To Confront the Ongoing Nakba and Genocide: Resistance until Liberation and Return

Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Genocide

For more than 76 years, the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime has maintained its system of domination and oppression through a strategy that is based on three pillars: forced displacement and transfer, colonization and apartheid. This regime consists of a plethora of policies, practices, and laws that result in the creation, sustainment, and augmentation of the longest standing displaced population in the world: 9.17 million Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons who continue to be denied their rights to reparations, including return, properties restitution and compensation, as enshrined in UNGA Resolution 194 of 1948. In addition, these pillars have resulted in Israel’s control of 85 percent of the land of Mandatory Palestine.

After more than seven months of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Palestinians remain unprotected and continue to be killed, starved, tortured, besieged and forcibly displaced over and over again. Not only is Israel attacking a protected population, but is also taking measures to destroy the Palestinian population there, slowly, through the weaponization of aid to the point ofmalnutrition and famine, destruction of the healthcare infrastructure, and the denial of healthcare services.

Supported by its colonial allies, Israel has not only refused to ease its chokehold and genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, but has also intentionally denied the needed amount of aid reaching the
starved Palestinian population there, especially in the north, and deliberately obstructed the work of UNRWA and many other international agencies.

Palestinian refugees make up 81 percent of the population in Gaza. They are now also experiencing internal displacement with approximately 1.7 million Palestinians out of 2.3 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip being internally displaced. This represents a staggering 75 percent of the population, and marks one of the largest displacements since 1948. It is clear that the genocide in Gaza is not an isolated event but rather a component of the Ongoing Nakba, fulfilling Israel’s ultimate goal to control the maximum amount of Palestinian land, with the minimum number of Palestinians.

Escalated Suppression of Palestinians

Under the umbrella of the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has escalated its suppression of Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and in 1948 Palestine. Israel has intensified its policies of silencing Palestinian voices, land confiscation, bolstered by colonizer attacks and access restrictions, resulting in the killing of hundreds and forcibly displacing thousands of Palestinians.

Israeli forces have heavily targeted Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the West Bank through daily raids and incursions, killing residents and destroying public infrastructure and homes.

The number of arbitrary arrests has also skyrocketed with rampant reports of torture and ill-treatment, medical neglect, systematic abuse, beatings and attacks against prisoners. Additionally, the bodies of political prisoners continue to be denied dignified burial, as they are detained by the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime.

Ongoing Complicity

After 76 years of Ongoing Nakba, colonial states, with their domination of the international community, continue to provide support and impunity to the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime, while simultaneously ignoring its legal and moral responsibilities. Satisfied with only setting up public relations ploys and voicing empty concerns over the “humanitarian crisis”, western colonial powers continue to politically, financially and militarily support Israel. These states have become active agents of genocide, by weaponizing aid, supporting Israel in its “day after plans” including its ongoing campaign to defund, eliminate and replace UNRWA. While Israel still hasn’t provided evidence of its allegations, complicit states have deemed the most recent UN review of UNRWA as “insufficient” and continue to suspend the Agency’s funding.

Ongoing Resistance and Solidarity

Despite more than 76 years of displacement, oppression, and ethnic cleansing and genocide, the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their resistance against the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime in pursuit of their liberation. Palestinian resistance in all of its forms, in Mandatory Palestine and abroad, has been met with overwhelming solidarity from people of conscience across the globe, with the efforts of the global solidarity movement standing in stark contrast with clear moral and legal bankruptcy of colonial states and their leaders.

Now, more than ever, we reaffirm that the only solution to the Ongoing Nakba is a comprehensive rights-based decolonization framework, which will ensure the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to self-determination and return. Palestinian resistance, combined with the sustained and strategic efforts of the global solidarity movement, is the only way through which the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip will end, Israel’s colonial-apartheid regime will be sanctioned and dismantled, and colonial states will be held accountable for their complicity.

