Stop the War refuse to listen to Syrians during debate…on Syria

[shira]

Only Westerners are allowed to talk about Syria


The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) have been accused of preventing victims of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from speaking at an anti-war event.

During a panel event on Monday evening to discuss the case against British military intervention in Syria, StWC included no Syrians on the speaker’s panel and reportedly refused to allow Syrians to speak from the floor.

The meeting was chaired by Labour MP Diane Abbott and featured chair of the Stop the War coalition Andrew Murray, former leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas, Labour MP Catherine West, Tory MP Crispin Blunt MP and SNP MP Tommy Shephard.

According to human rights activist Peter Tatchell, who attended the event, no Syrians were included on the panel and the Syrian activists who turned up to the event were threatened with arrest.

http://leftfootforward.org/2015/11/stop-the-war-refuse-to-listen-to-syrians-during-debate-on-syria/

[KoKo]

1. Interesting...

Thanks!

[shira]

2. Regressive Leftists for Assad - shutting down Syrian voices. Classy. n/t

[KoKo]

3. What do you mean by "Regressive Leftists?"

[shira]

4. Stalinist Left, not the sane Left. n/t

[KoKo]

5. How do you differentiate the two?

[shira]

6. Same way to differentiate b/w Stalin & Roosevelt or Pol Pot & Kennedy. n/t