KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — Several Opposition MPs will submit a memorandum to the United States Embassy here on its government’s apparent complicity in Israel’s “apartheid regime and ethnic cleansing”.
In an online press conference via Zoom, lawmakers from the Opposition bloc who made the pledge included Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil, Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin Abdullah, Ledang MP Syed Ibrahim Syeh Noh, Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching, Pulai MP Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub, Kubang Pasu MP Datuk Amiruddin Hamzah, Simpang Renggam MP Maszlee Malik and Lumut MP Datuk Hatta Ramli.
“Why the United States? Because they are closely related to and an avid supporter of Israeli Zionists, besides being complicit in the human rights abuses and (denying) Palestinian sovereignty.
“This can be proven after the US approved the sale of ‘smart bombs’ to the Israeli Zionists worth US$735 million or more that RM3 billion,” Syed Ibrahim said during the press conference earlier today.
In the memorandum, the lawmakers demanded the US Embassy to condemn and stop aggression and attacks by the Israeli government as it violates the universal human rights and all international resolutions.
“The international community, especially the United Nations and its agencies, and Member States, must act within the limits of their capabilities to prevent and punish instances of Israeli’s apartheid that are responsibly brought to their attention.
“The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the regional parliamentary unions to accept resolutions to condemn Israel’s aggression, stop the attacks and safeguard the lives and rights of innocent lives especially the Palestinians,” it said.
It also insisted that the US government must stop blessing the crimes of Israel against the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, in line with a bill in the US Congress seeking to end American complicity for Israeli human rights abuses.
It also urged Putrajaya to urgently advise the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong to call for a special emergency session of Parliament to move a motion to condemn Israel and raise recommendations to the Dewan Rakyat.
The joint memorandum also called member of parliament to condemn the act of Israeli government of end all military-security cooperation and trade (military funding in the US case) with apartheid Israel and similarly criminal regimes of oppression worldwide, ban all goods or services of companies operating in Israel’s illegal colonial settlements; and demand a UN investigation of Israeli apartheid.
It also stressed the government to boycott products or services of, and or mobilise institutional pressure to divest from, Israeli and international companies and banks that are complicit in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
