The justice of the cause

In the Paris protest demonstration against the harm Muslims are subjected to, and in solidarity with the Palestinian people against the crimes of the Israeli colony and its shameful actions against civilians, one of the participants appeared wearing a Jewish kippah on his head, indicating his Jewishness, just as he wore a Palestinian keffiyeh on his shoulder, wrapping himself in it, indicating his support, solidarity, and bias for the cause of the Palestinian people, against the behavior and atrocities of the colony.

The bias of some European and American Jews toward Palestine, its expanding size, and their serious reaction to the suffering of the tormented people due to the occupation, its continuation, settlements, and extremism, is no longer just a passing event, especially in the United States with the organization "Jews for Peace." Rather, it is a new reality whose role is growing and whose expressions are becoming public. As the Palestinian activist in the United States, Sinan Shaqdih, says: "Jews have become prominent partners with us in the American civil struggle that supports the Palestinians, rejects the Israelis, and opposes the policies of their government in Washington that support the Israeli colony. This has caused concern in Zionist circles and supporters of the colony, and their concern is especially from the activity of university youth, because American support—military, political, diplomatic, financial, and economic—is the lifeline for the continuation of the Israeli occupation, its superiority, and its influence. Losing this lifeline will hasten the defeat of the colony and the demise of the occupation."

The American soldier, who was an intelligence officer, shouted before the US House of Representatives: "Israel is burning children alive in Gaza. Shame on you for the support and backing you provide to Israel. Shame on you for remaining silent." These are striking, scattered, but cumulative positive manifestations in favor of Palestine.

Two important factors that moved the popular scene in America and Europe are:

First, the killing, destruction, criminality, fascism and racism perpetrated by the Israeli colony, which is unprecedented in its blatant brutality.

Second, the Palestinian sacrifices and the killings to which the people of Gaza—children, women, elderly, and youth—are subjected, and their right to life is denied, through bombing, deliberate starvation, rampant disease, immune deficiency, and the lack of resources to confront the burdens of hunger, disease, and their repercussions.

The world has begun to understand the suffering of the Palestinians and the legitimacy of their aspirations, just as it has exposed the shame, lies, and deceptions of the colony as an expansionist, occupying, and subjugating colonial project on the land of Palestine.

The Jews had to understand the meaning of injustice, killing, and harm due to the injustice they were subjected to at the hands of Nazism, Fascism, and European Tsarism. They learned from their harsh experiences the meaning of pain, but they transferred their suffering to impose it on the Palestinians through pain, killing, destruction, displacement, expulsion, and homelessness, as if they were taking revenge on the Palestinians in response to what they faced in Europe. Some European peoples had previously sympathized with the suffering of the Jews and supported the establishment of a housing project for them in Palestine. They did not realize that the Israeli Jewish Zionist project was based on injustice, oppression, and hatred of the other, their hatred of the true original owners of the land, the Palestinian people, and their persecution of them.

Large segments of the European and American people, including Jewish citizens of Europe and America, have realized the reality of the Israeli colony project. They are moving toward fairness, understanding, and solidarity with the Palestinians, however modest or slow this may seem. However, these are positive, cumulative steps toward Palestine's victory and the defeat of the colony.