A parliamentary Early Day Motion was tabled on Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Richard Burden MP calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza and a full investigation into Israel’s attack on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. EDM 127 currently has 80 signatories. The...
Israel’s deadly attack on an international aid convoy that left nine people dead earlier this week formed part of BBC Question Time’s discussion yesterday. The panelists, who included the Science Minister David Willetts, the Labour leadership candidate Dianne Abbott MP, the political...
Seumas Milne in his column in today’s Guardian comments on the Gaza aid flotilla raided on Monday by Israeli commandos. He writes:‘It takes some nerve, and a special kind of detachment from reality, to claim that your soldiers were “lynched” by “terrorists” when they...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) issued a fact sheet yesterday on the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. While not as specious as an earlier fact sheet issued by RICU when the Viva Palestina convoy was violently halted by the Egyptian border police...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, spoke to BBC news today on Israeli commandos storming the Gaza aid flotilla on Monday killing 10 humanitarian activists, injuring dozens and currently deporting hundreds of others. Read the transcript on the FCO website here and remember, you can call or write...
The Guardian prints news of a further case of possible MI5 complicity in the torture of British Muslims abroad. From the paper: ‘A third UK citizen has been detained in Bangladesh and allegedly mistreated while being interrogated about his associates and activities in both countries, raising...
Louise Arbour (pictured), president of the International Crisis Group, reflects in The Independent on the assault on the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos on Monday and what might yet be done by the international community to see good come of this tragedy. She writes: ‘It is easy to...
The Guardian’s Comment is Free publishes an article by Sir Jeremy Greenstock (pictured), former British Ambassador to the UN, on the Gaza aid flotilla and the need for the international community to re-think its policies on locking Hamas out of peace talks in the Middle East. The article was...
The newspapers today, understandably, cover at length the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli commandos in the early hours of Monday 31st May, killing 10 humanitarian activists and injuring dozens. The Guardian editorial today ‘From blockade to bloodshed’ argues that ‘Nothing has...
In response to yesterday’s deadly attack by Israel on an international aid convoy heading to Gaza, a Parliamentary event is being convened by Conservative Muslim Forum, Labour Friends of Palestine, Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine and ENGAGE. This event is for MPs/Lord therefore we...
