
Today, Israeli regime forces launched airstrikes on a refugee camp in northern Rafah, Gaza, resulting in the massacre of at least 35 innocent Palestinians. The horrors unfolding in Rafah are difficult to describe in words — parents burnt alive, children decapitated, refugee camps bombarded and obliterated to nothing but ashes.
The massacre in Rafah exposes the starkly divided realities between the colonizer and the colonized. While videos of decapitated children in Rafah garner sympathy across the Global South, western propaganda media continues to deny and justify the genocide in Gaza before the world’s eyes.
Do not look away: The Rafah tent massacre is a direct result of the enabling rhetoric and actions of states like Canada, the US, Germany, the UK, that continue to fund and arm the Israeli forces that have made their position clear on continuing the genocide.
Malaysia is also not exempt from colluding with the Zionist murderers. While Rafah is being slaughtered, government-linked companies like Khazanah, MAHB, and EPF are selling shares to Blackrock, one of the largest pro-Zionist companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine. Not to forget the collaboration between the Ministry of Defense and Zionist arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems during the NATSEC exhibition earlier this month.
We call on Anwar Ibrahim, the Ministry of Home Affairs (@kementeriandalamnegeri), and the Ministry of Defense Malaysia (@mindefmalaysia) to immediately cease all cooperation with Zionist arms financiers if they truly support Palestine and are not merely Western puppets.
Do not be empty vessels making noise on the international stage, while you are silently colluding and selling out to the Zionists who murder children in Rafah.
Solely calling for a ceasefire is cowardly.
We demand decolonization!
We demand material support for the struggle!
We demand liberation!
The settler colony must be dismantled, from the river to the sea.
Let this be a reminder to all of us that liberation will not come from the courts of our colonisers, nor from the performative rhetoric of politicians, but from the strength and resolve of our resistance!
GEGAR
27 MAY 2024