A collection of pro-Palestine campaign groups and socialists have selected a Brighton theatre director to stand against Hove MP Peter Kyle in the next general election.
Brighton Queers for Palestine organised a hustings attended by 140 people from across Brighton and Hove, including members of Hove and Portslade socialists and other groups and individuals on Sunday.
After hearing from two potential candidates, they selected Tanushka Marah to stand, using her election campaign to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
In January, Ms Marah helped organise a protest in Churchill Square calling for a ceasefire as part of a new group, Artist Action Brighton.
The British-born Palestinian-Jordanian activist has written several articles about Palestine for Middle East Eye.
She says she will also campaign against austerity and institutionalised racism and for a fully public health service, improved youth services, and rent controls to tackle the housing crisis.
She said: “I will devote myself to calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, ending the genocide, and an end to occupation.
“I want to be the suffragette who disrupts the race between Labour and Tory – the two war and austerity parties – and stays standing, able to walk forwards.”
The other candidate, activist Jasmine Reeve, said: “We all attended today because we want a better world, and we believe we all have a part to play in building it. Ultimately that change will come from the ground up.
“It will take everybody present today to build this movement effectively, but we have all the tools that we need. We can build networks of collective care and mutual aid that will improve material conditions for those struggling in our community while also working to stop state violence.
“We can now vote away from the two-party system and elect an activist who will act as part of the collective. “Having Tanushka elected as an MP would make a real difference to this community.
“Together we will now work towards our goal of collective liberation from state violence and through new ways of organising, centred around care and sustainability.”
Brighton Queers for Palestine. Brighton Turkeys for Christmas more like.
It’s very strange. And quite why sexuality should have anything to do with the topic is bizarre in itself. Surely, they should wish to create the broadest umbrella of people to oppose the war instead of a tiny niche?
What does your comment even mean Chris? Genuinely curious.
LGBT is illegal in Palestine, and is a criminal act. LGBT is however allowable in Israel. Israel is considered the most LGBT accepting country in the Middle East. They even hold a week long pride event in Israel.
This original comment is finding it strange to call this group “Queers for Palestine”, as it’s like Turkeys promoting Christmas and then being slaughtered for Christmas dinner.
what makes you reach that conclusion?
If she’s so keen on a ceasefire presumably she’ll be calling for the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas to release their hostages?
Maybe Israelcouldreleasethe 1000+ hostages theyve been holding without charge for years. Maybe they could alsoremove the near to 1 million specifically Jewish Israeli illegal settlers in the West Bank. The horrors of this conflict did not begin last year.
No go back to the late 40s when 900,000 Jews were expelled from the ME countries they had inhabited for a thousand years or more. all their wealth and possessions stolen.
remember when Arab countries took 4,000 Arab refugees Israel took 200,000.
remember how many Arabs live in Israel. remember how many Arabs crossed the border from Gaza to work in Israel every day.
Hamas have been in power for 18 years. why is Gaza dependent on Israel for anything and everything, especially power? of course most of the tens of billions grant money to Gaza nestles in the bank accounts of hamas leaders and what doesn’t has been spent on tunnels and weapons. Answer? Hamas, ie.Iran, don’t give a fig for Gazans – they’re just pawns in the game. that’s why they’re used as human Shields, that’s why the hostages are in populated areas, that’s why the country has barely taken a forward step in 18 years.
Exactly, all you hear shouting is ceasefire, not one of them shout out free the hostages – disgraceful. Brighton needs Maps to care about BRIGHTON, not a town in another country!!!
We also need an option to vote for our local MP who doesn’t support Genocide.
And we need an MP that don’t support terror attack on Israelis, also we need an MP isn’t antisemite, we don’t need an MP that will ruin all the LGBTQ events in Brighton.
Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza much like Sinn Fein in Ireland. The election was overseen by western governments including our own. They are only terrorists in the eyes of bigots. The real terrorists are the Israelis!
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Top husting’s questions :
1 – Is Palestine for Queers ?
2 – Do you support a prescibed group
3 – How did you fund your deposit
4 – Is Gaza really the most important issue facing the UK today.
i. It’s a pity that Hove Resident hasn’t learnt to spell at his age. Hamas is a proscribed by the Tory government not prescribed by a doctor.
ii. Yes Palestine is for gay people. Why not?
iii. It’s no business of yours where the deposit comes from but if I were you, but fortunately I’m not, I’d be asking where the billions of COVID money has gone and why there was a VIP track for friends and cronies of Ministers not how £500 is going to be found.
iv. Gaza is very important because it symbolises the collapse of international law. It means might is right, which was the Nazi principle.
