On April 5, thousands are gathering in Washington D.C. to stand up against the U.S.’s continued support for the genocide in Gaza and the Trump administration’s wave of domestic suppression.
The affinity between the West and Israel is due in part to an affinity with white settler life. Our task, in face of the ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza and the ongoing white settler attachment to it, is to struggle against this social order.
“To our people throughout Palestine, we are with you. You are protecting a future where Palestinians everywhere can live without fear of colonial violence”
The Palestinian Feminist Collective’s open letter asking allies to adopt Palestinian liberation as a critical feminist issue has set off debates within feminist and Palestinian liberation movements. Nada Elia writes that some of the debate is understandable considering mainstream Western feminism’s disregard for the plight of the Palestinian people, but ultimately the call is about affirming, yet again, that one cannot be a feminist while supporting gendered violence, settler-colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and apartheid.
In the interest of advancing a truly intersectional and decolonial feminist vision for the U.S., Palestine and our world, the Palestinian Feminist Collective is urging others to join them in declaring Palestine is a feminist issue.