With the UK parliamentary elections only a month away, Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) are feeling the heat on a number of issues. This time though Palestine is one of them. A well organised campaign led by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has made it easy for voters to require PPCs to answer five questions. I urge the …
Continue reading Voters ensure UK Parliamentary candidates see Palestine as a key election issue
I was interviewed by Russia Today about Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's 'apology' to Palestinian citizens of Israel after his racist election comments. This can be viewed here
Israel is a nuclear state, there can be no doubt about that. It's actions in defying countless United Nations Resolutions, continuing an illegal military occupation, annexing Palestinian and Syrian land and expanding illegal settlements. This and many of its policies and practices make it a Rogue State.Benjamin Netanyahu was as clear as he can be …
Continue reading The International Community has Created a Rogue, Nuclear State, Israel
I was interviewed about Israel's continued withholding of Palestinian tax revenues on 14 March 2015. This can be viewed here
EditMy remarks at West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign event "Dismantling Racism and Colonialsm and BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions)" on Sunday on 1 March 2015 can be viewed here.
Netanyahu told us this would be a historic speech. In reality his address to the US Congress on March 3rd was more hysterical than historic. You would have thought Iran's Ruhani was about to press the nuclear button but according even to Israeli intelligence, Iran is nowhere near having a launchable nuclear bomb. He even …
Continue reading Netanyahu has been and gone but Iran is still there
Watch my interview on Press TV commenting on Oxfam's report on the lack of reconstruction in Gaza.
Don't mention the 'p' word in the Israeli elections. It won't turn heads and it would only bring a shrug of the shoulders and a rolling of eyes. Israel is 'managing the conflict' with the Palestinians and as long as the cost of the occupation is low, there is no incentive for it to change …
Today, the Guardian carried this letter from over 100 artists that announced a cultural boycott of Israel 13 February, 2015 Over 100 artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel Along with more than 600 other fellow artists, we are announcing today that we will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept …
Continue reading Over 100 artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel
Mohammed Bouazizi Four years after Mohammed Bouazizi set fire to himself, triggering the Arab Spring, Islamic State set fire to Jordanian pilot Muath Alkasasba confirming that it had turned into the Arab nightmare. Jordanian pilot Muath Alkasasba Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, took his own life on 17 December 2010 in in protest at confiscation …
Continue reading From Bouazizi to Alkasasba, the Arab Uprising from Spring to Nightmare
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