My question is why people on the right are so stupid and thick
Ah yes, the standard leftie tactic insulting everyone who you disagree with as stupid and thick, that’s bound to win people round to your cause. How did that work out for you at the Brexit vote or when the useless old goat Corbyn was trying and failing to get elected?
Lost deposit, I would guess. Once again, we have people standing in elections (like the Monster Raving Loony Lot who are at least a known total joke and act like it) on issues which have nothing whatsoever to do with B&H (unless our all-powerful council leader can stop the war with a grinning utterance, which I somehow doubt).
Release mechanisms for bombs that are being dropped in Gaza are produced and manufactured at Home Farm Business Park, Emblem House, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 9HU. You don’t have to be a particular ethnic or religious group to care about a genocide but…. Brighton & Hove residents are Palestinian, Muslim, Jewish. The people currently representing Brighton & Hove in our governments aren’t listening to the huge population of us that don’t want bombs made in our name, they’re not calling for a ceasefire or offering support. We needs reps that stick up for the whole of Brighton & Hove.
The Brighton community should and do stand for freedom and liberation for all. That means look beyond our bubble utopia where it can feel like the issues of the world do not exist. They exist in Brighton and they exist in the world. We stand up for all and we stand together. It’s a relief to read a nice piece of news for once.
Well done Tanushka. A great high calibre candidate. Real choice for those disillusioned with the political choice on offer.
I love how your comment is so generic, you could paste it into any one of the political groups, and it would still fit in perfectly well. And that’s more telling than anything.
Bwahahahah🤣
Declare your gay in ” palestine”……dead in a day|
Sadly, yes. Still a lot of places in the world that are extremely hateful.
So because it’s generally not safe to be gay in Gaza, it’s okay to bomb them? LGBTQ+ people do not have much freedom to express their sexuality in Gaza, but there are many thousands LGBTQ+ people there. Google “Queering the Map”, which shows the experiences of many people in Gaza. Yes, they are oppressed and suffer violence by Hamas, but they are also oppressed by Israel simply on virtue of being Palestinian, and they are currently being actively slaughtered by Israeli bombs. This is why an activist group such as Brighton Queers for Palestine is important. It’s about supporting our siblings in Gaza who are suffering and being killed while Israel uses a twisted logic of “liberating them”. You cannot liberate LGBTQ+ people by destroying their bodies, their homes, their schools, their hospitals, their entire cities with bombs. This isn’t a football match about choosing a side in higher politics (this government versus that government), it’s about our shared humanity and wanting genuine peace and justice for all. You can be against the genocide of Gaza, be an advocate for Palestinian human rights, and not support Hamas. These stances are not mutually exclusive.
Great choice, I’m supporting you.
Labour are no longer a suitable alternative to the Conservatives and Peter Kyle has not demonstrated anything nearing effective leadership in Hove and Portslade. It’s about time we had a good alternative! Good luck to this independent candidate!
The very well attended hustings was organised by former Labour cllrs Dave Hill, Anne Psaridou and David Maples from the trade union and socialist coalition. It was attended by members of many groups in the City including Stop the war, Bton+Hove Palestine solidarity campaign. Hove and Portslade socialist, XR, Parents for Palestine and several trade unionists. Also those expelled or resigned from the Labour party, QFP members and supporters and non aligned individuals.It was the widest range of members of our community gathered I have ever seen in my lifetime. Of course what Tanushka stands for is of importance to all in Hove and Portslade. She is anti austerity, pro saving our NHS, building houses and eliminating homelessness.Any of us with a scrap of humanity inside us are against the Genocide playing out on front of our eyes every day. The mass slaughter of children and women that makes us all weep and rage in turn. Kyle is fundrd by Israel and supports like his leader ‘Sir Kid Starver’ most if not all Tory policies. I would say to those who are rightly concerned about the hostages..ask Israel to release the many hundreds of Palestinian hostages they are holding under their administrative detention policy., many of these children and women. The sad fact is the IDF have killed many of Israelis themselves under their ‘Hannibal durective’, which means they kill them rather than allow them to be taken hostage. I can’t wait to start campaigning in the general election for Tanushka. We will give Kyle a good run for his (Zionist) money. He is what people call Sunak. “A waste man”. Don’t waste your vote on him. Former Labour cllr Sheila Hall
Former User of Paragraphs, Sheila Hall.
