Hundreds object as London borough says it wants to twin with Palestine | UK | News
More than 1,500 people put their names in a petition that called the Brent Council to “stop immediately” with a city in Palestine. The provocative of the petition claims that the decision “sects as a sectarian by nature”, the brain behind the matching plan is “based on misinformation and fear”.
At a meeting held in May, the Brent Council gave a green light to plan to match Nablus, a city in Palestine. Ihtesham Afzal, the President of Brent’s Group President and the driving force behind the Partnership Campaign, said the decision “confirms the commitment of the council to solidarity and shared values”.
However, a leading Jewish organization labeled the decision as a “separatist gesture”.
Following the agreement, a petition with 1,504 signatures was submitted and will be presented to the Council at a meeting next week. Ian Collier, the creator of the petition, immediately demanded a stop to the plan with Hamas, which is an illegal group of Hamas, a group of illegal groups as a terrorist organization by the British government.
The petition advocates: “The twin proposal did not take into account the effects of this decision on the protected features including the Muslim community, Jews, Christians, Jains, Sihs, Hindus and LGBTQ community.
Moreover, the petition emphasizes the following: “In fact, most people, including Brent students, are not realistic to Nablus. The Jewish, Christian and LGBTQ communities opposes the spirit of welcome and logic for twinning. In addition, foreign office advice is against everything against Nablus.”
The document said that the Brent Council analysis of equality analysis between Israel and Hamas accepted the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas as “extremely controversial and polarizer” by raising concerns about ‘anxiety’ within the communities. The analysis shows that the conflict may lead to increasing hate crime in the UK, and that “Brent may cause worries about some communities” and that various groups are potentially “emotionally influenced by matching”.
The petitions believe that the Council should “give priority to their time and money on local issues”.
In contrast, ClLR AFZAL claimed that the petition was based on “misinformation and fear” and claimed that it contains “clearly false claims” and “inflammatory language” which underlines the principles of democratic participation.
ClLR AFZAL, local democracy reporting service (LDRS) Muslim council members’ names “without consent” added to the petition and “only on this basis” should be said, he said. He also claimed that Nablus’s proposal was controlled by Hamas was “not just wrong, it’s dangerous.”
Nablus, which has been in the West Bank, a region occupied by Israel since 1967, is out of Hamas’s governance limited to Gaza. Instead, Fatah, a party that advocates national recognition and a two -state solution, manages some parts of the West Bank.
Cllr Afzal said that the match with Nablus is not “politics”. Rather than party politics, he described it as “not hostility, not hostility, but as a gesture of humanity” and “cultural and civilian change”.
The Jewish Leadership Council spokesman LDRS, since the conflict began, he told the community compliance with “a desperate fraction” accompanied by “an upright rise in anti -Jewish hatred”.
He also said: “We will not allow the policy of fear and division to regulate cooperation for a simple solidarity, international friendship and mutual benefit. It is a peaceful, symbolic movement that encourages mutual understanding with cities like Nablus. The opponents uses fear and false information to polarize the problem and divide society.”
The petition will be presented at the full council meeting of the Brent Council on July 7. “We understand that the twin decision with Nablus and the twin decision, especially in the Middle East and many Brent households and family connections, are a little concern in the light of the connections between the Middle East,” Brent Council leader, who responded to the concerns expressed about the movement.
He also commented: “Dwinning Initiative, dialogue and mutual understanding, bridges between communities to establish bridges, sharing experiences and base cooperation is designed as a gesture. This process around the twins are not a closed story and we know that there is still more.”
