First published in the Middle East Eye in 1/4/2023 The British government's recent bilateral trade deal with Israel is just the latest instance in a long history of trampling on Palestinian rights Israel often repeats the lie that the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" as a reason for the failed peace process. However, a …
Continue reading How Britain has always thrown Palestinians under the bus
First published by Middle East Monitor on 22/9/2022 British Prime Minister Liz Truss departs 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons to announce her government's plan to cap household energy bills and provide subsidies for small and medium-sized businesses to ease the cost of living crisis amid soaring gas and electricity prices in London, …
First published by the Middle East Eye on 16/5/2022 As outlined in the Queen's Speech, Conservatives are set to bring forward legislation to ban public bodies from participating in BDS campaigns A flag flutters at the Palace of Westminster in central London in October 2019 (AFP) The recent announcement in the Queen’s Speech on the government’s plan …
Continue reading Israel-Palestine: Anti-boycott bill threatens British democracy
First published by the Middle East Eye on 31/12/2021 Tutu would have wanted a commitment from world leaders to fight injustice, inequality, and Apartheid wherever they occurred, including in occupied Palestine Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu (L) listens to a survivor from the Al-Asamneh family in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on 28 …
Continue reading To honour Tutu’s legacy, we must side with the oppressed not the oppressor
سجلت الحلقةعلى التلفزيون العربي بتاريخ ١٩/١١/٢٠٢١ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV1JyrdsWEw
11/9/2021 صور من مظاهرة حاشدة في ليفربول اليوم للاحتجاج على السماح لمعرض اسلحة ستستضيفه المدينة قريبا ولمطالبة البلدية بإلغائه. وقد شاركت بكلمة كرئيس حملة التضامن مع فلسطين وكان من المتحدثين الاخرين رئيس حزب العمال السابق جيريمي كوربين وعضو البرلمان جون ماكدونالد وشارك العديدون من المتحدثين منهم شابات من فلسطين وسوريا واليمن. حتى لو لم ننجح …
Continue reading مظاهرة ضد معرض الاسلحة في ليفربول protest against the arms fair in Liverpool
Extracts from the demo on 22/5/2021 My own speech starts 47 minutes in https://youtu.be/V2vOqGYJkCo
First published in the New Arab on 16/3/2021 The theme of this year's Israeli Apartheid Week is 'United Against Racism' [Getty] Comment: This year, Israeli Apartheid Week activists explore Palestinian solidarity through the lens of anti-racism, despite ongoing efforts to silence them, writes Kamel Hawwash. Tags: Israeli Apartheid week, Palestinian solidarity, BDS, Israel, Boycott Solidarity …
Continue reading Palestine solidarity is alive and well this Israeli Apartheid Week
18/9/2020 We write as British Palestinians. Many of us are members of the Labour Party, some are not. We have previously expressed our fears of how the space to publicly bring the facts of the Palestinian people’s history and ongoing dispossession into the public domain was under severe threat. Then, as now, our concerns were …
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 14/8/2020 BDS The Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs is shifting its focus from fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), to fighting deligitimisation. It was initially established in 2006 for Avigdor Lieberman, and he was given the role of coordinating security, intelligence and diplomatic initiatives regarding …
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