Palestina Libera! Contro il genocidio

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We take to the rivers and the sea – until Palestine and all oppressed peoples are free, and until genocide, borders, and fossil capitalism are ended.

Innalziamo la bandiera della Palestina come simbolo di dignità resistenza e libertà e navighiamo il Mediterraneo come una parte dell’occupazione massiva di f.Lotta contro il violento regime delle frontiere dell’Unione Europea, per la liberazione e la libertà di movimento per tutt.

Il Mar Mediterraneo è diventato un cimitero per decine di migliaia di persone in fuga da guerre, genocidi e oppressione. Mentre armi, combustibili fossili, e prodotti di consumo di massa possono muoversi liberamente attraverso i confini, le persone in cerca di una vita degna devono affrontare violenze, traumi e morte.

I Palestinesi affrontano alcune delle forme di attacco più estreme alla loro libertà di movimento. Per decenni i Palestinesi hanno resistito contro ogni sorta di voilenza coloniale e oppressione. La loro terra è stata divisa e assediata da confini imperialisti e occupazioni dei coloni. Il sistema di apartheid israeliano ha raggiunto la sua logica conclusione negli ultimi due anni, mettendosi a nudo: un genocidio in presa diretta, ora portato avanti con una deliberata politica di affamamento, distruzione della terra, dell’acqua e della vita. L’entità sionista sta perpetrando tutti i metodi i disumanizzazione, impunemente, davanti agli occhi dell’umanità

La lotta per la libertà di movimento è intrinsecamente legata alla lotta per una Palestina libera e alla lotta globale contro il colonialismo e l’imperialismo. In questo sforzo congiunto di diversi gruppi, la campagna di f.Lotta per la palestina riecheggia dei suoni di piazze e strade di tutto il mondo: la libertà della Palestina è la libertà per tutt!

Svelare la violenza coloniale e il razzismo capitalista

La violenza a cui stiamo assistendo in Palestina mette in luce un ordine globale che sacrifica vite razializzate per il profitto e il potere. Il regime delle frontiere dell’Unione Europea è il cane da guarda di questo sistema. Le persone che attraversano il Mediterraneo sono sopravvissuti di guerre intraprese per l’estrazione di risorse, controllo territoriale, ed espansione autoritaria. Questo include spopolazione violenta, appropriazione di terre, mega-progetti ecocidi, e progetti infrastrutturali che impediscono il movimento delle persone e mettono in pericolo la natura e gli esseri viventi. Le popolazioni indigene che resistono a questi progetti sono trattate come ostacoli da essere rimossi tramite violenza brutale, incarcerazione e omicidi.

Uno degli strumenti chave che sostengono l’imperialismo dominante è l’economia globale dell’energia. Molte delle guerre presenti e future, ruotano attorno all’accesso alle risorse che alimentano il sistema globale dell’energia e alla così detta transizione verde. Negli anni recenti, i gas fossili sono stati proposti come un’alternativa “pulita”, tuttavia rappresenta un’altra opportunità per l’estrattivismo nel Sud Globale. Mentre Israele porta avanti il suo progetto genocida per occupare e fare pulizia etnica a Gaza, simultaneamente stipula accordi record sul gas con l’Egitto e un accordo per un grande gasdotto con Cipro e la Grecia – mossa che va a braccietto con una rafforzata cooperazione militare con i regimi autoritari. Questi progetti non riguardano solo il profitto ma sono anche finalizzati a consolidare il regime fossile della regione che alimenta il genocidio, l’espansione colaniale e il collasso climatico.

Exposing the EU’s genocidal and colonial liberalism

The dominant systems are based on racialized hierarchies. They determine who is allowed to live and thrive, and whose life can be disposed. This logic is as clear in Palestine as it is in the deaths and suffering at the EU border. 

