The Arab communities have responded on Saturday to the Palestinian Forum’s call in Britain to demonstrate electronically in rejection of normalization under the slogan of “Palestine is my case and normalization is treason” and from Jerusalem; the Jerusalemite activist Hanadi al-Halawani called for joining efforts to reject normalization and expose those normalizing in order to support the blood of Jerusalemites who pay the price with their lives and money in the face of the occupation and protection of sacred lands.
Hafez al-Karmi head of the London-based Palestinian Forum in Britain said that the forum has chosen for this day the title: “Palestine is a trust and normalization is betrayal” And the trust is contradictory and corresponds to treason and giving up Palestine accordingly through normalization with this aggressive occupation on the land and honor and sanctities is a betrayal of this trust. He also added “Palestine is a purified land that has a permanent function whenever an atrocity strikes it it is purified again and therefore it is called the Holy Land in which neither occupation nor injustice lasts nor does an oppressor last in it.” Al-Karmi continued: “The normalization which means building various relations with the entity or its representatives in a manner that requires recognition of their right to the seizure and dispossession of the land of Palestine and the desecration of the sanctities of Islam – Therefore we say today that we are required to resist this normalization because it is consistent with the divine laws customs and international laws that judge boycotting the occupier resisting the oppressor and supporting the oppressed and is consistent with the nation’s strategy in liberating the occupied land.
From Canada the Syrian artist Yahya Hawwa presented Artistic paintings rejecting normalization and solidarity with the people of Gaza and a video clip was shown of popular demonstrations from several Arab countries especially those that recently went down the normalization route.
Lana Al-Sumaidaie spoke on behalf of the Iraqi community announcing their rejection to shake the hand that built the separation walls that surrounded the people of Palestine and besieged them “and we cannot give the right to someone who simply has no right and there may be confusion about anti-Semitism on the issue of Palestine but I assure you that the matter has nothing to do with that. Rather we are against Zionism and not anti-Semitism”.
The Secretary-General of the Anti-Normalization League Ahmed Al-Shaiba Al-Nuaimi called for boycotting those normalizing and isolate them in the media and economically describing them as the Zionists. Focusing on the fundamental role of the family in implanting the Palestinian issue in the hearts of their children he tells how his father in the Emirates used to tell him about Palestine and its stories and how he instilled its love in himself and that this role is getting more important with the absence of the Palestinian question in educational curricula and changing perceptions and facts about the Palestinian issue.
Muhammad Kuzbar head of the Lebanese Community Association in Britain expressed his delight to participate in support for the first and most important issue – the issue of Palestine despite the plots challenges and tragedies that the Arab and Islamic world suffers from; adding “We must maintain our optimism confidence in victory which is optimism we derive from the Palestinian people themselves”
From Kuwait the activist Haya Al-Shatti spoke affirming the high sensitivity of the Kuwaiti people against normalization and the increase in awareness of the dangers of normalization and the Palestinian issue as a whole.
From Palestine Kefah Zuraiqi participated with his well-known song “Leave us alone” and finished it with a beautiful Palestinian poem known as a ‘Mawwal’.
On Behalf of the Syrian community in Britain Lamia Allawi spoke rejecting normalization because it is a denial of all human rights and the right of the Palestinian people to their land.
From the Egyptian League in Britain Muhammad Soudan spoke saying: The normalization project has been in development in secret for several years on a political commercial and popular level; some of it declared and some of it kept a secret confirming the failure of normalization especially at the popular level recalling the efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood to inculcate a rejection of normalization in the Arab peoples warning of the seriousness of the official Arab role in promoting the deal and promoting the project of normalization and persecution of its rejectionists. Soudan said: Whoever supports normalization is a traitor and will pursue the shame of normalization in their life and after their death.
The Moroccan artist Abdellatif Fadlallah made participation in which he sang:
You harvesters of shame O sellers of Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley
I did not welcome you home as a captive for you bereaved a nation and fruits
And continue
The offence of normalization with the enemies the soul sighed with this
Shake hands with a child killer and a thug
The presenter of the ceremony Mona Douglas thanked the attendees and the participants on social media platforms for their interaction with the ceremony hoping that the next one would be held in Palestine freed from occupation and said: No peace treaties will change history and places. He will not be able to erase your name from our hearts O Qiblat Al Mada’in (in reference to Jerusalem).
