- The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar has consistently assumed the mission of promoting peace and rooting its principles during an era characterized by the proliferation of hate speech and calls for war everywhere.
- Upholding values of truth and justice that Islam and all religions have advocated, the Grand Imam stands in the face of a terrorist force devoid of all values of morality and humanness.
- The repeated rhetoric claiming victimization by the Zionist occupation to cover their true bloody face is no longer convincing in light of the heinous crimes committed daily against the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
- Whenever the occupation entity feels clamped down, it resorts to levelling accusations against those who speak the truth.
Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has monitored a program broadcasted on the Hebrew channel 24 News on Tuesday, November 26, that discussed the increased Egyptian animosity towards the Zionist occupation in the media outlets and on social media platforms. The channel quoted the former Zionist ambassador in Egypt “Amira Oron” saying that the hostility of the supreme Sunni institution in the world –Al-Azhar Al-Sharif- towards Israel is unprecedented. She added that such hostility and hatred are extremely cruel and harsh, claiming that it is almost anti-Semitism.
In response to Oron’s claims, Al-Azhar Observatory asserts that it is no longer viable for followers of the Zionist occupation to employ the strategy of victimhood whenever their true bloody face is proven as currently occurring in the aggression on Gaza and Lebanon, which has resulted in over 150,000 casualties, including martyrs, injured individuals, and missing persons. This discourse has lost its efficacy in the face of the brutal crimes committed on a daily basis against the innocent civilians.
The Observatory stresses that whenever the occupation entity feels clamped down, it intensifies hurling accusations against the honest people. This comes at a time when there is an unprecedented international consensus on condemning some of the Zionist officials, topped by Netanyahu, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Even his allies announced that they are compelled to abide by the ICC arrest warrant against him should he arrives to their countries.
The Observatory stresses that the Grand Imam upholds the word of truth and justice that Islam and other religions have advocated in the face of the terrorist forces that deny all values of morality and humanness. Those forces have committed different brutal crimes, bombing hospitals, demolishing mosques and churches, and killing women, children, news reporters and innocent civilians.
It is noteworthy that Al-Azhar’s encouragement for free voices around the world calling for ending the massacres against the vulnerable and weak people in Gaza and Lebanon serves merely as a means to support justice that has been long absent from the Zionist minds who wreaked havoc by shedding blood everywhere. They have committed their crimes depending on some of their extremist religious texts, using them to justify their terrorist crimes that affected all Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank either by their terrorist forces equipped with weapons obtained from the West, and even through their settlers.
Finally, we stress that Al-Azhar’s support for the Palestinian right is support of humanity that suffers a lot of challenges which drive humans to the cliff’s end due to those wars that currently take new forms including economic and technological wars, capable of destroying communities and threatening their peace and security. Al-Azhar has always championed the concepts of right, justice and coexistence, in stark contrast to the Zionist ambassador’s claims that Al-Azhar is at war with her people, as if she ignores all the heinous crimes they have committed.
We again affirm that Zionism is plague, and animosity towards Zionism is not driven by Al-Azhar. Rather, it is a humane inclination that goes beyond difference in race, culture, religion and homeland, and stands in the face of injustice and despotism.