Palestinian resistance

Hundreds of Jewish protesters tried to block Greek Orthodox Christians from entering King David’s Tomb in the Old City of Jerusalem The site also is sacred to Christians who believe that Jesus' Last Supper took place on the second floor of the tomb. Getty Images

This Palestinian resistance is a spontaneous reaction to the most racist, far-right government in Israel’s history

 

Image: International lawyer Gilles Devers 
 

Prominent international lawyer Gilles Devers says International law has become a tool in the hands of great powers and that is why Israel has been so far immune to any kind of accountability over its war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 

 Palestinian security forces fire tear gas towards Palestinian stone throwing demonstrators as they block them from heading towards an Israeli check point in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron on August 22, 2014, durung clashes following a protest to show support for Palestinian militants fighting against the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
 

Oxford Circus, London (Getty Images)
  

“Israel is in illegal occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has no right to defend itself from territories it occupies. It only has an obligation to withdraw. The Palestinians are an occupied people. They have a right to defend themselves from the occupier.”…….. Seamus Milne, Guardian columnist and associate editor

Image – Victim: Mohammed Ali Wahdan, a two-year-old Palestinian boy, receives treatment for burns and injuries he sustained in an Israeli attack at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City (AFP/Getty Images)
 
 

A very moving speech by Rania Masri, the keynote speaker, during the ‘Texas For Gaza’ protest on August 2 2014 in Austin Texas. 

http://youtu.be/V4H5PFGr03Q
 

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon visits soldiers at an Iron Dome Missile Defense system battery, on July 25, 2014, on the 18th day of Operation Protective Edge. (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/MOD/Flash90)

Image above: Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Cairo, Egypt, November 2011 (photo credit: AP/Office of Khaled Mashaal)

Palestinians have done it all. We choose resistance, always, in all its forms. We resist because it is our right. Because we are the indigenous people of the land and we have nowhere else to go or belong. Because our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and on and on are buried in this soil. Because we are right and our cause is just.  We resist passively and actively. We resist violently and non-violently.

‘We die like trees, standing up’. Courtesy of the artist Nidal El Khairy. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nidal-el-khairy
 

 Seeing rocket fire from Gaza as a counter-discourse. This method of resistance is less about fatalities than undermining privilege structures in an anti-colonial context.