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January 28, 2014

Jeremy Bowen attacks BBC Trust for Gaza ruling

Middle East editor defends his reporting on Israel after BBC Trust finds him guilty of inaccuracies. By Maggie Brown Jeremy Bowen has attacked the BBC Trust ruling that found...

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January 28, 2014

Palestinian Christians express dismay with archbishop of Canterbury

A letter that was sent by Rifat Kassis of Kairos Palestine this weekend to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the letter to Dr Rowan Williams Kairos Palestine said… Bethlehem, 18 June...

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January 28, 2014

Phillips leaves the Spectator as the complaints pile up

Poor ol’ Melanie Phillips. In today’s Guardian, the Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi goes on the offensive: “I don’t read her, actually. I call her Mad Mel,” Lady Warsi...

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January 28, 2014

Palestinian activists: unwelcome guests?

In arresting Mr Salah for remarks he denies he made, a British home secretary is being even more intolerant than Israel Sheikh Raed Salah, an Israeli citizen who leads...

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January 28, 2014

Weiss’ Knickers in Knot Over Sheikh Salah

Michael Weiss, that insufferable, braying pro-Israel zealot, has his knickers in a knot over Sheikh Salah’s visit to England. The Telegraph blogger began his crusade before Salah arrived, with a...

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January 28, 2014

Sheikh’s arrest is an attempt to sabotage the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause

The circumstances surrounding Sheikh Raed Salah’s arrest by the British government are irregular to say the least. He was taken from his hotel bedroom last Tuesday night and is...

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January 28, 2014

Double standards over Salah’s arrest

I was deeply disturbed to learn Sheikh Raed Salah is under threat of deportation on grounds that this action would be “conducive to the public good” (Inquiry after banned...

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January 28, 2014

“Unreasonable behaviour” – a thought-crime?

Sheikh Raed Salah, a political leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel and three times elected mayor of the Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahm, was arrested last week from...

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January 28, 2014

Bad news for Murdoch can only be good news for Palestinians

The phone hacking scandal which has hit Rupert Murdoch’s publishing company News International is getting bigger every day and shows no signs of dying down. The effect on British politics...

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January 28, 2014

The rise and rise of Sheikh Raed Salah: Israel’s most prominent Islamist wins his case against Britain’s Home Secretary

May 8 2012 In my blog entry in October 2011 I commented on the decision of the British government to issue a banning order against Sheikh Raed Salah, the...

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