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Stop Palestine Expo Coalition

The Right Honourable Sajid Javid

House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Email: sajid.javid.mp@parliament.uk

Dear Secretary of State

The Palestine Expo 2017- Generation Palestine 8 & 9 July 2017

SPEC (Stop Palestine Expo Coalition) is a coalition of organisations and individuals

who are concerned about the pending Palestine Expo 2017 Generation Palestine to
be held at the Queen Elisabeth ll Centre, London on 8 & 9 July 2017. We outline
below why we believe that this event has no place in a Government Agency venue in
the heart of Westminster and ask that the Secretary of State is cognisant of our
concerns, particularly following the recent terrorist attacks in London and
Manchester.

We write to you of our concern about the above event booked to take place at the Queen
Elizabeth ll Conference Centre in Westminster on 8th and 9th July 2017. This is a PSC
(Palestine Solidarity Campaign) and FOA (Friends of Al Aqsa) event that will utilise 5 floors of
the QEll Centre making it as advertised the biggest Palestine expo in Europe. We understand
that there are already in excess of 10,000 bookings.

We have written to QEll Centre CEO Mark Taylor, listing our concerns, providing information
links to the organisations involved with this expo.
FOA
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/data/pdf/PDF_11_178_2.pdf
PSC/BDS
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/10/psc-anti-union-israel-racism
https://bbcwatch.org/tag/palestine-solidarity-campaign/

Why Palexpo must be cancelled

This event is a security risk London cannot afford to host in Westminster close to the
seat of Government particularly given the recent terrorist attacks in London and
Manchester
How could QEII Centre possibly do its due diligence without seeing the programme
for the event, lists of speakers, workshop leaders and topics?
In accepting this event booking QEll becomes involved in the Israel/Palestine
dispute, showing bias against Israel
The organisers of this event have evidential links to support for Hamas whose Izz al-
Din al-Qassem Brigades, the Hamas armed wing, is proscribed by the UK

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There is a possibility or likelihood that certain attendees will express their antisemitic
views (or worse)

Dr Denis MacEoins article explains clearly what this event is about and why it should not be
taking place. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10428/palestine-expo-london

Dr Denis MacEoin PhD (Cambridge 1979) is a scholar of Islam and Persia, a former lecturer in Arabic and
Islamic Studies and currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

"'Friends of Al-Aqsa' is one of the more extremist Islamist organizations at work

in Britain today. It supports the Muslim Brotherhood-linked charity 'Interpal'
(proscribed by the US Treasury) and advertises it on its website. It collaborates
with the Khomenist Iranian-funded faux human rights organization known as the
Islamic Human Rights Commission in organizing events such as Al Quds day at
which public support is expressed for the Iranian proxy militia Hizbollah." UK
Media Watch.
Under these definitions, Hamas is exposed as a terrorist organization both by its
repeated use of indiscriminate killing and the contents of its two Charters from
1988 and 2017.
"There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except through jihad..."
Hamas Charters of 1988 and 2017, Articles 18 and 21.
Hamas is not the only extremist organization to which Friends of Al-Aqsa has lent
its support

QEll Centre, security and further Due Diligence

Following further due diligence checks Mark Taylor wrote on 18 May to inform that the
Palexpo event would be going ahead.

Given that the speaker list had not then been announced and the topics and detail of the
workshops are still not programmed, and given the information as outlined by Dr Denis
MacEoin, on what basis did QEll Centre carry out this further due diligence?

If due diligence resulted in the QEll Centre late cancellation of a Christian Concern event
there in 2012 as a result of a claimed failure to meet the requirements of its diversity policy,
surely that same standard needs to apply with this Palexpo event, that not only fails the
diversity policy, but contravenes equal opportunity policy by engaging only pro-Palestinian
speakers.
Link: http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/religious-freedom/government-
christian-concern-and-qeii-conference-centre-reach-settlem

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Speakers now announced include several extremists and a well-known homophobe.

