First published by the Middle East Monitor on 14/11/2019 elatives of Palestinian Mohammad Sharab, who was killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza, mourn during his funeral ceremony on 14 November 2019 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency] Those interested in human rights should remember the name of Omar Haitham Al-Badawi, from Al-Arroub refugee camp near Hebron. He …
Continue reading To Israel, Palestinian blood isn’t just cheap, it is worthless
First published by TRT World on 29/3/2019 For a whole year scores of Palestinians have been killed and wounded for simply demanding their right to return home. For the Palestinians, the 30th of March traditionally marks 'land day', when they commemorate Israel’s killing of six Palestinians in 1976 who were protesting the Israeli government’s announcement …
Continue reading The Great March of Return is the definitive guide to Israeli injustice
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 5/3/2019 I wrote recently about an EU report on the growth of illegal Israeli settlements and argued that the EU was diligent in documenting Israel’s-breaches of international law but that it has singularly failed to bring it to account, even when it has demolished EU-funded projects. A more recent …
Continue reading From Qana to Gaza, Israel issues denials and smears investigations of its crimes
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 27/12/2018 Activists come together to protest outside branches of HSBC bank over shares in an Israeli arms company accused of manufacturing internationally banned weapons [Ryan Ashcroft] It is ten years since Israel launched a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip, which it called Operation …
Continue reading HSBC divests from major Israeli arms company ten years after Operation Cast Lead
First published by the Middle East Eye on 12/12/2018 #HumanRights An army of social media trolls are at the ready to denounce legitimate criticism of Israel’s occupation and settlement enterprise Israel was created through violence and terror, which it continues to heap on Palestinians to this day, as it works to fulfill the dream of …
Continue reading Criticise Israel and you immediately trigger its army of outraged partisans
I was interviewed by Press TV on 24/10/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJzzSrVqkk&feature=youtu.be
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 11/9/2018 Trump and Netanyahu are now brothers in arms in racism against the Palestinians US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in Tel Aviv on 22 May 2017 [Daniel Bar On/Anadolu Agency] The Palestinian people and their cause are facing …
Continue reading Trump’s Administration will fail to break the Palestinians
First published by the Middle East Eye on 26/7/2018 Trump’s team is focusing on how to force the Palestinians in Gaza - and Hamas - to submit and accept their dictates or face further misery The heat is on - again - in Gaza, as Israel tightens its siege and continues to kill and maim …
Continue reading How the US and Israel are working to transform Gaza into the Palestinian state
First published by the Arab Weekly on 22/7/2018 Israel meets even peaceful Palestinian resistance with brutal force. Resilient despite pressures. Demonstrators try to prevent an Isreali tractor from passing through the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, on July 4. (AFP) International law states that a people under occupation are …
Continue reading Peaceful resistance is the Palestinian answer to Trump’s ‘deal of the century’
I was interviewed by RT UK on 19/6/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liytCPPMnbk
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