Laith Marouf
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Laith Marouf is a Canadian pro-Palestinian activist who hosts the "Wartime Cafe" on Free Palestine TV. He was the Chapter Coordinator of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), the largest network of students working on Palestinian human rights in North America. Marouf has written for The Electronic Intifada[1] and Black Agenda Report.[2]
"Wartime Cafe"
| Craig Murray: “Repression of Anti-Zionist Voices in the West” |
In November 2024, Laith Marouf interviewed former UK Ambassador, historian and human rights activist Craig Murray during his visit to Lebanon. They discussed Craig Murray's background in the UK’s Foreign Office, his long support for the Palestinian cause and the list of banned dissidents that are being harassed by the British regime for their campaigning against Genocide in Palestine.[3]
BDS
In 2008, Laith Marouf wrote that for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign to succeed:
- "leading activists, students, and professors must develop a strategy to educate our constituencies on the BDS issue before we expose them to the bullying of Zionist lobby groups."[4]
Palestinian Diaspora
In 2007, Marouf wrote about the Palestinian Diaspora:
- Recent events have cast light on dark deeds: the collaboration between Mahmoud Abbas and associates like Mohammed Dahlan on the one hand, and Israel on the other; the transfer of weapons and training by the US and other countries to certain Palestinian militias whose mission was to overthrow the result of the January 2006 election. Palestinians see clearly that Abbas — who embraces Israeli leaders while refusing to talk to other Palestinian factions — was the author of the Oslo Accords agreement that never even mentioned the word “occupation,” and is now discussing a new “agreement of principles” that will cancel the right of return, legitimise Israeli settlements and threaten other basic rights. In short, what we have now is a clique of collaborators in control of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority “presidency” and much of what is left of the PLO.
- In the Western Diaspora — Canada, the United States and Europe — in the past ten years, by contrast, Palestinians have undergone something of a revival. There has been growth in numbers, institutions and activities. For the most part this has been dependent on young people. For example, students’ networks like Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) in Canada and the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) in the US along with Al-Awda are all overwhelmingly composed of people under 35 years old. These networks came to existence after the collapse of Palestinian institutions in the Diaspora following the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. At that time PLO institutions were sidelined by the Oslo leadership in exchange for the creation of the Palestinian Authority (only to be resurrected recently as a rubber stamp for Abbas’ collaboration with Israel last month), effectively leaving the Diaspora disenfranchised.
- Palestinians in the Diaspora need to learn the lesson from Gaza and Lebanon. Although all Palestinians desire unity, it is impossible with those who are actively collaborating with the Israeli agenda and seeking to undermine the Palestinian movement for liberation. We cannot allow those who hijacked Palestinian institutions in Palestine in order to serve Israel to do the same in the Diaspora.[5]
