Have the Western Masses Awoken to the Reality of Palestine Occupation?

First aired on Friday 3rd November 2023 on AL Mayadeen network

Our show is hosted by George Galloway with experts in London and around the world over the internet links.

Note: This is the format we adopted following the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not clear when we might go back to the format with the audience present in the studio.

George Galloway:

Are there indications of a shift in public opinion in Western countries towards Palestine?

“A plainly” Israel’s actions are illegal under international law the Geneva Conventions, the rules of War established at the Nuremberg tribunals at the end of the Second World War, and so on; why do Western governments simply ignore such fundamental points?

A production of Narcissi for Al Mayadeen TV

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Watch the full debate on George Galloway’s page:

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Contributors:

Dr Ghada Karmi	Palestinian doctor, activist, academic and writer Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England, UK
Jonathan Chadwick	A signatory of Artists for Palestine UK pledge Director of Az Theatre and teaches occasionally at the London Film School
Yousef Al-Helou	Journalist & Correspondent & Political Analyst. Expert in Palestinian and Middle East Affairs
Dr Anne de Jong	Video link from Missouri, Kansas, USA A Wall Street Financial Analyst; President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET)
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss	Video link from New York, USA An American Haredi Jew, activist, and spokesman for a minority branch of group Neturei Karta, a Haredi anti-Zionist group.

Quotes from Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss:

… They use the Holocaust where we still living and breathing; thank God; we remember my grandparents my aunts and uncles my first cousins – because I’m over 60 – had first cousins who murdered by the Nazis both from Poland and from Hungary and the vast majority of all our communities died, and they died why, because we are Jews and we are subservient to God and we want to uphold our original Judaism and we were ready to die for that. We were Jews who didn’t want to give their children to Christian homes they said rather we die because this is our life is to serve God according to our religion. Now the Zionists come and they want to for their convenience in order to intimidate others to silence anybody to speak up against them they take this suffering of the Holocaust that would just recently the blood is still fresh we died millions of people they take this issue and use it as a tool to further their occupation their crime.

Quotes from Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss:

The root cause is clearly because of the introduction of a political ideology called Zionism. It’s a nationalist movement it’s masquerading in a religious name Israel and the Star of David and so forth but it it is a totally flawed a material movement selfish people who wanted to create their own Haven their own sovereignty and they’re using the religion to create it. That is the root cause of so much hate, Strife, Bloodshed and Rift between Jews and Muslims. And, it’s very clear, it’s not an opinion, that our history attests that Jews and Muslims live together in harmony for hundreds and hundreds of years is in every Arab and Muslim land clearly identified as religious Jews amongst clearly Muslim people and there was no human rights groups necessary, or United Nations, whether it was in Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Iran, we lived together…

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