Sunday, 5 October 2025

Nazis are guests of the Israeli government

 

Gaza is a concentration camp: its inmates are dead, dying or waiting to be killed. Kidnapped flotilla volunteers are drinking from the toilet and Greta Thurnberg has been tortured. In London geriatrics are arrested for being 'terrorists'. Meanwhile, Tommy Robinson is invited to Israel!. All this and Starmer remains silent

An explanation ....

Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history and the world is still holding the pen”

FRANCESCA ALBANESE  United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories




"On behalf of the State of Israel I am proud to host the British patriot, Tommy Robinson , who will visit Israel in mid-October (2025). Tommy is a courageous leader ... he has proven himself to be a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people ... Together with Tommy Robinson we will build stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror, defend western civilisation and shared values." 
AMICHAI CHIKLI, Israeli Minister of Diaspora & Combatting Antsemitism


Are you shocked and surprised? It’s nothing new.

Eliezer Livneh of the Israeli paramilitary organisation, Haganah, and speaking in 1966, said “For the Zionist leadership the rescue of Jews was not an aim in itself, but only a means”.

The truth about Zionism is well put by Tony Greenstein here, Zionism is at its heart a racially exclusive ideology for the promotion of white supremacy – but it also wants a specifically Jewish supremacy in Palestine.”



Thursday, 25 September 2025

A Holocaust In Our Time



How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?  NINA SIMONE


Together for Palestine was an event organised for 17 September 2025 in support of a suffering people at London’s Wembley Arena. I was lucky enough to have a ticket to this 12,500 seat sold-out evening.

It was Brian Eno’s initiative, working with the Palestinian artist, Malak Mattar, as executive director. They assembled performances and talks from 69 musicians, actors, dancers, writers, poets, journalists and human rights spokespeople. Itraised nearly £2 million for three indigenous Palestinian NGOs: Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Palestinian Medical Relief and Taawon, who run orphan care programmes in Gaza. 


The event took place with the Gaza genocide now crossing all red lines. The UN had, for the first time, declared it to be so, and the death toll was now estimatedto possibly be in the hundreds of thousands, 75% of them women and children. Meanwhile, the 50-boat Gaza Sumud Flotilla was assembling near Sicily to maketheir way there to break the blockade.

In this situation I decided that I had to include an account of this event in mybook, even though the manuscript had been edited for delivery to my designer.When I arrived home from Wembley, I made myself several cups of coffee and wrote a first draft.

On the morning of the concert, Brian wrote in The Guardian, ‘Politics sits downstream of culture. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we develop and share our feelings about this world – and other possible worlds. This gives our storytellers – writers, musicians, artists, actors – incredible power to shape the space in which politicians are able to operate.’

The event proved Brian to be right, that ‘politics sits downstream of culture’. It opened with oud player Adnan Joubran, rapper El Far3i and the singer Nai Barghouti. Yara Eid spoke about the 270 fellow-journalists targeted and killed in Gaza.The pianist Faraj Suleiman was followed by Neneh Cherry, and Benedict Cumberbatch recited a poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

On this land there are reasons to live,
This land the lady of lands,
The motherland of beginning,
The motherland of all ends.
She was named as Palestine
She will forever be known as Palestine.
My land, my lady,
You are the reason to live

That night I was sitting with Brian’s former wife, Anthea, and their two daughters, Irial and Darla. All three are active in their support of Palestine andall have been there. Irial had planned to return to work as a doctor on a university-approved placement at Ramallah Hospital, but was refused entry at the Israeli border. Because she was not a tourist and had visited the West Bank previously, she was banned from re-entry under Amendment No 28 of the Entry Into Israel Law.

Francesca Albanese is the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories. She has been sanctioned by the Trump administration. Albaneseencouraged us to continue the struggle against genocide. She outlined her estimate as to the extent of the killings. ‘65,000 is the number of Palestinians confirmed killed, of which 75% are women and children. In fact, we should start thinking of 680,000, because this is the number that some scholars and scientists claim as being the real death toll in Gaza ...If this number is confirmed, 380,000 of these are infants under five.’


She was followed by 87-year-old, Stephen Kapos, who said, ‘The genocide we are witnessing today is something that I recognise from my own experience as a Jewish Holocaust survivor … what is happening today in Gaza is an extreme form of repeat genocide, a Holocaust in our own times, in front of our eyes.’ He received the evening’s loudest applause, exposing the Zionist lie that opposition to their genocidal policies is ‘anti-semitic’.

