I’ll be speaking on July 11th, in an event organized by the IJSN… If you are in London, please stop by…
The International Jewish Solidarity Network
Invites you to its first public event
International Resistance to Zionism
In solidarity with 60-plus years of Palestinian resistance to the founding of Israel
Friday 11 July 7-9.30pm
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, London [...]

From AFP…
Hamas said on Friday it had suspended negotiations on the release of a captured Israeli soldier because the Jewish state was not respecting the terms of a truce with the Islamist movement.
“Hamas has suspended indirect negotiations with the enemy over (Corporal Gilad) Shalit because of the non-respect by the enemy of the terms of [...]

Some B&W pix from the anti-Israeli apartheid protest on Sunday in Central London…

As soon as I got out from the tube station in Central London on Sunday, this was among the first things I saw…

Every few mins I would bump into someone wrapped in the flag of the apartheid Israeli state.. I was like: “Leih el-beidan dah 3ala el-sob7 keddah?! Eih el-zebala wel manyaka deeh?! What the [...]

From the Sunday Times…
Millions of pounds of British government money is going to Palestinian security forces which use methods of torture including hanging prisoners by their feet and putting them in “stress” positions for hours at a time.
Evidence to be published next month in a report by Human Rights Watch was corroborated last week in [...]

Horrible news about our friend Mohammed Omer…
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information “ANHRI.Net”condemns the detention of Palestinian Journalist Mohammad Omer Mughir by Israeli Occupation Forces. Muhammad was detained, assaulted and interrogated on June 27th upon his return to Gaza after receiving the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. The young journalist returned to Gaza [...]

America’s future Zionist Pimp-In-Chief…

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read an article…

Another pic from the Family Album…

My dad, standing first to the right, wrote on the back of the photo, “Fayoum” but no date is mentioned. I’d suggest it was taken sometime in 1966 or 1967 before the June War. One of the persons I recognize in that pic is his best friend, whom I won’t [...]

From Ynet…
Prime Minister Olmert meets with Egyptian President Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh, receives guarantee Cairo won’t open Rafah border crossing until kidnapped Israeli soldier released.
Click on the poster below to continue reading the report…

I received the following update from the Gaza Solidarity Campaign, regarding their 27 June Rafah protest…
Due to hopeful developments for the people of Gaza, we have decided to wait another week before holding the previously planned demonstration. We hope that the current cease-fire will provide some immediate relief for the besieged people of Gaza, though [...]

I received the following announcement from the Gaza Solidarity Campaign….
On June 19th a ceasefire was called into effect between Gaza and Israel. Demonstrations of solidarity with the people of Gaza and the humanitarian crisis they continue to face are planned for the weekend of June 27th.
On June 27th, demonstrations will be held in Rafah [...]

When the 1970 Black September massacres in Jordan started, my father was then in London attending a student conference for Arab scholars in Europe, which aimed at reaching some form of coordination between the various Arab nationalist and communist factions operating in the European universities. The attendees of the conference mobilized, during their brief stay [...]