British Foreign Office staff have reportedly been told that calling Hamas a terrorist is wrong and that Israel, a “white settler colonialist” state, is ultimately responsible for the conflict in the Middle East.
a report based in london chronicle of the jews The Department of Foreign Affairs held a seminar for civil servants, with lectures from four academics: Professor Jeroen Gunning from King’s College London, Dr Tristan Dunning from the University of Queensland, Dr Anas Ikhtite from the Australian National University in Canberra, and Dr Martin. claimed to have received it. Kier, from the University of Sydney, spoke about how to discuss the conflict between Israel and Hamas after the October 7 terrorist attacks.
The session, attended by around 100 senior officials from the government’s foreign affairs department, was titled “Israel/Gaza: What’s next for Hamas?” and was organized by Martin Hetherington, senior Middle East research analyst at the Foreign Office.
Despite Hamas terrorists killing around 1,200 people in Israel and capturing hundreds more, Foreign Ministry officials say it is “unhelpful” to use the “terrorist label” on Hamas. He was reportedly told that this could derail efforts to reach a peace settlement, which had been a pretext. He argued that Hamas’s “political wing” was more “moderate” and therefore needed to “engage with them.”
After being pressed by Foreign Office officials on whether the October 7 massacre should be called terrorism, the academics are said to have refused to answer, but Professor Gunning said this was a form of “resistance” to the Palestinian massacres. He reportedly said that it should be viewed in the context of “. Although the Jewish state withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it is said to have been “occupied” by Israel.
Meanwhile, as an Australian, Dr Dunning compared Israel to the British colonization of Australia, saying: “I am no stranger to white settler colonialism and stealing land from indigenous people.” Ta.
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In response to the revelations at a seminar held for civil servants, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said: “The UK Government’s position that Hamas is a terrorist organization is clear. Many of the views expressed by academics at the seminar were wrong and contrary to the Government’s position.
“We take a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of discrimination, including anti-Semitism. We are reviewing our guidance on internal seminars to ensure that invited speakers are appropriate. .”
The four scholars previously co-authored a report submitted to the House Select Committee on Foreign Relations the month after the October 7 attacks.
among them paperThey claim that British foreign policy is partly to blame for the terrorist attacks, and the “rejection of political overtures by Hamas political leaders since 2006” and ending the so-called “siege” against Israel. claimed lack of pressure for. Gaza “contributed to creating the conditions” for last year’s massacre in Israel.
“The designation of all Hamas terrorists by the UK and other Western governments further serves to create an environment that allows Israel to target any building or person in the Gaza Strip. “The government, major social welfare providers, and grassroots-backed social movements are linked in some way to Hamas,” the report added.
The scholars went on to say that by providing arms to the Jewish state, Britain could be seen as “complicit in war crimes committed during Israel’s punitive war on Gaza, which could include charges of genocide”. He claimed that there was.
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