Brian was joined by Paul Weller who performed a composition themed on Arabic rhythms and given the Eno ‘stamp’. It included eight musicians: from oud to cello to guitar and drums.
Damon Albarn teamed up with the London Arab Orchestra and Juzoue Dance Collective to perform a medley of traditional Palestinian songs. 
Portishead performed ‘Roads’.

How can it feel this wrong?
From this moment
How can it feel this wrong?
Paloma Faith sang wearing a dress made from a keffiyeh.

At the end of the evening, Richard Gere stepped on stage and said, ‘This is a caravan, not of despair, but of love, compassion and sacrifice. Stand up and let love and compassion be generated. Netanyahu has to go and all the enablers have to go. There is one who says he can stop wars in one day – my President Trump. I end by paying tribute to all the doctors who have been in Gaza.’

All wonderful people talking to, and performing for, an audience vibrantly alive and loud in solidarity with Palestine. An emotional evening of consciousness-raising. Gorillaz opened their hip-hop song in front of a video of a Palestinian flag flapping in a sea-breeze with these words, ‘Navigate the waves wih a light and a flag. Stars in the heavens and a breeeze on my back’. I thought of the GazaFreedom Flotilla, making its way across the Mediterranean, on a brave attempt to break the blockade. I looked around at nearby members of the audience. Many were dabbing their eyes. I was one of them.

Brian has said, ‘Maybe one day future leaders of western political parties will issue a mea culpa for their complicity in the brutal violence currently being inflicted on Palestinian families. It will be too late to save tens of thousands of civilian victims of this war. But if there is a reckoning it might be, in part at least, because actors, artists, writers and musicians helped us to see Palestinians as human beings.’

Sadly, that day is a long way off. As I write this, I read that the UK Foreign Office Minister, Jenny Chapman, has refused to consider sending home the Israeli soldiers currently being trained by the British military while the genocide is ongoing. Her reason: ‘it would be unnecessarily disruptive to [the Israeli soldiers] and their lives.’ 

I have read that the RAF continue with daily reconnaisance flights over Gaza to give targets to the IDF. Turning to the Israeli regime itself, I recently came across these words from Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, ‘In six months, Gaza will cease to exist. The surviving population will be herded into a single ‘humanitarian zone’ and, broken by despair, will depart.’

The Wembley event was livestreamed on YouTube and was viewed across the world. A friend of mine in LA, film producer Emre Izat, emailed me the following day with these words: ‘I watched online yesterday, sobbed a bit, and was humbled by the gathering and outpouring of love and support.’ 

I hope this powerful event was seen in Palestine, so that they could experience that ‘love and support’. I know that they are still able to experience music itself. From my contacts at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Ramallah, I am told that music is still being played in Gaza. I recently watched a film of young people playing guitars and ouds on a Gaza beach.

The power of music. From Wembley to Gaza.

Thursday, 18 September 2025

Together for Palestine

 







Last night I attended the sold-out‘Together for Palestine’ concert at Wembley Arena. Produced by Brian Eno, and working with Palestinian artist Malak Mattar as executive director, they assembled an eclectic mix of music and speeches. 

There was oud player Adnan Joubran, rapper El Far3i and the singer Nai Barghouti. The journalist, Yara Eid, spoke about the 270 colleagues killed in Gaza.The pianist Faraj Suleiman was followed by Neneh Cherry. Benedict Cumberbatch recited a poem by Mahmoud Darwish. Francesca Albanese of the UN encouraged us to keep going in the struggle against genocide and Holocaust survivor, Phillip Kapos, received massive applause, when he said, as a Jew, he remained active in support of Palestine. Then there was Damon Albarn and Paloma Faith, who performed wearing a dress made from a keffiyeh. Brian Eno performed with eight musicians, ( from oud player to cello, to guitar to drums) a composition themed on Aabic rhythms and given the Eno ‘twist’

All wonderful people talking to and performing for an audience united in solidarity with Palestine. OK no one should be picked out for special reference here, but I am going to do so. I have known Brian Eno for thirty years, ever since he supported War Child’s music projects at the time of the Bosnian war. Later he was there again in support of the Iraq anti-war movement. 

