In Monastiraki of Athens, hundreds of protesters have gathered in a mobilization of solidarity toward Palestine. The event, which the organizers characterize antisepticis part of international support actions, with the participation of a multitude of colleges, associations, bodies, and members of the Palestinian community in Greece.
The protesters have posted banners, shouting slogans and lit up tobacco, attracting the eyes of tourists crossing the square. Perimeter of the area is located Strong presence of MAT squads.
In the text issued and shared in the square, the organizers emphasize their determination to show the Their full support for the “fighting Palestinian people”. They say: “We make it clear that we will wear and hold Palestinian flags and shout slogans of solidarity, holding the symbols of the resistance and no one will stand in the way of our uncreated support for the fighting Palestinian people.”
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The text also refers to a recent “targeted suppression” of an anti -intersection sign at the Athens tourist center, denouncing a “theater of the absurd” with characterizations such as “anti -Semitic attacks” and “raids”. The organizers explicitly state that such invocations are “simply yet another framework for propaganda and confirmation of the Greek state’s good cooperation with the Zionist Genocide and Zionist capital”.
They emphasize that “the greatest anti -Semitic is the Zionist structure called” Israel “and its ubiquitous associates. Zionism as an ideology of ethnic and religious supremacy has as its constitutional condition of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. “
The text concludes by stressing that “invocation of anti -Semitism, artificially leaves the Palestinians out. […] tooling the term on the altar of the full immunity of the Zionist state to commit its ongoing crimes. ” For the organizers, this tooling is intended to “disorient from today’s inquiry and blur the reality, which is that“ Zionism is the Nazism of today“».
The characterizations are “returned” to those who have used them, with protesters categorically declaring that “Zionism is fascism and fascism crushes on the road.” The mobilization expresses support for “any anti -intervention and any form of struggle that stands against the Zionist entity”.