‘Israel has a history of appropriating Palestinian culture,’ says the website palestinepoppy.com. This is where you can purchase your Palestinian poppy badge for Remembrance Day. For only £1.78 a Palestine Peace enamel badge could have been yours via an eBay storefront that, as I write, is out of stock.

People should be as free to wear a Palestine poppy as a white one or a red one or no poppy at all. But we are also free to mock and condemn those who corrupt our traditions

People should be as free to wear a Palestine poppy as a white one or a red one or no poppy at all. But we are also free to mock and condemn those who corrupt our traditions

Of that £1.78, an unspecified amount ‘covers cost of production’. An amount described only as ‘small’ goes to ‘charities working on the ground in Palestine, and organisations working to educate people about the region’s history and current situation, and bring about the end to the occupation and war crimes through legal routes.’

First among the beneficiaries proposed are the Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA). An independent review commissioned by the Home Office found FOA to be an ‘anti-Israel campaign group’, part of a ‘Far Left and Islamist’ coalition. The review said that FOA’s founder, Ismail Patel, praised the killer of Eli Kay as a martyr. Fadi Abu Shkhaydam of Hamas had opened fire on passersby in Jerusalem – Kay, a tour guide, amongst them. ‘Hamas is no terrorist organisation,’ Patel had said in 2009. ‘We salute........

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