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Hamas supporter Azzam Tamimi to speak on London campus

February 24, 2012 13:51
Azzam Tamimi

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

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An inflammatory Palestinian academic who has said he "takes pride in being a terrorist" is due to address students at a London university on Tuesday.

Dr Azzam Tamimi, who has expressed his wish to be a "martyr" and stated that "Israel must come to an end" has been invited by the Queen Mary University Palestine Solidarity Society.

A director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, Dr Tamimi is a prominent supporter of terrorist organisation Hamas and has advocated the use of suicide bombings against Israel .

He will speak at an event on the "One State or Two State Solution" alongside the stridently anti-Israel Liberal Democrat peer Jenny Tonge and Israeli-born anti-Zionist academic Haim Bresheeth, who has previously given his backing to the boycotts, sanction and divestment campaign against Israel.