Instead of attending another security meeting with Israel, the PA should bolster resistance against it

First published by the Middle East Monitor on 18/3/2023 The English saying goes, "once bitten, twice shy". A more damning Arabic saying roughly translates to "the mind of someone trying something (that has failed again) is surely ruined". Both apply to the Palestinian Authority (PA) which has decided to join the Aqaba follow-up security meeting in Sharm …

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Western attitudes to Qatar hosting the World Cup

My interview on Aljazeera Balkans broadcast on 27/11/2022 Interview starts at 4 minutes. https://youtu.be/-ReIzLOKgS8

Truss’s UN speech and her promise to consider moving the British Embassy to Jerusalem

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, …

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Israel-Palestine: Anti-boycott bill threatens British democracy

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 …

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Watch: Double standards and Russia Ukraine war

My contribution to Friday Night Live on Luton’s Inspire FM 4/3/2022 My contribution starts at minute 33. Please press the link to start the show https://www.facebook.com/inspirefmluton/videos/3170159346645785/

The use and abuse of administrative detention by Israel

First published by the Middle East Monitor on 7/1/2022 Palestinians holding banners gather to protest against the decision of Israel's "administrative detention" in front of the Red Crescent Building in Gaza City, Gaza on December 20, 2021 [Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency] The Palestinian people rightly saluted Hisham Abu Hawash as a brave man who was prepared …

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To honour Tutu’s legacy, we must side with the oppressed not the oppressor

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 …

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بريطانيا تعتزم تصنيف حركة حماس “تنظيما إرهابيا”.. مبرّرات الخطوة ورمزية توقيتها

سجلت الحلقةعلى التلفزيون العربي بتاريخ ١٩/١١/٢٠٢١ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV1JyrdsWEw

My speech to the People’s Assembly march

Manchester 3/10/2021 Friends, I bring you greetings from the Palestine Solidarity campaign. Other speakers articulated the Tories terrible policies that impact on the daily lives of the most vulnerable people here in Britain. But their terrible policies also impact on people’s lives thousands of miles away including the Palestinian people. I must remind you that …

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On secret Israeli arms sales to problematic regimes

I participated in Scope on Indus news on 3/7/2021 https://youtu.be/ems8zai9AhE