Intl. Quds Day unifies people, mobilizes masses in Muslim world: IHRC chairman

International Quds Day brings people together and mobilizes masses in the Muslim world to stand up in solidarity with the Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) chairman has said.

Massoud Shadjarah told Press TV’s weekly Palestine Declassified that Quds Day is a Muslim platform shared with everyone else to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinians, and brought a huge change within the Muslim world in showing support for them.

“[Quds Day] has mobilized the masses in the Muslim world when we have seen, unfortunately, some Muslim leaders are involved in normalizing [relations with Israel],” said Shadjarah, also a long-standing human rights campaigner.

Quds Day is celebrated all over the world on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan after being inaugurated by the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (God bless his soul) in 1979.

It is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people marked throughout Muslim and Arab countries in over 80 Islamic and non-Islamic countries in total. In the West, these include the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece.

According to Shadjarah, “Quds Day is a testimony to the sort of diversity of the group of people that come together from the Jewish, Christian, atheistic [backgrounds].”

And that is why, he said, it has been targeted day in, day out.

The Muslim unity displayed on Quds Day is a threat to the Zionist entity and its supporters and assets in the West and elsewhere. Accordingly, they mobilize to smear and denounce Quds Day, and claim that its celebration exhibits extremism and anti-Semitism.

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