NEW DELHI, (PIC)
A national conference on “Peace and Justice For Palestine” organized by All India Tanzeem Ulema E Islam and Muslim Students Organization of India (MSO) was held on Friday at the Indian capital New Delhi.
The Conference unanimously passed the following resolutions:
- Calls for an immediate Ceasefire and an end to the genocidal war on Palestine by Israel.
- The Indian Parliament must pass a resolution to demand that Israel end the war.
- The resolution must also call for the establishment of a Palestinian state as per UN resolutions and international laws.
- India must stop supply of weapons to Israel.
- Calls for a boycott of Israeli companies and products.
- Call for a National Day of Solidarity with Palestine on the 7th of October marking one year of the
Israeli war on Palestine.
The meeting was addressed by prominent speakers and more than 400 people were present at the venue.
Basem F. Hellis, Counselor, Palestine Embassy, was the Chief Guest. He stated that it is not a religious problem, but an issue of resistance to the colonial occupation of Palestine by Israel.
He spoke about the fact that more than 200 of his family members have been murdered in Gaza. He spoke about the age-old historic ties between India and Palestine and thanked the Indian people for their continued support.
Dr. Sunilam, President, India Palestine Solidarity Forum (IPSF), and a prominent farmers leader from Gwalior, categorically condemned Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu for the genocide and the war crimes being committed in Gaza and across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
He also said that the Indian PM Narendra Modi is betraying the Palestinian cause. The fact that India is currently exporting weapons to Israel is a matter of national shame. He further called for a boycott of companies and products that are linked to Israel. He called for national day of protests on the 7th of October to mark one year of the brutal genocide of the Palestinian people.
Feroze Mithiborwala, Gen. Sec. IPSF, from Mumbai, explained the reasons that led to the 7th of October “Gaza Ghetto Uprising”. He said that in fact it was a “Prison Break”, as after more than 17 years of the siege of Gaza, the resistance decided to break the walls of the Judeo-Nazi Concentration Camp.
Genocidal war
Mufti Ashfaq H Qadri (Chairman, All India Tanzeem Ulema-i-Islam) reminded the youth of the historic and rich Indo-Palestine ties.
MJ Vijayan, Indians for Palestine, based in Delhi spoke about the fact that Palestine is a global cause, a cause for all of humanity. He informed the house that 11 eminent citizens have filed a case in the Supreme Court demanding that Adani-Elbit and two public sector companies stop their weapons supplies to Israel. Earlier, in both Bengaluru and Mumbai, national signature campaigns were launched to cancel pro-Israel public programs.
Dr. Shujaat Ali Quadri, Vice-President, IPSF & leader of the Muslim Students Organization spoke about the fast changing geopolitical and strategic balance of power where the US-Israel-led western neo-colonial bloc is in a certain state of decline.
He said that Israel has committed a Holocaust in Gaza with more than 200,000 dead as per the report published in the Lancet, the world’s premier research medical journal. The Israelis have targeted and destroyed residential buildings, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, power stations and water supplies. The agenda is to kill, starve, and ethnically cleanse all of Palestine. But he said that over the course of the next few years, Palestine will be Free of the Israeli Zionist occupation.
Syed Javed Naqshbandi Qari Sagheer Razvi, Secretary, All India Tanzeem Ulema-i-Islam, called for the unity of the Indian people across religious communities and strive for the Palestinian cause, even as they brave the most difficulties.
The house further decided to create a national movement involving various sections of society.
