Palestine declassified, broadcasting twice a week, were the only tv show thats dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regimes global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. In todays show well be covering the growing popularity of cudsday and the frantic efforts of zinist extremists to undermine and sabotage it. Record numbers are expected at this years rallies because the world has been awoken by the unspeakably horrific atrocities being perpetrated by the. Entity in gaza in the occupied west bank. Latif rabuchakra has been looking at the history of kuds day and the extraordinary efforts by the zinist lobby to close it down. 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. Quds day was introduced in 1979 by ayatullah komeini. Quds day. Was a response to jerusalem day in which jewish settlers rampage around the quds, which they called jerusalem, chanting racist slogans including may your village burn. The zionist entity heightened attempts to suppress quds day after the gazza massacre between 2008 to 2009. The worldwide revoltion against the massacre led to a significant rise in support for the palestinians and worldwide protests. Goods day is marked throughout muslim and arabic countries in over. 80 islamic and nonislamic 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 quods day is a threat to the zionist entity and its supporters and assets in the west and elsewhere. Accordingly, they mobilized to smear and denounce could stay and to claim that its celebration exhibits extremism and antisemitism. In the uk, zionist groups have been attempting sabotage the celebration for more than 15 years. In the us, zionist entity assets have gone on the offensive. The antiDeformation League denounced the quds day in 2016 as hateful demonstration of antiisrael and antisemitic sentiment. In 2022, it ludicrously labeled calls for the dismantling of zionism as genocidal ambitions. In germany, bundis and or federal office for the protection of the constitution in english, is the Domestic Intelligence agency. In 2019, it published a deeply racist report on antisemitism in islamist extremism. It specifically singled out could stay and denounced a huge range of Muslim Political groups as extreme. All were labeled with designs created notion of islamic antisemitism. The report openly states that german intelligence. Fies on peaceful and legal muslim activists, so long as theyre defined as islamist, racist term which effectively covers any muslim active in politics. The temporary zionist entity continues its onslaught of ethnic cleansing and murder razza and throughout the region. Complicit western governments continue to try and repress pro palestine sentiment, but this year the celebrations of codstate go ahead in a situation where support for palestine is a historic. High as the result of the genocide in gaza. Joining me in the studio as usual, is our resident expert david miller. David is academic and a former professor at Bristol University and hes now a Senior Research fellow at the center for islam and Global Affairs at istanbul zaham university. Hes also a codirector of the lobby in watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel. Our guest contributor today is nazim ali who joins us via zoom. In his professional life, nazim is a pharmacist, but hes also. Passionate propalestine campaigner, and it was his activism that brought him to the attention of the zionist lobby. These extremists subjected him to seven year long malicious hate filled campaign and pressurized the general pharmaceutical. Council to strike him off. Thankfully, the despicable ploy to destroy nazims career and deprive him of his livelihood was rejected. Welcome to the show. Nazim, uh, whats been your experience of cudsday in the United Kingdom . Hi, chris, hi, thanks for having me. Um, its been very interesting. I went to the first one in 1988, its a very inclusive protest that occurs every single year, as latifa said in the uh prequel that um on the last frite of every ramadan, we actually have it mainly a sunday in england because of its a weekend, um, probably the safest annual rally ever in the history of the United Kingdom, without doubt, i dont have any arrests, if anything the arrests happened with the counter protesters, its unique actually, it seems to galvanize the far right, are the bnp etc and designers to come on protest against us together, so its one of the only few um processions um where youll get the country demonstrators uh having a union jack having a zinis flag far right stickers all over them coming together so its helped unite um these really extreme rightwing uh groups uh but over the years absolutely peaceful from our side absolutely yeah well so thats been my experience of it mean and ive attended the the could stay demonstration last year and cancertainly endorse everything youve just said there dison, but david, the the zin is theyve been trying to suppress the codsday for for 15 years, havent they . They have, they dont like it, and they dont like it because of course its a militant uh uh demonstration and it doesnt pull it punches, it says you know this is cool, this is the capital of palestine, its not the capital of israel, and of course theyve been trying uh in the uk, certainly its the case in nazims case especially, but also in in the us where the Deformation League have been very active, talked about that many times in this show before, and also in that case in germany, a truly extraordinary case there where the the German Intelligence Services were actually smearing and libeling propsling uh