Thurs. 30 Jun. 2011 @ 13.32 - Michael Weiss, Spokesperson for Just Journalism, appears on Newsnight to discuss the detention of Raed Salah after successfully exposing his history of controversy and extremism. Last night Just Journalism Spokesperson Michael Weiss appeared on the BBC'sNewsnight to discuss the detention of Raed Salah, the Islamic extremist who entered the UK from Israel after being banned by the Home Secretary. Weiss' appearance comes after he addressed Salah's long history of controversy in The Daily Telegraph. During the Newsnight report, Michael Weiss explained why Raed Salah might have been deemed 'unconducive to the public good': 'This is a man with a proven track record, he has been widely reported in the Israeli and international press for making a series of anti-semitic statements. Last year in fact he did five months in prison for assaulting a police officer, so obviously he's not taken up Gandhi's method of non-violent resistance.' Just Journalism Editorial Manager Carmel Gould reviews the British media's handling of the arrest of Raed Salah in the UK. He was billed by one of the groups bringing him to the UK as the 'The Gandhi of Palestine'. Arab MK Haneen Zoabi, who was granted an inevitable spot in yesterday's Guardian cast him as a leader in 'the struggle for equality' and 'the democratic Palestinian struggle against racism and discrimination in Israel' who is being forced to 'confront Zionist racism abroad'. Poor Raed Salah. Why would anyone find him objectionable enough to ban him from the UK? The Guardian certainly would if the views he espoused came out of the mouth of, for example, a non-Muslim with no connection to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On homosexuality: 'It is a crime. A great crime. Such phenomena signal the start of the collapse of every society.' On abortion: 'It is forbidden to have an abortion. That is like murdering a soul whose murder is forbidden by God.' Thurs. 30 Jun. 2011 @ 15.19 - 2001 interview with banned figure reveals illiberal views about homosexuals and women. On Tuesday, radical Israeli-Arab cleric Sheikh Raed Salah was arrested in the UK and faces imminent deportation on the grounds that he is 'unconducive to the public good'. The Guardian has painted Salah as moderate. Middle East editor Ian Black writes in 'Sheikh Raed Salah: Islamic Movement leader loathed by the Israeli right' that Salah is tolerated in Israel and that accusations of anti-Semitism and homophobia against him have 'largely emanated from the UK', whilst Israeli-Arab Knesset member Haneen Zoabi slates his arrest in the comment pages and argues that 'The British authorities have fallen into an Israeli trap.' An interview with Salah in Haaretz in May 2003 conducted by Jalal Bana reveals a different reality than the one conveyed in The Guardian. Thurs. 30 Jun. 2011 @ 17.49 - Hamas foreign minister uses interview to differentiate Islamist party from Fatah; as a 'matter of principle' Hamas will never relinquish 'a single inch of the Palestinian land'. Mahmoud Zahar, Hamas' foreign minister, has used a recent interview to clarify the ideological difference between the Gaza-based Islamist party, and Fatah. According to the translation from Memri, Zahar stated during his 23 June appearance on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV that: 'The difference between [Hamas and Fatah] is that we will not give up a single inch. We say that we should establish a state on any piece of the land, but without relinquishing a single inch. That's it, in a nutshell. That's the difference between us and them. They want to establish a state within the 1967 borders, with certain land swaps, and to forget about 78% of the Palestinian land of the past. We say that we should establish a state on any piece of the land - not necessarily [the entire] 1967 territories, but any inch of land - but without giving up a single inch of the land.'July 1, 2011 The Wire Just Journalism Spokesperson exposes Raed Salah's extremism
Op-eds and Features Viewpoint: Guardian red carpet treatment for Salah
The Wire Raed Salah in his own words
The Wire Hamas in Gaza: 'We will never relinquish a single inch of the Palestinian land'
Saturday, 2 July 2011
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