First published by the Middle East Monitor on 23/4/2025 It was with some surprise that I read the letterto the Financial Times signed by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD) attacking Israel’s continued war against the Palestinians in Gaza. Although they make up only one in eight of the total number of deputies, …
Continue reading The Board of Deputies of British Jews missed a possible turning point
My interview with Muhammad Shafique on British Muslim TV on 31/1/2024 Please click on link below https://www.facebook.com/share/v/MPCYmgo7w9TUpLrJ/?mibextid=KsPBc6&startTimeMs=9000
Thank you for coming out again to support the Palestinian people. I am proud to be the Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and from Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. You are all watching the inhumanity on your tv screens. One of the most powerful states in the world against a defenceless population in an …
Continue reading My speech to the second London march for Palestine on 21/10/2023
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 11/7/2023 Palestinian Fatah movement leader Azzam Al-Ahmad (R) and Deputy Chairman of the Movement's Political Bureau Saleh Al-Arouri (L) in Cairo, Egypt on 12 October 2017 [Ahmed Gamil/Anadolu Agency] The Palestinian cause is facing an existential threat as an extreme right-wing Israeli government, which includes fascists, continues …
Continue reading Jenin teaches us that Palestinians need a unifying strategy to beat the occupation
First published by the Middle East Eye on 26/6/2023 Protesters gather in London in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights (undated; credit: Palestine Solidarity Campaign) If proof were needed that Britain continually throws Palestinians under the bus, it came hot on the heels of the UK-Israel "Bilateral Relations Roadmap" when the pro-Israel Secretary …
Continue reading New UK anti-boycott bill shields Israel from accountability
By Kamel Hawwash First published in This Week in Palestine on 1 June, 2023 Palestinians around the world and their supporters recently commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe), during which British Lord Balfour’s promise materialized and a homeland was established for Jews in Palestine, albeit against the will of the Palestinian people. Israel …
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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
First published by the Middke East Eye on 3/11/2021 The British are famed for saying sorry when they've done wrong. Apologising for the Balfour Declaration would let Palestinians start reclaiming the narrative from the Israeli occupiers An activist waves a Palestinian flag near a police checkpoint at the entrance of the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in …
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 …
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
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