First published by the Middle East Eye on 13/4/2017 On 7 April, I travelled with my wife, Lina, and my five-year-old son, Adam, to Palestine to spend Easter with family and friends, mainly in Attur, East Jerusalem. In the late afternoon, we arrived at Tel Aviv airport and made our way to passport control. I …
Category: house demolitions
Redefining anti-Semitism will not silence Palestinians’ struggle for justice
First published in the Middle East Eye on 19/10/2016 The UK home affairs select committee has fallen for the Israeli lobby's attempt to conflate criticising Israel with anti-Semitism I would not be writing this column in this way if the UK Parliament’s home affairs select committee had not dragged my homeland, Palestine, into the controversy surrounding …
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Conference: Holding Palestine in the light
Lichfield is holding a conference entitled Holding Palestine in the Light 7-9 October. This promises to be an excellent event and I am privileged to be contributing to it. Details here
If Israel wants to be treated like a normal state, it should act like one
This article first appeared on the Middle East Monitor on 29/8/2016 Image from the Mddle East Monitor Israel is not a normal state, but has craved to be treated as such ever since its creation in historic Palestine, against the will of the indigenous Palestinian people, in 1948. It sometimes claims its legitimacy from the …
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TV interview about house demolitions near Hebron
I was interviewed by Press Tv on 16/8/2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iax8PEeso8M