No. 49
September 30, 2024
12th Month of Resistance to Genocide
No Let Up in World
Condemnation of
U.S./Zionist Atrocities
September Photo Review
Protest in New York City
calls for arrest of Netanyahu for war crimes,
during his visit to UN, September 27
Montreal, September 28
In September the worldwide movement continued to broaden and remained steadfast in support of the just cause of the Palestinian people against the U.S./Zionist genocide, for an immediate ceasefire, for the release of all Palestinian prisoners and an end to the egregious crimes against them, and for an end to the occupation of Palestine.
In countries which form the Genocide Cartel, including the
U.S., UK, Canada, Germany among others, actions demanded their
governments end their arming and funding of genocide. In
addition to ongoing weekly protests, many actions were held at a
moment's notice to respond to each new intolerable act of
barbarity and depravity by Israel. These included the start of
the current U.S./Zionist war on Lebanon with the use of cell
phones and walkie talkies exploding right and left and then the
assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and
the atrocious crimes Israel is committing in Lebanon to
eliminate Hezbollah, flattening residential areas and treating
large numbers of deaths as collateral damage while forcing the
evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
All of these actions send a clear message that the U.S. and its
trigger in the Middle East Israel must be stopped by taking
whatever measures are required. Israel must not be armed, funded
or defended in any way.
In the twelfth month after Israel started its current genocidal war on Gaza, the Resistance forces in Palestine continue to show that might does not make right. While they fight and keep putting a spoke in the wheels of Israel's genocidal campaign, Israel is getting increasingly isolated and frenetic in its revenge-seeking and depravity. Despite being armed to the hilt by the U.S. and other countries, it is more isolated than ever and stands condemned by the peoples of the entire world with only the countries of the Genocide Cartel propping it up and endangering the cause of world peace by so doing.
Twelve months after the Al-Aqsa Flood was launched on October 7, 2023, the peoples of the world continue to reiterate that the Palestinian people, far from being forgotten or disappeared, will prevail. Palestine will be free.
Labour Day Actions Reaffirm Workers Stand with Palestine
This year, in Canada, Labour Day activities held on September
2, highlighted the need to stand with Palestine. Actions also
took place on this occasion in several U.S. cities.
Ottawa
Toronto
Hamilton
Sudbury
Windsor
Calgary
New York City, U.S.
Opposition to Canada's Funding of Israeli Military, Illegal
Settlements and
Zionist Organizations
On September 5, a cross-Canada day of action was held at offices of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), calling on the government to revoke the charitable status of some 200 plus organizations that use this status to send over $250 million per year in subsidized donations to Israel. Such activities break CRA rules by funding the Israeli military, illegal settlements and racist Zionist organizations.
St. Catharines
Kitchener
Sudbury
On September 25, a cross-Canada day of action was held at Indigo bookstores. The owner of Indigo has created and funds the Heseg Foundation, an organization that the CRA has given charitable status, which gives financial support to non-Israelis to join the IOF and participate in its genocidal activities.
Coquitlam
Courtenay
School and Academic Year Begins with Students Opposing
Scholasticide
and Standing with Palestinian Students
Students began their school year with actions to make clear that Palestine remains high on their agenda. University students in particular continue to demand that their institutions must not support Israel and its war crimes, through academic or financial ties.
At the weekly action in Ottawa on September 8, a student from Carleton University pointed out: "In a leaked document of Carleton investments from December 2023, a total of $43 million was invested in companies such as surveillance and construction firms involved in the genocide, murder, and imprisonment of the Palestinian people, despite Carleton claiming to be neutral and to abide by ethical investment policies."
"Despite there being no universities left in Gaza, our people in Gaza remain steadfast and have set up classrooms on the streets. And despite over 10,000 Palestinians wrongfully imprisoned, our prisoners continue their education through prison walls. We must follow the same steadfastness of our people in Palestine, as students and as people living in the diaspora," she said.
The uOttawa representative pointed out: "Over 650,000 Palestinians in Gaza are losing yet another year of education due to the Zionist entity's genocide. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, since October 7, the genocidal military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 10,490 school and university students; 15,700 have been injured. All 13 universities have been destroyed or damaged. No one was able to finish their school year, yet alone graduate. Those school buildings still standing have been used as shelters, housing hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons."
