Jews across the world on this day of Solidarity with Palestine
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Jews Across the Globe Stand with Palestine
Gaza has lived the nightmare of genocide for thirteen months. Israel’s unrestrained violence has reached into Lebanon, the West Bank, Syria and Yemen. Galvanised by horror, a movement of solidarity with Palestine has surged through the streets and on campuses.
The work of justice has never been clearer. This year two international courts have directed us all to act: stop arming genocide, demand a ceasefire and urgently provide all the essentials of life that have been denied to Gazan Palestinians. Bring Israel’s illegal occupation to an end as rapidly as possible. Break off the economic and diplomatic interactions which normalise apartheid, resource theft, starvation and genocide. Arrest the war criminals.
As Jewish organisations, we also work for communal change. In our 18 countries on six continents, we challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism.
On this International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine, we re-dedicate ourselves to those actions. Palestine must be free and self-determining.
Global Jews for Palestine
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About Global Jews for Palestine: We are Jews from many countries, who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints on Jewish religious and ethical traditions. We are connected by our involvement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, and by our determination to work for justice. We oppose Zionism and all forms of racism and colonialism.
All of us struggle to make any worthwhile contributions to ending the slaughter in Gaza and in the other occupied territories. Grief over my own ineffectiveness is sometimes lightened by reading about the initiatives and successes of other groups elsewhere. I hope the following item will lift the spirits of other JVL readers as it did mine:-
Middle East Eye 27 Nov – “FIRST GAZA GENOCIDE CASES AGAINST FRENCH NATIONALS FILED IN PARIS”
Managers of two pro-Israel NGOs are accused of ‘complicity in genocide’ over Gaza aid blocking. A French organisation and a French-Palestinian woman filed a complaint on Tuesday against the French managers of two pro-Israel NGOs for “complicity in genocide and incitement to commit genocide in Gaza” … while a second complaint on the same grounds has been filed on Wednesday by two other organisations.
The first complaint – against the groups “Israel is Forever” and “Tzav-9″…targets actions by French nationals to block humanitarian aid to Palestinians … The plaintiffs are the FRENCH JEWISH UNION FOR PEACE and a woman who has 13 family members in the Gaza Strip. They are supported by the Urgence Palestine NGO.
The complaint, filed with the senior investigating judge of the crimes against humanity division of the Paris judicial court, is the first brought under the grounds of genocide, the most serious in the hierarchy of crimes, before the French courts.”
Both cases are filed as civil cases (which apparently makes it much more difficult for the French state or anyone else to block them from going ahead).