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IslamismJuly 29 2025, 4:37 am

Global Alliance for Palestine Launch: Corbyn Headlines London Event

The launch of the Glob­al Alliance for Pales­tine brought togeth­er for­mer UK Labour leader Jere­my Cor­byn, oth­er promi­nent inter­na­tion­al pro-Pales­tin­ian activists includ­ing UK MB leader Anas Altikri­ti, and more than 70 orga­ni­za­tions from 25 coun­tries to call for a unit­ed front sup­port­ing Pales­tin­ian rights. On 26 July 2025, Al Arab in UK report­ed that Cor­byn had head­lined the launch of the Glob­al Alliance at an event in Lon­don. The arti­cle begins:

The found­ing con­fer­ence of the Glob­al Alliance for Pales­tine was held today, Sat­ur­day, in the British cap­i­tal, Lon­don, with the atten­dance of a group of promi­nent inter­na­tion­al fig­ures who sup­port Pales­tin­ian rights. More than 70 sol­i­dar­i­ty orga­ni­za­tions from 25 coun­tries around the world par­tic­i­pat­ed in the con­fer­ence, rep­re­sent­ing civ­il soci­ety sec­tors, unions, stu­dent move­ments, media and human rights ini­tia­tives, as well as del­e­ga­tions from Pales­tine and the dias­po­ra. The con­fer­ence opened with a ses­sion titled “Fram­ing the Moment”, which addressed the impor­tance of the cur­rent phase fol­low­ing the grow­ing glob­al pub­lic sup­port for Pales­tine. Speak­ers empha­sized the need to uni­fy efforts and build a long-term coali­tion project. The ses­sion fea­tured inter­ven­tions by British MP Jere­my Cor­byn, Irish leader Ger­ry Adams, Pales­tin­ian Ini­tia­tive Move­ment leader Mustafa Bargh­outi, for­mer Greek Finance Min­is­ter Yanis Varo­ufakis, South African activist Ron­nie Kas­rils, and Ital­ian MP Ange­lo Bonelli.

Read more: https://alarabinuk.com/en/global-alliance-for-palestine-launches-in-london-with-call-for-united-front/

Key Points

  • The Glob­al Alliance for Pales­tine launch event in Lon­don was host­ed by over 70 groups from 25 countries.

  • Jere­my Cor­byn, Anas Altikri­ti, Mustafa Bargh­outi, Yanis Varo­ufakis, Ron­nie Kas­rils, and Ange­lo Bonel­li were key speakers.

  • The event focused on build­ing a last­ing, coor­di­nat­ed move­ment for Pales­tin­ian rights and inter­na­tion­al advocacy.

  • Orga­niz­ers set a long-term plan with a fol­low-up con­fer­ence in 2026 in anoth­er country.

Corbyn: Far-Left Coalitions and Islamist Alliances in UK Palestine Activism

Jere­my Cor­byn is a long­stand­ing British social­ist politi­cian who served as Leader of the Labour Par­ty from 2015 to 2020 and has rep­re­sent­ed Isling­ton North as an MP since 1983. Known for his anti-war stance and advo­ca­cy for civ­il lib­er­ties, Cor­byn fre­quent­ly aligned with Mus­lim orga­ni­za­tions and figures—such as attend­ing events with the Mus­lim Engage­ment and Devel­op­ment group (linked in gov­ern­ment reports to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), prais­ing Sheikh Raed Salah of the Islam­ic Move­ment (a Broth­er­hood-off­shoot) as “a voice that must be heard,” and using the Rabia hand ges­ture asso­ci­at­ed with the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood at pub­lic rallies.

Cor­byn’s promi­nence as Britain’s lead­ing pro-Pales­tin­ian activist on the far left reflects a web of alliances extend­ing beyond main­stream pol­i­tics, evi­dent in his par­tic­i­pa­tion in events that lat­er drew crit­i­cism for con­nec­tions with extrem­ist and Islamist-linked spon­sors, lead­ing to his even­tu­al with­draw­al fol­low­ing back­lash. His vis­i­bil­i­ty has been shaped in part by recog­ni­tion from orga­ni­za­tions accused of Hamas sym­pa­thies, such as when he received an award from a major British pro-Pales­tin­ian group. Corbyn’s activism unfolds against the back­drop of an evolv­ing ecosys­tem where Britain’s far-left increas­ing­ly col­lab­o­rates with Islamist net­works, play­ing key roles in new ini­tia­tives and sup­port­ing emerg­ing polit­i­cal move­ments with help from Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and pro-Iran­ian groups. This con­ver­gence not only ampli­fies transna­tion­al advo­ca­cy for Pales­tine but also sparks ongo­ing pub­lic debate about for­eign influ­ence and the nor­mal­iza­tion of ties to groups sus­pect­ed of extrem­ist agen­das, a theme explored thor­ough­ly by report­ing in sev­er­al high-pro­file media outlets.

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