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Video: UK surgeon Abu Sitta facing TENTH legal action from Israel lobby’s UKLFI

British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta has been repeatedly targeted by UK Israel lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ (UKLFI) since the beginning of the occupation’s genocide in Gaza. His ‘offence’? Being outspoken about what he saw as a volunteer doctor in Gaza: Israel’s crimes and the suffering, injury and death of its innocent Palestinian victims.

UKLFI — which has attacked everything from a display of plates painted by Palestinian children to Netflix — is well known for its attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and solidarity, particularly in the NHS and in the media-cultural sphere. The group recently intimidated a gallery owner into ending a raved-about art show and tried to force Tower Hamlets Council in London to take down Palestinian flags put up by residents in solidarity with Gaza, by claiming that local Jewish residents felt threatened.

The group, whose sources of funding are opaque, is known to have sought help from Israel’s propaganda ministry. Its chief spokeswoman is among a pro-Israel group alleged to have tried to browbeat US right-winger Charlie Kirk into line before his assassination. Its fellow apartheid apologist group, the so-called ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’, has been subjected to regulatory action for its political smears, while UKLFI is currently being investigated for vexatious threats.

Now Abu Sitta is facing yet another such ‘lawfare’ attack from the group — the tenth so far. He told Declassified UK that “The aim is never to win. The aim is financial and mental attrition” to “create a McCarthyite culture of fear”:

Solidarity with Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta and all those targeted for lawfare by the UK Israel lobby and its collaborators, the Starmer government, which continues to wage war on pro-Palestine speech and on journalists who expose Israel’s crimes.

Featured image via The New Arab

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.