Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has celebrated it as “history’s greatest comeback.”
However, Trump’s election is only the “return of the most horrific mass murderer in history.” Throughout his campaign, Trump proclaimed that he would be better able to support Israel. In his last administration, Trump was a staunch supporter of Israel, calling Netanyahu “the greatest friend Israel has ever had.”
Going forward, a Trump administration will continue to support Israel’s genocide. Shortly after his election, Netanyahu launched an airstrike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing 45 civilians. Since early last month, Israel has cut off aid to northern Gaza, and has been pushing for a “full dispossession” – a complete emptying of the Strip of people and food.
But the Palestinian solidarity movement has no reason to be disheartened by Trump’s victory: the global Palestinian solidarity movement has spent the past year mobilising popular outrage against Israel’s genocide, and in the US, it forced the biggest supporter of genocide, Biden, to drop out of the presidential race – the first time a sitting president has given up a second term under pressure from a mass movement since Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War.
Harris’s defeat is also a result of her and the Democratic Party’s support for Israel’s genocide.
Just as the Palestine solidarity movement ended the political life of genocide accomplice Biden, we must now show a greater voice of resistance and solidarity against Trump. We must be bigger and stronger.
The Palestinian resistance against Israeli genocide and occupation continues. Even in Lebanon, they are bravely standing up to Israel. Solidarity movements around the world are also inspired by the heroic resistance of the Palestinians.
On Sunday 10 November, the Palestine Solidarity Day of Action, let’s raise our voices of resistance and solidarity against Israel and its accomplice, the United States. Let’s raise our voices of solidarity with Palestine until there is a just peace for the Palestinian people “from the River to the Sea”!
7 November 2024
‘People in Solidarity with Palestinians’
