Zionists behind Abou Jahjah being barred from re-entering UK

"... the launch of the IUPFP British branch with Jeremy Corbyn MP [and Dyab Abou Jahjah, President of the pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas Arab-European League (see photo below)] in the British Houses of Parliament on the 31st March."

"Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions." (IUPFP articles of association)

1. Invitation (31 March)

"As the Chairperson of the English branch of the International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine (IUPFP), I am pleased to invite you to our launch meeting in Parliament on 630pm Tuesday 31st March under the title 'Solidarity with Palestine after the Gaza onslaught'.

We are honoured to have speaking at this meeting guests who are leading elected representatives of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in the persons of Mr Hussein el-Hajj Hassan MP from the Loyalty to the Resistance Parliamentary Bloc in Lebanon, and also Mr Hasan Khreishi the Vice President of the Palestinian Parliament.

We also have esteemed guest speakers Mr Jeremy Corbyn MP and Mr Dyab Abou Jahjah the International Director of the IUPFP.

To confirm your attendance please RSVP to me via replying to this email at the and you will receive a confirmation of your attendance. Please also let me know if you are bringing any other person(s) with you.
Sukant ChandanSukant.chandan@gmail.com
07709112126, Chair, English Branch of the IUPFP
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2. Press release (4 April)

"Last week Dyab Abou Jahjah, the International Director of the International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine (IUPFP) was in London to launch the British branch of the IUPFP.

The Zionists put pressure on the British government to bar Abou Jahjah from entry into England without success. Two conferences sucessfully took place in London organised with the involvement of the IUPFP , both events featured our guest speaker and Hizbullah leader Dr Hussein El-Hajj Hassan. The first conference was under the auspices of the Stop the War Coalition and one of it's leader John Rees on Monday 30th March; and the second was the launch of the IUPFP British branch with Jeremy Corbyn MP in the British Houses of Parliament on the 31st March.

After a short trip to Belgium and upon Abou Jahjah's re-entry to Britain on the 3rd April, Abou Jahjah was stopped for six hours by British immigration police and denied entry.

This is a part of European criminalisation of the resistance and of the movement of solidarity with Palestine, a movement which is on the rise in the West. This is the second attempt at Western criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine and the resistance after the refusal of entry by the Canadian authorities of George Galloway MP, the leader of Respect Coalition and the initiator of the Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza, Palestine.

This poses the question: are European powers sincere in their steps towards opening a dialogue with the resistance in the region?

We demand from European parliamentarians to protest to the British authorities that they lift these anti-democratic measures.

Luk Vervaet, President of the IUPFP - Belgium
Sukant Chandan, President of the IUPFP - Britain"

Photo from the Belgian-based Arab European League website: "We will not recognize what so-called Israel" (Hamas)

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France halts Hamas broadcasts to Europe

"Al-Aqsa TV is notorious for its incitement to antisemitism, demonstrated in a speech last week by senior Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahrar, who claimed that the Israeli operation in Gaza justifies Muslims murdering Jewish children worldwide," the Simon Wiesenthal Centre complained in a letter to French regulators.

"Hamas's television channel was taken off the air in Europe less than 24 hours after it was added to a satellite network, industry officials said Friday.

Hamas announced on Monday that Europeans would be able to see its Al-Aqsa service -- best known in the Middle East for its virulent anti-Israeli content -- via the French firm Eutelsat's satellites.

Al-Aqsa is Hamas' official mouthpiece, and became notorious outside the Palestinian territories for a show in which a man-sized pink rabbit named Assud urged children to embrace martyrdom and threatened to eat Jews.

Alerted by industry sources, the ‘Higher Audiovisual Council’ (CSA), the French broadcasting regulator, this week wrote to Eutelsat and warned that much of Hamas' programming contravenes laws against inciting hatred and violence, the government body said.

A Eutelsat official said the company had never had a contract with Hamas but that it had rented space on one of its satellites to Noorsat, a Bahrein-based provider, which had in turn begun showing Al-Aqsa.

Noorsat was warned to respect French law, and the broadcast has halted.

“Al-Aqsa TV is notorious for its incitement to antisemitism, demonstrated in a speech last week by senior Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahrar, who claimed that the Israeli operation in Gaza justifies Muslims murdering Jewish children worldwide,” the Simon Wiesenthal Centre complained in a letter to French regulators.

The group worried that Arabic-speaking Europeans could "be exposed to Jihadist calls for attacks on their Jewish neighbours and to revulsion for European values of secularism, multiculturalism and tolerance."

In May 2005, France's highest judicial body the Council of State ordered Eutelsat to halt re-broadcasting of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia's Al-Manar station because of the anti-Semitic content of its programming.

The Wiesenthal Centre expressed the hope that Muslim leaders across Europe will join this appeal to protect their youth from the Hamas' Al-Aqsa channel of hate."

