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this is for palestine, gaza, this is for the child that is searching for renald, this is not just the world of the stolen land, why do you think little boys are going stone? attacks and we'll never really know how many people are dead, they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed, israel is a terror state, the terrorists that testify my television televise, how many more resolutions have to be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever they try, palestine will never die,
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hello, i'm chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified, broadcasting twice a week, we're the only tv show that's dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in today's show we'll be covering the growing popularity of cud's day and the frantic efforts of zinist extremists to undermine and sabotage it. record numbers. expected at this year's rallies because the world has been awoken by the unspeakably horrific atrocities being perpetrated by the zinest entity in gaza and the occupied west bank. latifrakra has been looking at the history of kud's 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.
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quds day was introduced in 1979 by ayatullah khameini. 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 gaza massacker between 2008 to 2009. the worldwide revoltion against the massacre led to a significant rise. in support for the palestinians and worldwide protests. good's day is marked throughout of muslim and arabic countries 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 quod's day is a threat to the zionist entity and its supporters and assets in the west and elsewhere. accordingly, they mobilized is to
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smart and denounce kudsday and to claim that its celebration exhibits extremism and anti-semitism. 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 anti-deformation league denounced the quds day in 2016 as 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, bundes amtfur versus 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 anti-semitism in islamist extremism. it specifically singled out could stay and denounced a huge range of muslim political groups as extreme. all were labeled with design is created notion of
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islamic anti-semitism. the report openly states that german intelligence spies on peaceful and legal muslim activists, so long as they're 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 in ghazza and throughout the region. complicit western governments continue to try and repress pro-palestine sentiment. but this year the celebrations of codsday 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 residence expert of david miller. david is academic and a former professor at bristol university and he's now a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul's am university. he's also a co-director of the lobby in watch dog spinwatch and he's a leading british scholarly critic of israel. i guess today is nazim ali who joins us via
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zoom. in his professional life, nazim is a pharmacist, but he's also passionate pro-palestine campaigner, and it was his activism that brought him to the attention of the zinist 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 nazim's career and deprive him of his livelihood was rejected. welcome to the show. nazim, uh, what's been your experience of cudsday in the united kingdom? hi, chris. hi, thanks for having me. um, it's been very interesting. i went to the first one in 1988, it's... very inclusive protest that occurs every single year, as latifa said in the prequel that on the last ride of every ramadan, we actually have it mainly a sunday in england because of it's a weekend, um, probably the safest annual rally ever in the
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history of the united kingdom without doubt, i don't have any arrests, if anything there rests happen with the counter protesters, it's unique actually, it seems to galvin organized the far right, are the bnp etc and designers to come on protest against us together, so it's one of the only few um processions um where you'll get the country demonstrators uh having a union jack, having a zinis flag, far right stickers all over them coming together, so it's helped unite um these right really extreme right-wing uh groups, but over the years absolutely peaceful from our side, absolutely yeah. well certainly that's been my experience of it, i mean and i i've attended the the codsday uh demonstration last year and i can certainly endorse everything you've just said there design, but david is they've been trying to suppress the cudsday for for 15 years haven't they, they have, they don't like it and they don't like it because of course it's a
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militant uh uh demonstration and it doesn't pull its punches, it says you know this is cool, it's the capital of palestine, it's not the capital of israel uh and of course they've been trying uh in the uk. certainly it's the case in nazim's case especially, but also in in the us where the deformation league have been very active, we've talked about them many times on this show before, and also in that case in germany, truly extraordinary case there where the the german intelligence services were actually smearing and libeling, propowerling demonstrators as being somehow uh effectively nazis and uh this is the kind of stuff you get from the designers of course we've seen this in many many occasions and many episodes of the show, this is what they do, they want to stop any pos expression of support for palestinian rights, well nazim, mean how doesday then differ would you say from from other pro- palestine marches? mean i think is origin is origin story, i think is really important,
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again as a mentioned, it was initiated by the late aayaini, 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 anti-colonial standpoint um, and it's very strong on that, and it's all about freedom, and it's all about removing the chains of colonialism and oppression, understanding the fact that palestine is the key, so wherever there's a pression going on in the world, wherever there's colonialism still in its various forms existing, if we can unlock the situation of palestine, it will unlock every other puzzle that's going on, that's the uniqueness of of. could stay and that's why it's so important and come rain wind or shine cris in england, it it takes place, doesn't matter if it's because it's in ramadan, it changes 10 days every year, so we have it when it's snowing, we have it when it's hailstones, thunderstorms, we've never cancelled except in covid and then we went online, yeah, no, absolutely, well david, i