Apologies for typos.
That’s great that so many people who aren’t even eligible to vote in the Hove & Portslade constituency showed up.
What evidence do you have ?
Well done Tanushka, great candidate.
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No doubt the notorious antisemite Tony ‘ tiny’ Greenstein will be cheering her on if his bail restrictions allow.
Well I would doubt that any Anti-Semite would be cheering her on. As she IS Semetic
An opportunity to vote on principle instead of two corporate class lackeys.
Devoting yourself for gaza
What about Brighton your constituents another useless candidate
Anti austerity, rent controls, youth services, fully funded NHS and an end to an evil genocide. As a Hove resident whats not to like?
And none of those can be influenced by an independent, Former Resident of Reality Shelia Hall.
Apologies for typos.
What can be influenced by an independent candidate is all the other candidates. Peter Kyle “supports” Israel unconditionally. The UK funds Israel and sends weapons. Sending weapons to a nation being investigated for war crimes is highly dodgy. Israel has violated 28 UN resolutions. This is before Oct 7th.
The whole point of this is that the UK is currently complicit in supporting a nation that has violated international law and being investigated by the ICJ for apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide….
It’s not just “some war” or “some conflict”
Hopefully the more independent candidates gain traction the more of the other candidates will rethink their stance. But sadly it seems Kyle has been bought by Labour friends of Israel
Finally someone with ethics! Great to see an intelligent candidate running for the election. Maybe all is not lost.
‘She says she will also campaign against austerity and institutionalised racism and for a fully public health service, improved youth services, and rent controls to tackle the housing crisis’
Gaza is a worthy cause, bombs are being manufactured in Brighton and we have a huge population directly affected by the genocide.
What is happening in Gaza *is* a Brighton issue. Do you think the UK can be complicit in a genocide and face no consequences? If so you’re deluded.
It’s about having a candidate that isn’t totally sold on the Zionist narrative. Whilst Peter Kyle was (quite rightly) quick to condemn the dreadful Hamas attack on Oct 7th of 1200 dead. He has remained completely silent about the destruction of Gaza and the 30,000+ dead. This is not normal conduct.
“Some bloke in the UK doesn’t like what we are doing, so we better stop.” – Pointless statements of stance are pointless.
The UK is funding the genocide. Peter Kyle supports this. He is totally complicit and therefore not fit for office
Nothing changes if a candidate supports, objects, or abstains. It’s an appeal to emotion at best, and I wouldn’t make it my primary reason for picking a candidate. Sure, a consideration, but campaigning on a load of platitudes doesn’t sway me much personally.
Fantastic news. I have been utterly horrified by Peter Kyle’s stance on this and we desperately need MPs who are listening to their constituents and who cannot be bought.
For those people who think that being gay is death sentence in Palestine you are wrong and you probably have a whole load of other misconceptions too.
Do look up Israeli historian Ilan Pappe for reference and understanding.
And for those who are asking about the Israeli hostages it’s important to know that all Palestinian support groups are also calling for their release too.
And for anyone who thinks that it’s not our business I say 1. That we are actually very much involved in this.
And 2. That Tanushka is firmly rooted here in the issues that face all of us.
She is highly compassionate, incredibly motivated and definitely ualified for this position! 👏🏽
Palestine has an atrocious record on LGBT rights. In 2021, the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles carried out a survey of 175 nations and their acceptance of gay and gender-non-conforming people.
Palestine was at number 130. Behind Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The “Queers for Palestine” would literally be better off in the notoriously homophobic petro-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia than in their favourite victim nation.
Gay in Gaza? Or The West Bank? Guess where most gay Palestinians want to go to? Israel – where they can be themselves in liberal cities such as Tel Aviv or Haifa. The very country that this group hates!
Or perhaps this group prefers gays in Gaza to be thrown off tall buildings & somehow blame Liberal Israel
You don’t have to approve of a culture and it’s ways to stand up for human rights. So there’s people in Gaza who would not approve of my life. I may not approve of some of their ways either. It’s not about finding friends it’s about standing up to oppression and genocide. I would also stand up against oppression of LGBTQ people anywhere in the world. This is such a strange point you are trying to make. “because some of them have horrible views on LGBTQ rights they don’t deserve to be stood up for? Is it the “Lets demonise them so we can dehumanise and not care if they are slaughtered” tactic so prevalent in Nazi Germany?
