"First I'd like to pay tribute to George Galloway for his unrelenting defence of the Palestinian people and the Iraqi people. George was suspended from the Labour party for speaking the minds of millions of us. More over he was suspended by Blair in a desperate attempt to undermine the great democratic resistance that is now underway in this country.

The attack on Iraq and the attacks on Palestine have the same source and in our defence of the Palestinian people we should look closely at the complicity of Blair and his government.

Now labour governments have often supported the Israeli state but the Blair government has gone further than any of them. Two years ago Blair secretly gave the green light to Sharon to attack the occupied territories. This was not reported at the time. The Blair government was shown a plan for an all out Israeli invasion of the West Bank and Gaza. But the Israeli plan needed, and I an now quoting Jane's Foreign Report - the Israeli plan needed "a suicide bomb blast which causes numerous deaths and injuries, the revenge factor is crucial - it would motivate Israeli soldiers demolish Palestinians". The author of this plan was General Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli chief of staff - the same general whom Scotland Yard last year investigated for war crimes. What worried Sharon and Mofaz was a secret agreement between Yassir Arafat and Hamas that there would be no more bomb attacks in Israel. It was a highly significant unilateral truce on the part of the Palestinians. On November the 23rd 2001 Israeli agents assassinated a Hamas leader. 12 days later the inevitable bombers struck in Israel. On cue the Israeli military attacked the West Bank with unprecedented force and since then Israel has re-occupied Palestine, murdering civilians, and internationals, and journalists - any body who gets in their way.

And Blair new all about this, he knew about this criminal strategy to destroy a tenuous peace. Blair want us to believe he is different from Bush. He isn't - both are criminals. Blair was no different from Bush on Iraq and he is no different from Bush on Palestine.

The Blair government has sold to Israel ammunition, bombs, missiles, rockets and other military equipment. It secretly supplied the Sharon regime with the means of making chemical weapons of mass destruction. Its not all one way - many of the cluster bombs used by the RAF against Iraq were made in Israel.

I suggest to all of you that the target for your anger and resistance should be right here in Whitehall and in Downing Street.

Face hidden among the banners

Its the same as the criminal attack on Iraq - our enemy, the enemy of peaceful solution, the enemy of human rights, the enemy of justice is close to home. Just as the attacks this week in Saudi Arabia were almost certainly the direct result of the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, so the bombings in Israel are a direct result of the complicity of Blair and Bush to deny the Palestinian people the justice and nationhood that is 55 years over due.

Now we are getting headlines that say "roadmap". Bush's so called roadmap is another dead end that aims to exactly what the Oslo process tried to so - legitimise Israel's strangulation of Palestine and create apartheid South Africa in the Middle-East. This must be exposed for what it is. And it can only be exposed when journalists through off the intimidation that comes with reporting anything to do with Israel. For too long this intimidation has prevented the truth about Palestine from becoming news in this country. Television viewers are rarely told that the Palestinians are the victims of an illegal military occupation, they are seldom told that Palestinians have made compromise after compromise. They are seldom told Sharon is an indicted war criminal who rivals Saddaam Hussein in the deaths and misery he has caused such as the 20,000 who died in Israel's criminal invasion of Lebanon. The intimidation works everyday against the BBC with a call from the Israeli embassy. It works against any journalist who rights the truth, often with a flood of abusive emails and death threats. chats what I received following the showing of my documentary last year. But like any intimidation, it must not be allowed to succeed. Its time we journalists, all of us, stood up against this and told the truth about Palestine. Its time we changed the media language and describe the Israeli killers of children as terrorists!

Its time we stopped echoing the lies of Blair and Bush and Powell about their phoney peace process. Its time we stopped rewarding western governments guilty of great crimes as benevolent which they are not. Its time we gave the same humanity to Palestinians that we gave to the victims of September the 11th.

Our own colleges like the camera man James Miller are being terrorised and murdered for doing our job honestly. How many more James Millers must die before we realise that we [journalists and broadcasters] like the Palestinians are now targets for the gang in Tel Aviv

Blair and Bush fear the truth about Palestine just as they feared us telling the truth about their criminal attack on Iraq. That's why they bombed Al-Jezeera, that's why they killed 19 journalists during the Iraq war. I say to my colleagues in the media we must call their bluff, we must tell the truth about Palestine, about the incredible struggle of the Palestinian people which is truly heroic. And please remember all of you here today, like the 2 million people who filled London on February the 15th, you are no longer demonstrators and protesters - you are now the democratic opposition in Britain and I salute you."

Sharon Devouring Palestine

Sharon Devouring Palestine

Francisco Jose de Goya's original painting of "Saturn Devouring His Children", painted in 1819-23 and located in the Prado in Madrid.

The placard shows Goya's famous painting of "Saturn Devouring His Children". This refers to a political cartoon by Dave Brown in which Sharon plays the devouring Saturn, that appeared in the Independent newspaper on 27 January 2003.

In the cartoon, Sharon says: "What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby?" The background shows Apache attack helicopters sending missiles from the cockpit with the message "Vote Likud."

This cartoon refers to the Israeli attack on Gaza City on Sunday, 26 January 2003, when 50 israeli tanks backed by helicopter gunships invaded Gaza City slaughtering 12 Palestinians - all this just three days before the general election which saw the Israelis re-elect a war criminal to power.

The Israeli embassy with its pack of dogs - the zionist lobby groups - attacked the cartoon calling it - yes you guessed it - anti-Semetic. Apparently any negative depiction of Sharon is an attack on all Jews and hence by definition anti-Semetic!