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Majed Khalil Rashid Al-Zeer was born in the village of Harmalah in the Bethlehem Governorate on December 8, 1962. He is married and has four sons and a daughter. He studied primary school at Khalid bin Al-Walid, Saad bin Abi Waqqas, and Al-Hariri schools, and secondary school at Hawally School in Kuwait. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Kuwait University in 1986, and a Master’s degree in Refugee Affairs from the University of East London in Britain in 2002.
He was active in student work, and was the head of the Islamic Association of Palestinian Students in Kuwait between (1984-1986), and was involved in work for Palestine, and was interested in the issue of Palestinian refugees and the right of return, and was also involved in institutional union work in Europe, so he became a member of the British Journalists Syndicate and the International Journalists Syndicate, and was the head of the Palestinian Return Center based in London between (1996-2021), and the head of the Palestinian-European Conference between (2003-2020), and became the executive head of the European-Palestinian Council for Political Relations, and the vice president of the General Authority of the Palestinian Conference Abroad, and a member of the Coordination Office of the Palestinian-European Initiative for National Action.
Al-Zeer worked through the Palestinian Return Center to keep the issue of return present as one of the fundamentals of the Palestinian cause, and participated in establishing popular gatherings to demand the right of return. The center’s activities resulted in the establishment of the Palestinian-European Conference in 2003, which created a national popular situation that crossed borders, providing a practical and field model that showed the Palestinian people’s adherence to their right to return despite the geographical distance and the passage of time. One of the fruits of the Palestinian-European Conference was the establishment of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad. During Al-Zeer’s presidency, the Return Center obtained membership as a non-governmental organization in the United Nations in 2015, and the center participated in establishing the European campaign participating in the Freedom Flotilla to lift the siege imposed by the occupation on the Gaza Strip. The occupation classified the Return Center and its staff on the (Israeli) terrorism list, which led to obstructing the work of the center, the movements of its employees, preventing them from entering some countries, and closing many bank accounts.
Al-Zeer wrote a number of studies, research papers and working papers that deal with a number of files of the Palestinian cause, especially the issue of Palestinian refugees and the right of return. He published a book entitled “To Return is Closer” (2020), and he has two manuscript books, the first of which discusses the factors that keep the Palestinian cause alive (jointly with Ibrahim Al-Ali), and the second focuses on Palestinian popular work in Europe between achievements, challenges and prospects (jointly with Maher Hijazi).
Al-Zeer considers the national dimension to be the most important pillar of Palestinian work abroad, and stresses that the determinant of his national relationship is serving the Palestinian cause on the principle of not compromising rights, and that the work platforms he works on are open to those who serve the idea of adhering to Palestinian rights and are forbidden to those who do not. He believes that Palestine is entirely for the Palestinian people and that it is occupied, and that the people have the right to resist by all available internationally legitimate means to restore all their rights, and he believes in the comprehensive national dimension of Palestine because it contains all its sons regardless of religion and thought.
Al-Zeer believes that the Oslo Accords are a catastrophe for the Palestinian people and a crime committed against them, and the people are still experiencing its negative effects. He calls for this agreement to be effectively and truly overthrown. He believes that the division has two degrees, as there is a difference in political visions, and there is a practical division in the field. He does not see any convergence between the two opposing visions, and the difference will remain in the Palestinian arena, because there is no convergence between the resistance approach and the settlement approach, and the Palestinian people cannot be forced to do what they do not want. Therefore, the solution is to manage the dispute as the countries of the world do, as the differences between parties in countries reach the point of contradiction, but the final say remains for the comprehensive democratic structures that give the people their right to say their word about who represents them, expresses their will, and defends their rights.
Al-Zeer calls for the necessity of having an umbrella and a political structure that unites the Palestinian people. The Palestine Liberation Organization, as a Palestinian legacy and product to which all the people have contributed, must be preserved on the principle of restructuring it on democratic foundations that rely on elections where possible, and consensus where that is difficult with a factional reference so that it becomes a unit, and produces a Palestinian leadership through an elected Palestinian National Council, then an elected Central Council, then an elected leadership that expresses the will of the Palestinian people and what they believe in. Al-Zeer calls on the people to invest all components of their strength at home and abroad in favor of a comprehensive liberation project that adopts all available means legally and internationally to regain their full rights and achieve the return to all of Palestine, with the certainty that the existing political solutions will not succeed because the nature of the occupation is one of supremacy and exclusion.
Al-Zeer stresses that the Arab situation in general must be an incubator and supporter of the liberation of Palestine, and Palestine cannot be liberated in an environment of injustice in the Arab world. He believes that the international dimension of the Palestinian cause and the interest in it within the liberation project are strategic titles for Palestine, as mobilizing Islamic and international support and caring for the free supporters of the world are among the most important factors for keeping the cause alive in the process of restoring rights. Al-Zeer believes that the current Palestinian political system is a failed system that ignores the people, their will and their voice, and that the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian people cannot impose this leadership on them, especially since it is an appointed and inherited leadership. He believes that what the Arab situation has gone through in the past few years is the result of injustice and the violation of human rights, so the uprising of the Arab peoples came as an expression of a natural state of rejection of injustice, whether it lasts long or short.
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