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MK Haneen Zoabi to have Israeli citizenship revoked?

MK Haneen Zoabi to have Israeli citizenship revoked?

Member of Knesset (MK) Haneen Zoabi is under threat of having her Israeli citizenship revoked for taking part in the Freedom Flotilla in which nine activists were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. MK Zoabi has been the focus of a sustained attack on both her civil liberties and Parliamentary privileges since participating in the flotilla [...]

The spirit of the IDF

The spirit of the IDF

The IDF are attempting to limit the damage caused by Eden Aberjil, an ex-IDF soldier who published pictures of herself with Palestinian prisoners who were blindfolded and handcuffed. The photos were published under the heading ‘IDF – the best time of my life’. Reminiscent of the damning pictures of Abu Ghraib, (though no-one is implying [...]

Andrew Baldwin – Britain-Palestine All Party Group Visit to the Gaza Strip

Andrew Baldwin – Britain-Palestine All Party Group Visit to the Gaza Strip

Last weekend a delegation of UK Members of Parliament set out for the Gaza Strip, on a fact-finding mission to see what has changed since Operation Cast Lead over a year ago. I was extremely fortunate to be allowed to join the delegation in my capacity as Researcher to Colin Breed MP, who is Vice [...]

LDFoP Fringe Meetings at Conference

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. [...]

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Internet killed Israeli PR

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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Gaza student given new chance

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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Iron Dome. An Offensive Weapon?

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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Briefing on Universal Jurisdiction (“UJ”) and arrest warrants

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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Baroness Dr Jenny Tonge – Gaza Jan 2010

Baroness Dr Jenny Tonge – Gaza Jan 2010

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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Views expressed by Michael Gove MP on Iraq and Palestine

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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Jenny Tonge’s visit to Damascus 13-16 March 2009.

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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