Ibrahim Hewitt is chairman of the board of trustees of Interpal and a senior editor at Middle East Monitor.
[4] Hewitt is a media and education consultant and has been the chairman of the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund (Interpal) since 1997.
Hewitt was also the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain from 2004-2006, a UK consortium dominated by the Pakistani Islamist group, Jamaat-e-Islami.
He spoke publicly at an event in 2013: "Over a very long period of time I’ve got to know Ibrahim Hewitt, the chair, extremely well.
I consider him to be a very good friend and I think he’s done a fantastic job in leading and guiding Interpal which has done such great practical work."
In the 1970s he was a musician who featured regularly on the British club and orchestra scene playing the tuba and the trombone, among other brass instruments.
[6] While touring the club scene in the UK, Hewitt became an alcoholic as a result of regularly performing in bars and being around musicians.
[6] While Hewitt's mother accepted his conversion, his father threw him out of the house, refusing to speak to his son for two years.
[8] He is chairman of Interpal, a Muslim charity which was added to the U.S. Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organizations in 2003.
Hewitt claims "the purpose of the articles was clearly to damage" then "Labour Party leadership candidate" Jeremy Corbyn "by showing what 'bad' company he keeps".
[3] In his response, Hewitt claimed that while Interpal is specially designated in the U.S. for funding Hamas, the charity denies these allegations.