“Je suis Palestine”

In the last few weeks, the explosion of the student movement in American universities in support of Palestine unexpectedly surprised East and West and gradually found followers in European universities, except for most of those in Greece and Cyprus for now…

The uprising of thoughtful American, British and European students against the crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip is the response of the peoples of the West to their governments which have so far failed to express their public opinion, to stand up of the circumstances imposed by their cultural heritage and to assume their responsibility to end the crimes against Palestinian civilians which already number over 35,300 dead and 80,000 injured, almost half of whom are children.

At the same time, the spread of the student protest on a global scale exposes the blatant silence and support of the American and European governments in the atrocity against the Palestinians. The said silence and political support of Western governments is a resounding complicity in the systematic violation of International Law and the human rights of the Palestinians.

At the same time, however, the student movement, with its brave stance, highlights the clear and unwavering orientation of the new generations towards humanity and intercultural respect without racist apartheid-style blinders. And all this in the face of the repressive forces of the Western elites who, with their unrestrained violence, simply confirm the lack of freedom of speech in Western societies but also their very role, that is, the maintenance and perpetuation of the regime of social inequalities of the Western countries themselves. They declare to the common elites that there is no difference between the plight of the oppressed Palestinians and the oppressed social classes of the West.