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Palestine is our Compass

by justpeace87

Palestine is United, Undefeated, and the Compass of the World! – International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Statement of the ILPS on the Occassion of the Al Aqsa Flood Anniversary 2025

The International League of People’s Struggle joins the Palestinian people and all freedom loving people of the world in celebrating the second anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood operation against the US-Zionist occupation, and calls on all of its members to heighten their solidarity to end the genocide of the Palestinian people. The Al Aqsa Flood campaign exposes in stark terms the apartheid of occupation on Palestinian lands and achieved through the capture of “Israeli” captives by resistance forces the weakness of the overweening power of Zionist fascism.

The US-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people has raged on for the past two years. At least 65,000 are confirmed dead from bombardment, shelling, and indiscriminate gunfire from the Zionists. Hundreds of thousands more are still missing under the rubble or have been systematically starved to death by occupation forces. Aid has been deliberately blocked and used as a weapon to lure people in Gaza into death traps to be shot by the combination of Zionist soldiers and the US special forces of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” that amounts to nothing more than a mercenary gang under the control of “Israel.” Complete destruction of sanitation systems, healthcare facilities, food production areas, and other crimes have had the goal of manufacturing an ecological disaster in Gaza to force the people to either die or leave to make way for Zionist resettlement of the area under the patronage of Western financial investors.

Yet the Palestinian people continue to fight on. October 7 2023 launched the heroic Al Aqsa Flood national liberation operation that pushes the Palestinian resistance to fight back until today, and the people in general to remain steadfast on their land by any means necessary. While the Trump-backed “Peace Plan” that the US and Zionists have offered to the resistance attempts to destroy the political power of Palestine over Gaza, the resistance remains united and clear eyed in their responses at the negotiating table and on the battlefield. Meanwhile, the people of the West Bank have continued to rise up and resist the attempts of the Zionist military to implement their annexation plans as the people fight to keep Palestine united as one.

The Zionist regime is near collapse and more isolated than anytime before with the fascist Netanyahu regime fully exposed for its utterly corrupt and bloodthirsty character, while the inherently genocidal nature of the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine throughout its entire history is on the minds of more people around the world than ever before. As the resistance and the people remain steadfast to the principles of self-determination and ending the genocidal war led by the US and Zionists, the people of the world continue to pressure their governments to cut their ties with the Zionist entity in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Longtime supporters of the Zionist entity have been forced to cancel arm shipments after having been pressured by mobilization of the people of their countries, while popular governments such as Colombia have cut all ties diplomatically, and independent anti-imperialist governments such as Iran and Yemen continue to confront the Zionists openly in solidarity with Palestine as part of the Axis of Resistance.

The ILPS recently launched the “Right to Resist” International People’s Tribunal for Palestine to contribute to the global solidarity efforts of the Palestinian people, after calling for the convening of such a Tribunal during its 7th International Assembly. The Tribunal, to be held in Barcelona this November 22 – 23, will have witnesses testifying to the horrors of the US-Zionist genocidal crimes of ecocide and forced starvation, but also to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people to remain on their land by any means necessary.

The US and Zionists have been unable to break the will of the resistance and the people. The global solidarity movement taking to the streets, and even the seas in the case of the Global Sumud Flotilla, have continued to unite with their numbers swelling in hundreds of thousands to fight for an end to the genocide, break the siege, and assert the right to resist.

October 7th is a beacon for all national liberation movements and anti-imperialist struggles that shows what is possible when a people stand united and with a will to give any sacrifice as a price for freedom. This October 7th 2025, the world must continue to stand with Palestine.

by justpeace87

for Palestinian Land Day

Statement of the ILPS

ILPS commemorates Palestinian Land Day in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for self-determination against Zionist settler-colonialism actively seizing their land and attempting to exterminate them. In the face of the renewed genocidal offensive by the Zionist entity, we call on members to militantly stand with the Palestinian people and their resistance in their fight to end the occupation of their historic land.

First commemorated in 1976 following a general strike in which 6 Palestinians were massacred by the Zionist entity while protesting land stolen from the Arab villages of Sakhalin and Arraba, Palestinian Land Day has stood as a day of national unity of Palestinians for the demands of the return of their land, the end of the Zionist occupation and settlements, and the right of return for Palestinians. At the end of the day, the struggle for Palestinian self-determination is a struggle for their land against Zionism and U.S. imperialism.

