Just on the day when senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh issued a strong statement against Israel, a Congress MP from Kerala called for shooting and killing the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleging that he has committed “war crimes” in Gaza.
A rally was organized in Kasargod by the Kasaragod United Muslim Jamaath on Friday (17 November 2023), as a show of support for Palestine. Speaking at this rally, Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan openly called for killing Benjamin Netayahu and advocated a trial similar to the “Nuremberg Trials” in dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister.
“You can ask what should be done to those who break all agreements under the Geneva Convention. After the Second World War, there was something called the Nuremberg trials for bringing those (Nazis) guilty of war crimes to justice. The Nuremberg model to shoot those accused of war crimes dead without trial. It is high time that the Nuremberg model was applied here (against the Israeli PM). Today, Benjamin Netanyahu is standing before the world as a war criminal. It’s high time that Netanyahu was shot and killed without a trial because of the atrocities that his forces are committing on Palestinians.“, he was quoted saying in The Economic Times.
His comments have triggered a political storm with Kerala BJP President K. Surendran lashing out at the Congress. According to Surendran, the Congress MP also said that he was ashamed to be born in India.
Where is the @INCIndia heading to? Senior Congress leader and Kasargod MP Rajmohan Unnithan called for the murder of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu without any trial at a pro-Hamas rally organized in Kasargod. Mr Unnithan even said that "now, I am ashamed to have been born in…
— K Surendran (@surendranbjp) November 18, 2023
Earlier on Friday, Congress leader and Rahul Gandhi’s close confidante Jairam Ramesh issued a statement on behalf his party where he called for the Indian Government to pressure the U.S., Israel, and the EU to halt the violence in Gaza.
With a namesake “condemning” for Hamas, the Congress spokesperson’s statement was focused on targeting Israel.
Our statement on the extremely horrifying situation in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/KhQrJiLXNE
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) November 17, 2023
In other news, the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has planned to organize a mass “peaceful rally” at Kozhikode beach on 23 November 2023, “to express solidarity with the Palestinian people”. The All India Congress Committee General Secretary KC Venugopal is slated to inaugurate the event.
In October 2023, the Solidarity Youth Movement (Kerala Youth Wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind), invited Hamas founding member Khaled Mashal to speak where anti-Hindu slogans were raised.
Khaled Mashal presented a video message of approximately 7 minutes in duration. In his sermon, Khalid reportedly asked the people present at the rally to extend unconditional support to Hamas and allegedly made anti-Hindu comments.
Visuals from the event shows banners with slogans like “Uproot Bulldozer Hindutva & Apartheid Zionism”.
Once his address was over, the audience can be seen gleefully applauding and cheering enthralled by Mashal’s speech. Incendiary slogans were raised calling for uprooting “zionism” through intifada were raised.
It is noteworthy to mention that following Israel’s counter-offensive in response to Hamas’ terror attack, Khaled Mashal, asked Muslims across the world to gather on Friday (13 October 2023) in what he called “the Friday of Al-Aqsa flood” to wage jihad on the ground rather than just in theory. Mashal in his speech had said that the time has come for jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory.
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