Hüseyin Abudharr Ali-Diakides

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Hüseyin Abudharr Ali-Diakides (born 23 February 1985), previously known as Alexandros Diakides, is a British poet and political activist, based mainly in Haringey. He is currently secretary of the Haringey Justice for Palestinians.

Personal Life

Ali-Diakides was born in Finsbury Park, North London, England. His father is a Labour councillor in Tottenham and his mother was a teacher. He was raised with Marxist politics and from a young child would campaign with the former Tottenham MP, Bernie Grant. He is of Greek, Pontian, Sudanese and Irish descent. In 2009 he converted to Islam and took the name Hüseyin. He has a BA International Politics degree from Middlesex University and is currently studying for an MA International Relations degree.

Political Activism

Ali-Diakides became active in 2003 in protest to the Iraq War, working with Stop the War Coalition and later joining the Socialist Workers Party. He began working in events coordination, where he setup an organisation called ‘Bun Da Gun, Vibes Not Knives’, organising events to raise awareness of gun and knife crime within Haringey. He also began working for Collage Arts, a charity based in Wood Green, which helped young people from troubled backgrounds get into arts and media. He joined the RESPECT Party and would campaign alongside former Member of Parliament George Galloway and Race Relations Advisor to the Mayor of London; Lee Jasper. He would then join the Malcolm X Movement, a group attempting to combat White Supremacy in Britain. Whilst studying for his bachelors at Middlesex University he became president of the MDXSU Global South Solidarity Society, which was setup to combat racism, imperialism and neo-liberalism. During which time he worked with an array of charities, parties and organisations, including: Interpal, All African People’s Revolutionary Party, African People’s Socialist Party, Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum and Black Activists Rising Against Cuts. He has been interviewed numerous times by Iranian news channel: PressTV on Middle Eastern geopolitics. In 2019 he was elected as secretary of Haringey Justice for Palestinians, a local branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and was then elected as secretary for the Stroud Green Labour Party, one of the largest branches in the country. He was put under administrative suspension pending investigation from the Labour Party over allegations of anti-Semitism. Ali-Diakides left the Labour Party and has now joined the Green Party of England and Wales.

Poetry

Ali-Diakides is a performance poet and is part of the Rumi’s Creatives arts collective, basd at the Rumi’s Cave community centre in Kilburn. In 2019 he published a collection of poems in the book “Love, Hate and A Bench”.

Controversy

Anti-Semitism

In 2015 Huseyin said that Hollywood was: “the US’s main propaganda machine […] run by Zionists (those who support ‘Israel’).” In 2019, Ali-Diakides was put under administrative suspension, pending investigation, by the Labour Party after comparing Israel to ISIS. He also said that Israel was involved in ethnic cleansing. The Jewish Chronicle said that the comments were anti-Semitic.

Hezbollah

Huseyin has been accused of supporting Hezbollah, a controversial Lebanese polital party, after a photo emerged of him posing next to a man with a Hezbollah flag at a protest. He has stated in a poem “I am not a Sunni although I love Abu Bakr and Umar / And I am not a Shia although I love Hezbollah” and in a 2015 article referred to Hezbollah and Hamas as “real jihadis”.

References

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