Since the Balfour Declaration in 1917, British and then U.S. imperialism has supported and used Zionism as a tool to dispossess the Palestinian people of their land in their attempts to carve up West Asia. Sanctioned in the UN’s Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 and enacted by the Zionist settlers through the Nakba in 1948, half of the Palestinian population was displaced and dispossessed of their land. Since then, the Zionist entity supported fully by the new hegemon—U.S. imperialism—has continued to violently uproot more Palestinian people and occupy more of their land with aims to annex the West Bank, Gaza, and whole countries in West Asia through its aspirations for a ‘Greater Israel’. The continued barbaric imperialist control by the U.S. and Zionist occupation of Palestine is based on the significance of West Asia’s massive reserves of fossil fuels, but also strategic trade routes critical for transporting plundered resources from Africa and the Asia-Pacific to Europe.

In general, imperialism will always aim to expel the oppressed and toiling peoples from their land in order to deprive them of their livelihood and self-determination so they cannot act as a united political force against their oppressors. This is why the imperialists support and create fascist puppet and settler states such as the Zionist entity, which has a messianic drive to separate the people from their land and whose main ideology is to exterminate the people at all costs to do this. Land is life and central to the struggle of the Palestinian people alongside those in the countryside in the colonies and semi-colonies across the world for national and social liberation.

Now, with an over year-long genocide conducted by the Zionist entity with the full support of U.S. imperialism that has spilled over to Lebanon and Syria after the Al-Aqsa Flood, the demands that Palestinian Land Day stands on must be propagated internationally to isolate the Zionist entity and weaken a limb of imperialism in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Now, more than ever, the peoples across the world must take the streets and show unconditional solidarity with the people of Palestine and their demand for sovereignty, ending the occupation, and a right to return to their historic land.

Condemn the end of the Gaza Ceasefire

by justpeace87

Statement of the ILPS

ILPS militantly condemns the continuation of indiscriminate airstrikes by the U.S.-Zionist entity and the deliberate engineering of the end of the Gaza ceasefire. This is part of the war of extermination against the Palestinian people that the U.S.-Zionist entity has continuously pursued to advance its expansionist settler-colonial project. The Palestinian people and its unified resistance continue to stand strong in the face of genocide and will continue to resist until the Zionist occupation has ceased to exist.

In the last 24 hours, more than 400 displaced Palestinian civilians have been killed while asleep in their tents in Gaza from the indiscriminate airstrikes, with at least 560 wounded. Since October 7th, 2023, there have been at least 70,000 Palestinian people killed with over 1.8 million displaced by this genocide. Beyond the Zionist entity’s genocide against the Palestinian people, their bloody hands have killed 2,720 Lebanese people with over 1.4 million displaced by their invasion of Lebanon since October 1st, 2024.

The end of the ceasefire was engineered with the full cooperation of the United States, not the resistance forces of Palestine as the imperialist press is propagating. In the words of the Zionist entity’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “The operation in Gaza is gradual, and we have planned it over the past few weeks since the appointment of the new Chief of Staff [of the IDF, Eyal Zamir].” These developments are not surprising, as the Zionist entity was blocking humanitarian aid and withholding Palestinian hostages since the beginning of the ceasefire deal, but this new surprise offensive by the Zionist entity with consultation and support from the U.S. shows a further commitment to a war of extermination against the Palestinian people for their settler-colonial project and marks the U.S.’s additional focus against Iran and the Axis of Resistance in their imperialist strategy.

The surprise attack on Gaza, with clear intents of preparations for further escalation, the military and political changes in Syria, and renewed attacks on Yemen are directed by the U.S. to a geopolitical recalibration of political balance, with ultimate intent of weakening/eliminating Iran, who for many decades has remained one of the strongest, if not the strongest resistance against US imperialism.

