First published by TRT World on 21/5/2021 Exactly what purpose is the blockade of Gaza serving? The bombs have stopped dropping on Gaza, as have the rockets and projectiles launched out of the besieged territory. A temporary and unconditional ceasefire has been secured by Egypt. This really is deja vu. We were there in 2008-9, …
Continue reading It is time for Israel to lift the cruel and futile siege on Gaza
كانت المشاركة في مهرجان فلسطين وتبدأ الندوة من الدقيقة ١٥. https://www.facebook.com/PalestinianForumInBritain/videos/506542883571961/
I joined a debate on RT UK on this letter in the Guardian which I signed on 1/8/2018 https://youtu.be/62mTTKawsAI
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 24/4/2018 Gazan's gather outside the UN offices in Gaza to protest US cuts to UNRWA's funding, on January 28, 2018 [Mohammad Asad / Middle East Monitor] This will be remembered as the year when the United States of America broke with the international consensus by moving its …
Continue reading UNRWA, the US Embassy move and the Israeli occupation
Interview on Press TV Top Five on 25/1/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrNE-g5RB0&feature=youtu.be
I was interviewed by RT UK on 28/9/2017 https://youtu.be/7mvbAcLP9O0
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 25/8/2017 Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is now almost a daily occurrence. The reasons vary but the phenomenon is ultimately a form of collective punishment; the humiliation of the occupied by the occupier and a means to achieve “demographic control” of occupied Palestinian territory. The Zionist state …
Continue reading Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is, in fact, an own goal
First published by the Arab Weekly on 6/8/2017 Israel has been replacing Arabic road names with the Hebrew names. The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation recently approved a draft bill that would end Arabic’s status as an official language of the country, despite an Arabic-speaking population that includes 20% of the state’s citizens. This …
Continue reading Language discrimination, another blow at Jewish- Arab equality in Israel
First published by the Arab Weekly on 30/7/2017London - The results of the tawjihi — General Secondary Education Certificate Examination — were recently announced across the Palestinian territories to great cheers and celebration in some households and deep disappointment in others.The future isn’t what it used to be. Palestinian children chat outside a school in …
Continue reading Jerusalem’s Palestinian youth face bleak future
This column first appeared in the Middle East Eye on 6/10/2016 Jerusalem has a special place in the hearts of people all over the world. I was fortunate to visit it again recently, or rather “return”, as my parents were both born in this great city. My first sighting of the Dome of the Rock …
Continue reading East Jerusalem is occupied but the hearts and minds of the children are not
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