Devastating Pictures from Yarmouk refugee camp, Damascus, Syria

Images from the Middle East Monitor 24/6/2014 I feel for everyone that has suffered from the violence in Syria. But Palestinian refugees have nowhere to go. The whole World bears responsibility for their plight, especially the Zionist entity Israel. It was the ethnic cleansing conducted by Zionist terrorist gangs that morphed into the Israeli Defence …

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Palestine Solidarity Meetings in Birmingham and Wolverhampton

26/6/2014 Birmingham 7:30-9:00 Public meeting: Solidarity with Palestine </a The Vice President of the NUT, Philipa Harvey visited Palestine as part of the NUT delegation last year. She will be reporting on her visit to a meeting organised by the West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign and sponsored by the Birmingham Trades Council. It will be …

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رسالة مفتوحة الى السفير الفلسطيني لبريطانيا الدكتور مانويل حساسيان

سعادة السفير عهدناك متحدثاً قويا ومدافعاً شرساً عن حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني منذ قدومك الى لندن عام ٢٠٠٥. فمع شح الموارد للسفارة مقارنةً بالطرف الاخر سمعتك تتحدث في العديد من المؤتمرات والمظاهرات وكنت دائماً أشعر بإخلاصك لقضيتها العادلة. وهاذا ما زاد من هول الصدمة عندما قرأت المقال المشترك بينك والبروفيسور رافائيل كوهين -الماغور في مجلت فأقوم …

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TV Interview on Palestinian Administrative Detainees

Here are links to my appearance on the 'Debate' programme on Press TV on 8/6/2014. This covered Administrative detainees as well as the peace talks. The other guest just could not see that the Pope's gesture in bringing Abbas and Peres to pray at the Vatican had limited value as I argued here. Part 1 …

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Palestine: a vital issue for Trade Unionists

Will be speaking at GMB Conference Fringe meeting in Nottingham

Which Norman Finkelstein turned up to Aljazeera Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan?

 I attended the recording of Aljazeera's Head to Head with Professor Norman Finkelstein at the Oxford Union on the 30th of May.  Finkelstein is a well known supporter of an end to the occupation of Palestine.  He has been writing and speaking about this iussue for 30 years and believes that his anti-occupation stance has damaged his …

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For Palestinians, the Nakba is the mother of all catastrophes

It is 66 years since beautiful, peaceful Palestine was taken violently by Zionists to create a state for the followers of Judaism, a supposedly peaceful religion. In the course of achieving this, over 800,000 peaceful Palestinians ended up as refugees outside their homeland. Zionists have written thousands of words on the reasons for this. They …

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We will not forget and we will return to historic Palestine

My family and I see this map of historic Palestine every day. Zionists thought the 'old will die and the young will forget' (David Ben Gurion). Yes, some of the old have died but the young have not forgotten and have had lots of Palestinian babies! We will return.