On May 5, Israel announced a plan to “conquer” Gaza. This new operation, which would initially involve the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to the south of the enclave, would be a major step toward the realization of Zionist colonialism: the forced displacement of Palestinians from Palestine.
Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in 2023, is part of Israel’s colonial war on Palestine, which began 75 years earlier, in 1948, and continues today throughout Palestine through the expulsion, imprisonment, and massacre of Palestinians. Israel’s war against Palestine since 1948 is a war against the entire Palestinian people.
Israel’s siege of Gaza, not only since 2023 but since 2007, is an act of genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza, according to the international definition of genocide1. Since 2023, Israel has intensified its genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, both through bombing and starvation. During its offensive on Gaza, Israel has methodically destroyed agricultural and fisheries infrastructure and equipment, while at the same time drastically limiting humanitarian supplies. On March 2, Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire agreements and completely blocked humanitarian supplies. Since 2023, Israel has been letting the Palestinians of Gaza starve to death.
In Palestine, there is a war between imperialism and oppressed peoples. Communists have a historic revolutionary responsibility toward the national liberation of oppressed peoples. Since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian national resistance has demonstrated a heroism that we — communists — must live up to. In the face of colonialist barbarism, of which Zionism is only one particular expression in Palestine, we must not tolerate any cowardice: all cowards are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza!
All those who defend an imaginary resistance and abandon the real resistance; who refuse to put their scholasticism to the test of history; who forget the revolutionary dialectical materialist analysis of Marx, Engels, and Lenin on oppressed peoples; who deny that the class struggle of the proletariat of dominated nations is the struggle for national liberation; are accomplices!
All those who capitulate to the dominant bourgeois-colonial ideology in imperialist countries; who refuse to choose between the “humanity” of the colonizer and the colonized out of humanist sentimentality; who corrupt Marxism with Zionist colonialism; who call for an internationalism that respects reactionaries of the right and left, imperialists and social imperialists, colonialists and social colonialists; are accomplices!
All those who prefer social-imperialist and social-colonialist parliamentarianism to the national liberation of oppressed peoples; who answer for legality in France before answering for victory in Palestine; who limit the scope of their commitment to opportunistic maneuvers; are accomplices!
All those who approve of resistance only in the reformist methods of compradors and NGOs; who believe in pacifist dreams, those of the UN and those of Oslo, but not in concrete and immediate struggle; who defend bourgeois international law before defending the armed struggle of the Palestinian masses; are accomplices!
In the struggle between imperialism and oppressed peoples, an intermediate, “in-between” position is objectively an imperialist position. Half-hearted support for Palestinian national liberation is also half-hearted support for Zionist colonialism, and therefore support for the dominant against the dominated!
Half-hearted support is the most striking proof of the indolence of reformists and half-Marxists. Support is not an idea, it is an action, and there are no half-actions: there is either doing or not doing. There is only one Palestinian resistance to support, so there is only total support or total abandonment of Palestinian national liberation, the revolutionary position, the reactionary position, and the struggle between the two.
Communists must take a firm — revolutionary — position on the national liberation of oppressed peoples in general, and on Palestinian national liberation in particular.
Everywhere and by all means, let us attack Zionism and defend the Palestinian resistance!
1 « L’espoir des colonisés » [« The Hope of the Colonized »], Unité communiste, 10 octobre 2023. At :