The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist Tawakkol Karman said that any continuing cooperation and partnership of the West in general and the United States in particular with autocrats will only reap the return of Trumpism and racist chauvinism in a more extreme manner.

Her statement came in a speech during the opening session of the Halifax International Security Forum 2020, hosted annually in Canada.

Mrs. Karman indicated that the Trumpic phenomenon and the rise of racism, isolationism, xenophobia in the West have served more as a punishment for Western societies than a solution and a wall providing them protection from the repercussions of a world sank in chaos, widespread wars and new imperial conflicts.

Tawakkol Karman considered that the Western trend towards isolation from what is happening to the third world countries is not an appropriate solution and will not keep the West’s countries, stability and survival away from the effects of the collapse of states, mass massacres, widespread terrorism, sectarian militias, and the incursion of theocracy in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabi.

Mrs. Karman stated that xenophobia and anti-immigrant measures are not a solution because foreigners and immigrants are not the problem, pointing out that the West has remained silent about the retaliatory counter-revolution wars that have turned the Arab Spring countries into a hell, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced.

The Arab Spring revolutions, she continued, have placed long-established democracies before decisive options so that they have no choice but to prove the credibility of their support for the right of peoples to fight for the rule of law, democracy, human rights, justice and democracy, or go ahead with proceed with reneging on their global legacy and all modern values of liberal democracy, justice and human rights.

The Nobel laureate called on the international community to stop supporting Saudi Arabia and the Emirates involved in war crimes against humanity in Yemen and stop arms sales to these two countries.

She also called for helping Yemenis to end the Saudi-Emirati guardianship over Yemen, for bringing those involved in war crimes in Yemen before international courts, and obliging Iran to stop its support for the Houthi militia.