Open letter
20 October 2023
Israel-Palestine war: No peace without de-colonisation
We, members and friends of the North African Decolonial Network, give the Palestinian people our full support in their liberation struggle and denounce the ongoing massacre.
“Colonial forces always want history to begin with the moment their allies are attacked, thus erasing the accumulated effects of oppression, humiliation, and perpetual aggression produced by apartheid policies.
We would like to stress that the history of this murderous madness did not begin on 7 October 2023. Just as it did not begin on 6 October 1973.
It is the story of a permanent and gradual expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied territories, accompanied, with each wave of annexation, by ever more sophisticated ways of alienating and persecuting the Palestinians.
It is the result of the creation of a discriminatory state where dehumanisation is normalised, which today allows the Israeli minister of defence to publicly call the inhabitants of Gaza “human animals” – with impunity.
In fact, racial inequality has always been used to justify all the major massacres and genocides perpetrated against racialised populations.
No lasting peace in the region will be achieved if the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people continue to be ignored; and if the demands for justice, true equality and freedom of movement for all continue to be flouted.
At the end of the day, the equation is simple, if constantly obstructed and denied: there can be no peace without de-colorization.”
