Tag: Palestine
UK Labour Party’s Historic Party Platform Developments
28 September 2019|Sputnik International|Mohamed Elmaazi with Eugene Puryear and Bob Schlehuber
Mohamed Elmaazi joined Eugene Puryar and Bob Schlehuber to discuss some of the more significant developments to come out of the Labour Party Conference, just completed in the coastal city of Brighton, England. This includes the historic pledges to adopt humane polices towards immigrants, reversing – in many ways – decades long hostility and racism directed by segments of the UK labour movement towards immigrants and people of colour.
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Claims that anti-racist Jewish peace activist is an antisemite are debunked by video made by the accuser
15 May 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi
The Pro-Corbyn group Jewish Voice for Labour has slammed the “twisted” mischaracterisation of comments made by its secretary, by the Jewish Chronicle and Luciana Berger, among others. A further examination of the evidence shows how baseless these claims really are.
UK black and minority ethnic groups blast Labour Party antisemitism debate for seeking to defend Israel by erasing Palestinian history
23 August 2019|Mondoweiss|Mohamed Elmaazi
Feature image via WithHunt documentary
Last week an unprecedented intervention occurred into the debate in the UK over the definition of antisemitism. Over 80 community, professional and rights-based organisations representing black, minority ethnic and diaspora peoples decried what they say is the framing of antisemitism in a way to ‘silence’ Palestinians, and other migrant groups, from speaking about their history.