Chairman
Emeritus Professor Dato’ Abang Abdullah Abang Ali
For a thousand years the Muslims, Christians and Jews have been living peacefully together in Palestine. The British mandate awarding Palestine to the mostly foreign Jews at the expense of the majority local population of Palestine, and subsequent nakba or catastrophe in 1948, when thousands of Palestinians were massacred and displaced into refugee camps in neighbouring countries, marked the beginning of the suffering and injustices for the Palestinian people.
While colonialisation is no longer acceptable in this 21st Century, Israel, a colonial settler project, managed to survived till today, with the strong and undivided support of western powers, particularly the US. Israel continues its occupation and colonialist practices with impunity, ignoring the UN and human right groups demands, at the behest of the superpowers. Its misadventures are conveniently justified and supported by the mainstream media.
However, the world has changed. South African Aparthied which started in the same year as nakba, was dismantled 46 years later in 1994. However while Israel has managed to continue its Aparthied policies for 73 years now, the mainstream media propagada has been overwhelmed by the social media today. With the advent of the internet, the people of the world can now see what is really happening on the ground, despite the mainstream media peddling of untruths and myth of Israeli right of self-defence.
It is thus time to seek for Justice for Palestine. The world has awakened and learnt the truth.
Justice for Palestine Action Front (JustPalestine) was established to rally peace-loving people of the world, irrespective of race and religion, to reject the injustices that the colonial empires have inflicted on the Palestians for 73 long years, much longer than the South African Apartheid.
Let us join hands to make Palestine free. Support this movement for Justice for Palestine.
End Occupation. Recognise Palestine.
Emeritus Professor Dato’ Abang Abdullah Abang Ali