éirígí: For A Socialist Republic

Palestine

Protestor in Bil'in In March 1948 zionist settlers in Palestine launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing against their Arab neighbours. When the state of Israel was created two months later, 750,000 Palestinians had been forced from their homes, and the new zionist state of Israel controlled 78 percent of Palestinian territory.

Since then the Israeli state has made numerous land grabs, and in land still nominally controlled by Palestine, hundreds of thousands of settlements have sprung up, occupied in the most part by zionist extremists.

One and a half million Palestinians currently lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, effectively acting as two massive open-air concentration camps, while five million more Palestinians now live in exile in refugee camps in neighbouring countries and farther afield.

Despite all of this, the Palestinians have never given up their resolve to return to their homes and to live in peace. This resistance led to the Gaza Strip being declared an ‘enemy entity’ by Israel. In December 2008 Israel launched a savage attack against the Palestinian people, when in the space of three weeks they bombarded Gaza, levelling many buildings, destroying vital infrastructure and killing over 1,400 people.

Israel, as a US satellite state, is able to act with impunity from international opinion in its oppression of Palestine. It is up to grassroots activists around the world then to show the people of Palestine that they are not alone, that the fight against imperialism and colonialism in Palestine is the same fight against imperialism that is taking place around the globe.

Stories about Palestine from the éirígí Archives

02/12/11: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.... In one of many actions taking place across the world, éirígí activists took to the streets of Dublin on Tuesday to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.....read more>>

29/10/11: Zionists Resume Isolation of Ahmad Sa’adat.... Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, revealed on Thursday that an Israeli court has decided to extend the isolation of PFLP general secretary Ahmad Sa’adat for another year.....read more>>

25/10/11: Plight of Palestinian Prisoners Highlighted in Belfast.... Members of éirígí erected a camp at the former Andersonstown barracks site in Belfast over the weekend of 21-23 October and engaged in a 48-hour fast in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who had undertaken hunger strike action against conditions in Israeli jails.....read more>>

20/10/11: Solidarity Call for Hunger Strikers in Palestine.... The socialist republican party éirígí has announced it will establish a camp at the former Andersonstown barracks site in Belfast and engage in a 48-hour fast in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons.....read more>>

08/10/11: Candlelit Vigil for Palestinian Hunger Strikers.... On Wednesday evening, éirígí held a successful candlelight vigil in support of Palestinian prisoners who have embarked on a hunger strike in protest against the way in which they are being detained and treated.....read more>>

07/10/11: Dublin conference remembers 1981 hunger strike.... A large crowd assembled at Dublin’s Liberty Hall last Saturday [October 1] to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike. Solidarity to the prisoners on hunger strike in Palestine and republican prisoners in Maghaberry fighting for political status was expressed from the meeting.....read more>>

28/09/11: Palestinian Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike.... Palestinian prisoners associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine began a hunger strike yesterday against conditions imposed on detainees by the zionist regime.....read more>>

10/08/11: éirígí Joins Cork Demo for Palestine.... Last Saturday, éirígí Corcaigh joined with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign in a demonstration throughout the city centre aimed at highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people.....read more>>