Speaking to the deliberate scholasticide, the wholesale destruction of the Palestinian education system by the genocidal Israeli regime, she said: "The more Palestinians write articles and publish research articles and books, the more our existence becomes unquestionable. The more Palestinians excel in their field, becoming researchers, doctors, professors, the more we devalue their colonial identity, an identity built on the dehumanization of Palestinians."
"Today, we reclaim our campus. We cannot return to our classes knowing there are no universities left in Gaza. We will not rest until liberation, until return," she stated.
September 12-14, university and college students across Canada and the U.S. held actions in response to the call from Students for Justice with Palestine, in solidarity with all the students in Gaza whose schools and universities have been destroyed and who will not be in school for the second year in a row.
Ottawa
September 8
Montreal
September 14-15
Vancouver
University of British Columbia, September 12
United States
Yale University, New Haven
September 13
New School, New York City
September 14
Harvard University, Cambridge
September 13
University of Minneapolis
September 19
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
September 9
School in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
Students returning to school honour classmates killed in Israeli
attacks, September 9
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
September 4
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
September 8
Actions During U.S. Presidential Elections Say "No Votes for Genocide"
Santa Monica
September 4
Kenosha
September 16
Los Angeles
Demonstration outside fundraiser attended by President Joe
Biden, September 15
Actions Against September 10 Bombing of Al-Mawasi Refugee Camp
Around midnight on September 10, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) dropped three 2,000 pound bombs on the Al-Mawasi Refugee Camp near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The IOF had designated this a "safe zone." There was no warning for all those living in the tents there and 40 people were killed. Emergency actions to denounce this crime were held in Canada that day.
At the protest in Ottawa on September 10, one of the organizers
pointed out that with the material support of the U.S. and
Canada, the Zionist entity is exploiting and inventing new ways
to massacre the Palestinian people. "This is a direct result of
the lack of accountability enforced by our own government's
so-called representatives. These are U.S. bombs with many using
Canadian parts. These weapons are transported using complicit
logistics companies like Maersk, which are operating right in
our back yards," she said. "We stand here today to reaffirm our
promise to our people: we will not tire, we will not normalize.
We will continue to demand that the government of Canada end all
support of the Zionist entity and for a complete two-way arms
embargo and we will stop at nothing less than complete
liberation," she added.
Ottawa
Toronto
Montreal
North Bay
Edmonton
Cologne, Germany
September 10
Belfast, Ireland
September 14
Amman, Jordan
September 14
Sydney, Australia
September
14
Christchurch, New Zealand
September 14
Melbourne, Australia
September 15
Marseilles, France
September 15
London, England
September 16
Mass Protests Against Israel's Terrorist Pager and Radio Attacks on Lebanon, September 17-18
On September 17 and 18 all over the world demonstrations took place to condemn Israel for carrying out broad-ranging terrorist attacks in Lebanon using sabotaged pagers and two-way radios that were rigged with explosives and triggered to explode simultaneously. These attacks killed more than 40 people and injured more than 3,000, including women, children and health care workers. The peoples of the world reiterated their demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and for the Zionists to keep their hands off Lebanon.
The demand "Hands Off Lebanon!" rang out in actions held the following days in Canada and across the world to denounce Israel's terrorism and the escalation of conflict in the region. These plus the weekly actions held on September 21-22 expressed profound sympathy with the Lebanese people and their resistance dedicated to the freedom of the Palestinian people.
Montreal
September 18
September 21
September 22
Ottawa
September 22
Windsor
September
22
Edmonton
September
21
Farmington Hills, U.S.
September 21
Worldwide Opposition to Israel's "Next Phase" of War with Lebanon
Following its terrorist attacks, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that Israel was beginning a "new phase" of its war with Lebanon. On September 20, the U.S./Zionist forces carried out an airstrike on a residential apartment building in Beirut, said to be a "targeted assassination" of a Hezbollah leader. The airstrike killed 54 other people.
Israel stepped up its airstrikes on Lebanon on September 23. This has escalated into all out open warfare on Lebanon and its people, with residential areas and civilians considered fair game. Again, across Canada, demonstrations were organized to denounce Israel's criminal attacks and to stand with the Lebanese people under the theme "All Eyes on Lebanon, All Out for Lebanon."
