JAKARTA - The Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) Executive Board reminds the public to act rationally in providing support to Palestine so that it does not conflict with the law or norms.
"In actualizing support, do not violate the law and must also be rational. This means that it must be in the corridor of the applicable law and must not commit criminal acts," said the management of the PBNU Institute for Research and Human Resources Development M. Najih Arromadloni in a written statement reported by ANTARA, Friday, June 14.
Najih gave an example of things that should not happen when showing support for Palestine, including burning public facilities or carrying out attacks on foreign embassies.
According to him, the efforts of the Indonesian people to provide support in accordance with the applicable corridors will be in line with the Indonesian government's commitment to Palestine.
The independence of Palestine, he said, was part of the mandate of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and had already started when the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference.
"The Asia-Africa Conference, which next year will be held again in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the first Asian-African Conference in 1955. Indonesia is fighting for Palestinian independence through various channels, through the UN route, the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference), to the International Court," Najih added.
Najih stressed that the struggle to defend Palestine is honorable, legal, and rational.
He advised not to cause social destabilization in public places or even at the national level by systematically spreading narratives that mislead the public.
Indonesia's struggle for Palestine, he continued, should not be tarnished by slogans that would actually undermine the essence of the ideals of Palestine's independence itself. For example, riding on the issue of the importance of Palestinian independence with an additional caliphate ideology.
"It must be admitted that the idea of the caliphate as a government system was rejected worldwide. When the issue of the caliphate is rolled out, it will actually damage the big Palestinian independence agenda," he said.
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In addition, he emphasized the importance of focusing on the main issue of supporting Palestine, namely humanity because basically the Palestinian issue is not just a matter of religion.
The more general and acceptable theme of humanity by all circles, according to Najih, will be more effective in attracting the support of all parties. Moreover, not all citizens who are victims of Palestine are Muslim.
By promoting humanitarian issues, he said, many non-Muslim majority countries are helping Palestinians such as Spain, Ireland, Norway, and Colombia who are not Islamic countries to help.
"In fact, in the end there was upheaval from academia in the United States and Britain, they criticized their own government for being considered smoothing Israel's attack on Palestine. This could happen because there was an impetus to narrate the suffering of the Palestinian people as a humanitarian issue, not an ideological conflict," Najih added.
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