nitya teagarajan

ALT Red and white text says “Migrant and anti-racist communities call on Britain: Stop the ethnic cleansing in Palestine and end Britain’s colonial complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people #EndColonialComplicity #CeasefireNow” The text lies over a green tinted photograph of flags and people at a march for Palestine, with a woven black and white border on the sides of the image.

ALT Text says “We are writing, as Black, brown, migrant and racialised groups in Britain, united in our shared struggle for justice and freedom, to demand an immediate end to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, unrestricted humanitarian access and an end to the British complicity making Israel’s war crimes possible. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing, and join the many calls to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people enshrined in international law.The scale of the assault currently being waged against the Palestinian people is reminiscent in intent and brute force of the ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion that took place during the Nakba or ‘Catastrophe’ of 1948, in which more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, dispossessed and expelled from their homes.” The text lies over a green tinted photograph of flags and people at a march for Palestine.

ALT Since launching its war on Gaza the 6th major assault on its people since the illegal blockade was imposed Israel has as of 10 November 2023 killed more than 10k Palestinians including 4k children & injured more than 22k. Many thousands remain hidden under rubble without hope of being saved as the carpet bombing continues. Over a million Palestinians have been made homeless-the majority already refugees. Water, food, electricity and all humanitarian assistance has all been cut off, with the United Nations, the World Health Organization and other international bodies describing ‘an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe’, that is both ‘inhumane’ and tantamount to a ‘death sentence’. Meanwhile, at least 130 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by Israeli troops & settlers since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, more than 5k arrested as they continue to resist apartheid & settler violence in what was already the deadliest year to date for Palestinians in the West Bank

ALT “The unqualified support of the British government and opposition for Israel’s horrifying war crimes and crimes against humanity, which many human rights organisations are now describing as acts of genocide, are a dark legacy of British colonialism. The history of British sponsored dispossession is one we are familiar with. Many of us currently living in Britain arrived fleeing the wars, poverty and economic devastation imposed on the majority of the world’s population by British, European and US imperialism, just as our ancestors before us fled the massacres, enslavement, and famines of the British Empire. Britain carries an outstanding and ongoing colonial debt it has yet to settle with all the peoples of the countries it once colonised, including the Palestinian people. This is all the more obvious as Britain this week dispatches warships to join US fleets, in active collaboration with Israel’s war crimes, endorsing and overseeing accelerated ethnic cleansing in Palestine"