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believe you're speaking at this year's uh codsday uh demonstration in london aren't you, i mean that kind of demonstrates doesn't the sort of serious politics of the of the organizers. you agree, well it does, i mean since i've won my case at industrial tribunal, i've 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 designist but also uh people from the palestine solidarity campaign this headquarters have tried to stop me. from uh from speaking at psc branches, but this is an indication really that the organizers of this demonstration are serious, that they're serious about their anti-sianism and and about not compromising with sionism. sianism is a form of racism, it's a genocidal ideology, everybody can see that now, and we should have nothing to do with zionism,
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zinanism 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 pro-palestin movement i'm afraid to say. uh would endorse such politics? no, indeed, we talked in this show haven't we about the the need really for designization process to basically eradicate this kind of racist ideology from? from the from the country and indeed from from the world, but nazim, i mean, what, what's your assessment of the palestine solidarity movement today? i mean, david just mentioned there that um, previously, when he's had speaking engagements, he's had objections indeed from uh, the uh palestine solidarity campaign. i mean, what's your thoughts about that today? yeah, i mean, look, i think we know there's always been a history, especially in the uk of certain organizations infiltrating other organizations. trying to change the narrative and as david just alluded to, it's imperative we stick to the
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antizionist narrative, because there's a lot of blowback format format, especially when we are being absolutely determined to take on zinanism, it causes a 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... don't want, and i mean this respectfully, if i can, don't want to be tired under the same type of label as other organizations, etc., etc., a bit of a cop out if you ask me, but i don't think there's any space to compromise when it comes to palestine, when it comes to talking about far right ideologies like zionism, and we've got to be out there, and we've got to put it a plate and serve it. well, david, i mean, despite the... 15-year long campaign by the zionists to try and destroy acuds day, i mean the actual
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demonstration is getting bigger and bigger every single year, and as i've said in the introduction, i think we're 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 it's rising, it's support for it is rising across the whole world, including in countries like western countries where the governments are supporting this. on gaza, but the population is becoming more and more radical in support of the palestinians and could say is is kind of cutting edge of that, and uh, we see the the increased consciousness that there is in the country and the increasingly increasing inability of the zin to stop this kind of campaigning, and so so so we have the situation where 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. of course this will this is going to fail, but it's that's an indication the threat that they face, that they feel that they face from the palestine solidarity
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movement. and - nazim, the uh the attendance at the the could stay demonstrations is is incredibly uh mixed, isn't it? very diverse attendies, a big big jewish contingent for for example, i believe, is that briefly? i mean, that's true, isn't it? absolutely, absolutely. i mean, it's a very family friendly um protest, lot of children come along with their families with... parents and we have a large contingent of the jewish people, especially rabbies from neutral cart movement as well as um other jews as well become antisignist jews who come to the procession, in fact it's very multi faith and people of no faith attend as well and even from 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 we'll come back in and a moment - to our discussion um after our next report about the truly astonishing lens that
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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 long-running legal battle against zionist regime proxies. it all started in 2017 when nazim ali spoke at the kudsday rally. zines complained about his anti. comments to the police, the crown prosecution service refused to press charges, the ziners 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, ali's 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. reforcing its position in july of that year. the council concluded his words were not anti-semitic in november 2020, but
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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 to... ali's 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
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groups who have bullied and intimidated the professional regulators into such submission? the campaign against anti-semitism took up the cudels first. the caa is a creature of the zinist 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 which appears to have been set up under the auspices of the israeli ministry of foreign affairs, its whole purpose is to use law fair tactics to manipulate the law and bully british institutions into doing its bidding. the case tells us how foreign agents of the zinist regime can harass, bully and intimidate so effectively that they can, in effect, occupy the professional bodies regulating the profession of pharmacy. this
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is what state capture looks like. it also tells us that people can fight back in. win, in fact, this is one of number of recent victories against the zionist movement, the tide is turning. well, congratulations on your historic win, mean it, it was been a great relief to to finally resolve this, what can only be described as nightmare? yeah, yeah, absolutely, seven years long, and um, every point, every part that we won, they would come back, and the interesting thing is chris. um, lot of this didn't cost any of these campaigning organizations, the the the designist ones any money apart from the judicial review, if i recollect correctly, because they've been pressurizing you know the powers that be to to take these cases on. in this last one, i think it's important to know that as they lost, they had to pay the psa has to pay costs, it had 4300 pound of
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its own costs and 1300 of the gphc's cost. to pay, so that's all come from a government fund, and that is tax payer's money, 56,000 just to get me struck 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 a determination that they found, and they found me that a warning was, 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 nazim's case, i mean seems absolutely crazy doesn't it, that me had to go through what, four different processes, numerous different processes actually, involving seven in fact, separate organizations between the zianis, the police, the courts and and the regulators, i mean, what's that tell us about the nature of of the zionist lobby? well, it
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tells you that they uh, intend to intimidate, bully and harass any organization that gets in there. way and they intend to be occupy those organizations, so that's it's been saying, these were organizations which did it off their own, but the designers didn't 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 systs, not just occupied, but effectively captured by the state of israel and and doing the bidding of 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 it shows the way which the the hostile foreign power which is israel is able to actually get inside regulatory bodies and to turn them against the purposes they are intended to be there
