Representatives of a cross-faith Middle East peace initiative have written to the King asking him to be careful about meeting religious representatives who don’t speak for their communities and airbrush Israeli war crimes.

The letter from the Convivencia Alliance comes on the back of a meeting between Muslim and Jewish leaders on 11 February to sign the Drumlanrig Accords under the auspices of King Charles which committed them to working together under a framework of “reconciliation, understanding and solidarity”.

However, the Muslim delegation was widely criticised for ignoring the feelings of the overwhelming majority of people in their own community who are implacably opposed to participating in any dialogue with ardent supporters of a state that is under investigation by the ICJ for committing genocide in its recent onslaught on Gaza.

The letter’s authors warn the King that he is being misled by a small but vocal minority. They single out the chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, the head of British Jewry, who has consistently refused to criticise Israel and has given his support to its genocidal actions.

“While we support faith organisations promoting mutual understanding and solidarity, we find it impossible to countenance interfaith initiatives which ignore the overwhelming evidence of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes being committed in Gaza, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Lebanon over the last 16 months,” says the letter.

The letter goes on to say that the King would be better served by meeting representatives who genuinely represent the Muslim community as well as the large majority of Britons that are opposed to the genocide and who ground their approaches in human rights and international law.

The Convivencia Alliance is a coalition of Jewish, Muslim and Christian organisations supporting a just peace in Palestine based on one democratic state with equal rights for all. It strives for a just peace in the Middle East and stands against injustice, wherever it arises. Its approach is based on a history of shared values of the monotheistic faiths and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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