1. Husam Said Zomlot is a Palestinian diplomat, academic and economist.
23 Facts About Husam Zomlot
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Husam Zomlot was appointed Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom in October 2018.
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Husam Zomlot previously served as director of Fatah's commission for foreign relations.
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Husam Zomlot was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University in the US and an instructor at the University of London.
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Husam Zomlot worked as an economist with United Nations Special Coordinator's Office in Palestine.
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Husam Zomlot was born in Shaburah refugee camp, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency camp in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip in 1973.
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Husam Zomlot's parents were originally from the village of Simsim but were expelled in 1948.
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Husam Zomlot became politically active while taking his undergraduate degree at Birzeit University outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Husam Zomlot was there tasked with monitoring economic developments, propose economic policy alternatives and provide briefings to the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan at that time.
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Husam Zomlot received his PhD in International Political Economy from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 2007.
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Husam Zomlot served as a spokesperson for the Palestinian delegation during the statehood campaign at the United Nations in New York in 2011.
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Husam Zomlot was appointed ambassador-at-large for the State of Palestine that same year, and served as director of Fatah's commission for foreign relations.
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Husam Zomlot became strategic adviser to President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas in 2015 before being elected to Fatah's Revolutionary Council in 2016.
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In 2017, Husam Zomlot was appointed as envoy to the United States, taking over from Maen Rashid Areikat.
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In 2018, Husam Zomlot was appointed Head of Mission to the United Kingdom.
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Husam Zomlot was appointed Palestinian envoy to the US in March 2017.
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In September 2018, the PLO's representative mission in Washington, DC, was closed but by then Husam Zomlot had already been recalled to Ramallah.
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Husam Zomlot was appointed Head of Mission to the United Kingdom in October 2018.
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Husam Zomlot arrived in the middle of Britain's process of leaving the EU and in his first year-and-a-half experienced two different Conservative governments and two different opposition leaders.
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In 2023, Sky News issued a public apology after presenter Kay Burley had falsely quoted Husam Zomlot as saying "Israel had it coming" multiple times in regards to the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel which gave a misleading impression that he believed they deserved it.
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Husam Zomlot is co-founder of the Palestinian Strategy Group, which was established in 2008.
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The General Union of Palestinian Students in the UK accused Husam Zomlot of appointing several of his relatives to positions in the Palestinian embassy.
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The GUPS criticised Husam Zomlot for calling the police to the Palestinian embassy, where they arrested a number of Palestinian students.