The London Circle on Alhiwar TV on 22/5/2024 https://youtu.be/NjAIjfLnEg0?si=XCmIS94IGmpmZ6ZH
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My speech to the second London march for Palestine on 21/10/2023
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 …
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My letter of resignation from the Labour Party to Sir Keir Starmer
Dear Sir Keir I am a British Palestinian academic who has been a member of the Labour Party for a number of years but it has moved away from many of them under your leadership. I am convinced the country needs a change of government to a Labour Government for the benefit of all Brits …
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Open Letter to the Labour Party
18/9/2020 We write as British Palestinians. Many of us are members of the Labour Party, some are not. We have previously expressed our fears of how the space to publicly bring the facts of the Palestinian people’s history and ongoing dispossession into the public domain was under severe threat. Then, as now, our concerns were …
UK election: Where do political parties stand on Palestine?
First published by the Middle East Eye on 2/12/2019 Israel knows it has a strong ally in the Conservative Party, while Labour positions its policy firmly in support of justice and international law A protester ties the Palestine flag to a lamppost opposite Downing Street on 5 September (Reuters) With days to go until the …
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المشهد: بريطانيا القضاء يعيد البرلمان , المعارضة ترحب والحكومة تأسف
بثت الحلقة على قناة الحوار بتاريخ ٢٥/٩/٢٠١٩ https://youtu.be/bsGqhXZRN1M
Why Palestinians have a problem with the IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’w
First published by the Arab Weekly on 9/9/2018 The conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism suits Israel. Not seeing eye to eye. People wear flag of Israel glasses at a gathering organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in London. (AFP) If the average person is asked …
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Labour’s anti-Semitism controversy protecting Israel from criticism
First published by the New Arab on 7/9/2018 Protesters lobbied Labour's NEC members as they arrived to decide on the new definition [Getty] The UK's Labour party has been embroiled in a controversy over anti-Semitism, which broke soon after the socialist candidate for the party's leadership, Jeremy Corbyn, won the contest. There was no immediate …
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Labour complains to press regulator over wreath coverage
I was interviewed by RT UK on 21/8/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY1b5YPo_OQ&t=9s
If free speech is to mean anything at all, its principles must be applied equally
First published by the Middle East Monitor on 10/8/2018 UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn [REUTERS/Peter Nicholls] Britain’s two major political parties have been gripped by accusations that they have a problem with racism. In the case of the Labour Party, this allegedly takes the form of anti-Semitism, while in the Conservative Party, it is …
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