Signatories:

1. BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
2. The Global Palestinian Refugee and IDP Network (GPRN) – 39 Organization
3. Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
4. Plataforma Córdoba con Palestina
5. Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU)
6. Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)
7. Collectif Palestine Vaincra
8. Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
9. The Palestine Committee in Norway
10. Centre for Global Education
11. The Palestinian Disability Coalition
12. Trinity BDS
13. Edmonton Small Press Association
14. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
15. Asociación Paz con Dignidad
16. Palestine Solidarity Alliance South Africa
17. BDS Madrid
18. Taafi
19. AKAHATA – Argentina
20. Palestine Updates/Badayl
21. Baladi Center for Culture & Arts
22. Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
23. Xinye Public Interest Service Central
24. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
25. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network-IJAN AntiJAN Argentina
26. Union of Students in Ireland
27. Makan
28. IJAN, INTERNATIONAL JEWISH ANTIZIONIST NETWORK, Spain
29. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)-Canada
30. Sexual Rights Initiative
31. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearos
32. Northern rivers friends of Palestine
33. Australians for Palestine
34. Free Palestine Coalition Naarm
35. Muslim Counterpublics Lab
36. Sare Lesbianista
37. Palestinarekiko Erantzukizuna
38. Association of Young Democrats
39. Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía- APDHA
40. Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality
41. JUST-IS Interfaith Solidarity against Global Militarism and for Social Justice
42. TU Dublin Students’ Union
43. NACIÓN ANDALUZA
44. BDS Almería
45. Mujeres de Negro de Isbilya
46. Ontario Palestinian Rights Association
47. Canada Palestine Association
48. European Legal Support Center (ELSC)
49. Lajee Center
50. Lajee Celtic
51. Loud Jew Collective
52. Comhlamh Justice for Palestine
53. Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign
54. Australia Palestine Advocacy Network
55. Jews Against the Occupation ’48 Australia
56. Tzedek Collective
57. International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
    (EAFORD)
58. Save Our Sacred Lands (SOSL)
59. Comhaltas na Mac Léinn Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, University of Galway Students’ Union
60. Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition
61. MNEMTY ANTI RACISM IN TUNISIA
62. The Regional Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders in Southwest Asia and
    North Africa (WHRDMENA)
63. Solidarity Rising
64. Equipo de Implementación del Decenio Afrodescendiente en España
65. Uhuru Valencia
66. Gaza Action Ireland
67. Movimento Solidaridade Sahara Occidental-Timor Leste
68. Poitiers Palestine
69. The Canadian BDS Coalition
70. Portuguese Friendship Association with Western Sahara (AAPSO)
71. BDS Murcia
72. Conférération syndicale des forces productives – COSYFOP
73. Pax Christi Victoria
74. Australia Palestine Advocacy Network
75. Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights
76. Union of Solidarity teachers of Higher Education
77. Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development
78. Movement for Liberation from Nakba (MLN)
79. Botsotso
80. Palestine Land Society
81. Iraqi Narratives Project
82. Syndicat des Enseignants du Supérieur Solidaires (SESS)
83. International Platform of Jurists for East Timor
84. Workers for Palestine NL
85. India Palestine Friendship Forum
86. IPSN – India
87. Seva Vardhini
88. Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network
89. Student Christian Movement of India
90. Liverpool Friends of Palestine
91. Presentation sisters
92. IPA – India
93. The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness)
94. Human development center
95. Fraternity Association for Social and Cultural Work- Beirut Center
96. Human Call Association
97. Nuwat Association Social Solidarity Center
98. AWID
99. Tiro Association for Arts (TAA)
100. Al-JANA Center
101. Psychological and Social Development Association – Al Jalazon Refugee Camp
102. Center for refugee rights – Aidoun
103. Al-Hadaf KC
104. Majed Abu Sharar Media Foundation (MASMF)
105. Collective urgence Palestine
106. Nahr Al-Bared Refugee Camp Youth
107. Askar refugee camp’s Women Center
108. The Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm refugee camp
109. BDS ALMERÍA
110. National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training
111. Al Houla Association
112. PUSWP Bethlehem branch
113. Kangaroo Sports Club – Lebanon
114. Al Karmel Sport Center
115. CPCCO – USA
116. Al Houla Association
117. Jaén con Palestina
118. Cairdeas Falasteen Chonamara
119. Azania Section of the Fourth International
120. Ibdaa Foundation for Child Development
121. Jouthor Association

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