Dyab Abou Jahjah

Dyab Abou Jahjah (Arabic: دياب أبو جهجه; born 24 June 1971) is a Lebanese political activist and writer.

He is now married to a Belgian Muslim woman, Nabila Boujdaine of Moroccan origin, who was also on the electoral lists for his MDP party in 2004.

[8] Abou Jahjah is an Arab nationalist in the Nasserite tradition and considers socialism to be a core paradigm to his thinking as it is not based on race or skin color.

After the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews wrote a letter to then-home secretary Jacqui Smith in 2009, Abou Jahjah was banned from the UK.

His political views and statements have sparked criticism and contributed to controversy over his associations, including with British politician Jeremy Corbyn.

In the 2003 election the Arab European League partnered with the Marxist-Leninist Workers' Party of Belgium to form the RESIST (electoral list), which failed to win any seats and soon dissolved.

[19] During the year of 2002 Abou Jahjah was the most mentioned name in the Belgian media, exceeding references to the prime minister and the king.

[26][27] In 2024 he co-founded the March 30 Movement (a name referencing Land Day) and its legal arm, the Hind Rajab Foundation – named in honor of Hind Rajab – a group that aims to use "offensive litigation" to hold responsible those involved in "atrocities, including perpetrators, accomplices, and inciters of violence against Palestinians.