Siddiq is the founder of The Gaza Fund. Author, Publisher, and Activist, he has spent over two decades studying the Israel-Palestine issue. He has also delivered several workshops and written several articles on the subject.
Over the years, Siddiq has learnt first hand – while charity and aid fund relief, it has done nothing to dismantle Israeli apartheid, occupation, siege, sanctions and blockade of Occupied Palestine, the penultimate aim of The Gaza Fund.
In fact, Siddiq grew up believing in international human rights law, and in international institutions and their checks and balances. When a country brazenly and repeatedly violates international law, Western leaders intervene. But with Gaza, the mask of Western morality has long slipped, exposing the direct collaboration of many governments worldwide. The next goal is to wage and escalate an anti-violence campaign targeting the enablers and key actors protecting Israel until our demands are heard:
Until the displaced, dispossessed and discriminated against Palestinians who have been denied their most fundamental human rights are not accorded what is rightfully theirs, we at The Gaza Fund will not give up. We will not stop and refuse to be derailed.
As victims of the European Holocaust, Palestinian have been unreasonably reasonable for over 78 years. Therefore, robust criticism of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas when necessary is entirely legitimate and the very least we will continue to do.
Nonetheless:.
The Gaza Fund remain fiercely intolerant to all forms of racism including anti-Semitism, but do we really have to walk on egg shells and qualify every step we take fighting Israeli apartheid, occupation, sanctions, siege and blockade of Palestinians by proving our anti-Semitic bona fides first?
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