The Zionist entity and its allies have constantly broken its ceasefire with Hezbollah by continuing to shoot civilians, conducting airstrikes, bombing infrastructure, and not ending their occupation of part of Southern Lebanon alongside manufacturing tensions at the Lebanese-Syrian borders in order to destabilize Lebanon and pull Hezbollah into a side battle so they can occupy more of Mount Hermon in sovereign Syrian land. The Zionist entity’s and U.S.’s support of the HTS-led coup in Syria has killed 4,711 people, including 1,805 executed in HTS’s ethnic cleansing campaign since December 8th, 2024. The Zionists have enflamed ethnic tensions to secure control in the Druze-minority areas and are opportunistically using the ongoing Syria-Lebanon border clashes to weaken Hezbollah and keep them from intervening in solidarity with Gaza.

The U.S. Central Command has also engaged in naval warfare and airstrikes against Yemen and their blockade against the Zionist entity, killing over 50 people and wounding dozens in recent days. This comes as Ansar Allah has resumed its naval blockade on ships and fired against U.S.-Zionist military structures in solidarity with the people of Gaza. In addition, Trump has stated that Iran must be ‘held responsible’ for ‘leading’ Ansar Allah’s defensive actions, threatening “great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there.”

The death toll, displacement, and destruction caused by the U.S.-Zionist entity alliance is only rising because of their inability to accomplish any military objectives. In contrast, he resistance has grown in numbers, refilling its ranks with the full support of its people, who know that their existence and victory can only be assured by ending the Zionist occupation and ridding U.S. imperialism from the region. Now, more than ever, the peoples across the world must take the streets and show unconditional solidarity with the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, the wider West Asia, and the united Axis of Resistance.

Signed,

International League of Peoples’ Struggle

End the Palestine Occupation!

by justpeace87

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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The Heroic Struggle in West Asia

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THE HEROIC PEOPLES’ STRUGGLE WILL DEFEAT THE US-ZIONIST-TURKISH ONSLAUGHT ON WEST ASIA

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle salutes the brave sacrifice and resistance of the Palestinian and Lebanese people and condemns the expansion of regional conflict into Syria by imperialist and fascist proxy forces. As the genocidal US-Zionist-Turkish alliance unleashes wave upon wave of attacks against the people, we remain steadfast in our solidarity with all progressive forces in the region as US imperialism lets loose its attack dogs to slow its inevitable decline.

After many months of sacrifice by the Lebanese people, in which Hezbollah’s declared “support front” for the Palestinian resistance in Gaza was turned into its own front for the defense of Lebanese sovereignty, the resistance agreed to a ceasefire with the Zionist entity. This deal was brought to the table after the Zionists were unable to achieve any of their objectives in Lebanon despite indiscriminately killing well over 3,000 people in the country since October 7, 2023, including some of Hezbollah’s key leaders like the late Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. The settlers to the north of occupied Palestine have not been able to return home despite the hollow promises of the Zionist government. Hezbollah also proved that its attacks could hit deep into Tel Aviv, destroying military sites and forcing settlers to flee to shelters on a daily basis. The Lebanese resistance remains strong, and they now have the hard won space to recuperate to carry on their fight. In fact, it has already been reported that the Zionists committed at least 50 violations of the ceasefire through continued missile attacks, shooting at civilians including journalists, and preventing Lebanese people from returning to their homes.

Regardless of how long the ceasefire lasts due to Zionist provocations, it is clear that the Zionists knew they would expend too many resources in a war in Lebanon while the genocide in Gaza is still taking place, and they saw that the resistance would not back down, nor were they losing support among the people. Instead, the US special envoy to Lebanon pressured the Zionists into making a deal due to the unwavering strength of the resistance. This sacrifice of the people in their fight for liberation is as much an inspiration as the fight of the Palestinian people, and the entire region shines bright in the beacon of their resistance.

As the Lebanon ceasefire was reaching its start, a new reactionary wave was unleashed on Syria from Turkey. Terrorist mercenaries trained by Turkey and armed with US-made weapons stormed through Syria’s Idlib Province and reached Aleppo within just a few days. These mercenaries belong to the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a reorganized fragment of the previous US-trained and al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front whose majority membership would go on to form the Islamic State terrorist organization, as well as the so-called Syrian National Army, made up of former fighters of the Free Syrian Army, a group armed and trained by the US and Turkey and financed by US-provided funds. Their sole purpose was to take advantage of the Arab Spring in which people across West Asia and North Africa took to the streets to demand an end to political repression and economic crisis, and to inflame a civil war to topple the Bashar al-Assad regime that stood in opposition to US imperialism in the region and is a close ally of US rival Russia.

