Redress
Gilad Atzmon & Mary Rizzo
To all the friends of the freedom
of speech and opponents of racism:
We are a group of Palestinians and other
activists for the Palestinian cause of various nationalities
and affiliations, and believe that unity and persistence
is important to confront the injustice our people had
suffered in the past and still at present, probably in
the unforeseeable future by Zionist and colonialist powers.
Zionism has damaged us from the first day when they
started implementing their colonialist project to
colonize all of Palestine, and when the opportunity
comes, extend it beyond the borders of historic
Palestine, damaging other Arabs. From the first day,
they had been resorting to physical, psychological,
moral and propaganda terror against all sorts of
resistance whether it is in armed self-defense, and
even against the power of the word by Palestinians
and their supporters. They had been resorting to
personal and communal targeted assassination, terrorizing
Palestinians and their supporters all round the world in
order to shut up all sorts of resistance. They try to break
us apart, because they know our unity is dangerous to
their colonialist and racist plans.
They had been trying to control and shut the free and
honest media, and political activism by financial bribery and
blackmailing when running for any sort of political offices at
all levels, especially against those who call for the liberation
of Palestine and the Right of Return of Palestinians to their
homes and land and want them to live under a democratic,
sovereign and free state under the rule of law.
Among those free fighters against Zionism are two non-Arab
supporters of the Palestinian cause, two outstanding
personalities who are also great fighters for the implementation
of freedom and liberty to all the subjugated peoples of
the world, Gilad Atzmon, the ex-Zionist London-based
musician and writer, and Mary Rizzo, the Italy-based
blogger of Peacepalestine. They have been attacked by
Zionists for a long time, but they are also being attacked
by certain other people who are in the movement for Palestine.
Almost no day goes past when Tony Greenstein is not
waging a war against Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, and
we believe his actions have overstepped all limits. We
have watched as he tries to smear them as racists, and
we are saddened that his attempts increase as our own
situation becomes more and more dramatic. These
useless and pointless defamation campaigns are intolerable,
as he circulates falsity against these activists. His attempts
to do this only hurt our cause and waste our energy, not
the least, they distract from the important issues, and go
against the very idea of unity that we value.
We, Palestinians and activists for Palestine, express our
solidarity with Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, who when
they realized the tragedies Palestinians and other Arabs
suffered, especially ethnically cleansed from their ancestral
homeland, at the hands racist colonialist Zionism decided
to fight for the rightful Palestinian cause. Atzmon willingly
liberated himself from this inhuman and destructive project,
by choosing the road of self-imposed exile and public
exposure of what the Zionist project is all about. Tony
Greenstein created among his usual lies that some Palestinians
attack and defame the two dedicated supporters of the
Palestinian cause, Atzmon and Rizzo. We declare that he
does not speak for us or in our names when he attacks
these and other activists.
We also take the opportunity to condemn the strangling
siege that is being imposed over the Gaza Strip in
particular and the West Bank and the rest of the Palestinian
Arab people in general to complete their ethnic cleansing
from their historic homeland.
We urge all peace loving supporters of the freedom of
thought, against all racism and Zionism and dedicated to
the just Palestinian Arab cause as well as Iraq and all
occupied Arab lands, to sign the petition calling for an end
to the defamation campaign and a focus on the issues that
are important to our people. Add you name, location and
organization or group you are part of if you wish. Send it
to palestinesomoud@yahoo.fr. A list will be made public.
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