[NB: As an ngo signatory listed at number 35, Facilitate Global unequivocally supports ISHR’s call for “the renewal of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders.” #HRC34 | Global NGO coalition calls for renewal of mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders 07.03.2017 In a letter to member States of the Human […]
Questions of Power and Slavery Clive Hambidge There are many spiders spinning webs of corruption. But the main supporter of this corruption has the stars and stripes on its thorax. And it will be on that and the American Constitution which I will focus on this evening. Nothing is so corrupt and corrupting as […]
Balfour An Apology? Committee Room 2a House of Lords Clive Hambidge The Balfour narrative, biblically driven, was a prejudicial sweep of historical Palestine under an imperialist Zionist carpet underlying the 1922 League of Nations Mandate of the Balfour/Lloyd George deceit. The meta-physics of this ‘sociological’ religiosity seeks (indeed remains in) and re-turns to history, and, […]
Clement Attlee Suite Houses of Parliament The Suffering of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan Clive Hambidge To highlight suffering is one thing, to alleviate suffering yet another. To bring an end to suffering must be the primary reflex for moral action undertaken by persons that will not tolerate institutional accord with determinate and recorded crime by […]
Rome to Jerusalem: Vatican Impartiality Clive Hambidge For twenty five unsuccessful minutes on 26 January 1904 Theodor Herzel met with a “coarse-grained village priest” (Herzel) who just happened to be Pope Pius X. Herzel was sitting “right next to him” the Pope in an armchair, “a throne for minor occasions” commented Herzel. Theodor Herzel was […]
Israeli colonialism signed in the UK, sealed in the USA Clive Hambidge “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return … The old will die and the young will forget.” (Ben Gurion) Considering the British Mandate of Palestine “carved out of Ottoman Southern Syria” and its favourable view of a Zionist […]
Welcome to Palestine 2017 A legal Imperative Clive Hambidge “Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act” (Albert Einstein) The ship carrying the precious cargo of a Palestinian Statehood bid, intended for late 2017, navigates through the choppy waters of Israel’s polluted sea of propaganda, US obduracy and a forever abstaining […]
The Mavi Marmara A Maritime Incident A Re-Examination of Israel’s Use of Deadly Force Clive Hambidge This paper concerns itself in the main with the case of the Mavi Marmara referred to the International Criminal Court by the Union of the Comoros following the murders of 9 civilians aboard the humanitarian ship which was flying […]
Asylum seekers singled out in London Media reports in the UK say the houses of asylum seekers in the north-east of England are singled out by their red doors [read more here http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/20/446640/Migrants-in-UK-identifiable-be-red-doors] This interview was first published on Press TV on 20th January 2016
Weapons exported by UK ‘fall into Daesh hands’ A new report has revealed that Daesh (ISIL) terrorists may be using weapons exported to the Middle East by the UK. According to a research study by human rights organization Amnesty International …. [read more here http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2015/12/08/440869/UK-ARMS-DAESH] This interview was published on Press TV on Tuesday 8th December […]
UK charities blame govt. migration policies This interview was first published on Press TV on 5th January 2016: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/05/444624/UK-charities-blame-govt-migration-policies This interview was re-published in Middle East Rising on 11 January 2016 by Ariyana Love: http://www.middleeastrising.com/uk-charities-blame-govt-migration-policies/
Committee room 9 Houses of Parliament “Scotland and Palestine: Building Friendship and Solidarity” Clive Hambidge Organised by the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) and the Council of European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) this vital seminar, which was held on the 17 November 2015, took on a more poignant atmosphere. Especially in light of the acts of […]
Committee room G Clive Hambidge Sitting in Committee room G in the Houses of Parliament on 23rd October from 6 to 7 .30 pm was a sobering affair. While hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues and chaired by Lord Alderdice, the event’s speaker was Professor Padraig O’Malley who had recently published […]
Resilience & Resistance A Palestine Cause Clive Hambidge & Soraya Boyd Resilience There are many definitions of resilience. One such is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of threat.” In the face of Israeli persecution and contrary to international normative law, Palestinians have determinately […]
Culture and Primary Health Care Under Military Occupation The P21 Gallery and Facilitate Global invite to Ang Swee Chai and Colin Green in conversation with Soraya Boyd Thursday 19th March 2015, from 7 to 9pm An evening in the company of Dr Ang Swee Chai and Professor Colin Green. Our esteemed […]