Defend Palestine's Children - Defend the Al Tafawk Centre

Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ includes Soldiers Setting Dogs on Children Yet Starmer, Badenoch & the Monsters Who Rule Us Are More Concerned About Palestinian Marches Against Genocide Which Upset Zionist Feelings

Webinar Thursday May 14^th, 7 pm 2026

Please Register at

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1WIS2OPOS-unuTPWHe2hMQ

The Al Tafawk Centre in Jenin was established in 2010 as a sanctuary providing food, education and recreation, to children aged 3–16. It is the only kindergarten in the area. The centre has faced repeated raids, including destruction of its interior in 2021 and 2023, from the Israeli military. 

The Israeli Military Stops Children Going to School so They Demonstrate

Israeli soldiers punched holes in Al Tafawk's  Walls in 2023

Why did Israel raid and wreck a children’s centre in Jenin? and

Palestinian children in the West Bank are also under attack

In 2025 the Al Tafawk Centre was destroyed along with Jenin Refugee Camp.  It has re-established itself in Jenin City and is now under constant attack from the IDF. Armed soldiers frequently enter the Centre and assault staff.

The One Year old Child Tortured with Cigarettes

“For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men… and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren.

The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth.

For the… https://t.co/1NLjol43DT

— BennyAdam (@BennyAdamTalks) August 25, 2024

We are holding this meeting in order to build political pressure on our complicit government  of war criminals who enable the Israeli state to murder and abuse Palestine’s children. We have a Labour Government that won't even impose sanctions on Israel for killing thousands of children yet it is happy to impose sanctions on Russia and Iran.

Even Israel cannot claim that its right to self-defence includes attacking young children.

Full CCTV footage: Israeli forces raid & seal shut DCIP office

On April 10 Defend Children International – Palestine also closed its doors. In 2021 Israel’s Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, a member of the anti-Netanyahu ‘change’ government, designated DCI-P a ‘terrorist’ organisation. The ‘Change’ government was no change for Palestinians.

Israel's torture of children

Lisa Nandy, who believe it or not was Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine has turned out to be a virulent opportunist and racist. She attacked the BBC for briefly putting on the film Gaza:  How  To Survive a Warzone, narrated by children in Gaza because one of their fathers had been a Deputy Minister in Gaza's government.  The allegation of being a Hamas member was unsubstantiated but if so, so what?  Compared to the Israeli government Hamas are like virginal choirboys.

Really glad to speak alongside @EmilyThornberry @CarolineLucas @hammersmithandy and others at a packed @PSCupdates rally for Palestine tonight. When you threaten children’s rights anywhere, you threaten children’s rights everywhere pic.twitter.com/P569XwGoW1

— Lisa Nandy MP (@lisanandy) November 28, 2018

Speakers at the webinar which is chaired by Ghada Karmi, an author & Palestinian academic and refugee from the Nakba in 1948 include

Khaled Quzmar from DCI-Palestine;

Karen, a former Volunteer at the Al Tafawk Centre;

Samer Jaber, a former Child Prisoner of Israel,

Tony Greenstein of The Brighton Trust and

Naomi Wayne, trustee of the British Shalom-Salaam Trust

We have invited Zarah Sultana and Layla Moran MPs but we have heard nothing from either of them yet.

The Israeli Military Punched Holes in Al Tafawks Outside Walls

Numbers were written on the women's hands just as numbers were branded on the bodies of Auschwitz prisoners

The Zionist Attitude to Palestinian Children Mirrors that of the Nazis to Jewish Children

Israel has historically been obsessed with demographic statistics. How many Jews and Arabs were born in the night. This is natural in a Jewish ethno-nationalist state. Israel isn’t culturally or spiritually or even religiously Jewish – it is racially Jewish.

It is inevitable that that turns into hatred of the other, i.e. the Palestinians. They are not Jewish, not ‘one of us’ they are therefore the enemy. This is as true of ‘liberal’ and ‘left’ Zionists as it is of the right-wing kind.

The same was true of South Africa which fretted about the lack of White immigrants. Christian nationalist states in Eastern Europe were the most enthusiastic participants in the holocaust because Jews rendered their states racially ‘impure’

The children of Jews in Germany and Europe were also seen as a threat to the Volksgemeinschaft, the racially pure community. The same applies in Israel today although, like in Germany, it is often disguised in ‘anti-terrorist’ rhetoric.

Himmler, the head of the SS explained this when he told senior SS Generals at Posnan on October 6 1943:

For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men... and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren. The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth. For the organization that had to carry out this duty it was the most difficult that we have ever had to undertake.’