The destructive path cut through Idlib and into Aleppo by these US-Turkish and pro-Zionist mercenaries exposes their anti-people interests and false claims of wanting to free the Syrian people from repression. They have ambushed civilians and beheaded soldiers and civilians alike. They have blockaded key roads such as the highway to Damascus, which has led to hamletting of communities and cut them off from food and aid. They have enacted indiscriminate violence against national minorities such as the Kurds. It is clear from these actions that these forces are mere proxies for Turkey as the fascist Erdogan regime seeks to take advantage of the chaotic genocidal war of the Zionists and stave off internal crisis at home while enacting its own genocidal war of extermination against the Kurdish people fighting for their national liberation. It also took advantage of a key moment when Russia, Syria’s key military ally, is mired in its proxy war with US-NATO forces that the US provoked to weaken Russia in Ukraine.

In summary, the outstanding heroic performance of the resistance both in Gaza and Lebanon, which prevented Israel from realizing its declared objectives of its war has forced Imperialism to unleash its plan B in order to cut all routes which might be used to reinforce all needed resources in this decisive war. Turkish military forces and its puppets in Northern Syria as well as US agent forces were used to execute their plot to force the Syrian regime to cut relations with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance or be in danger of being internally defeated and the Syrian nation and state to be partitioned and disintegrate into warring groups. This plot is being now defeated by the awareness of the Syrian people and the steadfastness of the Syrian army and its allies in the battlefield. 

The war is escalating in Syria, yet the balance of forces is moving in the right direction against the Imperialists, the Zionists and the Turkish regime. As US imperialism wages its violent strategy to counter its ultimate regional rival Iran by letting loose its puppet and satellite states against the people and independent states of the region, let us remain patient and steadfast in struggle as the people, the true makers of history, fight on to free themselves from imperialism and all reaction. Their resistance is a beacon to our own resistance, and our solidarity in the midst of our own struggles for liberation is the greatest gift we can offer.

For reference: Len Cooper, ILPS Chairperson

Statement of the International League of Peoples’ Struggles, Dec. 03, 2024

STOP AERIAL BOMBINGS!

by justpeace87

PEACE-LOVING YOUTH OF THE WORLD UNITE TO STOP AERIAL BOMBINGS IN PALESTINE, INDIA, MYANMAR, AND THE PHILIPPINES

[SIGN THE UNITY STATEMENT HERE: bit.ly/StopAerialBombings]

Imperialists and their fascist cohorts across the world have launched indiscriminate aerial bombings on communities, hospitals, schools, churches, and other civilian infrastructure. Despite being a war crime that targets mostly civilians, aerial bombings, shelling, and strafing are being used more and more as a primary instrument of terror by murderous governments led by Netanyahu in Israel, Modi in India, and Marcos Jr. in the Philippines.

  In occupied Palestine, the destruction and human toll caused by the aerial bombings have been given a spotlight on the international stage. Since October 7, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have launched a nonstop campaign of aerial bombardment on Gaza and the West Bank. The death toll has now surpassed 13,000, including 5,000 children. Almost 1,800 more children are still missing under the rubble of razed buildings. 

  In India, an aerial bombing campaign in Bastar was launched in April 2023 targeting the border regions of Chattisgarh and Telengana for the fourth time in three consecutive years. The aerial drone attack was carried out in the villages of Madkanguda, Mettuguda, Bottethong, Sakleer, Madinaguda, Kannemerka, Pottemangam, Bottalanka, Rasappalli, Errapadu in Kishtaram and Pamed areas of Chhattisgarh state and killed a tribal woman named Pottam Gangi.

  In the Philippines, an aerial bombing campaign has battered the rural communities of Negros, Cagayan, Batangas, Kalinga, and other provinces since 2021. The new Marcos Jr. regime has inherited his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte’s fondness for aerial bombing. Within his first year as President, Marcos Jr. already tallied more than 7,000 victims of aerial bombings. The aerial bombings in Cagayan and Kalinga, in particular, are seen as a measure to pave the way for the construction of US bases in Northern Luzon.