In Toronto on September 24, more than a thousand people participated in an emergency rally for Lebanon at the Israeli consulate, followed by a march.
The speakers at the rally denounced Israel's barbarism and its criminal bombing of Lebanese civilians and condemned the Canadian state for continuing to fund and arm Israel's genocide against Palestinians. They underscored that the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, together, will defy the Zionists and their sponsors until Palestine is Free, from the River to the Sea!
Rabbi Dovid Weiss condemned Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinians and denounced the bombing of Lebanon by the Israeli state. He pointed out that the Zionists have twisted Judaism to try to justify the Nakba and their ongoing criminal genocide. They must be stopped!, he said. Tens of thousands of Jewish people are standing up in Israel and in Canada and the U.S. to denounce the Zionists for their crimes, he noted. The Zionists, who target anyone who criticizes Israel as anti-Semites are the "embodiment of anti-Semitism," he said, and it is they who are responsible for destroying a Palestine in which people of Jewish and Moslem faith lived together in peace for centuries.
Four hundred pairs of children's shoes were placed on the
stairs of the building where the Israeli Consulate is located
symbolizing the children who had been killed just recently in
Palestine and in Lebanon by Israel. By doing so participants
expressed their grief and anger at the deaths of children whose
only crime was being born Palestinian or Lebanese.
Vancouver
September 23
Montreal
September 24
Ottawa
September 24
Calgary
September 24
On September 25, an urgent mid-week action in the form of a
silent stand-in was called by Windsor4Palestine in front of the
constituency office of Windsor-Tecumseh Liberal Member of
Parliament, Irek Kusmierczyk, to demand the Canadian government
stop its shameful complicity with the ongoing U.S./Israeli
genocide against the Palestinian people and terrorist attacks
against the people of Lebanon. They called for the Canadian
government instead to act to stop these crimes in keeping with
its obligations under international law.
Windsor
September
25
United States
Washington, DC
September 24
Los Angeles
September 26
London, England
September 26
Glasgow, Scotland
September 24
Madrid, Spain
September 26
Protests Against Netanyahu's Speech to UN
New York City, U.S.
September 26-27
Worldwide Condemnation of Bombing of Lebanon and Assassination of Hezbollah Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
On September 27, Israel carried out an especially massive bombing of Beirut, with jets dropping 2,000 tons of bombs, all of it supplied by the U.S. It came to light that the strike was aimed at assassinating Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and that it was ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from New York after his warmongering speech to the UN General Assembly.
Again people across Canada and around the world were in the streets in their thousands and tens of thousands, to mourn Nasrallah and all those killed in the attack and to denounce Israel.
At the action in Montreal on September 28 outside the U.S. Consulate, a Palestinian Youth Movement spokesperson addressed the crowd, saying:
"For millions across the Arab and Islamic world, Nasrallah became a figure that represented defiance in the face of a regional threat. Millions across the region, across the world listened eagerly to his speeches, eagerly because he was capable of articulating a vision that inspired thousands of us to remain committed to struggle against this terrorist criminal entity called Zionism.
"Nasrallah is joining the many leaders who have carried the struggle against the terrorist Zionist state. He is joining ... all of the figures who have sacrificed themselves for their people's liberation.
"And make no mistake, they are doing this not for their own sake, they are doing this for the sake of the entire world. They are doing this to save the entire world from this fascist project called Zionism.
"In the past year we, the people of Palestine and the broader Arab and Muslim world, have lost a lot. We have lost loved ones, families, leaders, and the Palestinian struggle is no stranger to losses and sacrifice.
"We have seen genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement ... our people dispersed worldwide. We have seen those who confront the occupation thrown in prisons, our people forced into refugee camps across the Arab world.
"But we have been taught that when one leader falls, a thousand rise in their place!
"Even after the 1948 Nakba, even after the Oslo Accords, our people resisted! After a siege was imposed in Gaza, our people resisted! Even after the invasion of Beirut, the occupation of South Lebanon, our people resisted! And it's because we continue to resist that our struggle will never die! And it's because we have something to fight for, something stronger than the 2,000-pound U.S. bombs that fall on our people in Lebanon, more resilient than their so-called indestructible tanks. We have something to fight for!
