END APARTHEID AND OCCUPATIONS!
Statement of the Just Peace Committee, February 2025
Just Peace Committee (JPC) joins the millions of good-hearted people who’ve been protesting the genocide and occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state, supplied and supported by the US and other states including Turkey and Jordan. Support for genocide is reprehensible. We welcome the ceasefire in the Palestinian territories started on January 19, a tremendous achievement. We are relieved that many Palestinian prisoners and resistance captives are being safely returned home from Gaza.
JPC recognizes the legal right to resist genocide and occupation. Resistance is not terrorism. We call for an immediate end to apartheid and occupation. We want justice for Palestinians and against Israel and all those complicit.
Hands off Palestinian territories! Hands off Lebanon! Hands off Syria!
The US is operating a command post in Jerusalem to direct its puppets, the Palestinian Authority. The PA is hostile to the Palestinian resistance forces in the West Bank. Canada has been directly participating in this nefarious activity with Operation Proteus. Canada and US Out! The West Bank settlements are illegal and must be emptied, with Israeli residents leaving immediately.
The US has military bases throughout West Asia and Canada several military operations. We say: Canada, out of West Asia! Canada, out of NATO! Shut down the foreign bases!
The JPC further calls for an end to Israeli, Turkish and US expansionism and occupations in West Asia and all the support and assistance from neighbours. It condemns Israel’s armed incursions into Lebanon and occupation of part of Syria. We support resistance to the foreign aggressors and occupiers in Syria. The US, Israel and NATO allies are overseeing the total destruction of Palestinian territories and Syria as they have done in Iraq and Libya. We oppose the regime change programs of the US, all of NATO and its many partners, who engage in demolition and chaos creation in order to quell independent governments and independence movements.
JPC strongly opposes the criminalization of protesters and journalists who speak out against genocide and occupation, and support resistance to genocide and occupation.
While many businesses are boycotting and divesting from Israel, many companies are profiting from war, occupation and genocide. No to war profiteering and a war economy!
Build the Opposition to Occupation and Genocide!
A peace process for West Asia cannot be led by the USA which is a belligerent in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its bombing of Lebanon and Yemen and its overthrow of the government of Syria. All parties to and their terms of ceasefires must be respected. All parties must work to make a just, comprehensive and lasting peace settlement based on numerous UN resolutions on the conflict and international law. The process must be guided first by the wishes of the Palestinian people and presided over and ratified by the UN as an international authority.
The international movement to defend and assist Palestinians and all victims of occupation, apartheid and genocide and inform the public of the truth must carry on and grow. We must together work to stop militarization and the war industry. This is a long-term struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism. It is necessary to achieve just and lasting peace.
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