In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

(The Palestinians) want Israel to acknowledge the moral as well as the political responsibility for the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1948.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.