Free Palestine is a call for the liberation of a people who have resisted colonization for more than a century. In 1917 the Balfour Declaration promised Palestine to the Zionist movement without the consent of the people living there. In the Nakba of 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and hundreds of villages were destroyed to establish the state of Israel. Since 1967, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza have lived under military occupation, with settlements, checkpoints, walls, mass imprisonment, and, in Gaza, a siege that has made it the world's largest open-air prison.

That system is sustained by US power. Washington provides Israel billions of dollars in military aid every year and shields it from accountability at the United Nations. Its weapons have been used in the destruction of Gaza, which South Africa brought before the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention, and which leading human rights organizations and UN investigators have concluded is genocide. Yet Palestinian resistance has never been broken. It lives in the intifadas and the principle of sumud, or steadfastness. It lives in the words of Ghassan Kanafani and Mahmoud Darwish, the drawings of Naji al-Ali, the Palestinian poster movement, and every family that refuses to leave its land.

Palestine has long been a measure of the world's conscience and a central cause of the anti-imperialist movement. The global solidarity it has inspired runs from the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement to dockworkers refusing to load weapons and students occupying their campuses. A free Palestine means an end to occupation, apartheid, and siege, the right of refugees to return, and the freedom of the Palestinian people to determine their own future, from the river to the sea.

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