Professor Kamel Hawwash – Middle East Monitor

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.

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, 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
December 27, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
What options does Abbas have after that General Assembly vote?
As the dust settles on a significant week at the UN, in which America’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was rejected roundly by the international community, the Palestinians...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
December 4, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
It’s time the international community stood up for Palestinian children
Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian children is not a new development but rather one example of its many breaches of international law and international humanitarian law. While it has in...
Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
November 22, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
How long before the Israeli flag flies over Riyadh?
At a recent MEMO conference entitled “Crisis in Saudi Arabia: War Succession and Future”, I asked Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed of the London School of Economics if she thought that...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, US
November 10, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Netanyahu is redefining ethnic cleansing not pursuing genuine peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not known for missing an opportunity to push peace further into the distant future. The dust had not even settled on the Balfour...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
October 31, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
If only Boris Johnson would write an ‘alternative’ article on the Balfour Declaration centenary
When it came to BREXIT, the now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote one article for, and another against, leaving the EU, to help him make up his mind. When...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
October 20, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel is pushing its luck with the EU
When it comes to the various stakeholders in the Israeli Palestinian conflict Israel has guaranteed American support in almost whatever it does. Other stakeholders, including the EU, have consistently...
Published in: Article, EU, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 25, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is, in fact, an own goal
Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is now almost a daily occurrence. The reasons vary but the phenomenon is ultimately a form of collective punishment; the humiliation of the occupied...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 4, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Palestine must push back against loss of traditional allies
When the PLO asked the United Nations General Assembly for an upgrade in Palestine’s status to “non-member observer state” on 29th November 2012, the motion was passed by a vote of...
Published in: Africa, Article, Authors, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
July 28, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel is sleepwalking towards tyranny not practising democracy
Let me start by acknowledging that democracy is in short supply in the Middle East. However, only one state claims to be a democratic state. In fact, Israel claims...
Published in: Article, BDS, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
June 23, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Every picture tells a story; can the Palestinians expect any justice from this bunch?
Throughout his first trip abroad as US president, during which he visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Donald Trump expressed his desire to bring peace to the region....
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
June 13, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
When Congress celebrates the illegal occupation of Jerusalem, it defiles and redefines US values
The American people missed a major incident in the US Congress last week which should have worried them immensely. Their elected representatives celebrated an illegal act on their behalf....
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
May 22, 2017 | Professor Kamel Hawwash
Israel knows that it only has to bide its time to get everything it wants
Recent commemorations of the 69th anniversary of the Nakba followed the long-awaited meeting at the White House between US President Donald Trump and his Palestinian Authority counterpart Mahmoud Abbas....
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US