On the ninth of May each year, humanity recalls the great victory over fascism and Nazism, when in 1945 the victory of the Soviet Red Army over Nazism led by Adolf Hitler was announced, after a global war during which the peoples of the world, foremost among them the peoples of the Soviet Union, led by the Soviet Communist Party, paid a huge price that exceeded more than twenty million martyrs, in defense of all humanity in the face of one of the most heinous racist and criminal ideologies in modern history. That victory was not just a military event, but rather a pivotal historical moment that saved the world from a fascist project based on extermination, racial superiority, and mass enslavement. Jews themselves were among the most prominent victims of Nazism, as they were subjected to a horrific Holocaust that constituted a stain on the forehead of humanity. However, many studies and historical documents also indicated the existence of forms of complicity and intersection between the Zionist movement and the Nazi authorities in the 1930s, through agreements aimed at encouraging the emigration of Jews to Palestine, in the context of the Zionist colonial project. But the most tragic paradox today is that the descendants of the victims of the Nazi extermination are transforming, under the Zionist project based on occupation, racism, and settler colonialism, into executioners who practice policies of mass killing, siege, starvation, and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, where the occupying state is committing an open war of extermination before the eyes of the world and its silence. What we are witnessing today of the growing rise of fascism in Israel, whether through racist discourse, exclusionary laws, or the practices of the army and settlers, confirms that fascism is not just a memory from the past, but a renewed danger that can wear new faces and different slogans. When massacres are justified in the name of "security," and the occupation is given absolute immunity to kill children, destroy cities, and displace populations, then the world is facing a contemporary version of the fascism it claimed to have defeated eighty-one years ago. The true loyalty to the victims of Nazism is not by justifying the crimes of the occupation, but by standing against all forms of racism, colonialism, and extermination wherever they are, foremost among them what the Palestinian people are subjected to today. The values that triumphed on May 9, 1945, are the same ones that compel the free people of the world today to build a global humanitarian and moral front to confront the fascism of the Zionist occupation, and to defend the right of our Palestinian people to freedom, dignity, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. History has proven that fascism can be defeated militarily, but it returns when the world remains silent about injustice, when the victim turns into an executioner, and when mass killing becomes an acceptable policy under the guise of power and influence. Therefore, our people's battle is not only a battle for national liberation, but also part of the greater human battle against fascism, racism, and all forms of extermination.
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Sun 10 May 2026 10:25 am - Jerusalem Time





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On the anniversary of the victory over Nazism.. Palestine faces the new fascism