Tag: Stuart Littlewood

Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?

Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist state the Jewish Chronicle can be relied on to make the most of it.

Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist state the Jewish Chronicle can be relied on to make the most of it.

In an earlier article I said that if the Palestinian Authority suddenly beamed information at me I'd view it with grave suspicion.

I wish 23 year-old Isra al Modallal all the luck in the world in her new and important job as the media face of Hamas – important, that is, if Hamas allows it to be. It's a courageous move on her part... and a curious innovation by Hamas.

I wish 23 year-old Isra al Modallal all the luck in the world in her new and important job as the media face of Hamas – important, that is, if Hamas allows it to be. It's a courageous move on her part... and a curious innovation by Hamas.

Of course, it wasn't going to be long before the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) stuck their oar into the Methodists' big debate on BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel http://www.methodist.org.uk/bdsbriefing, which included a public consultation questionnaire.

Of course, it wasn't going to be long before the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) stuck their oar into the Methodists' big debate on BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel http://www.methodist.org.uk/bdsbriefing, which included a public consultation questionnaire.

Later this month Palestinians will be celebrating an important anniversary, namely the decision by the UN General Assembly a year ago to recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state.

A letter from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently flopped into my Inbox for forwarding to MPs, urging them to write to the Foreign Office and ask what action was being taken to address the growing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

A letter from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently flopped into my Inbox for forwarding to MPs, urging them to write to the Foreign Office and ask what action was being taken to address the growing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

The other day Hamas's political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for "criminalizing armed resistance”.

The Methodist Church in Britain has invited individuals, NGOs, faith groups and government organisations in the UK, Israel/Palestine and beyond to take part in a consultation exercise and answer questions on what it calls “the wider context around BDS“.

‘Eruvs’: coming soon to a nice neighbourhood like yours, as Jewish exceptionalism stakes out its territorial gains on English soil (symbolically, of course)

My MP Henry Bellingham has replied promptly to a letter on 26 August about the US and UK’s eagerness to “jump the gun” on Syria.

UK Foreign Office ministers seem to have great difficulty answering simple questions about Israel’s terror capabilities.

UK Foreign Office ministers seem to have great difficulty answering simple questions about Israel’s terror capabilities.

US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week described as an "inconceivable horror" and “a crime against conscience”.

Gung-ho prime minister Cameron and his sabre-rattling lieutenant, William Hague, were so eager to crank up their war machine that they'd lost all caution and reason. They’ve paid the price with a quite brutal Commons defeat.

British people woke for a second morning to the chilling realisation that the US and UK were not waiting for the results of the UN's enquiries in Syria before launching military intervention.

"Israel’s brand image does not serve its interests right now,” said Ido Aharoni, head of brand management at the foreign ministry, five years ago.

No sooner had peace talks restarted under the warped patronage of the United States than Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu published bids for the construction of more than 1,000 new housing units in Palestinian East Jerusalem and existing illegal West Bank squats.

While a fanfare of trumpets announced the resumption of so-called peace talks between Israel and the trampled Palestinians, to be held under the watchful eye of America’s Zionist ‘facilitators’, the Israelis were awarding special priority grants and other government funding to a number of their outlying West Bank “settlements”.

Why, after 65 years, is the Palestinian homeland still under foreign military occupation and total blockade when international law and the United Nations say it shouldn't be?

The whole world has heard about your brilliant breakthrough - persuading trigger-happy US-subsidised Israel and the strangulated, unarmed Palestinians to agree "in principle" to resume the one-sided negotiations abandoned three years ago.

Back in January the Liberal Democrat leadership threw a mighty wobbly when MP David Ward made this remark on his website: "I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza."

On 8 July British MP 'Battling' Bob Russell was speaking during a House of Commons debate on the national curriculum in schools

The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing.

Ten years ago Tam Dalyell, the 'Father of the House' (i.e. the most senior member of the House of Commons in the British Parliament), sparked a huge row by accusing the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of "being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers"

Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirty practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do.

US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has branded Richard Falk as “unfit to serve in his role as a UN Special Rapporteur.”

Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism.

UK foreign Secretary William Hague continues to surpass himself.

Earlier this month an MP got up in the House of Commons and proposed that the UK government outlaw, or "proscribe", the whole Hezbollah organisation, not just its military wing.

The Holy Land needs advocates for the truth. “It is the truth, and only the truth, that will lead to peace and justice”

The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was "an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for... and closes the door on meaningful dialogue".

“The political and humanitarian situation in the Holy Land continues to be a source of pain and concern for us all," says the introduction to the Church of Scotland's report The inheritance of Abraham?

I'm still rolling on the floor laughing my socks off at a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

William Cook in his masterly way tells us not to give up The-truth-tellers-lament-in-a-time-of-darkness even if "overwhelmed by darkness of the times".

Given Israel's unsporting record and sheer bloody-minded obstruction towards Palestinians’ efforts to participate in a wide range of sporting activity (some listed below in Elizabeth Morley's email), it is quite outrageous for the British government, brought up on the playing fields of Eton and, one supposes, having had sporting values well and truly beaten into them including the Laws of Cricket, to applaud and reward their racist behaviour.

G8 Foreign Ministers confirmed their commitment to a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

The tears shed by assorted media at the news of David Miliband's departure from British politics for a new life in New York had me reaching once again for the sick-bag.