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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, Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), and a founding member of the British Palestinian Policy Council (BPPC). He writes here in a personal capacity.

November 11, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

The Biden-Bennett battle of wills on the US Consulate in East Jerusalem

Any hopes that the removal of Benjamin Netanyahu from power would bring us closer to a revitalised peace process or less oppression of the Palestinian people have been dashed....

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Syria, US
October 22, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

The olive harvest in Palestine threatened by settler terror

Ask any Palestinian about their connection with Palestine, wherever they live, and the olive tree would figure prominently in what Palestine means to them. This would be alongside the...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 25, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Palestinians must ensure that Nizar Banat did not die in vain

The past few weeks have seen us waking up to news of more Palestinian deaths in Gaza or another attack on the peaceful residents of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem....

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 17, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Palestinians do not want anti-Semites at our rallies

As Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain, I was proud to work with our partners to organise the estimated 150,000-strong march from London's Marble Arch to the...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
May 15, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

What are the Palestinians to do to secure their rights now that they are not entitled to self-defence?

Over the past few days, our TV screens have been filled with wall-to-wall coverage of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians across historic Palestine in which they have not distinguished...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
April 9, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

If Israel has committed no war crimes, then why does it refuse the ICC probe?

On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light flicker in the distance for justice. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I "decided, by majority,...

Published in: Article, ICC, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
March 12, 2021 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Increasing settler violence goes unchecked by the Israel 'Defence' Forces

As I was reading an article headlined "Israel says 600 children given Covid jab had no serious side effects", my twitter feed was filled with messages expressing outrage about...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
December 4, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

It is time to make it official and brand Israel as an apartheid state

No one should throw accusations of racism around lightly because, if proven, then swift action must follow. The trade union movement in Britain, which represents over six million British...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 1, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

While the UAE builds bridges with Apartheid Israel, Palestinians are being forced to demolish their homes

While I was watching the red carpet being rolled out at Abu Dhabi airport to welcome the passengers on board flight LY971 from Tel Aviv, a tweet appeared on...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UAE, US
August 15, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

From fighting BDS to fighting delegitimisation: Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs code for battling accountability

The Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs is shifting its focus from fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), to fighting deligitimisation. It was initially established in 2006 for...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 17, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

The deal of the century is unpalatable for both Israel and Palestine

As US President Donald Trump's term nears its end, his deal of the century to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has stuttered, and is possibly defunct. To Palestinians, it is...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 29, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Ten years after Israel's hijacking of the Mavi Marmara, we cannot forget those who it killed

It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights activists...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey
April 22, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israel's new government is being lauded despite Apartheid and annexation

When it comes to Israel, the international community has once again been exposed for the double standards and hypocrisy it reserves to support the rogue state. Many so-called western...

Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
March 24, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

The PA's response to the coronavirus shows that Palestine is ready for statehood

The US and Israel, as well as its supporters, seek to deny the Palestinians their rights to freedom, justice and equality by claiming that the people are not ready...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Coronavirus, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
March 12, 2020 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israeli Apartheid

If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic 'equation', they...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, Germany, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, South Africa, UK, UN, US
November 14, 2019 | Professor Kamel Hawwash

To Israel, Palestinian blood isn't just cheap, it is worthless

Those interested in human rights should remember the name of Omar Haitham Al-Badawi, from Al-Arroub refugee camp near Hebron. He was hit by Israeli gunfire outside his house. An...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
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: AIPAC, 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 Makkah. 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