  In Myanmar, the ruling junta has unleashed at least 643 airstrikes and drone strikes since the 2021 coup, killing 772 on the spot. This, together with the 871 shellings, has led to thousands of noncombatants’ deaths, especially affecting farmers, indigenous peoples, and rural food producers. These bombings have impacted Karenni, Sagaing, Chin and other states of the country. In the Karenni state, where over 84% of the population is now internally displaced, the Karen people, long fighting for their land rights, have borne the brunt of these violent activities.

  We see that under the cover of eradicating armed resistance, these fascist governments are wantonly committing war crimes in order to spread terror among the civilian populace. These attacks do not only cause immediate destruction of lives, but also long-term damage to irrigation systems and agricultural land of the targeted communities, which are mostly farmers.

  Youth are particularly affected by bombings and militarization, given the destruction of the communities they will inherit and causing harmful trauma that will stay with them for much of their lives. And yet, youth have always been at the forefront of fights for justice, from the anti-war struggles in support of the people of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq among others. Youth have also led the world in all social justice movements, from farm worker justice campaigns, revolutionary student and workers movements and anti-racist struggles in all corners of the globe.

  We, the undersigned peace-loving organizations and individuals across the world, commit to the fight against indiscriminate aerial bombings. Governments must immediately stop these campaigns, conduct urgent, thorough, and impartial investigations, and provide support and rehabilitation for victims. We also condemn the imperialist United States for sponsoring these attacks on civilians through military aid and for supplying weapons to these anti-people governments.

International League of Peoples’ Struggle – Commission on Youth

National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates Youth (Philippines)

League of Filipino Students (Philippines)

Revolutionary Students Front (India)

Democratic Students’ Association (Kerala, India)

Palestinian Youth Movement

All Burma Federation of Students Union

Myanmar Student Organization

Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network

Youth for Food Sovereignty 

Siklab Philippine Indigenous Youth

NetworkGempar Papua (West Papua)

Sulong UBC (Canada)

Anakbayan USA

State-Sponsored Hellfire

At least 2,905 State-sponsored bombings of indigenous and rural communities in the past three years alone.

See interactive map here– https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/fYNmA/1/  

Maps are in collaboration with Silenced Suffering, a campaign network against bombings

Israel bombed Palestinians 2476 times in 3 years.

The US-backed Israeli occupiers have bombed and killed nearly 15,000 Palestinians in the past three years, 9 in 10 of whom in the last two months alone.

See interactive map here– https://www.datawrapper.de/_/7qR7n/

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AGAINST GENOCIDE, FOR LIBERATION AND RETURN  

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11 November 2023, International Critical Geographies Group

As geographers, scholars, activists, organisers, artists, workers and communities committed to social justice, we refuse to remain silent in the face of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and we stand in unwavering solidarity with Palestine. We condemn the Israeli slaughter, displacement, imprisonment, and dehumanization of Palestinian life, from the river to the sea. This brutal offensive is being carried out with the complicity of governments across the Global North and South, and it is a textbook case of collective punishment and genocide in violation of international conventions on war and human rights. 

As the Israeli offensive in Gaza enters its second month, we are horrified by and condemn the more than 11,000 Palestinians murdered and 25,000 others injured and maimed; 1.5 million people displaced; the ruination of half of the total residential homes as well as the destruction of hospitals, universities, schools and places of worship, the destruction of vital infrastructure such as water and energy ahead of winter, and the destruction of farms, livestock, soils and biodiversity, with long-lasting ecological consequences. Equally, we condemn the escalated siege imposed by Israel and Egypt, which cut off Palestinians from water, food, medical supplies, electricity, fuel, and communications in violation of international humanitarian law.

We are deeply concerned about Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel has imposed a lockdown further depriving them of freedom of movement and vital access to supplies, services and livelihoods. Since the war erupted, 176 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and settler militias. Another two thousand have been arrested and a thousand more have been forcibly displaced from their lands. Daily raids by the Israeli army terrorize the population and destroy critical infrastructures in cities and refugee camps across the West Bank. Palestinians in Jerusalem and those who are citizens of Israel are being arrested, dismissed from their jobs, legally prosecuted and threatened for expressing solidarity with their kin. Israel is also holding more than ten thousand Palestinian political prisoners in appalling conditions who, as documented by several human rights groups, are suffering from beatings, tortures, medicine withdrawals and death in custody.

