Palestine

From Act for freedom now

The main value of these texts, published in Italy last March, is undoubtedly the commitment of the authors to the fate of the struggle of the colonized, imprisoned and massacred Palestinian population, and, additionally, the fact that their position does not yield to the overwhelming blackmail of those who try to equate any “pro-Palestinian” position with anti-Semitism. Amidst the general indifference to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, there are few who care to act; La Tempesta does.

by Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis

I can imagine many people resenting the term Palestinian revolution when reading the title of this article. Some have already written that revolution is one thing and resistance is another, that war is one thing and liberation is another.

A recent piece published by Crimethinc is described as "in-depth account, an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation, and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians." It is certainly an extensive account, but when it comes to depth there is always deeper one can go with this issue. That being the case, a response to such an account could easily be double or triple its size if it attempts to go any deeper. But the issue that I have with this account is not its depth, it's a fundamental assumption that a good deal of the rest is built upon. That assumption can be seen easily here:

"We must be honest about what we’re saying. For example, in the debate about the phrase “from the river to sea,” about whether it means democracy or the abolition of Israel—the simple answer is that it means both. Decolonization on Palestinian conditions—the abolition of Zionism, the return of the refugees, the end of military rule, and equal civil rights—will mean that Palestine goes back to what it was before Zionist colonization, a majority Arab land."

From CrimethInc.

Understanding the Genocide in Palestine

After slaughtering more than 42,000 Palestinians, including 16,500 children, the Israeli military is now invading Lebanon and threatening to go to war with Iran. In the following in-depth account, an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation, and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.

Review of Michael Fischbach, The Movement and the Middle East; How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left

by Wayne Price

A major issue motivating the U.S. left at this time is the Israeli/Palestine war, specifically Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Even the environmental-climate justice movement has been eclipsed for the time. There are other disasters in the world, such as in Sudan or Haiti, but the U.S.—our government—is not directly and immediately supporting the aggressors in those cases, financially, politically, and militarily. It is in Gaza.

From Abolition Media

In response to the call for action for Palestine, we put up this banner in Queens, New York to connect the struggle here to the valiant resistance in Palestine.

From Act for Freedom

Attack on the citizen office of the SPD politician Lars Düsterhöft (42) at Siemensstraße in Berlin-Oberschöneweide!

From Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair
July 3, 2024

On the afternoon of June 29, two well-known fascists—Monica Buckley and real estate developer David Moritz—attended a bookfair session at the West Asheville Public Library. Their intentions in being at “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance” were not benign; they were there to provoke a conflict and sell a false narrative that the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair is an antisemitic event.

From Unoffensive Animal

Autonomous anarcho anti-speciesists countered the National Animal Rights Day (NARD) in Naarm (so called Melbourne) last Sunday.

From It's Going Down

An Interview with an Anarchist Medical Volunteer in Gaza

What follows is an interview with Louis, an anarchist humanitarian aid worker who, at the time of this interview, is waiting in Amman, Jordan to enter Gaza for a second deployment providing volunteer medical services in the midst of the ongoing genocide. He was previously in Gaza for a month this spring.