In July 2014 Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party, who later became Israel’s Justice Minister in the ‘change’ government, posted a text on Facebook, written by Israeli writer, Uri Elitzur, which referred to Palestinian children as "little snakes." Not only must ‘terrorists die but so must

the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They must follow in the footsteps of their sons, there is nothing more just than that. They must go, and so must the physical house in which they raised the snake. Otherwise, more little snakes will grow there....

Ayelet Shaked's Original Facebook Post

In Israel it is the Rabbis who act as the legitimisers for the genocide and murder of children. There are a whole nest of these genocidal vipers who call themselves rabbis.

Rabbi Mali who trains religious Jews for the Israeli army advocates killing Palestinian children

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali of Bnei Moshe Yeshiva in Jaffa openly advocated  the murder of Palestinian children. Like Himmler he saw Palestinian children as the future generation of fighters.

Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference

Rabbi Mali explains why killing Palestinian children is good - this monster teaches future soldiers

Mali called, during a conference on 8 March, for the Israeli army to kill ‘all residents of Gaza’. When asked whether this included babies he said:

“Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, in reference to women in Gaza. Elderly people are also legitimate targets, according to Mali.

"There is no such thing called innocent creature. By the way, the elderly man is capable of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah is very clear in the ruling."

Naturally the Israeli Police recommended that no charges be brought against Mali but if he had been an Israeli Palestinian they would have been arrested, beaten up and charged. 

This is the ideology that produces soldiers who set dogs on children and who snipe children in the head for fun in Gaza. This is the state that Starmer, Lammy, Badenoch et al justify, in addition to our own Chief Genocidal Rabbi Mirvis.

As Susan Abuhalwa explained in her speech to the Oxford Union, which that latter body censored,

“… and in the 1980s and ’90s, Israeli soldiers had left booby-trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.”

This is a matter of public record, cited in the UK Parliament and multiple reports and periodicals at the time. It speaks volumes that the Oxford Union, which has historically platformed far-right speakers and racists in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ has nonetheless censored pro-Palestinian speech in the name of ‘anti-Semitism’ no doubt.

Tony Greenstein

Do not spare a soul': Israeli rabbi says women, children should be killed in Gaza

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Oxford Union Bows to Zionist Legal Threats and ‘Edits’ i.e. Censors the Recording of Susan Abulhawa’s Speech

If There’s One Thing that Apologists for Israel's Genocide Can’t Stand Its Free Speech

Susan Abuhalwa’s Speech to the Oxford Union – Unedited

On 28 November a debate at the Oxford Union passed the motion “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide” by 278-59 votes. This set up a howl in the ruling class.

Their genocidal narrative about how Zionism made the desert bloom and how Palestine was an empty land before the Zionists colonised it was rejected by a vote of 4-1. They got just 21% of the vote at the world’s most  prestigious debating society.

today, the @OxfordUnion set the original version of my speech to private (see screenshot) and uploaded an edited version, one minute shorter, seemingly following zionist pressure. see their statement on the matter.

such modification of my speech and censorship is unethical and… pic.twitter.com/YmRN9Mpw5d

— susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) December 14, 2024

Oxford Union’s President when the debate occurred, Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy, resisted all attempts of the Zionists to stop or disrupt the debate. Not so his successor Israr Khan who like all collaborators knows his place in the racial hierarchy and bowed to the demands of the racists and Zionists to censor the recording of the debate. Instead Oxford Union deleted their original recording on Youtube and they uploaded an ‘edited’ i.e. censored version. The original can be found here.

No doubt the Zionists, led by the far-right UK Liars, sorry Lawyers for Israel, had various objections such as praise for the ‘terrorist’ Hamas. Hamas is always singled out as the bogeyman just like all anti-colonial resistance movements have been in the past. The only difference is that now proscription makes speech in support of such groups a criminal offence. Israel’s murder of 17,000+ Palestinian children, its mass rape and torture is according to the monsters who govern us the behaviour of a civilised society.

Susan Abulhawa on the rape and pillage of the Middle East by imperialism

Almost as soon as the result of the debate was announced the British press went into overdrive to discredit it. None other than Zionist hack Jonathan Sacerdoti, who himself participated in the debate and lost, was writing in the Spectator that

‘The chamber of the Oxford Union, that once-proud institution, has been breached by the forces of bigotry, hatred, and mob rule.’

