RESIST is the name of an electoral list

Electoral list

An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election to a post, usually in proportional election systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party or can constitute a group of independent candidates...

 formed as a result of the coalition between Marxist-Leninist Workers Party of Belgium

Workers Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...

 (PTB) and Pan-Arabist Arab European League

Arab European League

The Arab European League or AEL is a radical Pan-Arabist civil rights movement/organization in Belgium and the Netherlands.-Foundation:...

 (AEL) for the 2003 federal election in the Flemish Region

Flemish Region

The Flemish Region is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. Colloquially, it is usually simply referred to as Flanders, of which it is the institutional iteration within the context of the Belgian political system...

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RESIST was led by PTB lawyer Zohra Othman, herself an ethnic Arab

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

 of Moroccan

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 extraction, and received 10,059 votes. Consequently, AEL distanced itself from PTB and formed a new party named Moslim Democratische Partij

Moslim Democratische Partij

The Muslim Democratic Party or MDP is a political party in Belgium which was formed in 2003, as a result of the poor showing of the alliance RESIST between the Marxist-Leninist Workers Party of Belgium and the AEL at the 2003 Belgian federal elections.The party was founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah,...

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Abou Jahjah

Dyab Abou Jahjah

Dyab Abou Jahjah is an Arab political activist who came from Lebanon to Belgium as an asylum seeker. He is the founder and former leader of the Arab European League , a Pan-Arabist movement that supports the interests of Muslim immigrants in Europe.-Personal life:He was born and grew up in...

's group had participated in Antwerp PTB lists for the 1999 election

Belgian general election, 1999

The June 13, 1999 Belgian general elections was a Belgian election for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Belgian Senate. The federal general elections were held on the same day as the European elections and the regional elections. The Flemish Liberals and Democrats won the elections.The...

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External links

• Muslim European group posts anti-Semitic cartoons, European Jewish Press, 6 February 2006
• Does the ‘Resist’ electoral List offer unity?, Committee for a Workers' International
  Committee for a Workers' International
  The Committee for a Workers' International is an international association of Trotskyist parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party , the Socialist Party the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist...
  
   website, 11 March 2003
• RESIST: result evening in Antwerpen, Indymedia Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  , 18 May 2003