[Marxism] Statement of the Free Palestine Alliance

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Full statement here:
 http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11025

Here's the conclusion:


What Now?
This is the time
to translate political victory to organizational gains. The Palestinian
and Arab people must seize this opportunity to reorganize and position
the movement on its proper track. For one thing, this is not the time
to sweep under the rug the "political garbage" that has helped the
Zionists over the past several years. They must be exposed and expelled
from the Arab collective. All those who have stood in favor of
surrender and normalization, those who have not stopped denigrating
Arab resistance, and those who have become enablers for the Zionists,
must be exposed in every locality and every area. They are the rot that
is destroying what our people build. They exist in every realm. They
are regimes and they are organizations. They are writers and they are
activists. You know them from their slogans, and from their
opportunistic behavior and political positions. Their discourse is a
danger to our youth and to our future.
This is also the
time for the Palestinian left to examine its ranks. It is time to
self-clean. Those who have given cover to the Palestinian Authority and
who enjoy the political comfort of their relationship with the likes of
Abbas and his henchmen should not be setting policy for the left.
Clearly, they are a failure, like their sponsors. They have damaged the
Palestinian left enough. The egalitarian and revolutionary perspective
that is rooted in a democratic, pan-Arab alternative should remain as
the unifying slogan for the Palestinian left.
This is the time
to strengthen our movement by giving it a program of solidarity that
involves boycotts, divestment and sanctions. This is the time for war
crime tribunals to be enacted everywhere, and for war criminals to be
apprehended and brought to justice. This is a time to expose the
sadistic nature of the weaponry used by the Zionist, paid for by U.S.
taxpayers. This is a time to end all support to Israel, in every way,
to properly position it as the Apartheid regime of today, and to
isolate it economically, culturally, and diplomatically. This is a time
to once and for all recognize that Zionism is nothing but a colonial
ideology rooted in racism and hate.
In essence, we
can build on this victory and the steadfastness of the Palestinian
people, by building on our own small victories in our workplace, towns
and universities.

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