International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Resistance and Solidarity Until Liberation
Toronto
Rally
Sunday, November 28 — 2:00-4:00 pm
Israeli Consulate, 2 Bloor St. E.
Facebook
Organizers state: “The Zionist state of Israel operates with complete impunity, from its embedded legal framework to the massive military and diplomatic support it receives from Western governments, particularly, the U.S. and Canada.
“Its decades-long colonization of Palestine, home demolitions and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, ongoing building of settlements, the imprisonment of over 4,500 Palestinians in its jails with 520+ under illegal administrative detention orders, its endless attacks and blockade on Gaza, and recently, the designation of six civil society organizations as terrorist groups; all are steps in a process to not only silence Palestinians but to control, dominate and eliminate the Palestinian presence on their own land in a process explicitly designed to making the occupation and colonization of Palestine permanent.
“Israel continues to colonize and kill Palestinians using its fraudulent claim of ‘self-defense,’ but we are not deceived! The world is not deceived!
“It’s time to put a stop to Israel’s exceptionalism, time to hold the Zionist state accountable for its crimes. It’s time for sanctions. It’s time for Palestine to be free from the river to the sea.”
Background
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed around the world, including by the United Nations, on or around November 29 each year.
The website of UNISPAL, the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine, explains the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestine People as follows:
“Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed annually on or around 29 November, solemnly commemorating the adoption by the Assembly, on 29 November 1947, of resolution 181 (II), which provided for the partition of Palestine into two States. The observance is held at United Nations Headquarters, the United Nations Offices at Geneva and Vienna and elsewhere. The event includes special meetings at which statements on the question of Palestine are made by high-level officials of the United Nations and intergovernmental organizations and representatives of civil society. The observance also includes cultural events. At other locations, various activities are organized on the occasion of Solidarity Day by governmental bodies and CSOs [civil society organizations] in cooperation with United Nations information centres around the world. It is also traditionally the day that the United Nations General Assembly undertakes its annual debate on the question of Palestine.”
On its Facebook page for the international day, the UN further states:
“The observance of the day provides an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine remains unresolved and that the Palestinian people have yet to attain their inalienable rights.
“[… resolution 181(ii)] provided for the establishment in Palestine of a ‘Jewish State’ and an ‘Arab State,’ with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime. Of the two States to be created under this resolution, only one, Israel, has so far come into being.”