Mentioned in dispatches - on Harry's Place

I have been mentioned in a report on last week's meeting on Gaza, where I spoke, on the notorious pro-Zionist blog, Harry's Place. I suppose that I should consider myself lucky not to have been savaged by some who live there. There were several attacks on the blog by some of the speakers who obviously had recognised some of its regular contributors in the audience. This report (below) mentions some of the trade union speakers and others who were on the platform. BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The VP convoy is the Viva Palestina convoy which, despite many attempts to block it by both Israelis and Egyptians, managed to break the blockade of Gaza and get through with much needed supplies.


Hugh Lanning (Chair PSC; Dep Gen Sec PCS trade union) said that the TUC Exec has agreed that TUC and PSC can issue jointly badge material.



Alexei Sayle compared Gaza to a windfarm that has been said by an objector to emit an imperceptible vibration which slowly poisons you.


Joseph Healy: Green Party (candidate for Vauxhall): Greens have had BDS policy for 2 years. Compared VP convoy to those who volunteered in the 1930s to go to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.


Anas Altikriti: Welcomed people from Harrys Place, Policy Exchange, the ZF and the Centre for Social Cohesion. Compared the international response to the earthquake in Haiti to the lack of response to the Gaza ‘massacre’: “no less calamitous circumstances”. Melanie Phillips and Policy Exchange should be described as supporters of War Crimes. Israel almost friendless but the few it has are ‘powerful’.


Dubbins (Unite): Unite helped pay for the South Africans to come to the UCU Conference.


Ishmail Patel: Friends of Al Aqsa: Israel becoming a Pariah state; ‘we will bring down the Zionist state, one people will live from the river to the sea, ‘sunset of occupation’.


Lowkey: Starvation of Gaza has become accepted norm. Livni a terrorist. Babies in Gaza born with birth defects because the water is poisoned. Babies with two heads will be born in Gaza.


Daud Abdulla: Praised Chavez (lots of applause); Israel a brutal, totalitarian, apartheid, racist state.