Palestinian media is reporting on plans by the U.K. Muslim
Brotherhood and it supportive organizations for the so-called “Global
March to Jerusalem.” According to a Palestine News Network report:
A number of Islamic, Arab and British Palestinian solidarity
organisations will meet this Monday 13th Feb to discuss plans for
activities of the Global March to Jerusalem. The meeting is on the
invitation of the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), the Association of
Palestinian Community (APC) and the British Muslim Initiative (BMI).
These organisations, alongside many other British solidarity
organisations, have announced their intention for active participation
in the Global March to Jerusalem by organising a large protest in front
of the Israeli embassy in London and sending delegations to participate
in the huge March which planned to take place in the bordering countries
of Palestine, as to condemn the Judaization, apartheid and ethnic
cleansing committed by Israel against Jerusalem and its people in
particular and against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories in
general. Dr. Hafez Karmi, chairman of the PFB, said that this meeting is
part of a bigger gathering which will include all European committees
and organisations participating in the March to Jerusalem. The PFB will
host the said meeting in London on the 21st Feb, where European efforts
will be coordinated to ensure the participation of as many people as
possible in the March and its activities whether in European capitals or
through travelling to Palestine or its surrounding countries where
hundreds of thousands of participants in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt will
march to the nearest point to Jerusalem. Sarah Colborne, The Executive
Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) announced at the end of
January that a huge March will take place in front of the Israeli
embassy in London as part of the GMJ. She invited all British people to
actively join the protest. It worth to mention that The Global March to
Jerusalem will take place on Friday 30th March 2012 where hundreds of
committees and campaigns all over the six continents will participate in
order to highlight the suffering the people of Jerusalem are going
through as a result of the occupation’s Zionist and racist practices.
The slogan of the March will be “Peoples of the world demand the freedom
for Jerusalem… People of the world demand to end the occupation of
Palestine”.”
An earlier post reported on another planning conference that took place in Istanbul while another post
discussed the invitation to the march that was posted on a far-left
website. As noted in that post, six of the twelve individuals listed as
sponsoring/endorsing the initiative are either leaders in or closely
tied to the Global Brotherhood including PFB and BMI leaders discussed
above.
- Zaher Birawi, leading Palestine activist, Britain (director of the Palestine Return Center in the U.K)
- Gretta Duisenberg, Chair Foundation “Stop the Occupation”, Board
member Free Gaza Movement, Netherlands (widow of former European Bank
president; works closely with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the Netherlands)
- Dr. Hafiz al Karmi, Chairman Palestinian Forum in Britain (The PFB works closely with Muslim Brotherhood groups in the U.K.)
- Mohammad Kozber, British Muslim Initiative (The BMI is part of the U.K Muslim Brotherhood)
- Mikalis Lukianos, Ship to Gaza, Greece (The Gaza Flotilla movement is closely tied to the Global Muslim Brotherhood)
- Ismael Patel, Chairman Friends of Al Aqsa, Britain (FOA and Patel work closely with the U.K. Muslim Brotherhood)
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