NOVANEWS
Traitor Kamel Hawwash
I have recently become aware of a smear campaign accusing me of speaking against a pro-Palestinian resolution at the January 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The initiator of this campaign has used a website (www.shoah.org.uk) to smear me and, most recently, a text message has been circulating with a link to this website (asking for the text to be forwarded to others).
I had not planned to respond to this small-minded and untruthful smear until friends that had received the text contacted me to ask if I was aware of this matter
I wish to clarify my position.
A resolution was submitted by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist). I am accused of speaking against it. I did not speak against the resolution in question. I stated that I supported much of what was in it but, as a member of the PSC Executive, I asked the proposers if they would ‘remit’ the resolution. This means referring it to the incoming PSC Executive for consideration. It would have informed the PSC’s action plan for the year as it contained a number of useful proposals that all would have supported. The proposer refused and wanted the AGM to vote on it and the resolution was defeated. This was because a majority at the AGM believed that the resolution as a whole would have over-turned the priorities of the PSC’s action plan agreed earlier during the AGM.
It is interesting that while the title of the report on the AGM on theCommunist Party of Great Britain’s (Marxist-Leninist) web site is ‘What is the PSC executive afraid of?’ the version on the Shoah website has been personalised to ‘Why Traitor Kamel Hawwash spoke most shamefully against Pro-Palestinian’s resolution?
At the PSC AGM I was re-elected as Vice Chair and I am proud to hold this Office and continue to contribute to PSC’s work to support the Palestinian people and continue with other work in support of justice for Palestine. I will not be distracted from this by anyone and ask whoever is behind this petty and diversionary smear campaign to desist from it if s/he cares about justice for Palestinians.
