We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity entirely depends on it.
On October 17 2023, after 10 days of relentless aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israel bombed al-Ahli hospital which was housing hundreds of Palestinians who had fled their demolished homes. The world watched in disbelief at the intentional targeting of a hospital sheltering the displaced, certain that Israel had crossed a red line. For a brief moment, it felt as though we had seen the worst of the genocide and surely, with the entire world as witnesses, it would stop.
One year and seven months have passed since then.
Since then, every single hospital in Gaza has been targeted, estimates of more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed. Massacres are given titles: the Flour Massacre; the Al-Mawasi Khan Younis Massacres; the Rafah Tent Massacre; the Al-Fakhura School Airstrikes; and the list goes on.
One year and seven months ago, the entire world changed. International law, humanitarian organizations, structures that were put in place in response to some of the darkest chapters in history with the aim of preventing them from ever happening again all proved to be smoke screens; the rule-based order has been exposed as a farce. Amidst the quick deterioration of international law, people from every single continent rose with a fire that only sparks from deep conviction in a cause. Meanwhile, the forces who have led this genocidal campaign – Israel, US, and the Western nations – have effectively, undeniably revealed that their interests are aligned with war not welfare, profit not people, and capital not communities.
Many have succumbed to demoralization and defeatism, murmurs that, after a year and a half of mobilizations, encampments, arrests, disruptions, nothing has changed. In reality, everything has changed. Since October 2023, millions have marched on their nation’s capitals. Port workers and unionists in countries like Italy, South Africa, and Belgium have refused to load ships with military cargo. Countries like Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Ireland have adopted an arms embargo. South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Students around the world have protested their institutions’ complicity in genocide. Mass actions of solidarity have swept every sector of society: from celebrities displaying their solidarity across world stages, to small businesses shuttering their doors on international days of action. These developments reveal a shift in consciousness – an irreversible shift that no weapon of mass destruction, no tech firm, no military occupation, no nuclear power can ever destroy: it has created millions of people across the world who have pledged a lifetime commitment to upturn the system that has made this genocide possible in the first place. (more...)
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