B Harun Elbinawi
– Nelson Mandela
In 1979, after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini declared the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as the day to commemorate International Quds Day, standing in solidarity with all the oppressed people of the world.
Every year, on this day, massive rallies are held in countries across the world to express solidarity with oppressed people, particularly the people of Palestine, who have endured the modern world's worst genocide in the past 16 months.
Imam Khomeini’s declaration sought to unite the voices of the oppressed worldwide against the wicked and evil oppressors, occupiers, and usurpers.
The world is rife with oppression, and the greatest of all is the more than 75-year illegal occupation of Palestine by the genocidal settler-colonial Israeli regime.
The Western-backed Zionist regime continues to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza, most of them children and women. More than 50,000 have been killed since October 7, 2023, according to official figures. The unofficial toll is much higher.
This malevolent regime has destroyed nearly all the hospitals and schools in Gaza, as well as the besieged territory's civilian infrastructure, murdering innocent children, medics, journalists, academics, and activists in an effort to wipe out the future of Palestine.
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In human history, no entity has murdered innocent children like the evil Israeli regime.
Despite these horrendous brutalities and the inhumanity of the genocidal child-murderers, most Arab leaders have betrayed the Palestinian cause by allying with the evil regime and its patrons in the West.
The American Empire has funded the ongoing genocide with billions of dollars and various sophisticated weapons for the genocidal Israeli regime to kill innocent Palestinian women and children.
The US Congress even gave a standing ovation to the criminal Zionist premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his genocidal massacres in Palestine. Such a grotesque display of evil has never occurred in human history. A barbaric murderer was celebrated by American lawmakers for the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian children as well as Israeli captives in Gaza.
The ongoing Gaza genocide has once again exposed the ugly face of Western imperialism and hegemony. Their talk of freedom, human rights, and democracy is a farce, designed to deceive and manipulate public opinion worldwide.
They have denied Palestinians their freedom out of extreme wickedness, racism, and inhumanity. Western imperialism is the greatest evil to have existed since the dawn of human history.
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No atrocity has matched its level of malevolence. The genocidal Israeli regime is relentlessly bombing the tents of displaced people—bombing innocent women and children as they sleep.
The fact that Zionists were expelled from many countries throughout history is understandable. Their evil actions were what led to their expulsion. Evil is evil. The genocide in Gaza is unmatched in human history. The murderous barbarism and inhumanity displayed are unparalleled. The cruelty and wickedness are beyond comparison.
For over three weeks now, Israeli occupation authorities have blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. They want to starve Palestinians to death by using hunger as a weapon of war. They are deliberately denying food to the Palestinian people in a bid to exterminate them. This is genocidal evil.
If Palestinians are not free, none of us are free. South Africa's great anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was right: Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
On this International Quds Day, let's reaffirm our support and solidarity with the brave people of Palestine in their struggle against the settler-colonial, murderous, racist, illegitimate entity. Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea.
Harun Elbinawi is a Nigerian political and public affairs analyst.
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