"And no matter the sacrifice, the price, the repression, we will never abandon the struggle! The Lebanese people have made it clear to the Zionist occupation: Gaza is inseparable from Beirut, Lebanon is inseparable from Palestine.
"And Israel is trying to punish the Lebanese people for taking this position, trying to break Lebanon and Gaza apart because this is the first time in history that the Resistance is connected and Israel cannot break its bones. It is the Resistance in Lebanon that forced hundreds of thousands of Zionist settlers out of the north of Israel. They are the ones that have cost Israel more than $650 million in the past few days alone. And when the enemy declared war against us in 2006, it was the Resistance that defeated them. And when they invaded Beirut and occupied the south of Lebanon, it was the Resistance that drove them out of their land. Lebanon offered not once, but twice, to the world a glimpse of victory, a taste of liberation, and a path towards dignity.
"Comrades, we must never forget that the enemy is weaker than the spider's web! Brothers and sisters, now is not the time to fall into despair. Now is not the time to feel hopeless. Now is the time to believe in the Resistance, to believe in our people, to believe in our struggle.
"Now is the time to remind each other that we may lose political leaders, but we will never lose our commitment. We may lose martyrs but we will never lose the battle. There is no empire strong enough to defeat resistance. There is no weapon strong enough to destroy our commitment. And comrades, there is no struggle more worthy of sacrifice than our struggle for liberation!"
Although Nasrallah's death is a serious blow to Hezbollah and the Resistance forces in the region, they have made it clear that they remain organized fighting forces with deep reserves of conviction, cadre and materiel, and have redoubled their efforts to engage with Israel in recent days.
In similar fashion, friends and supporters of Palestine across
Canada and the world have kept up their acts of resistance in
the face of attempts to suppress or criminalize their stands.
September drew to a close with organizing and preparations taken
up militantly to ensure the success of upcoming events to mark
the first anniversary of operation Al-Aqsa Flood and one year of
resistance to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
Montreal
September 28
September 29
Toronto
September 28
Sudbury
September 28
Vancouver
September 29
New York City, U.S.
September 28
Tehran, Iran -- Days of Mourning and Memorial for Lebanese
Leader
September 27
September 30
Sana'a, Yemen
September 27
Baghdad, Iraq -- Three Days of Nationwide Mourning Begin
September 29
Karachi, Pakistan
September 29
Other Actions Held Weekly Throughout the Month of September
Weekly actions carried on throughout the month of September as people in cities around the world continued to build the resistance. Activists in western countries demanded their governments stop supporting and financing the U.S./Israeli genocide. Among other locations protests were organized outside weapons fairs. Actions at the beginning of September decried Israel's military invasion of the West Bank that began at the end of August.
As well people organized cultural programs, created
murals and brought their banners in support of Palestine to
sporting and other events.
Toronto
September 7
Nanaimo
Protest outside Liberal Caucus retreat, September
9, denounced the Liberals for their complicity
in genocide.
Sudbury
September 21
England
London
September 7
Manchester
September 1
Oldham
September 4
Glasgow, Scotland
September 19
Ireland
Dublin
September
3
Toome
September 3
Portrush
September 8
Shannon
September 9
Strabane
September 22
Kristiansand, Norway
September 28
Eskilstuna, Sweden
September 28
Netherlands
Rotterdam
September 17
Amsterdam
September 30
Germany
Berlin
September 1
Frankfurt
September 2
Cologne
September 2
Vienna, Austria
September
8
France
Toulouse
September 2
Marseilles
September
30
Spain
Madrid
September 15
September 28
San Sebastian
September 7
Barcelona
September 27
Rome, Italy
September 9
Warsaw, Poland
September
3
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
September 3
Ramallah, Palestine
Protest torture
and killing of Palestinian prisoners, September 5
Konya, Türkiye
September 28
Japan
Hiroshima
September 12
Tokyo
September 14
Osaka
September 14
Ueda
September 15
Limpopo, South Africa
September 19
Melbourne, Australia
September 1
September 4
Protest against war show, September 11
Kites for
Palestinian children, September 13
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