Over 100,000 sign petition to stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine

7 May 2025

Over 100,000 people have already signed on to the petition to stop the French state’s planned dissolution of Urgence Palestine, the large national coalition and collective for Palestine that has risen to the forefront of the movement in France over the past 18 months of resistance to Zionist-imperialist genocide.

Please sign the petition at https://stop-dissolution.fr/

On the evening of 29 April, Urgence Palestine revealed that the French state had delivered a notice of dissolution, stating that the organization would be dissolved effectively on 7 May if the attack is not blocked by legal action. While Urgence Palestine’s legal team has already declared that it will file the necessary legal documents as soon as any ban is implemented, the campaign is also focusing on building mass, popular support to stop this latest attack by the French state against the Palestinian diaspora and the Palestine solidarity movement.

This attack also comes alongside another dissolution attempt — announced by French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau in the National Assembly, also on 29 April — on Jeunes Gardes, a youth antifascist organization. Of course, it also follows the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and multiple similar attacks on anti-fascist groups, Muslim organizations, local mosques and campaigns against Islamophobia, and as France continues to imprison Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in French prisons for the past 40 years and awaiting yet another hearing on his case in June, despite being eligible for release since 1999.

People from all walks of life have expressed their opposition to the dissolution order, with prominent trade unionists, artists, elected officials, musicians, actors, writers, athletes and public intellectuals joining the campaign, documented on the Urgence Palestine Instagram.

A mass outdoor public meeting against the dissolutions drew thousands in Paris alongside multiple elected officials, while demonstrations and public meeti

ngs against the dissolution are also being organized in Lyon, Strasbourg, Chambery and many other French cities.

Like its fellow imperialist powers, France fully supports the Zionist project in occupied Palestine as an outpost of Western imperialism in the region. After aligning with Britain and the Zionist regime in 1956 — and being defeated by Egypt — France collaborated with “Israel” to develop its nuclear weapons program that it continues to use today to threaten the entire region. Today, this same alliance is reflected in the ongoing arms trade conducted by the French state with the Zionist regime amid the escalated genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.

France is fully complicit with that genocide, through its provision of arms, aid and support to the Zionist regime, but it is also aiding and abetting genocide by engaging in a concerted attack on the freedom of expression of all in order to suppress, criminalize and silence those working to bring an end to the genocide, epitomized by the latest attack on Urgence Palestine.

We urge all in France and around the world to stand with Urgence Palestine and Jeune Garde.

Sign on to the Urgence Palestine collective petition, join over 100,000! https://stop-dissolution.fr/
Demonstrate at a French embassy, consulate, or Alliance Française (official government representative of French cultural activities) in your area against the dissolution and repression — and against France’s ongoing complicity with Zionist genocide throughout occupied Palestine. Use the signs below!
For more information, read our full statement.

In this moment, it is clearer than ever that it is critically important to build the broadest, strongest alliance for Palestine, insisting on full and clear support for the Palestinian resistance to occupation by all means, led by the armed resistance forces; the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea; and a firm commitment to anti-imperialist organizing and solidarity. These attacks must mobilize us to escalate our actions and build the international popular cradle of the Resistance. We must not back down or seek to comply with these illegitimate and indeed, illegal attacks, but only escalate our international solidarity to defend freedom of expression, defend Palestine, and defeat the repression — and, of course, to defeat imperialism and Zionism.

Stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine!

End the genocide in Gaza and throughout Palestine!

Stop the aggression against Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and the people of the region!