Sacerdoti continued in the same vein:

The motion for debate was itself a grotesque provocation: “This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide.” Apartheid and genocide are not just loaded terms; they are distortions when applied to Israel, as I planned to explain in my speech. That the Union had decided to frame this debate around them was bad enough.

The fact that the debate around Zionism and Israel is continually framed around Israel’s ‘right to self defence’ and ‘terrorism’ doesn’t bother Sacerdoti a jot. It is the fact that the debate on Zionism and Israel has gone beyond these establishment talking points to the real question of racial discrimination and apartheid that worries the Zionists.

The openly genocidal statements of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu who invoked Amalek or the Labour Zionist President Yisrael Herzog who says all of the civilians in Gaza are a military target doesn’t bother Sacerdoti. To say nothing of numerous cabinet ministers  who openly embrace talk of wiping out the Palestinians.

Israel’s professional propagandists like Sacerdoti are used to portraying themselves as the victim. What they don’t like is being seen in their true colours.

The Zionists chose as their supporting speakers a disgusting collaborator Yoseph Haddad who was kicked out of the debate for his aggression towards other members.

The other speaker for the Zionists, Mosab Hassan Yousef, was, as the Jewish Chronicle described him ‘a son of a Hamas leader who became an IDF informant’. It’s as if we had a debate on the Nazi holocaust and invited a Jewish informant who had betrayed Jews in hiding to the Gestapo to take part in the debate. The Zionists have no shame.

Reactions to Yoseph Haddad defacing Palestine murals in London

The Jewish Chronicle argued that the debate ‘descends into chaos as students shout down Israeli speakers’ but we can hear during Susan Abuhalwa’s brilliant speech constant Zionist attempts at interruption. It seems that the Zionists didn’t like a taste of their own medicine and so they have tried to alter what actually happened by getting their tame puppet Israr Khan, in whose hands the Oxford Union now is, to censor the parts they liked least of Susan’s speech.  That is how Zionists work.

Of course when Tommy Robinson and genocide supporter Tzipi Hotoveli came to speak the Zionists had no objection. Racists are no problem, its Palestinians and anti-Zionists who are their enemies.

For the Jerusalem Post the debate was marred by heckling and shouting. These Zionists are very sensitive souls. Only they are allowed to shoot and heckle!

For the Telegraph the debate was no less than ‘sinister’. I imagine that anything that challenges the power of the genocidaires and war criminals who rule us is sinister. Only the bombing of hospitals and the starvation of  civilians is civilised according to the warped values of the Telegraph. The Torygraph spoke of how Zionist dons

‘Baroness Deech, Prof Sir Vernon Bogdanor and the philosopher Prof Peter Hacker are among 300 signatories of an open letter decrying the “inflammatory rhetoric, aggressive behaviour and intimidation” witnessed during the event last Thursday.

And what did the Open Letter say? That there was a ‘failure on all counts’ to protect Jewish students from ‘antisemitism’ for ‘apartheid state’ motion.’ Notice the sly way that these dons of mischief conflate anti-Semitism and Jewish students? Calling Israel an apartheid state is itself anti-Semitic.

Since every human rights organisation in the world holds that Israel is an apartheid state then what these dons are doing is to deliberately endanger Jewish students by associating them with the Nazi-like behaviour of the Israeli state.

It doesn’t take the brain of a don to work out that an ethno-religious state must be racist by definition. A Jewish state wherein Jews have greater privileges than non-Jews cannot help but be racist. That is why neo-Nazis today love Israel.

Jewish Supremacism, discrimination and police violence are the lot of Israel’s Palestinian citizens. Bringing over a quisling like Haddad won’t change that fact. Even as I write the Knesset is debating legislation to debar Arab political parties altogether. Unless of course they consist of collaborators such as we saw at Oxford.

One wonders whether calling the Nazi state anti-Semitic 90 years ago would also have been considered ‘inflammatory’ against German students studying at Oxford. Perhaps an anti-Apartheid motion would have been inflammatory against White South African students too. The Telegraph singled out

Ebrahim Osman Mowafy, the president of the Union, who is an Egyptian Arab, of being “openly biased from the outset”, and “fostering an environment of unchecked hostility”.

What has Ebrahim’s nationality or ethnicity got to do with it? If someone had mentioned the Jewish background of a debate chair the air would be thick with cries of ‘anti-Semitism’.

What however is interesting is that even in the portals of a ruling class, the Oxford Union no less, the Zionists can’t win anything more than derisory support. What Israel has ‘won’ on the battlefield against Gaza’s population is being lost in the hall of public opinion.

Tony Greenstein