Palestinian academic calls for boycott of Israel
If the international community takes a common stance against Israel, it
cannot continue blatant killings in Palestine, a Palestinian academic
said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.
Speaking at the “Palestine: Facing New Challenges, Preparing for Future”
session on the second day of Muslim Future Thinkers Forum at Ibn Haldun
University in Istanbul, Sami al-Arian of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim
University, called on a boycott of Israel.
“This can be an economic or cultural boycott. We have to raise our
voice. If the world takes a common stance on Palestine, Israel will not
be able to continue its blatant murders,” Al-Arian said.
Palestinian-American civil rights activist cum academic Al-Arian is the
Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and public
affairs professor at Sabahattin Zaim University.
He said the distress stems from the fact that Jews, who came from Europe
and settled in Israel, reject Muslims and Christians living in the
region.
The Palestinian problem is rooted in the Israeli occupation with the
ideology of Zionism rather than the Jewish settlements in the
Palestinian territories Al-Arian said.
“We have a Jewish problem. The Palestinian problem began especially
after the European Jews settled in Palestine. The Jewish problem is not
only the Palestinian issue but an issue of the whole world. When the
Jews settled in Palestine, a genocide against the Palestinian people has
begun. [Ottoman] Sultan Abdulhamid II turned all the Palestinian lands
into the property of the palace after he succeeded to the throne. Thus,
the doors of Palestine were closed to the Jews.
“Until the World War I, the Palestinian territories remained under the
control of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the World War I, Britain
invaded and redesigned the region in 1918 and settled the Zionists in
the Palestinian territories. Since then, the Jews and the state of
Israel have continued settlements while trying all forms of oppression
and persecution to remove the Palestinian people from this land,”
Al-Arian said.
He added that Israel continues to invade the Palestinian territories
like an imperialist state, while the Palestinian people continue to
struggle for their freedoms, and that they will use every means to
publicize this just cause.
Al-Arian emphasized Turkey’s support for the Palestinian cause and said
Turkey “always holds the Palestinian cause on the agenda.”
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