Despite the unprecedented intensity and scale of the current violence and devastation, these Israeli attacks are in no way new. Before October 7th, 179 Palestinians had been killed and 683 injured by Israelis in 2023 alone, making it the deadliest year in two decades. This latest Israeli attack is the 6th large scale assault on Gaza since Israel imposed a siege in 2006. There is a long history of Palestinian dispossession at play here. For more than a century, Palestinians have endured the criminal violence of imperialism, settler colonialism, and apartheid. This has been thoroughly and painstakingly documented in scholarship, civil society reports and UN resolutions, Palestinians do not exist in a vacuum.

All life is sacred. We also recognize that the violence of the oppressed is a response to the condition of their oppression. However as indicated by the International Court of Justice in 2004, Israel’s right to self-defense is not applicable in the context of their colonial occupation. Equally, according to UN Resolution 2625, Palestinians have a legitimate right to resist colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, within the boundaries of international law.

We reject any and all conflation of criticism of the Israeli state or Zionism with anti-Semitism. The accusation of antisemitism, particularly the new definition by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), has proven to be an effective means to silence and punish critics of Israel. False charges of antisemitism have been levied against academics and civil rights activists calling attention to the plight of Palestinians. We recognize anti-Zionism as a legitimate stance against a nationalist, settler colonial and racist political movement and ideology premised on the subjugation, dispossession and erasure of Palestinians. We refuse to be part of a weaponization of antisemitism which tears apart communities and a united front against all forms of racism.

We denounce the increasing governmental, institutional and legislative criminalisation of those who express solidarity with and demand accountability for the violation of Palestinian’s rights in all countries. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States are leading the charge in sanctioning, silencing, incarcerating and punishing those who speak out against their complicity, and their financial, military and political support of Israel. We warn that this backlash will become a boomerang. The curtailment of the basic rights to protest, organize, associate, speak and think as well as the ongoing deplatforming of scholars, artists, activists and workers is a violation of our basic rights and responsibilities to speak, write and disseminate the historical truth. This repression may have a chilling effect on our individual and collective freedoms to speak and organize for social justice but it will not stop us.

We condemn the unprecedented corporate censorship, alarming levels of disinformation and hate speech across traditional and social media platforms which are dehumanizing, targeting and silencing Palestinian voices through unethical and biased reporting, discriminatory content moderation and shadow banning.

We salute Palestinian parents, frontline health workers, journalists, bakers, fisherfolk, infrastructure maintainers and all workers and carers who are enduring and resisting the everyday horrors of genocide.

We salute the hundreds of thousands taking to the streets across the Global South and North in internationalist solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Equally, we stand with all forms of labor organizing, protests and direct actions which are targeting the logistical infrastructures and supply chains that enable the imperial war machine, from the blocking of ships, planes and trains to the disruption of the military industrial complex. 

We also see and take inspiration from the courage of migrant, diasporic and exiled communities who are organizing and speaking out against the genocide in Palestine despite the risks of arrest, suspension of resident permits, home raids and deportation.

In heeding the urgent call for solidarity from our Palestinian allies and joining millions globally, we demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that puts an end to the killings, displacements and destruction of Palestinian people, places and homes by the Israeli government.

We demand an end to the genocide against the Palestinian people, from the river to the sea. We call for accountability for the crimes of the State of Israel and its financiers, enablers and allies. Never again means never again, for Palestinians and everyone without exception.

We reject a return to the previous everyday violent status quo and demand an end to settler colonial occupation and apartheid for the implementation of the inalienable Palestinian rights to self-determination and return.

Drawing on the International Critical Geographies Group’ statement of purpose “A World to Win!” and on the 2015 resolution passed in Ramallah during the 7th ICCG, we call on geographers, scholars, activists, artists, organizers, workers and people of conscience to reinvigorate internationalist efforts to implement the Palestinian call to promote boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law.

Finally, we call on colleagues and comrades to mobilize against the criminalisation and censorship of all things Palestinian which have turned our institutions, academic or otherwise, into spaces of intimidation and fear. We call on you to continue speaking up, to organise in your workplaces through unionizing, direct actions, statements, dialogues, teach-ins, screenings as well as collaboration with and support of our Palestinian colleagues until we put an end to the genocide and Palestine is free.

To see the list of the first 1,000 signatories in alphabetical order, including those who have requested to withhold their names for fear of reprisals (16/11/23) please visit our site.