Hundreds of people marched in Toulouse, France on November 29, 2014, to denounce ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and support the Palestinian people on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. The organizations that organized the rally included anti-imperialist collective Coup Pour Coup 31, which has played a major role in building support for imprisoned Arab struggler for Palestine, Comrade Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.
The Coup Pour Coup statement for the event noted: “This year, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for making this day an international day of solidarity in defense of Jerusalem. The Zionist colonization has intensified in recent months in the city. The area of Al-Aqsa Mosque was closed to Palestinians for several days, while at the same time, the Zionist government supported groups of right-wing extremist settlers to engage in provocations on the same space, promoted the construction of new settlements inside and around Jerusalem and continued the destruction of Palestinian homes.
“By targeting Al-Aqsa Mosque for attack, the Zionist leaders are deliberately attempting to create a religious conflict in Palestine, as Ariel Sharon attempted to do during his own provocation at the site in September 2000. Comrade Khaled Barakat…noted ‘This is not only about the sacred site of al-Aqsa, but about all of Palestine and its capital…regardless of the Zionist discourse that the struggle in Jerusalem is a religious conflict.’
“Elsewhere in Palestine, settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank continue, the blockade on Gaza remains, and thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the PFLP, are still held in prison. The Zionist state does not care for war or peace, it wants the entirety of the land of Palestine.
“The Zionists view Al-Quds – Jerusalem – as a central axis of their colonial project and ethnic cleansing. But the reality is that Al-Quds is and remains a symbol and a home of the struggle of the Palestinian resistance and its liberatory struggle. One, indivisible capital, Al-Quds for a free Palestine from the river to the sea! Palestine will live! Palestine will win!”
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