Today, 29 November 2024, marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which was adopted 47 years ago by the United Nations General Assembly in “Resolution 32/40 B” of 2 December 1977. In this resolution, the General Assembly invited “all governments and organizations to lend their cooperation to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”.
Alkarama recalls at this occasion that as we commemorate this anniversary this year at the end of the fourteenth month of the all-out war waged by Israel against the Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip, solidarity with the Palestinian people seems to come only from the peoples who sympathize with the Palestinians in the severe plight they are experiencing as a result of the crimes of the Israeli occupation. This has been demonstrated by the interaction of large segments of citizens in many countries of the world, as well as a number of international organizations.
As for the governments, most of them have failed miserably, and some of them have not only failed to show any solidarity with the Palestinian people, but have given full and unconditional support to the Israeli government in its war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide by supplying it with lethal weapons and providing it with political, diplomatic and legal protection.
The United Nations, which established this day of solidarity, is no longer relevant in Israel, so much so that its government has declared the Secretary-General of the international organization persona non grata in Israel, the entity established – what an irony! – by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution on the Partition of Palestine adopted on 29 November 1947 “Resolution 181 (II)”.