Lauren Booth was born on Sarah Jane Booth; 22 July 1967 and is an English broadcaster, journalist and activist holding a VIP Palestinian Authority passport as well as a British passport.
17 Facts About Lauren Booth
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Sarah Jane Booth was born and grew up in North London.
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Lauren Booth is a half-sister of Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the daughter of actor Tony Lauren Booth.
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Lauren Booth trained as an actress at the London Academy of Performing Arts and then spent several years touring Europe with various regional theatre companies.
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Lauren Booth was not raised in any religion, though her father was raised a Catholic and her mother was Jewish.
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Lauren Booth has a sister, Emma, along with Cherie and five other half-sisters.
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Lauren Booth's earliest writing experiences were with the London Evening Standard, writing the column 'About Town'.
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Between 2006 and 2008 Lauren Booth presented In Focus on the UK's Islam Channel.
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Lauren Booth has had a long association with the Iranian owned Press TV, starting with Between The Headlines in 2008.
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Lauren Booth was a vocal opponent of the Iraq War giving speeches at many rallies against the invasion.
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Lauren Booth is an outspoken activist and a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition.
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Lauren Booth was refused entry into both Israel and Egypt.
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Lauren Booth claimed that by refusing her the right to leave Gaza and return to her home country, Israel was in breach of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically regarding freedom of movement.
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Lauren Booth stated that Gaza is "the largest concentration camp in the world today", although The Jerusalem Post claimed that several photographs of Lauren Booth in a well-stocked Gaza grocery "bel[ied] the grim picture she painted of the Strip".
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Lauren Booth left Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing into Egypt on 20 September 2008.
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In 2010, Lauren Booth converted to Islam a few years after her visit to Palestine, and became a practising Muslim.
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From 2015 Lauren Booth was no longer a patron of the organisation.