- The Guardian
- Issue #2187
Rally for Palestine in Boorloo/Perth, September 2025.
The approval in the Israeli parliament on 30 April of a law that makes the death penalty the sentence for Palestinian prisoners who have exercised their legitimate right to resistance in the face of the violent and illegal occupation, colonisation, and oppression imposed by Israel constitutes a new and serious step in Israel’s genocidal policy against the Palestinian people and youth.
This is a law that applies only to Palestinians, thus excluding Israelis, particularly Israeli soldiers and settlers who murder Palestinians. It is a selective and racist law that deepens a de facto Zionist apartheid regime. A law that seeks to support and reinforce the brutal aggression perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, aiming at the occupation and colonisation of the entire territory of Palestine.
The ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the persecution, imprisonment, and murder of thousands of Palestinians constitute the greatest crime of our time committed against an entire people.
Israel, with its allies and accomplices, in particular the United States of America, NATO, and the European Union, are primarily responsible for the destabilisation of the Middle East, having attacked countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, posing the greatest threat to Peace and Humanity.
We demand that the Israeli authorities withdraw this iniquitous and unacceptable law for the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
We stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, for their right to resistance against brutal and illegal occupation, colonisation, and oppression by Israel, for an end to the genocide, for the release of Palestinian prisoners, for the realisation of the State of Palestine and the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as determined by international law.
