Together with the voices of the Palestinian movement and the international community, we will denounce Israeli apartheid and genocide. We accuse Germany of being complicit

The Palestinians are suffering a genocide. Israel is destroying Gaza and its population. By February 2024, 1.9 million people had been displaced. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military. Infrastructure, hospitals, universities, schools, administrative buildings and apartment blocks lay destroyed. Hundreds of thousands suffer from hunger and have no access to clean drinking water or medicine.

In response, South Africa indicted Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice in January. The court recognised evidence of genocide. The German government responded immediately. The accusation of genocide “lacks any basis”.

In fact, the German government’s self-righteousness is brazen. Since October 2023, it has increased arms deliveries to Israel tenfold. A few days after the ruling of the International Court of Justice and while hunger is rampant, the German government declared that it would cease its humanitarian support to the Palestinians.

Germany declares injustice to be just. Germany supports a genocide.

Join us for the Palestine Congress on 12-14 April 2024

Together with the voices of the Palestinian movement and the international community, we will denounce Israeli apartheid and genocide. We accuse Germany of being complicit.

The Palestine Congress will see numerous keynote speakers, panels and workshops. It will also be a space for organising and networking within the movement. Together we will discuss the perspectives of our movement on the basis of a common resolution. Practical steps for actions in the workplace, universities, schools, arts and culture will be discussed and decided upon. An evening cultural programme and Palestinian catering will ensure a sense of community and well-being.

Never again for all

The noise of bombardments in Palestine is only surpassed by the droning silence of German society. The genocide in Gaza is therefore a turning point in German history. The German government is shamelessly supporting a genocide in front of the world public. Democratic rights were undermined in order to silence protests calling for a ceasefire. Freedom of assembly, freedom of organisation, freedom of the press and academic freedom were massively curtailed.

At home, the German state is reproducing a regime of occupation and disenfranchisement that the Israeli state has practiced against Palestinians since 1948.

This historical rupture requires resistance. German politicians are endeavouring to cynically reinterpret history and justify their support for genocide in the name of “never again”. If they succeed in doing this without resistance, the unthinkable will once again become feasible in Germany.

We will break this silence together and demand:

• Immediate ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of the Israeli army
• Immediate cancellation of all restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza and full funding of UNRWA
• Immediate opening of all border crossings from Rafah to Allenby. Tear down the apartheid walls
• Full reparations by Israel, Germany and other Israeli allies to the Palestinian people
• Immediate cessation of all military, diplomatic and economic support for Israel by the German state as well as a comprehensive military embargo
• No to the use of the Zionist IHRA definition by any institution or state authority
• Stop the criminalisation and repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany. Immediately stop all criminalisation of Palestinian organisations and individuals, as well as all deportations
• Enforce the right of return of Palestinian refugees and end the Zionist settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing of the entire occupied Palestine that has been going on for over 76 years

Equality and justice will only reign, peace will only prevail with the complete end of the oppression of Palestinians. We fight for an end to Zionist settler colonialism and its apartheid policies in all of historic Palestine, so that all people – regardless of religion or ethnicity, regardless if Muslim, Jewish or Christian – can live under the same equal rights. This includes the necessity to implement the right of return for all Palestinian refugees.

In the struggle for these goals, we call for a broad campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Israeli state in Germany. We call on trade unions, employees and the population to stop arms deliveries. All justification and support for genocide in any form must be stopped through strikes or civil disobedience.

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