As part of its effort to confirm its firm position in support of the Palestinian cause, intellectual and cultural institutions in Lebanon and Iraq held an online conference under the title “Normalizing Shame and Betrayal with the Israeli Occupation.”“.
An elite group of senior scholars participated in the conference called for by the One Nation Center, in cooperation with the Palestinian Scholars Council and the Muslim Scholars Association in Lebanon, on October 4, 2020, most notably the Mufti of Yemen Shams al-Din Sharaf al-Din, the Mufti of Iraq Sheikh Mahdi al-Sumaidaie, and the head of the One Nation Center for Intellectual and Strategic Studies Fadi al-Sayyid..
In line with the firm position of the Greek Orthodox rejecting the occupation, a number of Christian scholars and thinkers participated in the conference, led by Bishop Atallah Hanna, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia in occupied Jerusalem..
The attendees stressed the centrality of the Palestine issue, and the necessity of keeping awareness of it present among the rising generations, and not surrendering to the wave of normalization that some Arab countries, especially the Gulf ones, are accelerating in, which is something that was condemned in the statement issued by the conference..
