Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim condemns the international community’s failure to address Palestinian suffering, highlighting hypocrisy in democracy, human rights and anti-colonialism
BANGI: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has condemned the failure of the international order to address the suffering of the Palestinian people.
He said the international community should remain steadfast in upholding the principles of democracy and human rights, but its response to the plight of the Palestinians exposed contradictions in its commitment to fighting colonialism and imperialism.
“What is so hypocritical is the failure of the international community. I have to speak as Prime Minister, I understand that. But I have to express my utter disgust with the failure of the international order.
“We talk of democracy, whose democracy? We talk of human rights, which human? When human beings are treated as animals and slaves,” he said in his speech at the Sumud Nusantara Dinner, held in conjunction with the Global Sumud Congress 2026, here today.
Anwar, who is also the Patron of Sumud Nusantara, also questioned whether the different treatment accorded to the Palestinian issue was influenced by the fact that Palestinians were Arabs or Muslims.