A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom - Call for a rally for the 78 years of the Nakba | Anarchist Students Initiative of Athens (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Friday 15/5, 19.00, Israeli Embassy -- May 15, 1948 - May 15, 2026: 
Freedom in the ever-struggling Palestine | "- And do you not consider 
that a country belongs to its ruler? ---- - Only if he alone rules a 
deserted land" - Sophocles ---- On May 14, 1948, the Israeli declaration 
of independence was signed, with the newly created state occupying the 
historical lands of the Palestinian people. The following day went down 
in history as the Nakba (catastrophe), the beginning of the expulsion of 
over 700,000 refugees from their homeland, marking at the same time the 
beginning of a struggle for Land and Freedom that is now perhaps at its 
most critical juncture.
The Israeli state, which from the first day of its existence had secured 
the diplomatic and later the military support of the entire Western 
world, constituting the stronghold and the "outpost" of the Western war 
machine in the Middle East and functioning as the means of promoting 
Western political and economic interests in the region, is fully 
implementing an apartheid regime by confining Palestinians to the Gaza 
Strip and the West Bank, prohibiting their free movement through a 
complex of military checkpoints, colonizing Palestinian villages, 
arresting thousands of people and placing them in a hostage situation, 
imprisoning them without charges, as well as imposing an illegal 
blockade on the Gaza Strip according to international law. Since October 
7th, specifically, prompted by the attack by Palestinian organizations, 
the state of Israel, with an unprecedented attack, which includes 
sweeping bombardments in one of the most densely populated areas on the 
planet, a coordinated air and ground invasion, systematic blockade of 
humanitarian aid from third countries and volunteers - as demonstrated 
by the attack on part of this year's mission of the global sumud 
flotilla, where Israeli forces intercepted the fleet's course west of 
Crete with the cooperation of the Greek state while capturing and 
torturing two members of the fleet who were transferred to Israeli 
prisons, deliberate bombing of hospitals and interruption of the 
electricity supply, has killed 60,000 Palestinians, including 18,000 
children, and injured over 120,000, while hunger and deprivation of all 
kinds healthcare is the reality for the entire population. The fact that 
one of the most well-trained and equipped armies in the world is unable 
to impose complete control over a small piece of land, facing continuous 
flare-ups on various fronts within Gaza for two and a half years, and 
the parallel resistance that is manifested in the West Bank with ongoing 
strikes and clashes with the police and the occupation army, also 
highlights the strength of those fighting against their occupier.
With the new phase of the genocide entering its third year, the attack 
on those who have sided with the Palestinian side by the Western power 
bloc has intensified to unprecedented levels, taking advantage of the 
recession of the international student movement that was in full swing 
at this time last year. The new Trump administration of the American 
state is attempting a repressive offensive on the country's 
universities, arresting both students and academics who either 
participated in the student occupations of the previous year, or simply 
spoke out publicly against the genocide and attempting to deport them by 
canceling their legal documents, at the same time as drawing up plans 
for the "exploitation" and colonization of Gaza together with Israel. At 
the same time, in European states that still maintain humanitarian 
pretexts with lukewarm announcements calling for peace, solidarity 
demonstrations are being broken up, Palestinian symbols are banned as 
anti-Semitic and activists are being arrested and imprisoned, while 
interstate relations and agreements still remain in full force.
The genocide being committed makes it clear once again that despite the 
proclamations of some international law, and the dreams of some 
humanitarian ideals promoted by the refined West, in the world of the 
State and Capitalism the only law that can prevail is that of the strong 
that will be imposed on the weak. How States are able to decide which 
populations deserve to live and which to exterminate while promoting 
intolerance and social fascistism as a weapon to cultivate apathy in the 
face of massacres.

We, for our part, cannot but continue to be in solidarity with the 
Palestinian people who continue to fight hard and persistently for their 
survival, dignity, and freedom. The internationalist and irrevocable 
solidarity, which is neither bent nor terrified by repression, we want 
to create rifts within the aggressor sovereigns, bringing to the fore 
our own history, the history of the struggles from below, which against 
all times, create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, 
constituting the only real bulwark against the onslaught of modern 
totalitarianism. Until the liberation of peoples from nations, 
religions, racism, and intolerance.

SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE PERSECUTED FOR THEIR STANDING ON THE SIDE OF THE 
PALESTINIAN SIDE

FREEDOM TO THE STRUGGLING PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

Anarchist Students Initiative of Athens

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2287-athina-78-xronia-apo-tin-nakmpa-protovoulia-anarxikon-foititon-trion-athinas
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