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for. it's kind of unbelievable vindictiveness isn't this, astonishing it really is, but this is how was this long and and drawn out battle affected you mean personally and and and of course professionally as well? quite badly if i'm honest um you know you're not used to seeing your face on the center spread the jewish chronicle front page being called a preacher of hate um terms like islam is being used and they do it deliberately so all the way from the right-wing press in the uk to the right-wing press in america and and in israel itself so if anyone was going to work with me and google mine name as which people do these days, all this stuff comes up, so it's all planned, it's all done in a very methodical way, the way they release the news, it first comes in the more zinis press and then it comes in the... being pressed two, three weeks later, it follows a set pattern, and of course it affects your mental health, it affects your well-being, it affects your relationships, it affects everything and your place at work, just to
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give you a side thing on that, they funnily enough what i work, they they contacted every non brown named person individual um back in 2017 saying you work for an anti-semite, how do you feel about it, but they didn't contact anyone with a brown sounding name, which shows uh where they're 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, we've gone through what you guys have gone through, you know, and that energy helps to stand up and fight the fight, which we have to do collectively. well, you know, the old maximmunity of strength is absolutely uppersite 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... that that you felt that that was something that that helped you through what must have been absolutely appalling or deal, but david, i mean, what do you make of the committee's
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judgment then that i mean they said that they they could discern no reasonable or persuasive connection between zienists and grenfil that you the jewish chronicle headline highted 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 anti-semitic on the basis that they can't see what the the connection with the zionist movement is, it's completely observed, they need 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 siinist, 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 elliot management run by guy called paul singer, he's the top dor to the friends of the israel. forces, one, one connection, two connections, arc is an organization which which is is a construction company which also is engaged in constructing f/35 fighters which have being sent to israel
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to bomb palestinian children, two connections, it's not my fault, it's not, it's not anybody else's fault that they can't perceive this, but there is a connection between grenfall 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, it's not anti-semitic to say it, there are connections between the zionists and all sorts of pool and which going on in the uk, including grenfall, one think about the zinis, they never let the facts get in the way of a good old fashion smear, do they? well, that's right, mean as everyone has now been saying, they lie and they lie and they lie, and that's that's the way, yeah, indeed, well nazimas, as far as i'm aware, there's been absolutely no media coverage of your historic win, mean why is that do you think? well, it's almost got custard pie in their face, haven't they? seven years, seven years of chasing me, left, right and center. going through the course, the various bodies, seven different organizations you mentioned, they've got nothing to show for it at the end apart from what was determined back in you now 2020 a warning um so it's been um like i
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said waste of taxpayers money a waste of time and it's shown how vindictive they've been towards me uh like i said you know financially it's been a big burden on me emotionally health-wise it has been as well um and it just shows the nastiness of them of designist movement, how vindictive, nasty and pretty much evil they are that um they just used everything they could that actually didn't 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 that's what they would have to do, admit failure, because they were all go, but yeah, we're going to get him struck off, we're going to get him struck off, yeah, yeah, no, indeed, i mean, "well, as i say, i mean, you're through it now, thank goodness, and uh, you've prevailed, and um, and thankfully, as we were saying, you got that grassroots, support and solidarity to to help you
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through, what must be in a terrible ordeal, and you've won, and i think everybody will be all right thinking people anyway, will be absolutely delighted that that you have got through it, and you've got through it, relatively on the skate, not withstanding what you've already said, but uh, you're here and you stand victorious, so congratulations again on that, nazim, but..." unfortunately that's all we got time for today, so thanks for watching and and thank you to our guest nazim ali and of course our residence expert professor david miller. remember, you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates. you can also help us to counteract the disinformation pedaled by the corporate media about palestine and the resistance of the designist entity, by showing today's program on your social media platforms. so until next time when palestine declassified will be back with more forensic investigations and analysis. this is chris williamson saying bye for now.
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this week on expose, benjamin netanyahu vows to reject any calls to hulk the rafah invasion as he and joe biden intensified their staged public spat over zionist israel's genocide in gaza. now following the statement made by former president donald trump that there would be a blood bath if is not elected in november, left this politicians and media personalities completely lose it on social media, and lastly, a recent politico ipso survey reveals that 50% of americans think trump is guilty and ought to be tried before the 2024 presidential election. stay tuned for expose, the truth is just the revelation away.
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the headlines this hour as scores more palestinians are killed in israel's indiscriminate strikes across gaza as total death thold from the regime's genocidal war tops 32,700. the leader of palestine's islamic dahad movement tails iran. all out support for the palestinians in the gaza strip and intensifying israeli genocide against the civilian population living there. also the headlines thousands of protesters rally in central london to slam israel's ongoing massacre of palestinians in the gaza strip calling for sease fire there.