The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People recently passed on November 29, amidst a shameful silence about Israel's ongoing extermination campaign in the West Bank and Gaza. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marked the dismal occasion pointing out that hunger, disease, and trauma are still the order of the day in Palestine, with schools, homes, and hospitals bombed into ruins and murderous injustice also prevailing on the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, where Israeli military operations, settler violence, settlement expansion, evictions, home demolitions, and threats of annexation continue unabated.
By now it should be clear that Israel's wholesale massacres have revealed that norms of international law that have existed for generations are not even window dressing in the face of the Jewish state's barbaric transgressions. As it always has, but on a larger scale than ever before, Tel Aviv presumes a unique right to slaughter civilians, anul the sovereignty of any nation it perceives as an enemy, maintain a secret nuclear arsenal, use famine as a weapon of war, organize selective assassinations and state terrorist operations on a vast scale, and all this not only without being punished, but while maintaining its membership in international cultural, educational, and sports organizations as though a Jewish supremacist settler state were the most stellar example of a law-abiding nation imaginable.
Two years into Benjamin Netanyahu's acceleration of the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli occupation forces, armed by the U.S. and Europe, with the survivors forced to live outdoors amidst 61 million tons of rubble. Since October 10 when a fake cease fire went into effect, IDF troops and Zionist settler fanatics have killed another 500 Palestinians, blocked the entrance of more than three quarters of humanitarian aid sent to Palestine, maintained thousands of abducted Palestinians in conditions of permanent torture (conditions conceded to be inhumane even by the Israelis themselves), and proceeded with systematically destroying the West Bank and Gaza. To date the "cease fire" has revealed itself to be nothing more than a cynical propaganda exercise orchestrated by Washington and its allies in order to help Israel continue with its extermination project without the annoyance of the faint media and political pressure against the effort that existed previously in response to Israel's unrestrained barbarity.
To speak of solidarity under these conditions, with the Palestinian people languishing under the boot of vicious colonialism, forever at the mercy of an apartheid state that openly calls for and celebrates its campaign to annihilate them, would be a sick joke.
For those who have been paying attention it has been clear for years now that the only way to have international law worthy of the name, and a just outcome for Palestine, is to disarm and de-Nazify the Jewish state, on the way to establishing for the first time ever a genuine peace process in Palestine.
Source:
"Urgent Solidarity With Palestine," La Jornada (Spanish), November 30, 2025
