Free Palestine: You Can't Get It Wrong

Never before has it been easier to get it right

It’s been three months since the cap flew off. Three months of witnessing a live-streamlined genocide and three months of watching our Western leaders side with Israeli psychopaths who gloat about the torture and murder of innocent Palestinians.

We have been fed lies about the “conflict in the Middle East” our entire lives but the truth is clear now: It’s not complicated, it’s colonialism.

It’s not religion, it’s racism.

It’s not war, it’s genocide.

This is why you can’t get it wrong when speaking up about Palestine.

The Zionist movement’s goal is to erase Palestine from the map, so the very nature of uttering the word “Palestine” means you’re getting right.

By speaking up, you’re fighting back against Israel and its shadow, the American war industry. They wish for you to remain confused, uncertain, and scared. They want you to believe that your voice doesn’t matter and that you’re getting it wrong.

But never before has it been easier to get it right. The evidence is so clear and so obvious. You have to be brainwashed to not see the truth.

Israel is an extension of the Western imperial project. It does not represent Judaism or Jewish people. It represents extraction, exploitation, and death. It is an apartheid state, even according to its own Center for Human Rights.

Proceedings in the International Court of Justice begin today, January 11th, with South Africa holding Israel accountable for their attempted genocide against the Palestinian people.

It is not an overstatement to suggest that the future of our world hinges upon this ruling. This court case will tell us whether or not those beautiful human social agreements—democracy and morality—are salvageable.

A future where Israel is not held accountable is a dark future indeed.

Our morality, our very ability to be human, was born out of collaboration, cooperation, and living in service to one another. If we don’t step up and demand justice for our Palestinian brothers and sisters, we’re essentially giving up on the whole purpose of humanity.

South Africa’s 84-page application at the International Court of Justice details the sheer evil of Israel’s actions against Palestinians—from deprivation of food, water, and healthcare to constant targeted and indiscriminate bombing, gunfire, and torture.

Torture, gunfire, and bombing that our tax dollars have paid for. Yes, we are complicit. Palestine is tied to all of us. As Frank Barat writes in the introduction to “On Palestine” by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé,

“The Palestine question is emblematic of what is wrong with the world. The role played by Western states, the complicity of corporations and of various institutions make this case a very special one. The fact that Israel actually benefits from violating international law and receives ‘red carpet’ treatment from the West means that we all have a role to play in ending the injustice that the Palestinians are facing.”

What has gone on for over a century must now end. All it will take is for us to raise our voices and join together, to organize, and to rise above the fear, noise, and confusion.

Palestine is at the very centre of our collective problems. Palestinians have been swept under the rug to suffer the brunt of the greed and determination of a very small cohort of people bent on controlling (read: destroying) the world.

And all these genocidal people ask for is your silence.

If you’re not willing to give up on humanity or democracy, please talk to your friends about Palestine. Talk to your friends and call your politicians. Tell them to support South Africa and to join in demanding an emergency suspension of Israel’s military campaign.

All Palestinians ask for is your voice and your consideration.

Will you give it to them?

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