Omar Barghouti: we must step up BDS to stop Trump et al
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Omar Barghouti sets out the case for more Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions to stop Trump’s Plan for the USA to take over Gaza. He is clear about how evil this plan is but alo links the current situation of ethnic cleansing to other colonial regimes. As well as noting David Ben Gurion saying that wiping out Palestinian villages was “a necessary condition to create” a Jewish State, he also reminds us what Churchill and others said about it being irrelevant that Native Americans and Black Australians were killed to make way for “a superior race”.
And, of course, the aim is not to stop at Gaza but to the West Bank – and perhaps East Jerusalem as well. ForBelazel Smotrich, a self declared fascist the attacks on the West Bank need to continue until “Nablus and Jenin need to look like Jabalia.”
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Mon 10 Feb 2025. Read the original here.
To stop Trump’s Gaza plans, Palestinians need solidarity and support
The Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement is the best way to show solidarity with our liberation struggle
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A brilliant analysis of the current dire situation where Trump and Netanyahu, both mired in court cases for fraud, corruption, incitement and other tawdry crimes, one wanted for using starvation to perpetrate genocide, brazenly planning to ditch the ceasefire agreements, and return to the continuing genocidal warcrimes still in Gaza and already being fiercely pursued in the West Bank, wreaking havoc with th complicity of arms and surveillance by the US, UK and other EU countries. An immediate implementation of an arms embargo and cutting of all trade links is essential too end this madness and assault on the Palestinian people ongoing since the 1890s.
I often hear excuses for the comments of men like Roosevelt and Churchill being products of their time. This may be true but should be recognised that these comments have laid the foundations of our society AND its is why I believe the West is turning a blind eye to this genocide. These comments and others similar should be shouted from roof tops and make society realise how they have been duped, not for decades but centuries. Look at Trumps comments about South Africa at this moment.
I think the saying “Carpet Bagger” fits the current President well