Haifa Zangana is a veteran of political activism. She has spent almost 50 years defending such diverse causes.

The Iraqi writer and journalist denounces the ecocide that the Strip is suffering. “In Gaza, a genocide of people and an ecocide of the environment is happening,” she says in a room at the Arab House. ‘It is time for the world to open its eyes and support the Palestinians, who were subjugated in the Holocaust,’ she says.‘To alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza we must stop selling weapons to Israel’