The Palestinian working class can’t be free until Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonialism end — which can’t happen without resistance of Palestinian workers and international workers in solidarity.
How workers have united in and behind Palestine this past year ⬇️
In May 2021, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers — in multiple different industries, and across Gaza, the West Bank, and ’48 — all went on general strike to protest Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem, bombing of Gaza, and military and police violence.
Their strike led to hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for the Israeli economy, demonstrating Israel’s dependence on Palestinian labor and the liberatory potential of a unified Palestinian working class.
Dockworkers from South Africa to California to Italy refused to unload cargo from Israeli ships, throwing a wrench in the Israeli economy and preventing the transport of weapons and other goods that the state of Israel uses to enact violence against Palestinians.
An unprecedented number of US unions in the sectors of roofing, journalism, hospitality, UPS driving, and more have issued statements in solidarity with Palestinians, often demanding the US to end all funding to the Israeli military.
An example from Roofers Union Local 36:
Teachers unions in San Francisco and Seattle passed resolutions endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and calling for our tax dollars to fund public education, not Israeli human apartheid and war crimes.
Google and Amazon workers have put their jobs on the line to demand the companies end their $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military.
Workers make the world run, so we can leverage our labor to disrupt and change it! To more labor action in solidarity with Palestinians this year ✊🛠
As Palestinians across the world prepared to commemorate 76 years of the ongoing Nakba this week, news broke that the Biden administration approved another $1 billion in weapons to the Israeli military. 🧵
Previously, President Biden claimed that the Israeli government’s promise of a genocidal ground invasion in Rafah would be a “red line.”
By sending even more money to the Israeli military, Biden is signaling his endorsement of the massacres that will follow if the Israeli military invades Rafah.
Yesterday, the Israeli government ended its yearly cycle of state holidays that sequentially commemorates the Holocaust, Israeli militarism, and the creation of the state of Israel.
The sequencing of these holidays was intentionally designed to conclude and obscure May 15, the day Palestinians mark the ongoing Nakba. 🧵
Much of this year’s commemorations have been especially depraved, as they celebrate the now genocidal violence required to maintain the Israeli government’s apartheid regime.
Zionism, the ideology that the Israeli government rests upon, claims Jewish safety requires a Jewish-only nation-state. Zionists use the strategy of violent ethnic cleansing to ensure their goal of “maximum land, minimum Palestinians.”
Israeli tanks are opening fire on Palestinian in Rafah, and the Israeli military has sealed off all crossings into Gaza. Palestinians are completely cut off from aid or fuel. Over 600,000 children in Rafah are at risk of starvation. Drinking water could run out in Rafah in days. 🧵
Israeli military tanks have surrounded the eastern part of Rafah and are already firing in neighborhoods where Palestinians are sheltering. The road between the eastern and western sections of Rafah is blocked.
Two days ago, the UN warned that unless the Israeli government allowed fuel into Gaza immediately, five main hospitals and five field hospitals will have to shut down before the end of the week. Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza just announced it will run out of fuel within the next 24 hours. Other lifesaving medical facilities, ambulances and trauma care services will also have to halt operations, leaving sick and injured Palestinians with no resources for survival.
Following an Israeli court ruling that defended the ethnic cleansing of the village, Israeli police and military-grade bulldozers destroyed 47 homes belonging to the same family. 🧵
Palestinian residents of the region, many of them citizens of Israel, have been defending it from the Israeli military’s attacks since the 1990s.
In recent years, the Israeli military targeted the Palestinian community because it stood in the way of expanding a highway.
Early this morning, while the Israeli military indiscriminately bombed Khan Younis, the Israeli government dropped “evacuation” orders from airplanes pledging imminent use of extreme force against Palestinian families in eastern Rafah. 🧵
The Israeli military demanded that eastern Rafah be “evacuated.” This is no evacuation — this is forced displacement and ethnic cleansing.
This is not an “evacuation” and these flyers can’t hide war crimes. Yesterday night alone, the Israeli military bombed 11 residential homes, killing at least 25 people.
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance Day, marks the Holocaust and honors the 17 million people murdered during Nazi Germany’s genocide, including 6 million Jews.
We know our remembrance is hollow if we cannot apply the lessons of our past to the present day. 🧵
This year, this day of remembrance falls on the day the Israeli military ordered the over 100,000 Palestinians sheltering in east Rafah to flee, but with nowhere to go. The decision to assault Rafah on this day is grotesque.
The parallels between the dehumanization and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and the ongoing US-backed cataclysm in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring the Israeli government’s genocide, are too stark to be denied.