demonstrators as being somehow uh effectively nazis and uh this is the kind of stuff you get from the designers of course weve seen this in many many occasions and many episodes of this show this is what they do, they want to stop any possible expression of support for palestinian rights, well thezim i mean how does good . Then differ would you say from from other pro palestine marches . Mean i think its origin his origin story, i think is really important, again as a mentioned, it was initiated by the late atal khumin um and it differs in the sense that it does come from a real political base, it comes from point of no compromise with the oppressor, it comes from very anticolonial standpoint and its very strong on that and its all about freedom and its all about removing the chains of colonialism and oppression, understanding the fact that palestine is the key, so wherever theres a pression going on in the world, wherever theres colonialism still in its various forms existing, if we can unlock the situation of palestine, it will unlock every other puzzle thats going on, thats the uniqueness of of of kuds there, and thats why its so important, and come rain wind or shine cris in england, it it takes place, doesnt matter if its. Because its in ramadan, it changes 10 days every year, so we have it when its snowing, we have it when its hailstones, thunderstorms, weve never cancelled accepting covid, and then we went online, yeah, no, absolutely, well david, i believe youre speaking at this years cudsday uh demonstration in london arent you, i mean that kind of demonstrates doesnt it, the sort of serious politics of the of the organizers, wouldnt you agree, well it does, i mean since ive won my case at industrial tribunal, ive not had a single uh invitation um to speak cancelled uh, which is unusual before before my uh tribunal uh judgment was released, um, most meetings that i was invited to were cancelled, or indeed sometimes there were attempts by pro palestine campaigners to cancel my meetings as well, not just designers, but also uh people from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, this headquarters have tried to stop me from uh from speaking at that psc branches, but this is an indication really that uh the organizers of this demonstration are serious that theres serious about their antisianism and and about not compromising with sianism, sionism is a form of racism, its a genocidal ideology, everybody can see that now, and we should have nothing to do with sionism, sionism is something which should be challenged and we should be moving towards an eradication of zionism as a as racist ideology, and not all of the propalestin movement, im afraid to say uh would endorse such politics, no indeed and we talked in this show havent we about the the need really for designization. A process uh to basically eradicate this kind of racist ideology from the from the country and indeed from from the world, but no, nazim, i mean, what, whats your assessment of the Palestine Solidarity Movement today . David just mentioned there that um previously when hes had speaking engagements hes had objections indeed from uh the uh Palestine Solidarity Campaign i mean whats your thoughts about that today . Yeah i mean look i think we not as always been a history uh especially in the uk of certain um organizations infiltrating other organizations and trying to change the narrative and as david has just alluded to its imperative we stick to the antizionist narrative. Um because theres a lot of blowback format format, especially when we are being absolutely determined to take on zionism, it causes lot of consternation of certain people and a bit of fear of the blowback and the potential of consequences, whatever they are that people and organizations feel, and some organizations dont want and i mean this respectfully if i can, dont want to be tired under the same type of label as other. Organizations etc etc. Uh, a bit of a cop out if you ask me, but um, i dont think theres any space to compromise uh when it comes to palestine, when it comes to talking about uh far right ideologies like zianism, and weve got to be out there and weve got to put it a plate and serve it. Well, david, i mean, despite the the 15year Long Campaign by the zinis to try and destroy a could stay, i mean the demonstration is getting bigger and bigger. Every single year, and as ive said in the introduction, i think were expecting record attendances at the the demonstrations this year. What do you think that says . Well, it says that the movement for palestine, palestinian liberation is on the march and that its rising, its support for is rising across the whole world, including in countries like western countries where the governments are supporting the zionist on gaza, but the population is becoming more and more radical in support of the palestinians and couldday is is kind of cutting edge of that and we see the the increased consciousness that there is in the country and the increasingly increasing inability of design to stop this kind of campaigning and so so so we have the situation where we we look at this the other day just in in the show where the government is trying to step in and to to divide the movement by labeling some parts of the Palestine Solidarity Movement as being extremist now of course this will this is going to fail but thats an indication of the threat that they face that they feel that they face from the Palestine Solidarity Movement. Um and uh nazim, the uh the attendance at the the kudsday demonstrations is is incredibly uh mixed isnt it, very