#solidarity

watt@diasp.org

Thought it was worth documenting the Zionist provocateur, goon squad...
I have witnessed them in action previously, usually the police have the good sense
keep this nasty squad well away from Palestine protests attended by thousands,
this time the police let them right up to the doorstep of the Palestine protest, I wonder why...
#ZionistCounterProtest
#RoguesGallery
#Provocateurs
#HandsAroundParliament
#protest
#solidarity
#SilenceIsComplicity
#StopArmingIsrael
#London
#Photos
#video
#MyWork
https://tube.nogafa.org/w/e1bdKUNsG1jQpRq9Zrm

watt@diasp.org

It was a hot evening at Parliament square... The cops allowed a Zionist counter protest in close proximity...
There were 37 of them (I counted) And they tried their hardest to provoke a reaction... They were ignored...
Anyways, mission was successful, we peacefully surrounded Parliament : )Here's a little bit of video of today...
#ZionistCounterProtest
#HandsAroundParliament
#protest
#solidarity
#SilenceIsComplicity
#StopArmingIsrael
#London
#Photo
#video
#MyWork
https://tube.nogafa.org/w/e1bdKUNsG1jQpRq9Zrmxia

eileen@despora.de

What’s the meaning of solidarity? - JVP

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/07/10/whats-the-meaning-of-solidarity/?sourceid=

#Solidarity

We often say that none of us will be free until all of us are free. This is solidarity.

By acting in solidarity, we learn how our struggles are intertwined. Being part of something larger cuts through our isolation. Solidarity encourages us to share resources and knowledge, which keeps our communities safer. And solidarity is essential to building the power we need to win a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.

Defenders of Israel’s genocide know we’re strongest when we work together. That’s why they are so intent on pitting us against each other.

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

politics #culture #art #festival #fusion #international #solidarity #gaza

"Indeed, as we've watched history's first live-streamed genocide on social media, anti-imperialist sentiment has spread among the world's youth, especially in the Anglophone countries. It's not just young people, though: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, have all determined that Israel is practicing apartheid. The German state, with its history of multiple genocides, claims to know better than many others in the world – and a section of the German Left is aligning with their government. German »Solidarity with Israel« is often just a liberal veneer for very traditional racism. Fusion looked like it was sliding in this direction – and with the help of some international comrades, pulled back from this German consensus."

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Well said!

Small reminder needed though--before the US, there was France. The US picked up where France left off.


Ms. Que Banh - 2024-06-16 23:26:23 GMT

#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.

My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.

We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.

My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Canto near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.

Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.

Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.

The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.

Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.

Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.

The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.

Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.

You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.

Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.

At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.

Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.

I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.

Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.

The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.

Free Palestine!

watt@diasp.org

Which countries recognise the State of Palestine?

As of May 2024, the State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign state by 146 of the 193 member states of the UN:

