Samidoun, Gather 4 Gaza, and the Anti-Imperialist Front, in collaboration with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, denounce in the strongest terms the shameful decision of Panteion University in Athens – Greece to cancel our scheduled event with Palestinian National leader and liberated political prisoner Abdel Nasser A. Issa. This act represents yet another example of a systematic campaign to silence Palestine solidarity, driven by Zionist pressure and embraced by complicit institutions in Greece and across Europe.
The censorship of our event is not isolated but fits a pattern seen in the repression of activists, scholars, and students who dare to speak out against occupation and oppression. Across Greek universities, Palestine events have faced threats, expulsions, and administrative cancellation — just as Palestinian and solidarity voices are slandered, surveilled, and criminalized by state forces in all Europe. From attacks on students organizing for Gaza during the students Intifada, to bans targeting internationalist speakers, such measures expose the deep complicity of Greek academia in the global efforts to shield Israel from accountability.
This collaboration extends beyond the campus. The Greek state has intensified military, economic, and diplomatic ties with Israel, hosting joint exercises, arms deals, and security agreements that directly support the machinery of occupation and daily violence against Palestinians. Universities, meanwhile, sign “academic partnerships” with Israeli institutions that contribute to surveillance, research, and technological tools used to sustain apartheid and repression.
Athens University’s decision to bow to Zionist intimidation highlights the urgent need to confront Greek-Israeli collaboration at every level — and to defend the right to organize, educate, and build resistance on campus and in our communities. We refuse to allow the university, government, or any reactionary force to dictate what voices may be heard. University administration may close doors, but our movement for liberation will open new ones wherever necessary.
Our event will go forward, in a new location, and with even greater resolve. We call on all students, workers, and communities of resistance to join us — to reject censorship, oppose normalization, and link struggles from Palestine to Greece and beyond. The movement for Palestinian liberation cannot be silenced with repression, intimidation, or collaboration.
The event will be hosted at Λóos art project,
Address: Velvendou 39, Athina 113 64
Victory for Palestine is victory for all from the river to the sea!
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