So, Ed Miliband has spoken at a Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East reception sponsored by Friends of Al-Aqsa.
This would be the same Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East that hosts an article on its website which asks:
What is the basis for the western allegation that Hamas is a ‘terrorist’ organisation? After all, this is a Palestinian political party whose main objective is to fight Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, and whose operations, however unsavoury, are confined to the local area. Since when was resistance to occupation a terrorist activity?
And the same Friends of Al-Aqsa who have published Azzam Tamimi, a man who supports suicide bombing, and states in the Friends of Al-Aqsa journal:
[T]he weakness of the Arabs and Muslims is only temporary and will sometime in the future be reversed. Evidently, the Muslim world is witnessing a massive awakening that is destined to initiate the transformation from weakness to strength. When the Arabs and Muslims’ gain of strength and confidence coincides with the retreat of the World Order due to the shrinkage of the material and military resources available to it and as a result of the augmentation of domestic crises, the end of the Zionist project will come and the State of Israel will be no more.
Friends of Al-Aqsa are also happy to publish articles referring to ‘Jewish Nazism’, and claiming that ‘Israel simply represents the Nazis of our time’ and ‘the powerful Jewish media … more or less controls the public discourse in many western nations’.
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Anyone who questions Israel and its human rights record is automatically labelled as an extremist – for God sake, change the record, or should I say rhetoric!
No, but I do automatically label as extremists those who act as apologists for Islamist terrorists, or publish the writings of supporters of suicide bombings.