Algeria - 15 November 1988

Bahrain - 15 November 1988

Indonesia - 15 November 1988

Iraq - 15 November 1988

Kuwait - 15 November 1988

Libya - 15 November 1988

Malaysia - 15 November 1988

Mauritania - 15 November 1988

Morocco - 15 November 1988

Somalia - 15 November 1988

Tunisia - 15 November 1988

Turkey - 15 November 1988

Yemen - 15 November 1988

Afghanistan - 16 November 1988

Bangladesh - 16 November 1988

Cuba - 16 November 1988

Jordan - 16 November 1988

Madagascar - 16 November 1988

Malta - 16 November 1988

Nicaragua - 16 November 1988

Pakistan - 16 November 1988

Qatar - 16 November 1988

Saudi Arabia - 16 November 1988

UAE - 16 November 1988

Serbia - 16 November 1988

Zambia - 16 November 1988

Albania - 17 November 1988

Brunei - 17 November 1988

Djibouti - 17 November 1988

Mauritius - 17 November 1988

Sudan - 17 November 1988

Cyprus - 18 November 1988

Czech Republic - 18 November 1988

Slovakia - 18 November 1988

Egypt - 18 November 1988

The Gambia - 18 November 1988

India - 18 November 1988

Nigeria - 18 November 1988

Seychelles - 18 November 1988

Sri Lanka - 18 November 1988

Namibia - 19 November 1988

Russia - 19 November 1988

Belarus - 19 November 1988

Ukraine - 19 November 1988

Vietnam - 19 November 1988

China - 20 November 1988

Burkina Faso - 21 November 1988

Comoros - 21 November 1988

Guinea - 21 November 1988

Guinea-Bissau - 21 November 1988

Cambodia - 21 November 1988

Mali - 21 November 1988

Mongolia - 22 November 1988

Senegal - 22 November 1988

Hungary - 23 November 1988

Cape Verde - 24 November 1988

North Korea - 24 November 1988

Niger - 24 November 1988

Romania - 24 November 1988

Tanzania - 24 November 1988

Bulgaria - 25 November 1988

Maldives - 28 November 1988

Ghana - 29 November 1988

Togo - 29 November 1988

Zimbabwe - 29 November 1988

Chad - 1 December 1988

Laos - 2 December 1988

Sierra Leone - 3 December 1988

Uganda - 3 December 1988

Congo - 5 December 1988

Angola - 6 December 1988

Mozambique - 8 December 1988

São Tomé and Príncipe - 10 December 1988

Gabon - 12 December 1988

Oman - 13 December 1988

Poland - 14 December 1988

DRC - 18 December 1988

Botswana - 19 December 1988

Nepal - 19 December 1988

Burundi - 22 December 1988

Central African Republic - 23 December 1988

Bhutan - 25 December 1988

Rwanda - 2 January 1989

Ethiopia - 4 February 1989

Iran - 4 February 1989

Equatorial Guinea - May 1989

Benin - 12 May 1989

Kenya - 12 May 1989

Vanuatu - 21 August 1989

Philippines - 4 September 1989

Eswatini - 1 July 1991

Kazakhstan - 6 April 1992

Azerbaijan - 15 April 1992

Turkmenistan - 17 April 1992

Georgia - 25 April 1992

Bosnia and Herzegovina - 27 May 1992

Tajikistan - 2 April 1994

Uzbekistan - 25 September 1994

Papua New Guinea - 4 October 1994

South Africa - 15 February 1995

Kyrgyzstan - November 1995

Malawi - 23 October 1998

East Timor - 1 March 2004

Paraguay - 25 March 2005

Montenegro - 24 July 2006

Costa Rica - 5 February 2008

Lebanon - 30 November 2008

Ivory Coast - 1 December 2008

Venezuela - 27 April 2009

Dominican Republic - 15 July 2009

Brazil - 1 December 2010

Argentina - 6 December 2010

Bolivia - 17 December 2010

Ecuador - 24 December 2010

Chile - 7 January 2011

Guyana - 13 January 2011

Peru - 24 January 2011

Suriname - 26 January 2011

Uruguay - 15 March 2011

Lesotho - 3 May 2011

South Sudan - 14 July 2011

Syria - 18 July 2011

Liberia - 19 July 2011

El Salvador - 25 August 2011

Honduras - 26 August 2011

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 29 August 2011

Belize - 9 September 2011

Dominica - 19 September 2011

Antigua and Barbuda - 22 September 2011

Grenada - 25 September 2011

Iceland - 15 December 2011

Thailand - 18 January 2012

Guatemala - 9 April 2013

Haiti - 27 September 2013

Sweden - 30 October 2014

Saint Lucia - 14 September 2015

Colombia - 3 August 2018

Saint Kitts and Nevis - 29 July 2019

Mexico - 2 June 2023

Barbados - 19 April 2024

Jamaica - 22 April 2024

Trinidad and Tobago - 2 May 2024

The Bahamas - 7 May 2024

Ireland - 28 May 2024

Norway - 28 May 2024

Spain - 28 May 2024
#genocide
#Starvation
#CeasefireNow
#Gaza
#Rafah
#Palestine
#freePalestine
#solidarity
#SilenceIsComplicity
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/palestine-israel-ireland-norway-spain-state-recognition-b2549268.html