week as part of a national tour organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians.

Workers and campaigners protested in Cairo last Sunday demanding a rise in the minimum wage.

Protests have broken out in the West Bank in the last few weeks, which have seen thousands of Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers and "security" police in the cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, and East Jerusalem.

"The British were in South Yemen, then part of South Arabia, for 139 years – in Aden and parts of the protectorate. The war for independence from Britain was won in 1967.

A vicious little war has broken out in the Middle East, along Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen. It is rooted in a struggle for control over the strategically vital Arab country.

Soas university Palestine Society and the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine is holding an important meeting on Israel, the Palestinians and apartheid – the case for sanctions and boycott this Friday 4 December, 7pm, Khalili lecture hall at Soas in central London.

Dozens of Egyptian workers’ and human rights’ organisations have rallied to support Kamal Abu Eita, the president of the independent tax collectors’ union, after a legal case was launched against him.

The decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi last week has produced much fury and bluster from politicians in Westminster, Edinburgh and Washington.

Property tax collectors across Egypt converged on Hussein Hegazy Street in central Cairo on 11 August for a strike in protest at the finance minister’s refusal to honour a recent agreement to set up a welfare fund.

‘When war is declared, truth is the first casualty’, wrote Arthur Ponsonby in "Falsehood in Wartime", his 1928 critique of military propaganda.

The governing coalition in Lebanon swept back into power in the general election last Sunday.