diverse attendees, a big big jewish contingent for for example, i believe is that briefly, i mean thats true isnt it, absolutely, absolutely, i mean its a very Family Friendly um protest, lot of children come along with their families with their parents, and we have a large contingent of the jewish people, especially rabbies from neutral cartime movement as well as um other jews as well who come, antizinius jews who come to the procession, in fact its very multi faith and people of no faith attend as well and even from the speakers list, if you go back historically is a big variety from the far left to people who are more sort of religious coming from a religious perspective and so on and so forth, so yeah very, very diverse, no indeed, well well well come back in in a moment nazim to our discussion um after our next report about the truly astonishing lence that the zionist lobby went to in their efforts to ruin the career of our guest nazim ali. The london pharmacist nazim ali has finally won his longrunning legal battle against zianist regime proxies. It all started in 2017 when nazim ali spoke at the kudsday rally. Zianers complained about his antizianist comments to the police. The Crown Prosecution Service refused to press charges. The signers took a private prosecution that was eventually stopped by the cps. They took out a judicial review against the cps and lost. In january 2019, alis professional regulator, the general pharmaceutical council, said there was no case to answer, but gave him a warning for being offensive. The caa then bullied the regulator into reversing its position in july of that year. The council concluded his words were not antisemitic 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 folded and offered no defense. The high court. Then sent the case back to the gpc, which made the absurd determination that two of alis remarks were objectively if unintentionally antisemitic, however it gave him a warning as before, the zionists were still not happy and appealed to the court 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 cudels first. The caa is a creature of the zinus. Regime, it was set up to attack the propalestine movement with fake antisemitism allegations. Much of its early funding came from the Jewish National funt, the racist land theft group, which is one of the four socalled National Institutions in israel. The uk lawyers for israel is a group which appears to have been set up under the auspices of the Israeli Ministry of foreign affairs. Its whole purpose is to use lawfair tactics to manipulate the law and 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 number of recent victories against the zionist movement. The tide is turned. Well congratulations on your historic win uh nazim, i mean it was been a great relief to to finally resolve this can only be described as nightmare, yeah, yeah, absolutely, seven years long, and um, you know, every point, every part that we won, they would come back, and the interesting thing is chris, um, lot of this didnt cost any of these campaigning organizations, the the the zinest ones. Any money apart from the judicial review, if i recollect correctly, because theyve been pressurizing, the powers that be to to take these cases on, in this last one, i think its important to know that as they lost, they had to pay, psa has to pay costs, it had 4300 pound of its own costs and 13,000 of the gpxcs cost to pay, so thats all come from a government fund, and that is taxpayers money, 56,00 pound just to get me. Off, which they failed to do, which makes no sense when the gphc committee, fitness and Practice Committee have been well within the their rights to find the determination that they found, and they found me that a warning was ample enough, so questions need to be asked really, what made the psa take this back to the high court at expense of the taxpayers money . No, indeed, questions certainly do need to be asked, but i mean david, i mean, what do you make of of of nazims case, i mean . Absolutely crazy doesnt it . Then we have to go through what four different uh uh processes, numerous different processes actually involving seven in fact separate organizations between the zinanis, police, the courts and and the regulators i mean what does that tell us about the nature of of the zianist lobby . Well it tells you that they uh intend to intimidate, bully and harass any organization that gets in their way and they intend to be able to occupy those organizations, so as thats its been saying, these were organizations which did it. Off their own but the the designs didnt even have to lift finger in some some cases because the organizations took each other to court and fought like rats in the sack to to to more effectively implement the zionist uh the zionist organizations wishes so what we have is is not just an occupation of these regulatory bodies the regulator of pharmacists and the regulator of the regulator of form assists not just occupied but effectively captured by the state of israel and and doing the bidding. The state of a state of israel which is currently engaged in a genocide. This is no way to run any kind of democracy and it shows the way in which the the hostile foreign power which is israel is able to actually get inside regulatory bodies and to turn them against the purposes that are intended to be therefore. Its kind of unbelievable vindictiveness isnt this . Its astonishing it really is but mean how was this long and and drawn out battle affected you mean personally and and and of course professor. Personally as well, quite badly, if im