Last night reminded me of the 2005 Rachid Taha/Brian Eno/Mick Jones ‘Rock the Casbah gig for Stop the War. So thank you Brian and not forgetting his supportive family and office. 

I am including below his article which was published in The Guardian on the day of the Wembley event.

Damon Albarn: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-xqeUZRWjMg  


At the end of  the evening Jameela Jamil announced, the show had raised £1.5m. This money would go to Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)Palestinian Medical Relief Society, and https://www.taawon.org/en  which runs orphan care programess in Gaza. 


BRIAN ENO: ‘Why I am Hosting Together for Palestine.’ The Guardian, 17 September 2025

In the summer of 1988 the music festival producer Tony Hollingsworth organised a concert at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela. He offered the BBC the rights to broadcast it live, but the corporation was nervous. Mandela had been in jail since 1962 and, to the extent that he was a well-known figure, he had been branded a ‘terrorist’. Hollingsworth met BBC executive Alan Yentob, who was wavering. “Alan,” Tony said, “you’ve got to bite the bullet.” Eventually Yentob agreed, replying: “I’ll give you five hours. If the bill improves, I’ll increase the time.”

Conservative MPs were soon organising a parliamentary motion, deploring the BBC’s editorial decision. Opponents of Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) were right to be worried about the concert. The event was broadcast to a global audience of 600 million people, it made Mandela a household name around the world and, in all probability, hastened his release. Oliver Tambo, then president of the ANC, told Hollingsworth the concert was “the greatest single event we have undertaken in support of the struggle.”

he concert worked because, then as now, politics sits downstream of culture. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we develop and share our feelings about this world – and other possible worlds. This gives our storytellers – writers, musicians, artists, actors – incredible power to shape the space in which politicians are able to operate.
Which brings us to Gaza.

More than any other conflict since the birth of the modern communications age, more so even than South Africa in the 1980s, the Israeli occupation of Palestine has been conducted with words and images as well as with bullets and bombs. And for that reason, those artists who oppose the occupation and advocate for justice for Palestinians have been subjected to a cynical, pernicious censorship designed to severely narrow the scope of the stories they can tell.

Examples abound. Last year there was a concerted ampaign by supporters of Israeli policy to have Jewish film-maker Jonathan Glazer cancelled. Actor Melissa Barrera was dropped by a Hollywood production company after she she posted on social media referring to “genocide” in Gaza. Multiple artists in Germany have had their exhibitions terminated for making entirely defensible critiques of the Israeli government. And the BBC recently refused to show a remarkable documentary about Gaza’s health workers because its broadcast would have risked “the perception of partiality” (my italics). It was eventually shown to great acclaim on Channel 4.

The BBC’s recent cowardice is the product of a wall of fear constructed by supporters of Israeli government policy, designed to punish those artists whose stories might mould a different culture, one with the power to radically change our politics. But that fear is abating.

Take, for example, Together for Palestine, a concert to be held tonighy at Wemble Arena - the huge indoor auditorium next to the stadium that hosted that Mandela birthday concert 37 years ago. I and others have been defensible critiques of the Israeli government. I and others have been working for a year to bring the concert to life. Even finding a venue proved challenging: the mere mention of the word “Palestine” was a near-certain precursor to refusal. (I wonder what the reaction would have been had it been called Together for Ukraine?) But at some point in the past few months, something changed. Wembley signed a contract, YouTube finally consented to streaming the event, and – most importantly – artists agreed to appear.

And so this evening, Wembley hosts the biggest cultural event in support of Palestinian rights since the destruction of Gaza began. Some 12,000 tickets sold out in two hours. Appearing on stage will be, among many others, Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Guy Pearce, musicians Bastille, James Blake, PinkPantheress and Damon Albarn – and Palestinian artists such as Saint Levant and Elyanna. The concert will be opened by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, recently sanctioned by the Trump administration. 

Five years ago, perhaps even as recently as this time last year, it would have been impossible to imagine dozens of notable global artists coming together to support Palestine. But the brutality of Israel’s assault on Gaza, its deliberate starvation of the population and the unabashed public statements of Israeli ministers advocating ethnic cleansing have combined to create deep cracks in the wall of fear. I’m not sure the Israeli government, or indeed the wider Israeli populace, quite understands the extent to which the censorious policing of commentary around Palestine is breaking down. Indeed, the greater risk to some artists’ reputations may now come from not speaking out on Palestine.