Source: EJP
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The website of the viciously anti-Semitic European Arab League (AEL) - based in Belgium - has finally been suspended (for how long?). The AEL a front organisation for the Hezbollah in Europe.

Greta Berlin and Hezbollah members due to give conference at Belgian Parliament

"Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions." (IUPFP articles of association)

Surely it is astonishing and deeply alarming that these people will be holding a conference at the Belgian Parliament:

Sources: IUPFP (and Association belgo-palestinienne in French)

"The International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine (IUPFP) will be holding a conference this monday the 15th of December at 14:00 hours in the conference hall of the Belgian Federal Parliament.

The conference is entitled : The Palestinian prisoners: their suffering and their resistance: in light of the fact that more than 10 000 Palestinians still languish in "Israeli" [note the quotation marks] jails mostly without a trial and among them many women and children and also parliamentarians. Add to that, the continuous inhumane siege of Gaza that has been turned into a huge prison causing a tremendous humanitarian crisis and inflicting unbearable suffering upon the innocent civilian population. therefore it is of great importance to create awareness on this great injustice in all the above mentioned dimensions."

Speakers at the conference:

"Dr. Hassan Khraishe: Vice President of the Palestinian Parliament (on the current situation in Palestine and the prisoners issue).

Mr. Abdullah Kassir: Secretary general of the IUPFP and former Lebanese MP, he is also the current general manager of the Lebanese Al Manar TV station ( on the role and vision of IUPFP in advocating Palestinian rights). [See Hezbollah TV says German ban on station is unjust, 'Zionist lobbies' behind decision]

Dr. Hussein Al Hadj Hassan: Lebanese Member of parliament- Hezbollah, ( on the prisoner exchange deal between Hezbollah and Israel and the lessons learned from it). [See Hizbullah MP Hussein al- Hajj Hassan and here]

Mrs. Gretta Berlin: From the Free Gaza Movement that has been organizing boat trips to Gaza in order to break the siege." [What nice company Greta Berlin keeps. Being a woman she is treated with great respect and obviously comes after her chivalrous male friends.]

The IUPFP Secretary General is Iranian MP Sayyed Ali Akbar Mohtashemi who is thought to have:

"... played an active role, with the Pasdaran and Syrian military intelligence, in the supervision of Hezbollah's suicide bomb attacks against the American embassy in Beirut in April 1983, the American and French contingents of the MNF in October 1983 and the American embassy annex in September 1984."

and according to a Pakistani newspaper:

"An Iranian member of parliament, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-Pur, who helped found Hezbollah in Lebanon as his country’s ambassador to Syria in the 1980s, has confirmed in an interview with the Iranian newspaper Sharq that Tehran has equipped the group with long-range missiles capable of hitting "any target in Israel".

"Hezbollah’s arsenal not only includes Katyusha missiles, but also Zelzal-2 missiles, which could hit targets as far as 250 kilometres, leaving no spot in Israel unreachable", said Mohtashemi-Pur, who holds a government-appointed post as secretary-general to the Palestinian Intifada Conference. "There are countries that have weapons but don’t have the courage to use them”, he lamented."

The Director General of the IUPP is no other than the pro-Hezbollah founder of the Arab European League (AEL) Dyab Abou Jahjah and self-styled Belgium's Malcolm X/Arab pride and official fears.

The "Zionist watcher" section of the IUPFP infamous website features biographies of the following "Zionists":

Dick Cheney, Ehud Yaari, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Majalli Whbee, Timothy Kirkhope (the only European), Daniel Pipes, Avi Dichter, John Bolton, Karl Rove, Lynn Woosley, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan, Yuval Steinitz, Zalmay Khalilzad and astonishingly ... Stephen M. Walt (co-author with John Mearsheimer of the The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy).

The following are some of the aims of the IUPFP :

"Consolidating the presence of the Palestinian people in its land by assisting and supporting its resistance against occupation in all its forms, and providing Palestinians with all essential elements for their steadfastness and the continuation of their glorious Intifada on their national soil."

"Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions."

"Seeking to spread a culture of resisting the normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation, and a culture of boycotting both the American and Israeli products."

"Exposing the dealings of every state or organism in supporting the Zionist entity against the objectives of the Palestinian people as well as exposing the policies of such states and boycotting them economically."

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Buenos Aires urges Tehran to extradite former President Rafsanjani

"Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Argentine President, asked Iran to hand over for local trial former President Rafsanjani and several other citizens suspected of masterminding the bombing the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. "I would ask the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with international law ... accept that Argentine justice can put on trial ... those citizens who have been accused," she told the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Argentina wants of the former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to be arrested along with seven other Iranians and a former Hezbollah guerrilla leader on accusations of planning the blast. Interpol has issued arrest orders for six of the suspects but the agency cannot force a county to make arrests. Iran on the other hand has continuously refuted taking part in the attack and puts the blame on the United States for framing the Islamic Republic. The attack on the AMIA occurred in 1994, and the bombing incident remains unsolved."

Source: ESISC