{"id":119665,"date":"2025-03-07T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119665"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:38:42","slug":"07-00-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119665","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslim Groups Reject Interfaith Pact With Jewish Leaders Because Chief Rabbi Is a \u2018Zionist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>UK Muslim Groups Reject Interfaith Pact With Jewish Leaders Because Chief Rabbi Is a \u2018Zionist\u2019
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Ailin Vilches Arguello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The signing of the Drumlanrig Accords at Buckingham Palace. Photo: Screenshot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A coalition of Muslim organizations in the United Kingdom has rejected a recently announced Muslim-Jewish reconciliation agreement aimed at improving relations between the two communities, condemning the landmark pact over the involvement of\u00a0British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis<\/a>, who they denounced as a<\/span> \u201cstaunch Zionist.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

In a joint statement, more than 25 Muslim groups, including Friends of Al Aqsa and The Cordoba Foundation, expressed strong opposition to the Drumlanrig Accords over\u00a0Mirvis\u2019s support for Israel<\/a>. They also argued that the agreement, which was drafted in January and signed last month, lacked legitimate representation as it was backed by \u201cself-appointed\u201d Muslim leaders who do not represent the will of the Muslim community.<\/span><\/p>\n

The signatories \u201cfailed to consult widely with grassroots organizations supported by the Muslim community before they signed these accords with the chief rabbi, who is a staunch Zionist,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRabbi Mirvis has supported Israel\u2019s war on the Palestinians in Gaza,\u201d the coalition continued, before\u00a0citing debunked casualty figures<\/a>\u00a0supplied by Hamas-controlled authorities. \u201cWe cannot in good faith acknowledge these accords when the chief rabbi has made public statements supporting Israel despite the horrific actions of the Israeli Occupation Forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In January, representatives of 11 denominations from Judaism and Islam met at Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland to agree to a pact aimed at improving relations between the two faiths. The signatories said the accords were designed to unite the Jewish and Muslim communities in Britain to \u201chelp tackle both antisemitism and Islamophobia, as well as poverty and isolation,\u201d while promoting mutual respect and solidarity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jewish and Muslim leaders\u00a0formally signed the agreement<\/a>\u00a0last month and presented it to Britain\u2019s King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Drumlanrig Accords represent a bold first step toward rebuilding a meaningful trust between Muslim and Jewish communities over the long term,\u201d Mirvis said in a statement following the signing of the accords. \u201cThey do not gloss over our differences; they acknowledge them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey also send out a powerful message that in times of division, when it is far easier to retreat into fear and suspicion, we are prepared to take the more challenging path to reconciliation,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe do so not because it is easy, but because it is necessary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In their\u00a0statement released earlier this week<\/a>, Muslim leaders explained they would only accept and support the accords if the UK\u2019s chief rabbi condemns the \u201cgenocide and apartheid being enacted against the Palestinian people,\u201d welcoming a collective multi-faith movement against oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUntil then, we wholly reject these accords made purportedly on behalf of the Muslim community,\u201d the coalition said. \u201cA central facet of Islam is the complete rejection of oppression. As a community, we do not shy away from rejecting oppression in all its forms against anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement did not acknowledge Hamas\u2019s widely recognized military strategy of embedding its terrorists within Gaza\u2019s civilian population and\u00a0commandeering civilian facilities like hospitals<\/a>, schools, and mosques to run operations and direct attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Monday\u2019s statement, the groups also argued that the Muslim leaders who signed the accords were \u201cself-appointed\u201d and do not represent the wider British Muslim community, but rather they only speak for a small minority.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese self-appointed Muslims were fully aware that they only represent a small minority of the overall British Muslim population,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe majority of the British Muslim community do not even know who these individual Muslim \u2018leaders\u2019 are. Their actions and decisions were made independently without consulting the wider Muslim community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to their statement, these Muslim groups would be \u201cwholly supportive\u201d of interfaith relations if carried out in good faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe note the significant rise in anti-Muslim hatred within the Jewish community and support engagement on challenging hatred in all its forms,\u201d the signatories said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The signing of the accords came amid an ongoing\u00a0surge in antisemitic crimes across the UK<\/a>\u00a0since the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month, the Community Security Trust (CST), a nonprofit charity that advises Britain\u2019s Jewish community on security matters, released data showing the UK experienced its second worst year ever for antisemitism in 2024, despite recording an 18 percent drop in antisemitic incidents from the previous year\u2019s all-time high.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one of the latest incidents, a visibly\u00a0Jewish man in England was brutally attacked<\/a>\u00a0after a prayer service, leaving him fearing for his eyesight, with local police investigating the assault as a hate crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists started the war in Gaza when they murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages during their invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel responded with a military campaign aimed at freeing the hostages and dismantling Hamas\u2019s military and governing capabilities in neighboring Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

In January, both sides reached a\u00a0ceasefire and hostage-release deal<\/a>\u00a0brokered by Egypt and Qatar with the support of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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