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Professor Kamel Hawwash

Professor Kamel Hawwash

Professor Kamel Hawwash is a British Palestinian engineering academic based at the University of Birmingham. He is a commentator on Middle East affairs, Vice Chair of the British Palestinian Policy Council (BPPC) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and . He writes here in a personal capacity.

October 18, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Like the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque is also under threat
Not a day goes by without another Israeli attack on various aspects of Palestinian life, be it through home demolitions, land confiscations, the abduction of youngsters in the night...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 21, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The Palestinian voice will be heard at the Labour conference
John Bercow, the speaker of the UK’s House of Commons, will be standing down soon. He has been an animated figure, whose gesticulations and dressing downs of MPs have...
Published in: Activism, Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
August 27, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The whole world is a threat to Israel’s security
Israel’s greatest weapon against peace is its endlessly fluid security needs. It really is a case of “how long is its security piece of string”? The piece of string...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US, Videos & Photo Stories
August 16, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel won’t silence Tlaib, Omar by banning them from entry
US Representatives, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, a thorn in the side of the American establishment and the pro-Israel lobby have been banned from entering Israel and Palestine. There...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 11, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The US administration and fanatic Zionism
For decades now, the Palestinians have been looking for an ‘honest peace broker’ to bring an end to their suffering through a negotiated peace agreement with Israel. However, the...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 24, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Kushner unites Palestinians against the Bahrain workshop
Donald Trump’s senior advisor on the Middle East peace process, Jared Kushner has achieved something many have failed to achieve. He has managed to unite Palestinians at all levels...
Published in: Article, Bahrain, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
May 10, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Why supporters of the Palestinian people are marching in London on the 11th of May
It is not 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years since the Nakba, the Palestinian people’s Catastrophe. This year the Palestinians will be marking the 71st year...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, UN, US
April 17, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
37 ex-EU leaders wrote a letter, so what could the current European leaders do to deliver justice to Palestinians?
The European Union is at a crossroads when it comes to the Palestine-Israel conflict. It can continue to provide cover for Israeli breaches of international law and oppression of...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, EU, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
April 8, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
There are no fig leaves left to cover the uncomfortable and illegal facts about Israel
There is nothing left of the rotten fig leaves which have been used to cover Israeli Apartheid. On 19 July last year, Israel’s parliament and main democratic institution, the...
Published in: Article, Israel, Israeli Elections, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
March 22, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Grenfell Tower and Christchurch, 2 prime ministers, one leader
I had not heard of New Zealand’s 38-year-old prime minster Jacinda Ardern until the recent mosque massacres in Christchurch in which over 50 Muslims attending Friday prayers were attacked...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Australia, Europe & Russia, New Zealand, Oceania, Opinion, UK, US
March 5, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
From Qana to Gaza, Israel issues denials and smears investigations of its crimes
I wrote recently about an EU report on the growth of illegal Israeli settlements and argued that the EU was diligent in documenting Israel’s-breaches of international law but that...
Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
February 12, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The EU documents Israeli crimes; now it must do something about them
The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian people is obvious. “Enough is enough” is an overused...
Published in: Article, EU, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 17, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Al-Aqsa under threat as Israeli elections loom
When Muslims first prayed, they faced Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem rather than Mecca. When Prophet Mohammed (Peace be Upon Him) ascended to heaven, he did so from Al-Aqsa, not...
Published in: Article, Israel, Israeli Elections, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
December 27, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
HSBC divests from major Israeli arms company ten years after Operation Cast Lead
It is ten years since Israel launched a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip, which it called Operation Cast Lead. Israel started its bombardment on...
Published in: Article, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
December 10, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Nikki Haley’s swansong at the UN was an embarrassment
The 6 December was the first anniversary of US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that he would move the American Embassy from...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
December 3, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
While Arab states normalise relations with Israel, British voters lobby MPs for Palestine
November was an extraordinary month for normalisation between Arab states and Israel. You would think that Israel had settled its disputes with its neighbours — perhaps accepting and implementing...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Oman, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK
October 30, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Western hypocrisy: Khashoggi and Murtaja two deceased journalists but the world will only remember one
Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian photojournalist who had gone to the Gaza fence with Israel to cover the second Friday of the Great Return March. He was killed by...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, US
October 11, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
With no meaningful international plan, Khan Al-Ahmar needs a popular uprising to save it
The Palestinian Bedouin residents of Khan Al-Ahmar wake up every morning relieved that the Israeli occupation’s bulldozers did not arrive overnight to destroy their homes and their children’s school....
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
September 11, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Trump’s Administration will fail to break the Palestinians
Trump and Netanyahu are now brothers in arms in racism against the Palestinians
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
August 30, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
With Israel’s Nation State Law in place, violence against Palestinians will get worse
Ever since Israel passed the Nation State Law, Palestinians and neutral observers have been wondering about its possible impact on the substantial Palestinian minority in Israel as well as...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 10, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
If free speech is to mean anything at all, its principles must be applied equally
Britain’s two major political parties have been gripped by accusations that they have a problem with racism. In the case of the Labour Party, this allegedly takes the form...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 23, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel challenges the world: I am an Apartheid state, what are you going to do about it?
Remember the date, 19 July 2018 is when Israel’s pretense of democracy, the Knesset passed the Nation State Bill, which could more aptly be called, the “Jewish State Apartheid...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 12, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Ireland’s decision to advance boycott bill could be the tipping point for justice for Palestine
The Palestinian people are in need of some good news to boost their morale at an extremely difficult time in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality. There has...
Published in: Article, BDS, EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Ireland, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
June 25, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel’s royal reward for discriminating against Palestinians
As Britain’s Prince William arrives in Israel for a royal visit that will also see him visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories, does he really understand the country upon which...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
June 12, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel’s most famous human shield is its defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman
The Israeli propaganda machine has been in full swing since 30 March when the Great Return March saw tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza march to the fence with...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 3, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
While Razan lost her life, Nikki Haley lost her humanity
Last Friday, 1 June, a Palestinian volunteer medic, Razan Al-Najjar, was fasting and tending to the wounded at Gaza’s artificial fence with Israel. Thousands of miles away, the US...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
May 7, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The PNC meeting was ‘much ado about nothing’
After a 22-year lull, the highest Palestinian legislative authority of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), the Palestinian National Council (PNC), finally met in Ramallah for its 23rd session. Palestinian...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 24, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
UNRWA, the US Embassy move and the Israeli occupation
This will be remembered as the year when the United States of America broke with the international consensus by moving its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, thus recognising...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
March 30, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The Great March of Return: An opportunity for Palestinians to return to Najd or is it Sedrot?
There is nothing like a trip to Beirut and a visit to Palestinian refugee camps to remind visitors of the nub of the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba which refugees...
Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
March 20, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel, the West and shameless hypocrisy
The current crisis between Britain and Russia offers yet another example of the shameless hypocrisy of the West when dealing with Israel and almost any other country. Why bring...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, NATO, Opinion, Palestine, Russia, UK, UN, US
February 9, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The Middle East Quartet still includes the US, so can it still play a role in the peace process?
Since US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent decision to cut American funding to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian leadership...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, EU, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
January 9, 2018 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
The PA must rise to the dangers facing the cause or make way for new leadership
Israel’s extremist, settler-led government is on a roll. US President Donald Trump’s Christmas gift of recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his consequent surrogate bullying in the UN General...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US