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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.

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
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