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

11/07/10: Breaking the Blockade of Gaza.... More than 100 people attended a public meeting in Belfast on Thursday night [July 8] to hear first hand accounts of the recent deadly Israeli raid on the international aid flotilla bound for the besieged Gaza Strip.....read more>>

02/06/10: Israel’s Inhumanity Must be Stopped.... “A dark day for humanity,” those were the words of Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu at Monday’s emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after Israel’s brutal murder of humanitarian aid workers on their way to Gaza.....read more>>

31/05/10: Protest Against Israeli Aggression.... éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac An Mhaistír has called on people to attend today’s demonstrations in Belfast, Derry and Dublin in response to the Israeli attack on the international aid flotilla bound for Gaza.....read more>>

08/05/10: CRH: Stop Profiting on the Back of Palestinian Suffering.... Shareholders attending the Cement Roadstone Holdings AGM in the Marine Hotel Dún Laoghaire on Wednesday were greeted by a large, colourful and noisy demonstration calling on the company to divest from Israel.....read more>>

19/04/10: IPSC and éirígí Mark Palestinian Prisoners Day.... The annual Palestinian Prisoners Day was marked in Dublin on Saturday with a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy. The protest was jointly organised by the IPSC and éirígí.....read more>>

14/04/10: Remember Palestinian Prisoners on April 17.... April 17 is marked each year around the world as Palestinian Prisoners Day, which draws attention to the plight of the thousands of Palestinian men, women and children who are imprisoned by the zionist state.....read more>>

28/01/10: Boycott Isn’t Just One Day – It’s a Process.... As previously reported, when the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign called, éirígí not only listened, it acted.....read more>>

16/01/10: Nationwide Protests for Palestine.... éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac An Mhaistír has commended all those who turned out for today’s Boycott Israeli Goods National Day of Action.....read more>>

08/01/10: Viva Palestina Enters Gaza as Israel Plans Further Offensive.... There were jubilant scenes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night as the Viva Palestina international aid convoy finally crossed into the Palestinian city of Rafah after spending over a moth on the road.....read more>>

05/01/10: Viva Palestina Convoy at the Final Hurdle.... Having been on the road for over a month, the Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy has finally gained entry into Egypt at the port of Al-Arish, just forty miles from the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.....read more>>

29/12/09: Solidarity Vigil for Gaza in Belfast.... Around 60 people, including a dozen éirígí activists, braved the cold winter weather in Belfast yesterday evening for a candlelit vigil in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip.....read more>>

26/12/09: Viva Palestina Convoy Halted – Six Palestinians Killed.... The convoy of international aid destined for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine was, on Thursday evening, prevented by the Egyptian government from entering the country.....read more>>