Concern about the spread of anti-Zionist student protests to the Arab world

According to the Arabic website Tasnim News Agency, in recent days, the regional media have published numerous reports of Intensification of the security-political situation in Arab countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan has given that this was related to the developments in Palestine. In this regard, Bloomberg reported that Saudi Arabia has arrested a number of critics of the war against Palestine.

This media, pointing out that this wave of arrests has caused concern to human rights activists, emphasizes that one of the Executive directors who are involved in economic projects known as 2030 are also among those arrested. In this report, Bloomberg emphasized that the concern about Palestinian activists is not only in Saudi Arabia. The Middle East Eye website also reported that the Egyptian authorities arrested at least 120 people on charges of sympathizing with Palestine. They have been arrested since the start of the Gaza war. Over the past years, Cairo has been criticized by the public for accompanying the Zionist regime in the siege of Gaza, and this is despite the fact that the people of Gaza are culturally and even dialectically the most closely related to Egypt.

In addition to this, Al-Arab newspaper, in a report referring to the concern about social and political activities in support of Palestine, claimed that the strengthening of security cooperation in the field of confronting the elements of the Brotherhood in Kuwait is one of the axes of consultation between the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and Sheikh Meshaal Amir. Kuwait has been to Cairo in his recent trip. Kuwait’s brotherhoods have traditionally had close relations with the Palestinians, and since October 7, Kuwait has seen many demonstrations in support of Palestine, although this trend has stopped significantly in the last two months.

Al Quds Al Arabi Referring to the concern of people’s activities against the Zionist regime in Jordan, especially the continuous demonstrations in front of the embassy of this regime in Amman, he emphasized that there are serious concerns about the repetition of a new protest wave in the Arab world as a result of the continuation of the Gaza war. This approach has caused the Jordanian intelligence apparatus to be more sensitive to the Brotherhood and to worry about the alliance of this group with the “Popular Movement” (opponents of the eastern tribes of Jordan). This concern is intensified when Abu Obeidah, in his last message on the occasion of the 200th day of the battle, commended the people’s demonstrations against the Zionist embassy in Jordan and called for its continuation. It is also proof of the sensitivity of the Arab public opinion towards the developments in Palestine, and most of the Arab countries after the military defeat in 1968 witnessed political transformations and deep instabilities similar to the developments of the 1970s. At that moment in history, the defeat of the Arabs in the 6-day war of 1967 against the Zionist regime led to the emergence of right-wing forces and nationalism, whose shadow remained on the Arab region for several decades.

On the other hand, the student uprisings In America and then other Western societies, it has been a warning for the Arab governments and has worried them about the spread of these protests. Moreover, in the 1960s, student protests against the Vietnam War in America were gradually exported to West Germany, France and other countries of the world. Of course, the occurrence of such a crisis in Arab countries, which have always been prone to changes due to political and economic problems in recent years, can lead to the disruption of internal stability.