Dr @AzzamTamimi relating how atheist Zionists exploited Judaism to create a state that disrupted historic cohesion between Muslim and Jewish communities, the latter who who were granted safety in the Muslim world having fled persecution in Europe.
“Oslo accords were designed to turn the PLO, a national liberation organisation, into a collaborating agency to uphold the occupation”
Now Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, whose family were killed in the Holocaust, addressing the crowd. He warns that it is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the atrocities committed by the Nazis but at the same time, it is inhumane to exploit that legacy to justify Israeli crimes today.
Jews flourished in the Muslim world which gave them protection when they fled European persecution. They lived peacefully together until the Nakbah destroyed that harmony.
Judaism is a 3000 year old religion that involves a covenant by the Jewish people to be subservient to the teachings of God as contained in the Torah.
Zionism is a political movement started 150 yes ago. No rabbis/religious figures present at declaration of the Israeli state.
Jews made oaths that forbid them from re-entering the Holy Land en mass, they must be loyal citizens wherever they reside, and must make no attempts to breach exile.
There is an Almighty who rules the world, who gives life and death, and who is compassionate and just and as such, the State of Israel will come to an end because it is built on criminality. We pray it is a speedy and peaceful end.
🧵 Not many people know it but yesterday 26 June was #NationalCoconutDay . Let’s see how this great occasion was marked in London.
Marieha Hussain started #NationalCoconutDay by appearing at Westminster Mags Court to enter a plea of not guilty to the ‘crime’ of comparing Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman to coconuts, i.e. brown on the outside, white supremacist on the inside, during a protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The court is to determine whether this placard constitutes a racially aggravated public order offence.
The team at @CAGEintl marked the day by organising a rally outside the court in solidarity with Marieha with their own placards, with a specific disclaimer to the police that the placards were purely satirical. They were joined by prominent anti-racist activists like @narindertweets and @SholaMos1.
On this day 20 years ago, Israel assassinated one of the most popular Muslim leaders in recent history, a man who despite being a paraplegic from the age of 14, struggled his entire life for the freedom of his people. A 🧵on the life and legacy of the martyr, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Sheikh Yassin was born in 1938 in the now depopulated and destroyed Palestinian village of Al-Jura, adjacent to the present-day Israeli town of Ashkelon. Yassin’s father died when he was only five years old, the first great test of his life at such a tender age.
During the creation of Israel in 1948, what Palestinians describe as the Nakba ('Catastrophe'), Zionist militias forced a 10 year old Sheikh Yassin to flee with his family and thousands of other refugees southwards to the Gaza Strip where he would begin his life as a refugee.
🧵The Home Office has conceded that the Israeli government is likely to persecute a Palestinian citizen of Israel if returned to Israel & has agreed to grant him asylum.
The decision came less than 24 hrs before a tribunal hearing at which the Home Office was to defend its original decision to refuse the claim.
In documents filed with the tribunal, ‘Hasan’, whose real identity cannot be disclosed for his protection, claimed that Israel maintains an ‘apartheid’ system of racial domination of its Jewish citizens over its Palestinian citizens, whom it systematically oppresses.
He had also provided evidence to the tribunal that he is at enhanced risk of persecution because of his Palestinian solidarity activism in the UK and his anti-Zionist political opinions.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is not a terrorist group. It has a history of promoting non-violent struggle and has not been connected with any terrorist plots or activities. It is for these reasons that previous plans by both Blair and Cameron to ban the organisation had been shelved.
In moving to proscribe the organisation, the UK is demonstrating three things:
1. The lowering of the threshold for proscription in order to silence free speech.
2. Its subservience to Israeli policy.
3. It’s desire to join the great bastions of freedom that have also banned the group - Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Germany.
In order to proscribe a group, the Home Sec must believe that it is concerned in terrorism (not ‘is or has been concerned’). This means that he must believe that the group currently commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for terrorism, promotes or encourages terrorism or is otherwise concerned in terrorism.
The Home Sec seems to have exploited the 'encourages terrorism' aspect of this by relying on a single press release by Hizb ut Tahrir's branch in Palestine on 7 October 2023 . Two points in this regard.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/en/index.php/p…
Short 🧵 on #Ashura. Today is the 10th of Muharram, the day Muslims celebrate Allah saving the prophet Musa & the Israelites from Pharaoh.
Here are 7 lessons about speaking truth to power from the story of Musa and Pharaoh.
Lesson 1: Islam requires us to speak truth to power regardless of the personal consequences for ourselves. This is the best form of jihad as understood and practiced by the greatest Muslims.
Lesson 2: It is normal to be afraid. Courage is doing the right thing despite that fear. The Prophet Musa feared confronting Pharaoh but asked Allah to help him and went ahead regardless. With each conversation with Pharaoh, Musa’s bravery and confidence increased.
🧵on how British Muslims have been the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to restrictions on civil liberties for over two decades and how the chickens are coming home to roost.
Following widespread condemnation of the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account from across the political spectrum, with even Sunak describing it as wrong, the Treasury is now taking steps to ensure the rules will change to protect customers better bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
A welcome relief for Nigel Farage of course but also the hundreds of British Muslims whose bank accounts were closed without warning or explanation for the past two decades. Not by Coutts but by high street banks like @HSBC @BarclaysUK @NatWest_Help and @LloydsBank