This islamophobe, racist councillor rears his head again.
“Ivan Lyons stood for election as a Tory candidate for Westbourne at the last local elections in Brighton and Hove, but resigned after jokes he had made in a Facebook group which targeted Muslims, disabled people and people who are overweight were uncovered.”
Says it all really.
Ouch, that’s an interesting bit of history there, once again proving the internet has a long memory, indeed.
Do you stand up and campaign for LGBT rights
At last a candidate that has some morals. Standing up against genocide and calling out the corrupt political infrastructure that is complicit in the deaths of thousands is urgent both for those dying in this genocide and for UK citizens whose taxes are going to wars which prop up billionaires and corporations. The starting point is to stop spending money on war in the middle East, stop politicians serving the interests of the elite and stop our basic humanity eroding to the point we don’t care for one another or our fellow humans due to these sickening and outdated divide and Conquer and racist narratives. Palestine is just a tipping point, a few more years and the climate will collapse…what will the point of all this greed and war be then?
Excellent choice in Tanushka!
Anyone who thinks palestine has nothing to do with us, it does! It has lot to do with our humanity. We didn’t ask our MP to do much, we simply asked him to say stop killing babies. It doesn’t take bravery for a grown man to say to another grown man stop bombing babies.
Quite right!! Palestine has everything to do with us as the UK and it’s MPs are supporting this genocide. There are many causes around the world that deserve our humanity. Too many for fight for them all. However the importance in this fight is that the UK sells arms to a nation being investigated for ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide. The more people like Morah who take a stand the more candidates across the country are forced to take a stand on the topic. Peter Kyle literally just said “It’s complicated” when challenged. If he really thinks it’s complicated he clearly has no depth of knowledge on the middle east for the last 100 years and certainly not currently.
Brighton Queers for Palestine – try being queer in a Gaza run by Hamas. Good luck with that. The Palestinan people desrve to live in security with all the freedoms and rights we enjoy… Hamas will neverallow that.
Try being a Palestinian in Gaza right now
Most Labour voters do not agree with what Israel is doing in Gaza, I think they could vote for Ms Marah on just these grounds. And if her other views are pro working class and against austerity, then why not vote for her???
Excellent candidate who stands up for the majority of British people who oppose genocide in Palestine and the UK/US governments support for the mass slaughter of civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools, universities and civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
Israel isn’t quite the beacon of tolerance when it comes to gay rights. Its government includes Noam, an virulently anti-gay party and Finance Minister and the man in charge of the West Bank ‘civil’ administration Bezalel Smotrich describes himself as a ‘proud homophobe’.
Today the priority in Gaza is minor matters such as preventing children dying of starvation so we’ll treat the pinkwashing above with the contempt it deserves.
“.. we have all the tools that we need. We can build networks of collective care and mutual aid that will improve material conditions for those struggling in our community while also working to stop state violence.”
That would get my vote. It’s refreshing to hear this kind of stuff for a change -collective care and mutual aid are decent aims
Unfortunately, it’s honeyed words with no actual substance to it. Anyone can make a nice speech. Practically, she would have little to no power to do anything of the sort.
Using a war to gain political traction with a demographic typically unpolitical is distasteful to the extreme.
The whole reason she is standing as an alternative to Peter Kyle is because he supports the genocide in Gaza. A genocide the UK is funding with the support of many politicians. You speak as if the UK potentially breaking international law and being involved in war crimes and ethnic cleansing isn’t a big deal. Go vote for Peter Kyle then. In the 1930s you would have voted for Mosely by the same logic.
Like I said, using a war to gain political traction with a demographic typically unpolitical is distasteful. If her stance is to be the opposite of someone, she will never be better than them.
Apply that to anyone ever, even Moseley.
and not gaining political traction because of a genocide?
Like I said; an issue that engages a typically unpolitical demographic. It historically gives rise to some quite leftfield politics. Trump is probably one of the most recent examples of galvanisation of an unpolitical group. Something to think about at least.
