By LEONARDO KOURY MARTINS*
Countries do nothing to stop the Palestinian people from being murdered by Israel, the United States and other global actors with economic interests in the genocide.
There is no place sadder and more forgotten globally than Palestine today. This text aims to bring up the discomfort of a common type of forgetfulness among us. Something that goes beyond agreements signed and not fulfilled by countries that are signatories to the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Countries are doing nothing to stop the Palestinian people from being murdered by Israel, the United States and other global actors with economic interests in the genocide. There is no naivety in their positions.
The silencing of this global political ineffectiveness occurs through commercial and corporate media, ideological apparatuses that present genocide as war; the daily death of children as a side effect of precision-guided missiles; the imperialist repositioning as a moral justification for something that is inhumane.
The Palestinian cause is the cause of “those from below”, of this “south” that is our “north”. It needs to be felt in the flesh, in the sweat and in the blood. The Palestinian cause belongs to those who have the lucidity and the political and organizational purpose to denounce the exploitation that sustains the large conglomerates.
What do the more than 45 people murdered and the more than 110 people injured in Palestine since October 2023 represent? More than 18 children have been murdered; 104 people are killed every day in the 380 km² between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The destruction has piled up rubble that used to be homes, hospitals and schools, which are now completely devastated. Ethnic cleansing is underway.
We are emerging in a context of violence that is also caused by massacres in the favelas, massacres in the countryside, and the persecution of leaders in indigenous lands and in quilombola communities.
Each number has a little bit of us and each square meter is the removal of the space in which we also live. The concrete effect of this reality is the realization of a project that excludes and kills us. This project created a “State” to be a US military base in geopolitical disputes. A “State” constituted by the false discourse of recognition and that does not even have any historical basis to support its own justification.
Today, our small uprising as a class, under the Palestinian cause, needs to be reflected and provoked. Do we really fight for this cause?
We need our speeches not to be the product of global silencing. Internationalist understanding must engage us in actions that denounce genocide. Imperialism relies on this silence, which can be broken not only by struggles on the ground in the Middle East, but also by international class solidarity.
What is the role of social, trade union and popular movements in Brazil? What content are we creating when we denounce the genocide? How do we present the resistance experienced by the Palestinian people?
Highlighting our contribution to the Palestinian cause also means taking ourselves out of our corporate agendas and bringing unity around our project for society to the public dialogue. The construction of another possible order arises from the current situation of people who struggle, resist and suffer from the violence of expanding imperialism.
We need to articulate reflective mediations between what the Palestinian people experience and the violence we suffer in large urban centers; the persecution of the landowning elites against the resistance of peasant movements; the massacre carried out in the territories of indigenous peoples who fight against the expropriation of natural resources; and those who say no to the seizure of public funds in the face of financing elite projects.
This entire context can be articulated to bring to the collective didactic understanding the serious conditions experienced by the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.
How will we collectively deal with the role of imperialism? How has the global expansion of this phase of capital affected our lives? How do the effects of capitalism affect climate change and increase environmental racism?
Questions beyond this text are to be presented based on the Palestinian cause, which today suffers as a large laboratory for military, chemical, real estate, industrial and expansionist tests.
It is up to us, the working class, to create the conditions for change in the times in which we live. We are shaped by these forms of violence and inequality, and we are also responsible for another history that will not be up to those who exploit us. This other history will no longer fit within the boundaries that limit our time to be and exist. A revolutionary project needs to once again inspire our analyses, hearts and positions.
*Leonardo Koury Martins He is a PhD candidate in Social Work at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).
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