25 August 2010
The Lib Dem Friends of Palestine are holding two fringe events at the Liverpool Conference, both on Saturday 18 September at the Hilton Liverpool hotel. No pass is required. The first, organised and sponsored by Chris Davies MEP is at 1.00 pm, entitled ’The strangling of Bethlehem: is it time for sanctions?‘ The speakers are H.E. [...]
16 August 2010
YouTube user ‘Minor Demographic Threat’ created a mashup video (below) based on the famous Buggles hit ‘Video killed the radio star‘. This video is apparently now being blocked from YouTube users in Israel. The mashup demonstrates how Israeli ‘hasbara’ teams used heavily spliced and edited footage apparently proving their side of the story, whilst at [...]
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16 August 2010
Education is one of the many casualties of the Occupation. Mohammed, a talented computer science student, was studying at the Islamic University, in Gaza, until the Faculty was damaged during Operation Cast Lead eighteen months ago. Like many Palestinians and Gazans he speaks excellent English and has been an invaluable help to MPs and Peers [...]
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24 July 2010
This week Israel has been telling us of the successful testing of its Iron Dome defence system. Iron Dome was originally touted as the strategic answer to the primitive and homemade Qassam rockets fired at Israel from various groups within Gaza, as well as the more sophisticated Katyusha rockets which Israel claims are being stockpiled [...]
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09 June 2010
UJ is the legal power which allows suspected perpetrators of crimes such as war crimes, torture and genocide to be prosecuted in the national courts of countries other than those where the alleged crimes were committed. As a signatory to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1984 UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel [...]
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31 January 2010
A delegation of 60 MPs and Peers from all over Europe and the European Parliament, visited Gaza in January. The trip was organised by the ECESG and included Lib Dems Andrew Phillips, Jenny Tonge (both House of Lords), John Barrett MP and Jim Tolson MSP, Gerald Kaufman MP and included UK reps, Clare Short MP, [...]
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01 November 2009
1 November 2009 Paper on views expressed by Michael Gove MP on Iraq and Palestine by John McHugo Introduction – a campaigning tool for fighting the Conservatives at the next election Michael Gove is a key figure in Cameron’s Conservative Party to whom the party looks for intellectual guidance. He has a crucial role in [...]
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13 March 2009
This was my second visit to Damascus in 3 months and was organised by the European Campaign to end the Siege of Gaza, who had also been the sponsors for my trip to Gaza, by boat, in November. On my first visit, which was to speak at a ‘Right to Return’ conference attended by thousands [...]
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