‘This is not a religious conflict’: Palestinian ambassador to the UK

Husam Zomlot, Palestinian ambassador to the UK, has refuted the idea that the conflict between Israel and Palestine is a religious one at a press conference in London. Zomlot told a room full of British journalists that proper context was needed in their reporting, and illustrated his point by asking, 'had our oppressors not been Jewish, do you think we would have been OK with them?'