THE Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) has accused regional governments of “complicity” with Israel’s “aggressive and racist” Jerusalem security crackdown.

The LCP political bureau released a statement on Monday condemning the “aggressive security measures in Jerusalem” and that the two-week standoff at the al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem — Islam’s third-holiest site — “confirms the racist nature of the zionist occupation.”

The statement said the occupation “feeds off the divide among the Palestinian people, the silence of the Arab regimes and their complicity with the occupation.”