Brussels demonstration stands with Lebanon, Palestine and Iran against Zionist-imperialist aggression

On the 12th of April, Masar Badil, Tariq El-Tahrir, Samidoun Belgium and Charleroi pour la Palestine organized an emergency protest in support of the Lebanese people and their resistance to the Zionist Entity in front of Brussels Central Station.

The protest was called for after the Zionist Entity broke the “ceasefire” agreed upon by Iran and the United States by bombing over 100 locations in the span of 10 minutes, targeting residential neighborhoods in Beirut and villages in South Lebanon. During the demonstration, speakers from Samidoun Belgium and Tariq El-Tahrir praised the continued steadfastness of the Lebanese people and their Resistance while denouncing the U.S-Zionist aggression, the European Union’s continued support for and complicity with U.S.-Zionist war crimes, and the Lebanese government’s submission to imperialist interests.

Here are the full transcripts of the speeches that were made during the demonstration:

Speech 1:
Dear comrades

Today we salute the heroic resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq and in Yemen. We salute the steadfast people of our region refusing to submit to US-Zionist aggression.

This Wednesday immediately after the so-called “ceasefire agreement” the zionist enemy escalated its aggression and committed multiple massacres in Lebanon, killing more than 300 people.

Left with no achievements, the US-Zionist aggressor does what it does best, committing massacre after massacre, war crime after war crime, killing hundreds of people in mere minutes and destroying vital infrastructure.

The zionist colonial entity is openly calling for the occupation of South Lebanon, to build their project of “Greater Israel.” But the courageous people of South Lebanon who are the foundation of the resistance will not leave their land to the zionist colonial occupiers
The resistance is strong, and it will drive the zionists running from the hills of South Lebanon like it did in 2006.

The steadfast resistance has shown us that it won’t stop until the US-zionist aggression against Lebanon and all the people in the region comes to an end. Until the Zionist colonial regime is defeated until we are all free and liberated.

Likewise, we also won’t stop mobilizing against those oppressors in Europe who support and profit from colonization and genocide.

Now is the time for action and mobilization. For Lebanon, for Palestine, for Iran and, for Yemen to bring the imperialist-zionist war to an end.

Hands off Lebanon!
Hands off Iran!
Hands off Palestine!

Glory to our martyrs, healing to our wounded and victory to the resistance!

Speech 2

Overcome by their defeat on the frontlines, the Zionist Entity have once again targeted the land, homes and people of Lebanon in an attempt to break their popular support of the Lebanese resistance.

As in 2006, 2023, and 2024, the resistance is again withstanding and repelling the Zionist enemy in the South. In response, the Zionists have reverted to their brutal and cowardly strategy of directly targeting the people, seeking to overwhelm them with continuous massacres and displacement.

At the same time, together with the United States Empire they are seeking to spread internal discord, using their leverage with the Lebanese government to attack the resistance from within Lebanon. As a result, we have seen the Lebanese Prime Minister submit himself to the U.S-Zionist aggression. Instead of denouncing and mobilizing the national army against the Zionists’ attacks killing his people, he continues to make excuses for the aggression, picking up the phone every time Donald Trump calls to make demands such as “You need to disarm the resistance,” “You need leave the South to the Zionists,” “You need to increase the security coordination between the United States and Lebanon.”

There are no words that can describe the treachery of a politician that chooses the money of the imperialists and normalization, over the blood of his own people.

This January we had the honor of going with a delegation to Beirut to meet with the people resisting the Zionist occupation. Our delegation, named after Mahmoud Farajallah who was martyred in a closed detention center in Brussels last October, were able to visit the steadfast people of the South, that are refusing to leave their homes despite close to three years of bombardment and Zionist incursion. We were able to visit the families of the Lebanese prisoners in Zionist Jails, who are calling for the liberation of their loved ones while continuing to refuse any attempt at normalization. We visited the Palestinians in the refugee camps, who have for 78 years refused to abandon their right to return, and a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Wherever we went we heard the same words “we will not capitulate, we will not normalize, we stand with the resistance”.

As part of our delegation, we met with Sheikh Sadiq Al-Nabulsi in Saida, who was martyred four days ago in the same building where we had our meeting. We want to commemorate him, together with the three hundred people who were murdered in the same barrage of bombs, together with the thousands of Lebanese people that have died in the most recent war, by sharing his words.

He told us, that “to win the war, you need to win the narrative”. And that it is our role, within the imperial core and in the solidarity movement: to wage war on the narratives that are being spread by our own governments and media, and even shared within our movement.

What is the narrative that we need to win over? While there are many, we believe that it is first and foremost, the narrative that tries to separate the people from their defenders. The narrative that tries to separate our call for a free Palestine, from the fighters who pick up arms and give their lives to actually liberate Palestine. A narrative that portrays the defenders of Lebanon, of Palestine and of Iran as violent extremists, while lifting the reactionaries, the Pahlavis, the Salams, the Jolanis, the ones who cling onto power by spilling the blood of their people, as pillars of peace and progress.

We owe it to Sheikh Al-Nabulsi, and all the the Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian martyrs to never abandon this role and responsibility, to continue to wage war over the narrative until the U.S Empire has fallen and all of West Asia, all of the world, has been liberated!

We stand with Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Sudan, Congo, Cuba, Venezuela and all oppressed peoples against U.S Imperialism, echoing the words of the Lebanese and Palestinian people:

No capitulation!
No normalization!
Long live the resistance!