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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.

March 21, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Richard Falk: People must shame UN for quashing ‘apartheid Israel’ report

The former UN Special rapporteur for Palestine was speaking at an event hosted by MEMO in London

Published in: Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US, Videos & Photo Stories
March 6, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

The Palestinian leadership must embrace the Conference for Palestinians Abroad

In my last article for MEMO, I wondered whether the Conference for Palestinians Abroad (CPA) could lead to Palestinian unity of vision. It was a privilege to be with...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey
February 16, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Can the Istanbul conference for diaspora Palestinians lead to unity of vision?

The situation continues to get worse for Palestinians as they remain under occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, and the latter has also been under...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Turkey
February 7, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Trump’s status quo for Palestine-Israel isn’t so bad, unless you’re a Palestinian

The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States appears to have emboldened Israeli politicians. Many clearly feel that their strongest ally will henceforth provide them with...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
January 16, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Only through unity can the Palestinians counter Paris and Trump

Many more air miles have been collected and many more fine dinners have been consumed in five-star Parisian restaurants off the backs of the Palestinian people, to bring together...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
January 9, 2017 Professor Kamel Hawwash

UN resolution 2334 must be seen as a tool, not just a victory

The Palestinians were set to conclude that their cause had been severely damaged in 2016 when the UN Security Council delivered a timely Christmas gift on 23 December: Resolution 2334....

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN, US
December 12, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

The Palestinians too should take back control of their destiny

2016 will be remembered for a new phrase that came to characterise popular uprisings against “the establishment” in the West. From the UK to the USA, “taking back control”...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, ICC, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
December 5, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Palestinian Bedouins face Israeli discrimination from the river to the sea

Will they or won’t they and when? This has been the question being raised constantly over the past few weeks about Israel’s intention to expel the Bedouins of Um...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
November 7, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israel’s ban on the Muslim call to prayer in Jerusalem is the tip of the iceberg

Something is in the air in Jerusalem and if Israel has its way it soon won’t be; the Muslim call to prayer – the adhaan – is under threat....

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
October 31, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Waleed Shaath is the two millionth reason for ending the siege on Gaza

The news that the population of Gaza has reached the 2 million mark was reported widely in the media but has stirred hardly any real action by the international...

Published in: Blog, Blogs - Politics, International Organisations, Opinion, UN
October 15, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Lichfield Cathedral stands strong in the face of bullying by the pro-Israel Lobby

A few months ago I was invited to speak at a conference organised by an ecumenical planning group, to be hosted by Lichfield Cathedral on 7-9 October. The title...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
October 10, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israel trumps Arab and Muslim world’s influence on US presidential candidates

As the United States’ presidential race enters its final stage, with elections due on 8 November, the two candidates have been making their final pitches to woo the...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 26, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israel’s attack on democracy for non-Jews from the river to the sea

If Israel is not lauding its army, the Israeli Defence Force, as the self-proclaimed “most moral army in the world”, it is claiming to be the “only democracy in...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 23, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Netanyahu turns to ‘ethnic cleansing’ and sophistry to justify Israel’s criminal acts

Having failed to convince most of the world to accept its colonisation of Palestine, Israel has been busy redefining the long standing meaning of words and phrases in the...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 29, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

If Israel wants to be treated like a normal state, it should act like one

Israel claims to be a Western-style “democratic” state but only certain inhabitants of the land it has controlled since 1967 - basically all of historic Palestine - have a right to vote in its elections

Published in: Article, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UN
August 10, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Faced with a choice of peace and BDS, Israel chooses BDS

Israel’s recent decision to form a taskforce to target Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists for deportation is in stark contrast to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent claim...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
August 6, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Britain should apologise for the Balfour Declaration, not ‘celebrate’ it

The Balfour Declaration is a letter from the then British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Walter Rothschild, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
July 15, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

What hope is there for Palestinians?

The exit of the UK from the EU raises uncertainty about the direction the EU will take on Palestine without the UK and indeed the UK's own direction.

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US
July 2, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

The two-state solution is dead; long live the two-state solution

The Middle East Quartet has released its long-awaited report and to no one’s surprise it is claiming that the two-state solution is “in danger”. It alleges that this “danger”...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 30, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

Israeli society and its leaders are hastening its complete isolation

The news that the Israeli cabinet has confirmed the appointment of extremist settler and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman as Defence Minister is troubling to Palestinians and their supporters....

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion
May 3, 2016 Professor Kamel Hawwash

British Palestinians want anti-Semitism eradicated and sanctions on Israel

The current debate about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and the ensuing clamour for eradicating this scourge from British politics is one that British Palestinians have followed with...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, UK