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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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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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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