One foundation of that wall of fear has been the association of the words “Palestine” and “terror” – the result of a deliberate, decades-long campaign to conflate the two. That same conflation was made in the 1980s with Nelson Mandela. Looking back now, it seems preposterous that debate around South African apartheid could have been so effectively policed by its proponents. But times change. What was once disputed can suddenly become suffused with moral clarity, with advocates for one side left stranded on the wrong side of history. In 2006 the then-Tory leader, David Cameron, said his fellow Conservatives were wrong in their approach to apartheid. He praised Mandela as “one of the greatest men alive.”
Maybe one day future leaders of western political parties will issue a similar mea culpa for their complicity in the brutal violence currently being inflicted on Palestinian families. It will be too late to save many tens of thousands of civilian victims of this war. But if there is a reckoning it might be, in part at least, because actors, artists, writers and musicians helped us to see Palestinians as human beings, as much deserving of respect and protection as their Israeli neighbours.

As the Egyptian-Canadian writer Omar El Akkad says, one day everyone will have always been against this.





Sunday, 7 September 2025

Parliament Square Terrorists

 




"I've been to peaceful protests for 60 years and this is the first time I've been afraid".   A retired doctor speaking to NovaraMedia


I have not been so angry nor so traumatised since I was in Sarajevo at the height of the siege and bombardment of that city in 1993. After I returned to London I could not understand why the latest football scores were more important to so many of my friends than the death ‘score’ in that city. I began to realise that our political leaders and corporate media were not intent on telling the truth. 

And here we are again. I woke up this morning to Sky News quoting Deputy Assistant Commissioner Claire Smart, who led the police operation in Parliament Square. "In carrying out their duties today, our officers have been punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them by protesters."

In the six hours I was there I agree with the Defend Our Juries spokesperson who said the afternoon had been "the picture of peaceful protest" and that the Met Police's statement about its officers being abused was an "astonishing claim. I've been here all day and I haven't seen any violence or aggression from anyone. I've only seen aggression and violence from the police."

Me, Jan Woolf & Allen Jasson,


Allen arrested two minutes later


Handicapped woman arrested soon after


85 year old priest, Sue Parfitt, arrested for 2nd time


woman arguing with police


woman waiting to be arrested



women terrorising with their words


They only want to respect the dead


Did they arrest these Quakers?


Blind man, Mike Higgins just before his arrest


Not in My Jewish Name


Disabled retired RAF pilot being arrested


Fascist photographers at work


Got them to turn round and say 'cheese'


Raphael Prais, me and Jan Woolf


A Sufi putting it all in perspective




We must continue our despair for the victims of the genocide but let it act as the catalyst for our actions. With Joe Hill, ‘Don’t mourn, organise’. So make sure you continue to demonstrate. Solidarity with the 40 boat flotilla making its way to Gaza and support for the Italian dockers who have pledged to bring European sea trade to a standstill within 20 minutes of any Israeli attempt to board or attack the boats.

And our police? Yes, they were out in brutal force on 6 September in Parliament Square, but my own experience allows for optimism, at least for some of them. A police ‘gang’ of 7 or 8 were dragging an old man to his arrest and ploughed through us. I was pushed against a metal barrier and was doubled up over it in panic. A policewoman helped me stand and then placed herself between me and the thugs. She then led me to a safer place. I thanked her and said ‘you are doing your job’. 



                    A Change is gonna come











Friday, 5 September 2025

A chronology of Zionist thinking

 



“ It is essential that the suffering of Jews  become worse - the anti-semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-semites will be our best friends."  Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization,1897

“His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country.” Lord Balfour to Lord Curzon, 1919

” Abroad we are accustomed to believe that Israel is almost empty; nothing is grown here and that whoever wishes to buy land could come here and buy what his heart desires. In reality, the situation is not like this. Throughout the country it is difficult to find cultivable land which is not already cultivated.” Achad Ha-Am, founder of cultural Zionism, 1922

“Has any People ever been seen to give up their territory of their own free will? In the same way, the Arabs of Palestine will not renounce their sovereignty without violence. A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!… Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important… to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonizing.”Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism 1923.” 

