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.
🧵Professional regulators should pay careful attention to today's decision by District Judge Michael Snow to quash a summons for the arrest of @reginalddhunter applied for by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) because it was 'misleading' and 'abusive'.
Judge Snow described the CAA's conduct as being 'consistent with them as an organisation which is not “playing it straight” but is seeking to use the criminal justice system, in this case for improper reasons.' He said its 'true and sole motive' was to cancel Hunter.
Judge Snow further criticised the CAA for its 'wilful, repeated, failure to meet its disclosure obligations' (examples below) adding that had he known then what he does now, he would have rejected the application as 'vexatious'. @HeidiBachram @MLewisLawyer @Mandyblumenthal get special mentions
🧵It was the summer of 2006. I was 24 years old. Israel was bombing Lebanon with British weapons. And a Labour PM was refusing to call for a ceasefire.
Hezbollah (not then proscribed) was defending its people in Lebanon and like many many others at the time, I supported that.
So broad was the support against Israel's incursions into Lebanon that a Guardian/ICM poll at the time indicated that only 22% of the British public believed Israel's actions were proportionate, a view shared by many senior politicians. A lawful protest was arranged. I attended.
I was not a solicitor at the time. However, I accompanied a legal delegation of two junior and one senior counsel to Lebanon to assist in the investigation of war crimes by Israel. This was shortly after Israel abandoned its incursion, having taken “a hell of a beating”.
🧵Anyone who has been sanctioned for describing Israel an apartheid state, calling for its dismantlement, or comparing it with Nazi Germany, MUST read this recent High Court decision that provides critical guidance on the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism.
1. The judgment came in the context of an appeal by a solicitor against a decision to strike him off for tweets that were deemed to be antisemitic. While Mr Husain lost his appeal, the Court's findings in relation to the IHRA definition of anitsemitism are illuminating.
2. The IHRA definition is controversial particularly because of its list of contemporary examples appended to the definition, several of which involve criticism of Israel as an entity and Israeli policies.
Yesterday, my firm @riverwaylaw filed an application to the Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP on behalf of Hamas for its removal from the list of proscribed organisations. The public reaction over the past 24 hours demonstrates a great degree of misunderstanding and ignorance of the law surrounding proscription. A short thread to clarify some of those matters.
1. When passing the Terrorism Act 2000, parliament intended to create a mechanism for any group the government banned to be able to apply for the ban to be lifted. This process is contained in s4 of the Act. The application by Hamas is made under this provision.
2. If parliament intended to allow proscribed groups to legally apply for deproscription, it should not shock members of the public, especially members of parliament, that a group has sought to utilise the mechanism to do so.
🧵 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.