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/09/the-university-of-auckland-and-the-auckland-muslim-
association-present-sheikh-ebrahim-bham/

John Pilger is an Australian journalist and film-maker, one of whose documentaries has been
described as a veritable encyclopaedia of every anti-Israel canard in existence today. He
has suggested that terrorist group Hezbollah represented humanity at its noblest;
approvingly cited the arguments of the above-mentioned anti-Semite and Holocaust denier
Gilad Atzmon; has suggested that influential Jews around the world are culpable in Israeli
crimes and has likened Israels treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazis treatment of the
Jews. According to Pilger, the Zionist state remains the cause of more regional grievance
and sheer terror than all the Muslim states combined.
Link: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10428/palestine-expo-london

Jon Pilger wrote in the Guardian:

Before our eyes, the Israeli regime (it is never called a regime, of course), armed and
bankrolled by the United States, and backed by Britain, is set upon destroying an entire
country, deliberately killing civilians, almost half of whom are children; and the crusaders are
as quiet as mice or they are busy toiling in the great quarry of obfuscation.

Pilger directly accuses Israel, an ally of the UK, of deliberately killing children and expressly
uses the word crusader to describe commentators. Crusader of course is the word Islamists
use to describe Christians and its not very complimentary.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jul/28/theheroesofhizbullah

Radicalised schoolgirl Leanne Mohammed is a speaker in the student section. She was
winner of the Peachy school debating competition that was surrounded by great
controversy for its political content. Her award was later withdrawn as a result of that
political content which is clearly against the rules.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81GOfonfrM&feature=youtu.be

QEll Centre Political Entanglement

In accepting a booking for this event, the Minister for Communities and Local Government
as head of the department that is responsible for the QEll Centre, is displaying an active bias
in the Israel/Palestine conflict, possibly the most contentious political issue of our times.

This is the one international conflict about which the UK Government holds an official
policy. It supports the Two State Solution. As such it is questionable that a venue that is run

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by an agency of the Government should be accepting a booking from one party to that
Middle East dispute, particularly in view of the links between these organisations and
Hamas and Hezbollah.

The PSC/BDS, FOA and their association with Hamas/Hezbollah represent the
delegitimisation of Israel best illustrated by the slogan/chants that call for the demise of
Israel From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free expanding the initial dispute over
the 1948 cease fire line known as the Green Line to the Blue Line, the Mediterranean Sea.
Furthermore, President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority as well as Hamas are clear that
no Jews can live in a future Palestine state. This is therefore a call for the expulsion of Jews
entirely from the Middle East, in keeping even with the revised Hamas Charter which is also
described by Daoud Abdullah as a set of principles pursuant to the 1988 Hamas Charter.

Jewish Race Hate at Palexpo

Since writing to Mark Taylor, we have found links to the Facebook page of Mohammed Isa
Al Quddus Kim Yong Who) who has posted the attached screenshots on his page that clearly
show the Jew hatred and threats that we said might occur.

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Antisemitism
David Colliers research shows PSC supporters who believe libels like the USA is controlled
by Zionists, Jews are responsible for 9/11, harvest organs etc.
http://david-collier.com/psc-riddled-antisemitism/

Hamas
The Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, is proscribed by the
UK. Yet there are links between FOA and Hamas.

Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal left & senior leader Ismail Haniyeh

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FOA links to Hamas and Hezbollah

http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/24/ismail-patel-extremist/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/06/jeremy-corbyn-campaign-donation-
palestine

With this further evidence, it is hoped that the Department of Communities and local
government and QEll Centre together will now ensure that this event, an affront to most in the
community, will be cancelled and not rebooked in any venue that is government controlled.

If the biggest event of the year in in the UK set to celebrate the Jewish state was canceled,
following advice it could be a terror target, surely you must agree that this Palestine event,
platforming speakers exampled above and possibly attracting extremists and anti-Semites
amongst the 10,000 reported attendees, presents a high security risk in the heart of
Westminster and it must not proceed.
Given the imminence of the event we would appreciate your early decision to stop Palestine
Expo 2017.

Yours faithfully

Stop Palestine Expo coalition

Sharon Klaff Ambrosine Shetrit Shmuel Calderon
13 Totnes Walk, London N2 0AD 07799626277

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List of SPEC supporters

stoppalexpo@gmail.com
Kay Wilson
Campaign4Truth
The Palestinian Lie
Eye on Anti-Semitism
WZO
Never Again
Israels Voice
Defending Jews and Israel from Propaganda
Worldwide Jewish Pride
Stop the Lies
Israel 411
Reservists on Duty
Defense Medias Israel

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