No. 42

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 ZealandSeptember 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.

WindsorSeptember 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
VancouverSeptember 29
New York City,  U.S.


September 28
Tehran, Iran -- Days of Mourning and Memorial for Lebanese LeaderSeptember 27



September 30
Sana'a, Yemen
September 27  
Baghdad, Iraq -- Three Days of Nationwide Mourning Begin

September 29
Karachi, PakistanSeptember 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
MadridSeptember 15
September 28
San SebastianSeptember 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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