The EU border system relies on Israeli technologies to monitor and prevent people on the move: The very same Israeli Heron drones used to monitor and target Palestinians in Gaza are also deployed by the EU’s border agency, Frontex, to patrol the Mediterranean. Beyond surveillance, Israel exports experimental technologies – from border biometrics to geoengineering projects like Stardust Solutions – that turn Palestine into a laboratory for militarized ‘climate solutions’ and repression.

From policing methods to surveillance tech – states in Europe and beyond are receiving training, services, and products from the Zionist entity, to oppress people within their own borders. While war criminals act and travel freely and luxuriously, people face deportation and prison sentences for protesting the governments’ role in a brutal genocide. Meanwhile, sea rescue and other acts of solidarity are increasingly criminalized, as is migration itself. 

The crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement in Europe is being leveraged to stoke racism against Palestinians, Muslims and everyone that it considers a “foreigner”. This climate of racism creates fertile ground for ongoing deportations, EU asylum reforms, and the expansion of border externalization. Meanwhile, as fascist parties and politicians in Europe plot to strip citizenship and deport millions, Israel pursues similar measures against the Palestinian population in Gaza and all over the occupied territories.

The genocide in Palestine has exposed the depths of violence and impunity that imperialist powers will resort to in order to protect their interests and agendas. Standing with Palestine is therefore a question about what kind of world we are willing to accept.

Sailing on the path of all those who resist!

Solidarity recognizes no borders.

People’s organized action on the Mediterranean Sea has saved countless lives, creating hope and solidarity amid deadly border systems. 

As people on the move continue to break the borders in the Mediterranean daily and show immense solidarity and revolutionary reimagination of their lives and communities, hundreds of activists have been preparing actions to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Since years, the Freedom Flotilla has sailed in numerous routes and constellations to break the siege on Gaza. Earlier this year, a group of activists onboard the Madleen sailed towards Gaza to break the siege before being kidnapped and deported by the Israeli occupation forces. On the way to Gaza, the crew was able to rescue Sudanese refugees,  fleeing genocidal forces and counter-revolutionary war. While sailing to break the siege in Palestine, the Madleen was able to prevent that refugees are pushed back to Libya where they face enslavement, incarceration, and death by EU-backed militias. The Sea connects the struggles.

Now, the Global Sumud Flotilla is preparing to sail with people from over 44 countries to break the siege in the largest civilian maritime mission to Gaza since 2007. Thousands are risking their bodies, pushing the boundaries of resistance, and demonstrating the height of their political awareness and collective action.

Just as these previous and current actions, this campaign sails with the f.Lotta to break borders, link the struggles and broaden the imagination of a world with freedom of movement and collective liberation. 

These are among many other concrete grassroots actions in the face of international complicity and escalating violence that will spare no one in the future.

We salute and stand in solidarity with the people who take matters into their own hands to end the genocidal siege. We sail on their path, reclaiming the Mediterranean Sea as a site of struggle and resistance in contrast to those who have turned it into a graveyard. 

Connecting the struggles

More than ever before, now is the time for everyone to unite forces and struggles towards the only viable solution to this world imposed on us: freedom and self-determination for all.

While EU states continue to back genocide, ecocide, and war crimes: 

• We commit to exposing all state entities and corporations, including fossil fuel and arms manufacturing companies as well as tech firms, that profit from war and destruction. 
• We must recognize Israel’s genocide and ecocide, and Europe’s role in funding and arming it.
• We fight and resist for a global energy embargo against Israel and call on all the harbor and factory workers to persist in withdrawing their labor, refusing the starvation of Palestinian children and families. 
• We must commit to rebuilding through just reconstruction and healing of Gaza based on the will and self-determination of the Palestinian people, ensuring sovereignty over land, water, and energy.
• We stand alongside billions of people in the world who will never stop demanding nothing less than a free Palestine, from the river to the sea – and a world rebuilt beyond genocide, fossil capitalism, and borders.

With these demands, we simultaneously fight for the freedom of all oppressed peoples and for an ecological, just future for all living beings.

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