UK Muslim Brotherhood Leader Anas Altikriti Leads Global Gaza Protests

The Glob­al Alliance for Pales­tine (GAFP) has con­firmed that mil­lions of activists from all six con­ti­nents in last week­end’s Glob­al Day of Action. A press state­ment by the organ­i­sa­tion said more than 75 sol­i­dar­i­ty move­ments, organ­i­sa­tions and cam­paigns in 26 coun­tries mobi­lized to com­mem­o­rate 700 days of geno­cide against the peo­ple of Gaza. The Day of action was called in response to Israel killing tens of thou­sands dur­ing the peri­od, includ­ing more than 30,000 chil­dren. The cat­a­logue of war crimes com­mit­ted by the Israeli occu­pa­tion also includ­ed the delib­er­ate destruc­tion of the Gaza Strip’s infra­struc­ture, res­i­den­tial areas, hos­pi­tals, schools and mar­ket­places. Demon­stra­tors and activists in all 6 con­ti­nents called for an imme­di­ate cease­fire, a ces­sa­tion of all weapon sales and sanc­tions to be brought against Israel.

Read more: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250908-gafp-millions-from-six-continents-participated-in-global-day-of-action/

Key Points

• Anas Altikri­ti, Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Inter­im Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, stat­ed that his­to­ry and inter­na­tion­al jus­tice will not look kind­ly upon those com­plic­it in Israel’s actions against Gaza.
• The Glob­al Alliance for Pales­tine con­firmed that mil­lions of activists from all six con­ti­nents par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Glob­al Day of Action orga­nized by more than 75 sol­i­dar­i­ty move­ments in 26 countries.
• Altikri­ti reit­er­at­ed the call for anoth­er Glob­al Day of Action on 11 Octo­ber, with orga­niz­ers expect­ing hun­dreds of sol­i­dar­i­ty move­ments world­wide to mobilize.
• Demon­stra­tors called for an imme­di­ate cease­fire, ces­sa­tion of all weapon sales to Israel, and sanc­tions against the coun­try while pledg­ing to sup­port world­wide BDS cam­paigns tar­get­ing cor­po­ra­tions that sup­port Israel.

Anas Altikriti: Leader of the UK Muslim Brotherhood Network

Anas Altikri­ti stands as the most impor­tant leader of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the UK, while main­tain­ing that he holds no for­mal orga­ni­za­tion­al mem­ber­ship in the Broth­er­hood. Born in Iraq in 1968, Altikri­ti found­ed the Cor­do­ba Foun­da­tion in 2005, estab­lish­ing a cen­tral node in Britain’s Islamist infra­struc­ture. His father, Osama Taw­fiq Altikri­ti, head­ed the Iraqi Islam­ic Party—the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Iraq—before serv­ing in the Iraqi Coun­cil of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, posi­tion­ing the younger Altikri­ti with­in a multi­gen­er­a­tional Broth­er­hood lin­eage span­ning continents.

The orga­ni­za­tion­al ecosys­tem Altikri­ti has con­struct­ed reflects the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood’s strat­e­gy of cre­at­ing mul­ti­ple plat­forms serv­ing dis­tinct but com­ple­men­tary pur­pos­es. Beyond the Cor­do­ba Foundation—described by then-oppo­si­tion leader David Cameron in 2009 as “a front for the Mus­lim Brotherhood”—Altikriti co-found­ed the British Mus­lim Ini­tia­tive in 2007 along­side Mohammed Sawal­ha, iden­ti­fied by the BBC as a senior Hamas com­man­der, and Azzam Tami­mi, char­ac­ter­ized as a Hamas “spe­cial envoy.” This net­work illus­trates how Broth­er­hood-affil­i­at­ed enti­ties oper­ate in accor­dance with a shared vision while main­tain­ing oper­a­tional inde­pen­dence, advanc­ing Islamist objec­tives through spe­cial­ized chan­nels that range from think tanks to polit­i­cal activism.

Altikri­ti’s promi­nence with­in glob­al Broth­er­hood cir­cles became evi­dent dur­ing inter­na­tion­al coor­di­na­tion efforts. At a 2016 con­fer­ence in Vir­ginia, Altikri­ti appeared along­side oth­er Broth­er­hood lead­ers in pro­mo­tion­al mate­ri­als for what orga­niz­ers described as the “1st Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of Mus­lim Coun­cils in the West.” His sis­ter Raghad par­tic­i­pat­ed in sub­se­quent gath­er­ings coor­di­nat­ed with the Coun­cil of Euro­pean Mus­lims, illus­trat­ing how Broth­er­hood net­works func­tion through famil­ial and orga­ni­za­tion­al inter­con­nec­tions span­ning mul­ti­ple jurisdictions.

The strate­gic alliance between Islamist orga­ni­za­tions and left-wing polit­i­cal move­ments has found an effec­tive advo­cate in Altikri­ti. His role as vice-pres­i­dent of the Stop the War Coali­tion posi­tioned him at the inter­sec­tion of Trot­sky­ist groups and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood-affil­i­at­ed enti­ties, cre­at­ing a “red-green polit­i­cal coali­tion” unit­ed by oppo­si­tion to West­ern for­eign pol­i­cy. This alliance exploits shared anti-West­ern sen­ti­ment while allow­ing Islamist groups to access sec­u­lar polit­i­cal net­works and ampli­fy their influ­ence with­in main­stream dis­course, demon­strat­ing how this tac­ti­cal con­ver­gence has pen­e­trat­ed estab­lished polit­i­cal institutions.

The 2015 UK Gov­ern­ment Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Review con­clud­ed that “mem­ber­ship of, asso­ci­a­tion with, or influ­ence by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood should be con­sid­ered as a pos­si­ble indi­ca­tor of extrem­ism,” not­ing that Broth­er­hood-asso­ci­at­ed groups in Britain “have at times had a sig­nif­i­cant influ­ence on nation­al organ­i­sa­tions” while some­times char­ac­ter­iz­ing “the UK as fun­da­men­tal­ly hos­tile to Mus­lim faith.” Aca­d­e­m­ic research by Loren­zo Vidi­no describes how the British Broth­er­hood milieu estab­lish­es “think tanks and mobil­i­sa­tion plat­forms (like the British Mus­lim Ini­tia­tive and the Cor­do­ba Foun­da­tion)” that spread an Islamist inter­pre­ta­tion “often refined and con­tex­tu­alised to the British envi­ron­ment.” In August 2014, HSBC closed Altikri­ti’s bank accounts, along with those of sev­er­al Mus­lim orga­ni­za­tions. The BBC report­ed that the bank cit­ed con­cerns fol­low­ing a sig­nif­i­cant fine for poor mon­ey-laun­der­ing controls.

Exter­nal references:

• Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Review: Main Find­ings (UK Gov­ern­ment, Decem­ber 2015)
• Loren­zo Vidi­no, The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the Unit­ed King­dom (George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, Decem­ber 2015)
• HSBC shuts bank accounts of Mus­lim groups (BBC News, August 2014)
• Anas Altikri­ti (Wikipedia)

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