Celebrating al-Quds Day and the victory of Nazim Ali
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David Miller
- 11 Apr 2024 14:16
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The case tells us how foreign agents of the Zionist regime can harass, bully, and intimidate so effectively that they can, in effect, occupy the professional bodies regulating the profession of pharmacy.
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Zionist groups have been attempting to sabotage the al-Quds Day celebration for more than fifteen years (illustrated by Zeinab al-Hajj; Al Mayadeen English)
Al-Quds Day is celebrated all over the world – traditionally on the last Friday of Ramadan. It is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people named with the Arabic word for "Jerusalem", the capital of Palestine
Al-Quds Day was introduced in 1979 by Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini. Al-Quds Day was a response to "Jerusalem Day" in which Jewish settlers rampage around al-Quds, which they call "Jerusalem", chanting racist slogans, including “may your village burn."
The Zionist entity heightened attempts to suppress al-Quds Day after the Gaza massacre between 2008 -2009. The worldwide revulsion against the massacre led to a significant rise in support for the Palestinians and worldwide protests.
Al-Quds Day is marked throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds in over 80 Islamic and non-Islamic countries in total. In the West, these include the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece.
The Muslim unity displayed in al-Quds Day is a threat to the Zionist entity, as well as its supporters and assets in the West and elsewhere. Accordingly, they mobilize to smear and denounce al-Quds Day and claim that its celebration exhibits “extremism” and “antisemitism”.
For example, in the UK, for 27 years, the annual al-Quds Day demonstration concluded with a rally in the iconic Trafalgar Square, in the heart of Whitehall and just yards from Downing Street, the residence of the British Prime Minister.
In the UK, Zionist groups have been attempting to sabotage the celebration for more than fifteen years.
Protests against al-Quds Day in the UK started in 2007, organized by the Islamophobic pro-Zionist blog Harry’s Place.
By 2009, for the first time, the organizers were denied the ability to rally at Trafalgar Square following threats from Islamophobic groups. A counter-demonstration in which Iranian supporters of the deposed Shah of Iran, the far right, and, of course, Zionists made common cause.
In the US, Zionist entity assets have gone on the offensive. The Anti-Defamation League denounced al-Quds Day in 2016 as a “hateful demonstration of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment." In 2022, it ludicrously labeled calls for the dismantling of Zionism as “genocidal ambitions”.
In Germany, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (or Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) is the domestic intelligence agency. In 2019, it published a deeply racist report on “antisemitism in Islamist extremism." It specifically singled out al-Quds Day and denounced a huge range of Muslim political groups as “extreme”. All were labeled with the Zionist-created notion of “Islamic anti-Semitism”.
The report openly states that German intelligence spies on peaceful and legal Muslim activists – so long as they are defined as “Islamist”; a racist term that effectively covers any Muslim active in politics.
The temporary Zionist entity continues its onslaught of ethnic cleansing and murder in Gaza and throughout the region.
Complicit Western governments continue to try and repress pro-Palestine sentiment.
But this year, the celebrations of al-Quds Day went ahead in a situation where support for Palestine is at a historic high as a result of the genocide in Gaza.
In London, pharmacist Nazim Ali has finally won his long-running legal battle against Zionist regime proxies.
It all started in 2017 when Nazim Ali spoke at the al-Quds Day rally.
Zionists complained about his "anti-Zionist" comments to the police. The Crown Prosecution Service refused to press charges.
The Zionists took a private prosecution that was eventually stopped by the CPS. They also took out a judicial review against the CPS and lost.
In January 2019, Ali’s professional regulator, the General Pharmaceutical Council, said there was no case to answer but gave him a warning for being “offensive”.
The Zionist group the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) then bullied the regulator into reversing its position in July of that year.
The council concluded his words were not anti-Semitic in November 2020.
But the "UK Lawyers for Israel" joined the Campaign Against Antisemitism to continue to harass Ali.
In December 2020, UKLFI complained to the body which regulates the regulator - the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (or PSA). The intimidation worked, and the PSA took the GPC to court - at which point the GPC outrageously folded and offered no defense.
The High Court then sent the case back to the GPC, which made the absurd determination that two of Ali’s remarks were “objectively”, even if unintentionally, antisemitic. However, it gave him a warning as before. The Zionists were still not happy and appealed to the courts to get Ali sacked. In March this year, the court declared that there was no case to answer. This is a historic and hard-fought victory.
But who are the Zionist groups who have bullied and intimidated the professional regulators into such submission?
The Campaign Against Antisemitism took up the cudgels first. The CAA is a creature of the Zionist regime. It was set up to attack the pro-Palestine movement with fake anti-Semitism allegations.
Much of its early funding came from the Jewish National Fund, the racist land theft group, which is one of the four so-called “national institutions” in "Israel".
The "UK Lawyers for Israel" is a group that appears to have been set up under the auspices of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its whole purpose is to use lawfare tactics to manipulate the law and bully British institutions into doing its bidding.
The case tells us how foreign agents of the Zionist regime can harass, bully, and intimidate so effectively that they can, in effect, occupy the professional bodies regulating the profession of pharmacy. This is what state capture looks like.
It also tells us that people can fight back and win. In fact, this is one of a number of recent victories against the Zionist movement. The tide is turning.