honest, um, youre not used to seeing your face on the center spread of the Jewish Chronicle front page, being called a preacher of hate, terms like islam is being used, and they do it deliberately, so all the way from the rightwing press in the uk to the rightwing press in america and and in israel itself, so if anyone was going to work with me and google my name as which people do these days, all this stuff comes up, so its all planned, its all. Done in a very methodical way, the way they release the news, it first comes in the more zinus press and then it comes in the Mainstream Press two three weeks later, it follows a set pattern, and of course it affects your mental health, it affects your wellbeing, your relationships, it affects everything and your place at work, just to give you a side thing on that, theyre funny enough what i work, the they contacted every nonbrown named person individual um back in 2017 saying you work for an antisemite, how do you feel about it, but they didnt contact anyone with a brown sounding name, which shows uh where theyre coming from really, but yeah it really does take it out of you, but thanks to friends, thanks to supports, thanks to people like yourselves weve gone through what you guys have gone through, you no, that energy helps to stand up and fight the fight, which we have to do collectively. Well, the old maximity of strength is absolutely appiste here and is so important and i know from personal experience how how crucial that is, actually that that kind of solidarity from grassroots supporters, so i can certainly relate to that and im pleased that that you felt that that was something that that helped you through what must have been absolutely appalling. Ordeal, but david, i mean, what do you make of the committees judgment then, that um, i mean, they said that they they could discern no reasonable or persuasive connection between zionists and grenful, that you know the Jewish Chronicle headline harted there, and and this the remark must be antisemitic. Well, i mean, first of all, the idea that a committee can decide whether something is antisemitic on the basis that they cant see what the connection with the zanist movement is, its completely. To get out a bit more and to do some more research, but of course what are the connections between greenf and the zionist . One, that ministers in the government are all zionists, the conservative friends of israel, members of that organization, but more importantly arconic, which is the company which provided the cladding, its top shareholder, is an Organization Called uh elliot management run by guy called paul singer, hes the top donor to the friends of the Israel Defense forces, one one connection, two connections, arc is an organization which which is is a Construction Company which was engaged in constructing f35 fighters which have been sent to israel to bomb palestinian children, two connections. Its not my fault, its not, its not anybody elses fault that they cant perceive this, but there is a connection between grenvel and the zionis and we can we can point this out with many, many other examples, so and and we should be we should not be be scared of saying that, its not antisemitic to say it, there are connections between the zionists and all sorts of apolin things which going on in the uk, including grenfall, one think about the zinis, they never let the facts get in. Way of a good old fashion smear, do they . Well, thats right, i mean as everyone has now been saying, they lie and they lie and they lie, and thats thats the way, yeah, indeed. Well, nazim, as as far as im aware, theres been absolutely no Media Coverage of your historic win. I mean, why is that do you think . Well, its almost theyve got custard pie in their face, havent they . Seven years, seven years of chasing me, left, right and center, going through the course, the various bodies, seven different organizations you mentioned, theyve got nothing to show for it at the end, apart from what was determined back in you know 2020 a warning um so its been um like i said waste of taxpayers money waste of time its shown how vindictive theyve been towards me uh like i said you know financially its been a big burden on me emotionally healthwise it has been as well and it just shows the nastiness of them of designist movement how vindictive nasty and pretty much evil they are that um the dis used everything they could that actually didnt affect them financially, as david made a great point there, they got people to inter fight on their behalf, which is you know amazing, but who wants to admit failure um, and thats what they would have to do, admit failure, because they were all going to go about, yeah, were going to get him struck off, were going to get him struck off, yeah, yeah, no, indeed, i mean, uh, well, as i say, i mean, youre through it now, thank goodness, and uh, youve prevailed, and um, and thankfully, as we were saying, you got that grassroots, support and solidarity to to help you through, what must have been a terrible or deal, and youve won, and i think everybody will be all right thinking people anyway, will be absolutely delighted that that you have got through it and youve got through it, relatively on the skate not withstanding what youve already said, but uh, youre here and you stand victorious, so congratulations again on that, nazim, but uh, unfortunately thats all we got time for today, so thanks for watching and and thank you to our guest nazimba ali, and of course our residence expert professor david miller. 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