"Hitlerism enables us to convert all Jews to Zionism." Nahum Sekolow, Zionist leader, 1933

“We must expel Arabs and take their places.”David Ben Gurion, future Prime Minister of Israel, 1937.

“Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries – all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left.” Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department in 1940.

‘If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? We have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister), 1951

“There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here (Palestine) to the neighboring countries, to transfer all of them; not one village, not one tribe should be left.” Jospeh Weitz, Jewish National Fund, 1953

“We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters” Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion’s special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960.

“How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.” Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.

“Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I don’t blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, .The Arab villages are not there either. Nahal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibat; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kfar Yehushu’a in the place of Tal al Shuman. There is not one single place that did not have a former Arab population.” Moshe Dayan,1969.

“The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war.” Israeli General Matityahu Peled, 1972.

“We must not leave a single village, not a single tribe.”Joseph Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund, 1973

“The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.” Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset in 1983

“When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces,1983.

“We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves.” Chair of the Committee for the election of General Shlomo Lahat as mayor of Tel Aviv, 1983.


“If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force….” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, 2000.

“To me they are like animals. They aren’t human.” Ben Dahan, deputy Defence Minister, 2015
"Those who are disloyal to the state should not be here, and anyone raising their hands on a Jew must have their hand cut off." Itamar Ben-Gvir ,Minister of National Security, 2023
x is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve.”


Then there are these people ….

Dr. Israel Shahak, survivor of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp -“Hitler’s legal power was based upon the ‘Enabling Act’, which was passed quite legally by the Reichstag and which allowed the Fuehrer and his representatives, in plain language, to be what they wanted, or in legal language, to issue regulations having the force of law. Exactly the same type of act was passed by the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) immediately after the 1967 conquest granting the Israeli governor and his representatives the power of Hitler, which they use in Hitlerian manner.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu - “I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.”

Albert Einstein- “The Israeli state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed … I believe it is bad ...There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people … We must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people … Let us recall that in former times, no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs."

Sigmund Freud - “I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives.

Erich Fromm -“The claim of the Jews to the Land of Israel cannot be a realistic political claim. If all nations would suddenly claim territories in which their forefathers lived two thousand years ago, this world would be a madhouse.”

Primo Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz - “Everyone has their Jews and for the Israelis they are the Palestinians.”

Marek Edelman, one of the leaders of the1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising -compared the Palestine resistance to ZOB, the Jewish fighters in Warsaw.

Hannah Arendt - “The trouble is that Zionism has often thought and said that the evil of antisemitism was necessary for the good of the Jewish people.”

Martin Buber, Israeli philosopher: -“How great was our responsibility to those miserable Arab refugees in whose towns we have settled Jews who were brought here from afar; whose homes we have inherited, whose fields we now sow and harvest; the fruits of whose gardens, orchards and vineyards we gather; and in whose cities that we put up houses of education, charity and prayer."

Isaac Asimov -“I find myself in the odd position of not being a Zionist ... I think it is wrong for anyone to feel that there is anything special about any one heritage of whatever kind.”

Harold Pinter. On Israel’s 60th anniversary - “We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land."

Uri Avnery, ex-Israeli army officer -  “What will be seared into the consciousness of the world will be the image of Israel as a blood-stained monster, ready at any moment to commit war crimes and not prepared to abide by any moral restraints.”

Daniel Barenboim, Israeli pianist and conductor -“I don’t think the Jewish people survived for 20 centuries, mostly through persecution and enduring endless cruelties, in order to now become the oppressors, inflicting cruelty on others.”

Lenni Brenner, writer and civil rights activist - “The Zionist leaders were uninterested in Fascism itself. As Jewish separatists they only asked one question, the cynical classic: 'So? Is it good for the Jews?”

Richard Cohen, US columnist -“The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake … the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare.”

Henry Siegman, Rabbi and director of the U.S./Middle East Project - “Israel has crossed the threshold from ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ to the only apartheid regime in the Western world.”

Prof Norman Finkelstein - “Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes.”

Richard Falk, former UN special rapporteur on human rights, called Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories - “a crime against humanity.” Falk also has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of the Jews.

Alexei Sayle - “Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.”

Miriam Margolyes - “My support for the Palestinian cause is fiercer because I am Jewish.”

Noam Chomsky - “The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve.”