It’s good to have a stance on a issue, but also to realise that one has very little influence to do anything about this particular one. And if it is the overriding issue amongst everything else, that gives a very imbalanced candidate. Take Izzard for example. I could not tell you want any of Izzard’s politics where because of that one controversial aspect. That made Izzard a very unelectable candidate, for me.
Same logic applies here.
So what do they expect to gain by standing? Rights for people that wish to be Queer in Palestine instead of being executed. Perhaps they should go and stand against Hamas instead instead of Peter Kyle to have some impact. I’m sure they will do very well and get 50 votes in Brighton.
I’ll spell it out for you as you clearly haven’t engaged in the topic. Peter Kyle supports Israel unconditionally and supports the genocide in Gaza. What Morah intends to do is literally raise awareness of this. Raise awareness that many of our politicians unconditionally support Israel no matter what choices Israel makes. The ICJ is currently investigating some very serious allegations about Israel including genocidal war crimes. As the UK is funding this war and selling arms to Israel the UK could also be found complicit in breaking international law. In an election the public need an option, someone standing who will speak up against war crimes. If anything it could bring this topic to Peter Kyles doorstep and make him reconsider supporting genocide. But I doubt that he’s been bought by Labour friends of Israel.
She doesn’t need to be a MP to raise awareness of this issue if it is something she is passionate about. Again, using a war to gain political traction with a demographic typically unpolitical is distasteful.
But the way she’s raising awareness is to demonstrate that she is the only candidate opposed to funding genocide. It’s not even about winning it’s about highlighting that Peter Kyle has been bought by Labour friends of Israel. I would hope that is Morah gains in popularity then Kyle will snap out of his complicity and grow some balls.
A candidate that isn’t focused on winning? Isn’t that pretty damning as a selection?
I’m not convinced “it’s not about winning, it is about sending a message” is the best stance to take here.
Where is Brighton Queers for Afghan women ? How about Brighton Queers for the kidnapped girl victims of Boko Haram ? Where are Brighton Queers for Yemenis ? ISIS caliphates? The list goes on.
Nowhere to be seen because it does not involve Israel.
Please explain why you choose to ignore Muslim victims of Islamist organisations but when Israel reacts to a planned mass attack on its citizens you get all motivated.
If you had a long history of protests against Islamist oppression against Muslim populations in Muslim states you would have credibility, but no, you look like opportunistic wannabes who are jumping on the age old anti-Jewish bandwagon to forment trouble and what you see as a chance to “sock it to the man”.
And quite frankly you are choosing to support an ideal that is really not friendly to queers.
Seconded✊
Chris. Our government and our MPs have stood up against all the other atrocities you speak of. This is the very point Morah is taking with her stand. It is possible to be horrified by the attacks by Hamas and still condemn Israel. Yet Peter Kyle does not. The UK funds Israel and sends arms to Israel. Weapons used not just to flatten Gaza but protect Illegal settlements in the West Bank. With the IDF having “detained” thousands of Palestinians (many Children) without cause or charge. The UK is complicit in what the ICJ is now investigating. The Hove public don’t have to be complicit in this. Yes it’s a protests stance against Israel but far more a protest about Peter Kyle’s unconditional support for genocide.
No one cares about normal muslim women being subjugated and abused by muslim men. Only trans or if Jewish people are involved.
Of course they care..BUT the UK is supporting and funding these things. The UK is complicit in supporting and funding the IDF to carry out acts being investigated as war crimes. Peter Kyle fully supports this Genocide. THIS is the point here. Our taxes are funding this.
Well said Chris. It is Israel that is bombing Gaza but Jews around the world are being demonized. My Jewish friends condemn Netanhayu and say he must be replaced.
Even before this Hamas attack Jews in England live in fear of percecution . I have been to non political Jewish events and even today in 2024 cannot risk advertising they are on because the hate brigade will show up to disrupt them.
My experiences with Jews are full of admiration and respect for their close communities. Yes, they stick together because no one else will as is shown by the hatred for them by pro Palestine groups. This has gone on for centuries and will never end until people listen and learn. Oh, and I am not Jewish in case you are wondering.
I am Jewish and have been on many of the demonstrations I’ve experienced no hatred from “Pro-Palestinians” at any point and that would be because I do not support Zionist ethnic cleansing. So friend please keep your “My experience with Jews” comments out of this. Speak from your own heart and leave us Jews to speak from ours.
