Today is Land Day, held to honour Palestinian land defenders resisting Israel’s colonisation and apartheid.
As Palestinians face down Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing, we must reaffirm our solidarity with their struggle for freedom and return. (1/10)
In 1976, Palestinians inside Israel faced a renewed threat of state seizures of their land. They called a general strike and protests against these land grabs. Israeli forces cracked down, killing 6 people, injuring and arresting hundreds. (2/10)
Since then, Land Day has become a date for Palestinians, both in exile and in their homeland, to mark and remember those killed defending their land, and to reaffirm their struggle against Israel’s ongoing colonisation. (3/10)
The Palestinian struggle is unified around rootedness in the land: from land defenders in Masafer Yatta, to farmers in the Naqab. From those who use the day to visit the location of their villages destroyed in the Nakba, to those in exile who demand return to their homeland. (4/10)
Today, Palestinians are resisting Israel’s relentless onslaught across their homeland.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed many tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Most of Gaza’s residents are already refugees, displaced from their land by Israel’s previous campaigns of ethnic cleansing. (5/10)
In the West Bank, Israeli forces continue with military invasions, assassinations and land grabs.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed over 900 Palestinians in the West Bank, and escalated home demolitions and forcible dispossession. (6/10)
Meanwhile, Palestinian citizens of Israel confront harassment, violence, and intimidation to repress their solidarity with their siblings elsewhere in Palestine.
In the Naqab, they are facing home demolitions and ethnic cleansing.
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We demand the British government ends its complicity in Israel’s settler-colonialism and apartheid.
It must stop arming Israel, and ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements on stolen land. Write to Foreign Secretary David Lammy now:
(8/10) palestinecampaign.eaction.online/sanctionIsrael
We must also escalate our boycott campaigns targeting the corporations that help sustain Israel’s colonial settlement enterprise.
PSC has launched the Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign – calling on all individuals and businesses to boycott Israeli produce and Coca-Cola. (9/10)
The first Don’t Buy Apartheid day of action is on Saturday 5 April. Join an action in your local area, and call for Israeli produce and Coca-Cola to be removed from the shelves.
More info here: (10/10) palestinecampaign.org/events/dont-bu…
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