Palestinian activist Mohammed al-Kurd called on the pro-Palestinian crowd gathered in London's Parliament Square on Saturday to "normalize the massacres as the status quo."

"The atrocities that the Israeli regime is committing in Gaza are among the terrible, brutal tragedies of our lives," he said, then blamed Zionism:

"This genocide is not without its perpetrators. Zionism is the root of everything that happens in Palestine".

“Zionism is an apartheid, genocidal, murderous, racist ideology rooted in settler expansion and racist rule. We have to eradicate it from the world,” he continued.

"We must de-Zionize, because Zionism is a cult of death"

- continued El-Kurd amid a storm of cheers and applause.

The speaker asked the crowd to continue fighting until "Palestine is free" and, quoting a Hamas statement, called for

"participate [in the fight] with tangible actions", because "speech alone is no longer enough".

El-Kurd later wrote on X that his comment about the massacre had been misunderstood.

El-Kurd, who is from Jerusalem, became a famous Palestinian activist after the clashes that broke out in the eastern part of the Israeli capital in 2021.

In 2021, he praised the six terrorists who escaped from Gilboa prison, calling them "political prisoners" and calling the US military a "murderous, terrorist organization".

Along with her sister Muna, she was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2021 for "helping to bring about an international rhetorical shift on Israel and Palestine."

Security policy expert Robert C. Castel wrote the following about the case:

""Palestinian" poet and writer. He is not a religious fanatic from Gaza, but a progressive intellectual from East Jerusalem. He would be the peace partner.

Of course, he spent the best part of his life not in the "Palestinian" territories, but in progressive New York circles. He is a valued contributor to many fashionable Western media outlets.

He explained his vision for the resolution of the conflict at yesterday's Jihad Festival in London:

»Massacres must be normalized as part of the status quo.«

He did not think exclusively of Jews.

This is the »Palestinian« whom TIME listed among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.

Just so we know what they have in store for us. Just so you know what they have in store for you.”

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