Posts
10 August 2024
Just one scene out of the ongoing massacre.
10 August 2024
Over ten months and still the people of Palestine are suffering.
31 July 2024
This picture of a lady walking and walking with no where safe to go. Do you notice?
28 July 2024
A poem by Professor Refaat Alareer
28 July 2024
You complain of the “humanitarian disaster”. Who caused these “desperate hungry children”? Was it an earthquake? A tsunami? A hurricane? Name names.
28 July 2024
When you take another’s life …
23 July 2024
We have to ask ourselves this one question.
14 July 2024
Next time you need Gauze to heal a wound, remember Gaza. The word gauze (finely woven medical cloth) got its name from Gaza where it was invented.
14 July 2024
I remember these words from the Syrian refugee crisis and they struck a chord then. I don’t know who wrote it. Perhaps I should write one with Palestine being at the centre of the tale.
29 June 2024
Yesterday I got awarded the Honour of “Doctor of the University” for contribution to human rights by the University of Strathclyde. I’m not an establishment person, so when I was asked to accept this, I thought they must have the wrong person.
26 May 2024
The man holding the banner on the front left of this #Kashmir march in #Glasgow is my father, Zia Ul Haq Qureshi, from #Wah, #Taxila, #Pakistan.
2 May 2024
Since childhood, I remember the angry faces of the National Front on the news.
29 March 2024
A mere glimpse of the Gaza tragedy. Blink, and another young person is killed in the most tragic of circumstances.
23 March 2024
Amidst the ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza, new testimonies emerge to show there are simply no limits and no end to the depravity we are witnessing.
17 March 2024
Speaking out against the Gaza slaughter and in support of a free Palestine means being free to criticise the apartheid state of Israel.
25 February 2024
Inside 24 hours hundreds of people came together to support the Iman appeal, to help a Palestinian family escape Gaza through the Raffa crossing. But some people question why we should help one person or one family when 2.3M are under bombardment.
5 January 2024
Palestine is where all human rights converge. It’s the dividing line. The old excuses that reduced us all to some degree of complicit silence, will no longer work.