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Tony Benn: A true friend of Palestine
Benn was fiercely defending Palestinians long before others were aware of the injustice they face, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take centre stage, Tony Benn had long been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction.
"Britain should offer its support for this strategy by stopping all arms sales to Israel, introducing trade sanctions and a ban on all investment there together with a boycott of Israeli goods here and make it a condition for the lifting of these measures that Israel complies with these demands at once," Benn wrote on his blog in 2002, under the title A STATE OF PALESTINE NOW.
The strategy of which Benn spoke was for Yasser Arafat to declare a state, and for "friendly nations" to recognise it.
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