The Conference unanimously passed the following resolutions:
- Calls for an immediate Ceasefire and an end to the genocidal war on Palestine by Israel.
- The Indian Parliament must pass a resolution to demand that Israel end the war.
- The resolution must also call for the establishment of a Palestinian state as per UN resolutions and international laws.
- India must stop supply of weapons to Israel.
- Calls for a boycott of Israeli companies and products.
- Call for a National Day of Solidarity with Palestine on the 7th of October marking one year of the
Israeli war on Palestine.
A National Conference for Peace and Justice for Palestine was held at the Ghalib Auditorium in Nizamuddin, Delhi on the 6th of September 2024. The meeting was addressed by prominent speakers and more than 400 people were present at the venue.
Basem F. Hellis, Counselor, Palestine Embassy, was the Chief Guest. He stated that it is not a religious problem, but an issue of resistance to the colonial occupation of Palestine by Israel.
He spoke about the fact that more than 200 of his family members have been murdered in Gaza. He spoke about the age old historic ties of India & Palestine and thanked Indians for their continued support.
Dr. Sunilam, President, India Palestine Solidarity Forum (IPSF), and a prominent farmers leader from Gwalior, categorically condemned Netanyahu for the genocide and the war crimes being committed in Gaza & across the West Bank & East Jerusalem. He also said that PM Narendra Modi is betraying the Palestinian cause. The fact that India is currently exporting weapons to Israel is a matter of national shame. He further called for a boycott of companies and products that are linked to Israel. He called for national day of protests on the 7th of October to mark one year of the brutal genocide of the Palestinian people.
Feroze Mithiborwala, Gen. Sec. IPSF, from Mumbai, explained the reasons that led to the 7th of October “Gaza Ghetto Uprising”. He said that in fact it was a “Prison Break”, as after more than 17 years of the siege of Gaza, the resistance decided to break the walls of the Judeo-Nazi Concentration Camp. PM Netanyahu needed this war as he is facing serious corruption charges and thus provoked the Palestinians into retaliatory actions. The other reasons included the fact that more than 10,000 Palestinians languished in Palestinian jails. The numbers now surpass 20,000. Another worrying fact is that certain extremist Jewish Zionist leaders want to destroy the Al Aqsa Masjid and build the Temple of Solomon.
Mufti Ashfaq H Qadri (Chairman, All India Tanzeem Ulema-i-Islam) reminded the youth of the historic & rich Indo-Palestine ties.
MJ Vijayan, Indians for Palestine, based in Delhi spoke about the fact that Palestine is a global cause, a cause for all of humanity. He informed the house that 11 eminent citizens have filed a case in the Supreme Court demanding that Adani-Elbit and two public sector companies stop their weapons supplies to Israel. Earlier, in both Bengaluru & Mumbai, national signature campaigns were launched to cancel pro-Israel public programmes.
Dr. Shujaat Ali Quadri, Vice-President, IPSF & leader of the Muslim Students Organization spoke about the fast changing geopolitical and strategic balance of power where the US-Israel-led western neo-colonial bloc is in a certain state of decline. He said that Israel has committed a Holocaust in Gaza with more than 200,000 dead as per the report published in the Lancet, the world’s premier research medical journal. The Israeli’s have targeted & destroyed residential buildings, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, power stations and water supplies. The agenda is to kill, starve, and ethnically cleanse all of Palestine. But, he said that over the course of the next few years, Palestine will be Free of the Israeli Zionist occupation.
Syed Javed Naqshbandi Qari Sagheer Razvi, Secretary, All India Tanzeem Ulema-i-Islam, called for the unity of the Indian people across religious communities and strive for the Palestinian cause, even as they brave the most difficulties.