US-Zionist alliance resumes its genocidal bombing of Gaza: now is the time for action and resistance

The US-Zionist genocidal assault on Gaza is continuing, with over 100 airplanes dropping US-made weapons on Palestinians in schools, refugee camps, mosques and residential buildings, with over 200 martyrs and hundreds of wounded so far. The US and the Zionist entity bear joint and several responsibility for this crime, alongside their fellow imperialist powers Germany, Britain, France, Canada and others, as well as the complicit Arab reactionary regimes, and it is long past time that they are held accountable.

The resistance in Palestine, in Yemen, in Lebanon and throughout the region are imposing that accountability, but it is critical that the people bearing the brunt of the tons of bombs and weaponry not hold this burden alone. Palestinians — and the people of the region as a whole — have been resisting Zionist genocide not only for the past 18 months, but for over 77 years of Zionist occupation and over 100 years of colonial invasion and imperial extraction.

Since the inception of the ceasefire in Gaza 60 days ago, the Palestinian resistance and responsible organizations have meticulously tracked the repeated violations of the agreement by the Zionist regime. At the same time, in order to protect their people, the Resistance has not once violated the ceasefire agreements nor retaliated against the Zionist war criminals. For the past two weeks, the Zionist regime, together with the United States and its fellow imperialist powers, have fully blocked the entrance of aid to Gaza — not only the tents, caravans and other equipment required under the terms of the ceasefire, but basic needs like food and other humanitarian essentials.

Let us be very clear: the wave of deportations, arrests, threats and attacks by the fascist US government — and fellow imperialist powers — is meant to clear the path for the US-Zionist assault on Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, all of occupied Palestine and the region. It is meant deliberately to create state terror and to quell the movement in support of Palestinian liberation. The same is true of the designations and bans imposed on Samidoun in the United States, Canada and Germany, and the attacks in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and elsewhere: these have been and are being done to keep people out of the streets, to undermine solidarity with the Resistance, and to create pervasive fear and terror imposed by the state.

All of these attacks, from the unlawful arrests and political detention of students protesting genocide, to the raids on British students, activists and journalists, to the imprisonment of Palestine Actionists for direct action, to the bans on Samidoun, to the “terrorist designation” of the Resistance organizations in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, including those of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and AnsarAllah, are, quite simply, aiding and abetting genocide. There is no way to avoid or defeat these attacks by altering our calls for justice, remaining silent about the resistance, or allowing our movement to be divided by criminalization; it is clear that, as the Zionist regime drops its bombs on hospitals, children, and shelters, the entire Palestinian people and all who call for the liberation of Palestine, are targeted. Rather than retreat in the face of repression, it is more urgent than ever that we advance our organization, clarity, and, most critically, action.

The aim of such attacks is to create the conditions whereby the resistance, and the broad mass movement, in the imperial core does not respond and is suppressed into silence and ineffectiveness. They want the growing mass movement to leave the people and the Resistance in Palestine, in Yemen, in Lebanon, alone. This is not a coincidence of timing, it is a strategy of multi-pronged assault and counter-insurgency that has always been part of the imperialist-Zionist plan.

The Resistance is on the front lines, defending the people of Palestine and humanity itself, refusing subjugation, genocide and dispossession, not only for the past 18 months but for the past 76 years and beyond. The Zionist and imperialist regimes, despite their hundreds of tons of bombs and weapons of mass destruction dumped on the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, have failed to suppress the Resistance or uproot the people, and they will not end their humiliation with more genocide.

These bombs and weapons of genocide are provided by the United States, Germany, Canada, Britain, and their fellow imperialist powers. They are accompanied by political and diplomatic cover, economic integration and all forms of support for the Zionist colonial project in Palestine. Palestine Action in Britain has shown a clear example of how a people’s arms embargo can be imposed, through direct action in the center of the imperial core. Fundamentally, this is a struggle against imperialism and Zionism; genocide is at the heart of their project, and it has been the resistance, from Algeria, to Vietnam, to Palestine, that has uprooted these bloody colonial projects.

This is the time to make it clear that their repression, their bans, their designations and their arrests — their state terror and imposed fear — will never allow them to get away with genocide. It is the time to be louder, clearer and stronger than ever. It is time to stand with the Resistance, in defense of Palestine and in defense of humanity. Amid the US bombs, millions took to the streets today throughout Yemen to make it clear that their genocidal war machine would never suppress Yemeni resistance and humanity. It is imperative that the movement throughout the imperial core take inspiration from this example and do no less. We must nurture an international popular cradle of resistance that is confrontational, strong, resilient and directly aims to make their genocide impossible.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Victory to the Resistance, defeat for imperialism and Zionism, liberation for Palestine.