By Sophie Marjoribanks
7 July 2017
Figures showing the high numbers of anti-Muslim hate crime across the UK have emerged in recent months. However, these figures do not convey the seriousness of some of these incidents. These are not only insults shouted across the street, but cases of serious crime, fuelled by hate. Unfortunately, we have seen many examples in recent weeks to remind us of this.
On 4 July 2017, Caabu hosted a briefing with Daniel Seidemann, founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem and an Israeli attorney, on “Jerusalem, 50 Years On: Unification or Occupation?”
In November 2013, Labour MP and former Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna visited the West bank on a Caabu and Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) delegation. A full report of the visit can be read here.
In August 2014, a Caabu and Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) visited the West Bank. Labour MPs Jon Ashworth (now the Shadow Health Secretary) and Stephen Kinnock (then a Parliamentary candidate), were part of the delegation. A full report about the visit can be read here.
In December 2014, former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi and Baroness Morris were part of a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation to the West Bank. A full report about the visit can be read here.
Between 2010 and 2015, Caabu took 55 prominent British politicians on delegations to Palestine, including former Cabinet ministers such as Jack Straw, Andy Burnham, Liam Byrne, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Dame Tessa Jowell; a former Home Office minister, Nick Herbert and Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna.
In September 2015, a cross-party delegation of Parliamentarians visited the West Bank on a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation. The delegation included Sir Alan Duncan MP (who is now a Foreign Office Minister), former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales and former Brexit Minister David Jones MP, Labour MPs Sarah Champion and Paula Sherriff, SNP MP John Nicolson and Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Purvis of Tweed.
In February 2016, a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation consisting of Labour Parliamentarians visited the West Bank.
In April 2016, Conservative MPs Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg, Labour MP and Chair of the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group Richard Burden and former Minister of State in the Department of Health and Crossbench Peer, Lord Warner visited the West Bank on a Caabu and Medical Aid for Palestinians delegation. A full report about the visit can be found here.
