A group of Palestinian academicians launched a national initiative demanding Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas not to meet the US Vice President Mike Pence who is expected to visit the West Bank and Israel next week.
The academic Adnan Abu Amer Head of Political Science Department at al-Ummah University in Gaza told the PIC reporter that the initiative came in response to the US President Donald Trump’s decision to recolonize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and accordingly to move the US embassy to the holy city.
Abu Amer one of prominent figures who launched the initiative affirmed that 1000 signatures were collected from Palestinian academicians in the West Bank Gaza Occupied Jerusalem 1948 Occupied Palestine and diaspora in addition to Gulf countries.
The initiative will be submitted to the office of PA President Mahmoud Abbas next week Abu Amer concluded.
