Press Release
A response to the questions that a Sunday Telegraph journalist had about the words of members of Hizb ut Tahrir in relation to the current events in Palestine

Gaza has been under siege for 16 years, the whole of Palestine has been militarily occupied for 75 years.

We support the people of Palestine. We want a political change so that the resources of Muslim countries are used to liberate and rescue the beleaguered people of Palestine.

Hizb ut Tahrir is a political party whose role is to remind the surrounding Arab and Muslim countries to use their military to prevent the daily atrocities of state military terrorism against the Palestinian people. To say that Palestinians should be free of this brutal occupation is not a divisive statement and should not be portrayed as such. However, those who encourage and support the Zionist occupiers’ apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people are supporters of terrorism in actuality. It is a lie to state that Hizb ut Tahrir have a long record of overtly antisemitic statements; indeed, Jews who oppose the illegal occupation of Palestine have attended Hizb ut Tahrir marches in London protesting against the occupation. This charge is only claimed by those who wish to deny the Palestinians the right to end the oppression and oppose the illegal military occupation of their lands.

Yahya Nisbet
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Britain