No thanks… UK, Enland, Brighton first, second and third…. Everything after. We don’t need an MP for Gaza ….
Don’t these idiots realise how homosexuals and women are treated in these countries?
We aren’t in these countries, and we aren’t running those countries for them.
So are you suggesting we should have no humanity and allow UK to fund a genocide? Based on the concept that the Palestinians are somehow unworthy?
I’m suggesting we work on local problems we have a iota of a chance of influencing.
Nice day out for the sock puppets that we see on any article about Gaza, a couple of people posting under multiple names to try and make their cause look like it is supported by the wider public.
well the largest repeated public demonstrations in years might demonstrate that it is supported by the wider public and the ICJ cases brought by a multitude of nations shows that it’s worldwide.
Brighton isn’t Rochdale.
Finally… a candidate who is listening to the needs for people. Our youth services have been decimated! People are suffering, we need an alternative choice, and someome willing to take a stand in spite of those with loud voices who try to make 30,000 dead humans seem like a controversial and unreasonable thing to be against… Go Tanushka!
Yes, well said Chris, I know of hundreds of Christians being rounded up in Nigeria, shot or beheaded by the Boko Haram, another group similar to Hamas, then there’s ISIS, the rebels in Yemen and what’s going on in Sudan is truly awful. These all have Islam as their religion. Also if you remember the World Cup there was demonstrations by gay people about their rights in an Islamic state. Sorry it has to be said gays, transgender etc people will be beheaded under Islamic rule. Hence Turkeys voting for Christmas. Learn your history, and not from people who are rewriting history. Also, where is the only gay pride event in the Middle East? It’s in Tel-Aviv in Israel!
So are you saying because there are some horrible terrorist and leaders in this part of the world that the civilian population does not deserve protection from genocide? Israel may have a better track record with LGBTQ rights and even women’s rights. But their treatment of Palestinians is beyond barbaric.
As a gay man, I certainly find the concept of ‘Queers For Palestine’ as problematic.
For sure we would all like to see a ceasefire and an eventual peaceful solution, but if the Queers for Palestine lot got to meet with Hamas then they wouldn’t last long.
The irony is that, after all the bombing in Gaza, there probably aren’t many tall buildings left they could throw us off.
(With all the rubble on the ground, stoning us to death will probably make a comeback. )
My recommendation is that you don’t lose your heads over this divisive debate.
Good call to reason there, Billy. Hot topic gets everyone fired up. I usually avoid this topic.
It’s also crucial to address misconceptions (aka Israel’s propaganda pinkwashing) perpetuated in some comments regarding the safety of LGBTQ+ individuals in Gaza. Read, learn perhaps:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-queering-the-map/
Regardless of what you may think of LGBTQ+ safety in Gaza, it’s a non issue against the systematic slaughter and starvation facing ALL Gazans at the hand of their oppressors.
It takes a good, brave person to stand up and fight for the most marginalised people in society.
By advocating for Palestinian rights, she brings attention to the interconnectedness of social justice issues which I think demonstrates how she can positively influence local policies and inclusivity efforts.
It isn’t a group I would vote for personally, but I do support that they are going about this in a responsible and correct way, by using democracy in exactly the way it should be used.
I am slightly unsure about the Pro-Palestine description in the headline, because all I can see here is a very humane call for ceasefire in Gaza, which is not the same thing as taking sides. Frankly, in my opinion, Hamas and Netanyahu are as bad as each other, and innocent general population on each side are not ultimately to blame for the actions of their leaders. I wish there was more commonplace separation between the ordinary innocent people on both sides and the evil politicians that use innocent people as cannon-fodder.
I hope just for peace and resolution, the same as most, and I have no support for the leaders of either side for the evil they are inflicting on ordinary people, Hamas included.
Very well put Miles. There are no winners in war.
Someone who hates will never bring peace to Brighton and Hove but only make more division and ostracism. You can’t pretend Hamas doesn’t exist and claim it’s the fault of evil Zionists (read Jews) and that’s what Tanushka does. A mature person sees the complexity of the situation and wants Palestinians to have decent life and this is not going to happen with Hamas. Tanushka and her Palestinian Campaign Groups glorify Hamas, prescribed terrorist group which is afflicted with Muslim Brotherhood which is definitely not the way to peace but more violence. I can’t see Brighton and Hove flourishing with denial and ostracism.