Majed al-Zeer

Majed al-Zeer (born December 8, 1962) activist and chair of the European-Palestinian Council for Political Relations (EUPAC). He is the former director of the Palestinian Return Centre, an organization that advocates for the Palestinian right of return.

Early life Al-Zeer was born in the village of Harmala, a member of the Ta'amreh Bedouins. He attended schools in Kuwait, and graduated from Kuwait University with a civil engineering degree in 1986. Whilst at university, he was president of the Islamic Association of Palestinian Students. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1992, and earned a master’s degree in refugee studies at the University of East London in 2002.

Palestinian Return Centre Al-Zeer has served as the chair of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), an organization founded to advocate for the Palestinian right of return. The PRC has relationships with British politicians from various political parties. Labour politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn, Andy Slaughter, Ian Murray, and Baroness Tonge have attended their conferences.

Israel declared the PRC an illegal affiliate of Hamas in 2010, enacting sanctions, and then sanctioned al-Zeer in 2013. Additionally, Israel attempted to block the PRC from receiving special consultative status from the United Nations Economic and Social Council by accusing PRC of being linked to Hamas. The attempt was unsuccessful, and PRC achieved the status in 2015. Al-Zeer called PRC’s new status a "big win for Palestinian rights and refugees" and said that it represented a positive shift in the world’s view of Palestinian rights.

In November 2016, the PRC and other Palestinian activists launched a petition asking the British government to issue an apology for the Balfour Declaration. At the campaign's launch event at the UK parliament, al-Zeer stated that the British government has contributed to Palestinian suffering and displacement.

After World-Check designated him as a terrorist, leading to the closure of several bank accounts for him and his organization, al-Zeer filed a lawsuit. In 2019, he was awarded $13,000 plus legal fees, and his name was removed from the terrorism category. His legal team stated that World-Check had incorrectly flagged him as a terrorist based on baseless claims from the Israeli government.

In 2017, al-Zeer chaired the Palestine Abroad Conference in Istanbul, which aimed to form an organization that could represent the Palestinian diaspora. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which does not provide any formal representation for the Palestinian diaspora, accused the conference organizers of trying to replace it, a claim that al-Zeer denied. Al-Zeer was also involved in organizing the second conference in 2022. He blamed the United Kingdom for "crimes committed against the Palestinian people" at a conference in 2021, and later gave a speech in Berlin saying that Israel would fall in only a matter of time. In 2024, the United States Treasury sanctioned al-Zeer for allegedly serving as Hamas's representative and fundraiser in Europe.

In 2022, al-Zeer founded the European-Palestinian Council for Political Relations (EUPAC), a pro-Palestine advocacy organization based in Brussels. As of 2025, he serves as its chair.

Personal life Al-Zeer is married with four sons and one daughter. He moved from London to Berlin in 2014, and lives in Neukölln.