SNP election candidate’s distress for her family as bombs fall in Gaza
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A long-serving SNP activist who stood for election in the north-east last week says she’s been worried sick as her brother and young relatives endure a war zone in Gaza.
Nadia El-Nakla, who is married to Scottish Government justice secretary Humza Yousaf, spoke of her distress while deadly violence worsened in the blockaded territory.
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Humza Yousaf has said he is praying for his brother-in-law who is trapped in Palestine as it comes under aerial bombardment from Israeli forces firing in response to rockets from Islamic militants. Mr Yousaf posted on social media that his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, has been in floods of tears overnight after being contacted by her brother to say it was raining rockets on the area where he lives in the Gaza Strip with his spouse and three children. The SNP cabinet member Tweeted that the family cannot leave because of the blockade, and that all he and his wife could do is is pray & hope they are alive in the morning.
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CROSS-PARTY calls on the government to act over Israel’s brutal onslaught on the peoples of Gaza and Jerusalem are the product of mass protest and long-term campaigning.
Today’s parliamentary debate took place in the shadow of the huge Downing Street protest of the night before.
Home Secretary Priti Patel herself an ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, forced to resign from Theresa May’s government because of unauthorised meetings with Israel tries to present protesters as an awkward subculture whose concerns are alien to ordinary people.
This jibe is especially directed at the left when it campaigns on international causes, with factions in the labour movement unwilling to campaign against imperialism calling on us to focus on “bread and butter issues” and leave foreign policy alone.