Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’

VIDEO – Travellers resorting to bribes to exit Gaza

VIDEO – Zionism in action جيش الإرهاب الصهيوني

Zionism and the Israeli working class

Israeli students can protest high prices of housing rent. Israeli doctors can go on strike over work conditions. But not a single sector in the Israeli labor and student movements would voice criticism of what their state is doing to the Palestinians few kilometers away from where they are. The Israeli working class is a hopeless case. It’s totally under the control of Zionism from the inception of the state of the Israel. Forget about a “revolution” in apartheid Israel. Yes, they are engaged in class struggle, but all Israelis are united at the end of the day in their material, economic, political interests versus the Palestinians.

This apartheid state must be dismantled. And the Egyptian working class holds the key to liberation…

Resistance continues المقاومة مستمرة

Tahrir supports Palestine رغم أنف أمريكا وإسرائيل القدس لنا وفلسطين عربية

Slogans written in Tahrir square denouncing the US and Israel, and expressing solidarity with the Palestinians…

#Jul8 – Solidarity with Arab revolutions معتصمو التحرير يتضامنون مع الثورات العربية

Arab flags raised in Tahrir, as tens of thousands of protesters flocked to the square on Friday, starting a sit in, calling for the continuation of the revolution…

#Jul8 Palestine in Tahrir الطريق إلى القدس يمر من ميدان التحرير

Demonstrator carrying the Palestinian flag…

Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tahrir Square on Friday, starting a sit in, calling for the continuation of the revolution…

Suez and Palestine… Same Struggle… علم فلسطين في السويس

Suez protesters in Al-Arb’een, raise the Palestinian flag, as they continue their sit-in demanding the public trial of police officers involved in killing demonstrators during the uprising. Whenever there is struggle, the oppressed can easily draw parallels with the Palestinians…

[Photo taken by Shady]

Egypt independent trade unions endorse BDS

Press release
London 2 July 2011

Representative of the Egyptian Independent Union Federation: “We call on the global trade union movement to cut links with the Histadrut and to support the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS”.

Kamal Abu Aita, representative of the Egyptian Independent Union Federation (EIUF) which was recently formed in Tahrir Square during the revolution, confirmed yesterday that the EIUF rejects any attempt to ‘normalise’ relations with Israel. In a speech in London to hundreds of activists from the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, Abu Aita also welcomed the formation of the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS) and called on the international trade union movement to join the coalition.

Abu Aita said: “The Egyptian Independent Union Federation has a very clear position and that is one of solidarity with the Palestinian Arab people, support for their right to a state in the whole of their land and support for their right to use all forms of resistance against the Zionist state. The EIUF announces its rejection of all forms of normal relations with the racist, settler Zionist state and we will not co-operate with any of its official or trade union bodies because they are all connected to the Zionist occupation of our land. It is impossible for us to work with this racist regime, and it is vital to build a movement of humanity which aims to get rid of racist regimes against the world, just as we got rid of the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

The Egyptian revolution opened the door wide for our people to express their rejection of the Zionist state. From the beginning, the revolution has worked in the interests of the Palestinians, by stopping the export of Egyptian gas to the Zionists, and opening the border crossings. Egyptian youth besieged the embassy of our enemy and demanded the expulsion of the ambassador.

We reject any relationship with the Histadrut because it is part of this racist regime. We call on all friendly unions to boycott the Histadrut as part of the campaign to get rid of racist regimes all over the world.”

Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), said:

“The support of the Egyptian independent unions, represented by their federation, for the Palestinian Boycott Campaign is a source of pride for us, just as we are proud of Egypt’s leadership in the march of freedom from imperialism both old and new. We look forward to the return of the spirit to the all the Arab peoples struggling for freedom and social justice, and to break away of dependency on imperialist domination.”

Film: Road Closed طريق مغلق