The intro to the video above is an intervention by Dr. Rola Hallam, who took part in an event called How Should the World Protect Syria’s Children? in November 2013, in which she appeared in the capacity of eyewitness of the Syrian crisis and spokesperson of the aid organisation Hand in Hand for Syria, which portrays itself to the public as a … Continue reading
The falsified material Member of Parliament George Galloway is referring to in the video above is of course the famous report the BBC released in August 2013, which was claimed to portray the victims of a napalm attack on a school near Aleppo, perpetrated by the Syrian air force. Too many are the questions that have been raised by independent … Continue reading
Diplomatic Negotiations In April 2011, a Human Rights Council Resolution (A/HRC/RES/S-16/1) requested “to dispatch a mission to the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated”. Interestingly, this came to pass only ten days after it was revealed that the … Continue reading
“The following report contains disturbing images” This is how the BBC website introduces a report by its BBC Panorama’s Syria correspondents Ian Pannell and Darren Conway on August the 30th, 2013. The story contained a video, ostensibly shot near Aleppo, Northern Syria, by an anonymous school headmaster, and documenting the aftermath of a napalm attack on his school, supposedly perpetrated … Continue reading
This is the second part of a three-part interview with Avi Shlaim, professor of International Relation at the Middle East Centre, Oxford. Iran and International Organisations – some legitimate, some less legitimate – were discussed. An important point to note is Israel’s behaviour towards Iran. The Iranian nuclear program is not an Israeli issue: it’s an issue which involves the entire … Continue reading
Professor Avi Shlaim is an Israeli-born academic. He is a lecturer of International Relations at Oxford University and has written the book The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. He shared his thoughts with me on 30 May 2013. The occupation is illegal. All Israeli settlements that are built on occupied land – without a single exception – are … Continue reading
The video above shows the statement I delivered at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 10 June 2013, in response to the group of mudslingers unleashed against Special Rapporteur Richard Falk, who had just presented his report on the Human Rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I say group because, while there has been much talk about the … Continue reading
On 10 June 2013, Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Professor Richard Falk, delivered his report at the Human Rights Council. In the interactive dialogue, Israel PR manager Mr. Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Israel lobby Human… er… Rights NGO UN Watch, had this to say (video below). A sad spectacle indeed… One … Continue reading
Much has been said about the impact that social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have had on the uprisings in the Middle Eastern and North African region, the so-called Arab Springs, to the point that the marketing department in charge of selling these uprisings to the West have dubbed them “the Twitter Revolution”, an expression immediately adopted by compliant … Continue reading
On May 15th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing violence in Syria. The Resolution was voted on one day after High Commissioner for Human Rights Navy Pillay had publicly denounced the latest horrific act committed by anti-government rebel forces in Syria: a video had appeared on the internet, showing a rebel leader cutting out and … Continue reading