KUWAIT CITY (Dispatches) – A Kuwaiti academic delegation left a scientific conference held at the University of Bahrain in protest against the attendance of a Zionist delegation, Al Khaleej has reported.
The Kuwaiti Youth League for Al-Quds posted on Twitter: “The delegation of Kuwaiti universities leaves a lecture delivered by an Israeli from Tel Aviv University held at Bahrain University.”
It added: “All salute to the delegation… Normalization has been and will continue to be tyranny.”
Head of Kuwaiti Youth League for Al-Quds Mosaab al-Motawaa stated: “The withdrawal of the Kuwaiti delegation reiterated the official Kuwaiti stance which is clear towards rejecting all forms of normalization with the occupation.”
Al-Motawaa added: “Such a stance became one of the weapons that hurt the Israeli occupation entity that causes harm to it.”
The faculty of business administration at the University of Bahrain announced holding a conference on 2 and 3 March, without noting that a Zionist delegation was participating in the event.
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement praised the decision by the Kuwaiti academic delegation to pull out of the conference in Bahrain.
“Such valued positions by the Kuwaiti leadership and people go in harmony with the Muslim world’s conscience, and are recorded in the lists of honor and pride,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said in a statement on Saturday.
He added that the decision to withdraw from an academic event attended by Zionist delegates reflected Kuwait’s unflagging support for the Palestinian nation, and their struggle to free their lands and holy sites.
Kuwait is staunchly opposed to normalizing ties with the Zionist regime, unlike some Arab countries in the region, which have signed normalization agreements with the occupying regime in recent years.
In May last year, Kuwait’s National Assembly unanimously approved bills that outlaw any deals or normalization of ties with the occupying regime.
On August 18, 2020, 37 Kuwaiti lawmakers called on their government to reject a normalization deal between the Zionist regime and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Anti-Zionist sentiments run high in Kuwait. A poll conducted in 2019 by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an American think tank, showed that 85 percent of Kuwaitis oppose normalizing ties with the regime.