Rallies for Palestine to mark the Great March of Return will be held in cities across the UK on Saturday to mark the Great March of Return. The entire population of Gaza have been invited to mass at the fence on Saturday and over a million are thought likely to attend. How Israel will respond to this mass protest is of huge concern. These rallies are a response to a call from Palestinians for the world to take note on Saturday. To see a full list of UK rallies and find one near you, go to Stop the War Coalition and the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign websites.

More on that UN report on last year's protest here

IHRA Videos

I have put together a list all the videos where I’ve spoken about the IHRA – see them at www.tinyurl.com/ihravideos

Gordon Dimmack has now published his full series of Youtube videos with me:

Suspended Labour Party member Peter Gregson speaks out 1/5, 8’06
Is the IHRA definition adopted to muzzle Corbyn? Peter Gregson Interview 2/5  12’53
Suspended from GMB for criticizing Israel  Peter Gregson Interview 3/5 11’55
Labour leaking suspension details to Jewish News outlets  Peter Gregson Interview 4/5 13’30
1600 Labour Members in “I am Spartacus” stand against Israel Peter Gregson Interview 5/5 8’13

I have just completed a greek version of the Rabbi video - see it here

Parliamentary Candidates that signed ‘A Pledge for Israel’

See this list from CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL (CUFI) from  2017with “211 Parliamentary candidates who signed ‘A Pledge for Israel’ ahead of the General Election.

52 of the candidates are Conservatives, 51 Labour, 38 Liberal Democrats, 26 UKIP and 44 from other parties.The Pledge asked candidates: To oppose the extremists who challenge Israel’s right to exist….
If you see your MP or MSP or AM up there, please write to them and tell them what you think. There may well be a general election soon and we should be aware what our candidates think.

Jackie Walker

The Labour expulsion hearing is set for anti-Zionist Jackie Walker to be held today and Wednesday. See article from Asa Wistanley here  Her one-hour "Witch-hunt" film by Jon Pulman is now on general release- see it here

Tom Watson

If you agree that this man is a danger to Labour, see the motion against Watson passed by CLPs – hundreds expected to follow

STATEMENT ON ISRAEL

I finish with this short, succinct article that tells a lot, written by Hashem Said, a young Palestinian student in Washington State University, in 2002, for which the paper – under pressure, as usual, from pro-Israeli activists – had to apologize. I think it ties up with the photo above.

I am Israel. I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 400 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history.

I am Israel. Some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 women, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

I am Israel. Carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose families lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship.

I am Israel. In 1967, I swallowed the remaining lands of Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza - and placed their inhabitants under an oppressive military rule, controlling and humiliating every aspect of their daily lives. Eventually, they should get the message that they are not welcome to stay, and join the millions of Palestinian refugees in the shanty camps of Lebanon and Jordan.

I am Israel. I have the power to control American policy. My American Israel Public Affairs Committee can make or break any politician of its choosing, and as you see, they all compete to please me. All the forces of the world are powerless against me, including the UN as I have the American veto to block any condemnation of my war crimes. As Sharon so eloquently phrased it, “We control America”.

I am Israel. I influence American mainstream media too, and you will always find the news tailored to my favor. I have invested millions of dollars into PR representation, and CNN, New York Times, and others have been doing an excellent job of promoting my propaganda. Look at other international news sources and you will see the difference.

I am Israel. You Palestinians want to negotiate “peace!?” But you are not as smart as me; I will negotiate, but will only let you have your municipalities while I control your borders, your water, your airspace and anything else of importance. While we “negotiate,” I will swallow your hilltops and fill them with settlements, populated by the most extremist of my extremists, armed to the teeth. These settlements will be connected with roads you cannot use, and you will be imprisoned in your little Bantustans between them, surrounded by checkpoints in every direction.

I am Israel. I have the fourth strongest army in the world, possessing nuclear weapons. How dare your children confront my oppression with stones, don’t you know my soldiers won’t hesitate to blow their heads off? In 17 months, I have killed 900 of you and injured 17,000, mostly civilians, and have the mandate to continue since the international community remains silent. Ignore, as I do, the hundreds of Israeli reserve officers who are now refusing to carry out my control over your lands and people; their voices of conscience will not protect you.

I am Israel. You want freedom? I have bullets, tanks, missiles, Apaches and F-16s to obliterate you. I have placed your towns under siege, confiscated your lands, uprooted your trees, demolished your homes, and you still demand freedom? Don’t you get the message? You will never have peace or freedom, because I am Israel.

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