A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Palestine means resistance - Group against patriarchy (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

*Announcement read at the beginning of the event "Trafficking - Cases of 
"Amaryllis", Kolonos, Ilioupoli/ Greek Police Mafia/ SLAPP Lawsuits/ 
Cover-up/ State Repression", at the 7th Eleftheriako Festival in 
Lampedona, on July 6th ---- Before we open the event we want to read an 
announcement, because while we are here, our heart beats in Palestine. 
It beats to the same beats as those of the children with the disarming 
gaze, when they form the victory sign with their fingers, because 
resistance is their very existence. It strikes for our sisters, the 
women and girls of Gaza, those who were murdered and those who survived, 
for the missing, for the prisoners, for the women who stood with stones 
in their hands against the Israeli soldiers, who cradle white sheets in 
their arms and comfort skeletal children, who are hungry and anxious for 
a little water, who give birth in the ruins of hospitals, who get sick 
and suffer without medicine, without painkillers, in camps for the 
displaced.

We cannot talk about patriarchy and gender-based violence without 
recognizing that genocide, ethnic cleansing, war, occupation, siege, 
apartheid, colonialism itself are, among other things, their most 
extreme expression. And that in these circumstances, the attempt to 
humiliate, degrade, subjugate and exterminate women is transformed into 
yet another tool for the annihilation of a people who resist, while 
their home, land, dreams and future were taken away from them. In fact, 
if we want to call ourselves human, we cannot talk about anything, but 
nothing else, if we close our eyes to what is happening in Palestine.

The violence of numbers is relentless. Since October 7, 2023 (when 
almost all Palestinian organizations decided to strike inside the 
occupied territories, that is, the land occupied by settlers), the state 
of Israel has murdered more than 57,000 Palestinians (June 2025), in an 
operation that constitutes the culmination of the long-term political 
extermination that has permeated the Zionist entity since its foundation 
and that today is trying to impose the "final solution". More than half 
of the dead are women and children. The displaced population is 
estimated at 2 million, that is, over 90% of the inhabitants of Gaza, a 
large part of whom are refugees anyway (Reuters, July 3, 2025). 
According to a UN report, in January 2025, 1 million of the displaced 
were women and girls, 110,000 were injured, 306,000 homes had been 
completely destroyed and 19,000 children had been orphaned, while the 
number of missing in the rubble is incalculable. Another UN report, in 
March 2025, stated that approximately 50,000 women in Gaza are pregnant 
and 130 give birth every day, without access to clean water, medicine 
and the necessary hygiene and care, since in addition the destruction of 
health infrastructure, as well as the murder of medical and nursing 
staff, are a targeted effort by the Israeli army in the extermination 
operation.

Sexual torture and sexual violence are commonplace. The testimonies 
collected in the report of the UN Independent International Commission 
of Inquiry (May 2025) document practices by the Israeli army, such as 
"the forcing of men and women into public nudity, sexual abuse, the 
threat of death to men if they do not accept that their female relatives 
undress in front of soldiers and tanks, targeted attacks on genitals, 
threats of rape and even rape." They document "incidents of sexual and 
gender-based violence in more than 10 prisons in Israel, particularly in 
the Negev and Sde Teiman, as well as in the women's prisons of Damon and 
Hasharon. Female prisoners have faced sexual assaults[...]. Male 
prisoners report that they have been punched, kicked, hit with metal 
objects or even crushed in their genitals. Other men were raped. In Ofer 
prison, Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh died after the brutal sexual abuse he 
suffered" (Efsyn 8/5/2025).

At the same time, a pink washing campaign by the state of Israel and its 
Western allies attempts to legitimize colonial settlement and genocide, 
advertising that it is the only country in the Middle East that promotes 
gender equality and the recognition of the rights of LGBTQI people - 
apparently baptizing participation in the IDF's murderous units as 
equality). Feminism is being turned into a weapon to dehumanize the 
population under extermination, to neutralize solidarity, to extract 
silence and consent, to justify the massacre.

A multitude of voices are rising against this campaign, such as the 2023 
"Feminist Manifesto - Anticolonialism is a Feminist Issue", which 
states: "We understand feminism as a liberatory theory and practice that 
fights against injustice and oppression, that seeks primarily justice 
and the elimination of inequalities. Palestinian resistance in all its 
forms is a just-legitimate practice to combat a ruthless colonial 
system, which has consistently abused and denied life to millions of 
people for decades. We applaud it and consider it an integral part of 
our struggle for a just world.[...]Colonial and liberal narratives 
attempt to construct a single model of feminism: the feminism of white 
bodies in the metropolises (Europe and North America). It is a form of 
feminism that is confined to the so-called 'human rights' framework 
created by colonial powers and used to maintain their interests. Liberal 
feminism is disturbed by any deviation from this model and seeks to 
nullify and eliminate it. Consequently, our own feminism is met with 
disdain and skepticism because it advocates liberatory practices that 
both challenge and threaten existing colonial and patriarchal systems - 
and the armed resistance of the Palestinian people is one of these 
practices."

For us, as anarchists, as women and activists, the same reasons that 
place us unwaveringly on the side of those fighting in Palestine unite 
us with our sisters in Iran, with the political prisoners in Evin prison 
who simultaneously had to face Israeli bombings, but also violence, mock 
executions, persecution by the Iranian regime... With our sisters who 
paid with their blood for the uprising under the slogan "Woman, Life, 
Freedom", after the murder of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the police. 
With the women suffering the consequences of the war in Sudan, the 
immigrants who rebel against the ICE pogroms in America, the indigenous 
Zapatistas in Mexico, the women who fight against disappearances, 
femicide, rape and for the self-determination of their bodies in East 
and West. With those imprisoned in the prisons and refugee concentration 
camps of the Greek state, and with comrades Marianna M. and Dimitra 
(remanded together with Nikos Romanos, Dimitris and A.K. after the 
explosion in Ampelokipi and the death of comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris). 
They unite us with all women, all people who fight against state and 
capitalist barbarity, who fight for a free and just world for all.

We will close with the words of Fatima Hassouna, the 25-year-old girl 
who used her camera to record everyday scenes from Gaza and whose 
testimonies formed the material for the documentary by the exiled 
Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi. Fatima was murdered along with her 
family in their home in Gaza on April 16, 2025, in an Israeli airstrike.

For 300 days, Ania, my camera and my only friend, who knows how to 
capture things in her lens, to take the photos I want, has accompanied 
me. For 300 days, my brothers and I have been murdered in this massacre. 
Blood flows on the ground and I tremble at the moment when the blood of 
my brothers will reach me, its stains will stain my clothes. For 300 
days we have seen only black and red, we have breathed the smell of 
death, we have eaten bitter fruits and we have only touched corpses.

This is the first time I have experienced such a massive loss. I have 
lost 11 members of my family, my most beloved. And yet, nothing stops 
me. I wander the streets every day, without a plan. I simply want the 
world to see what I see[...]

We, we who die every day, a death that takes on all forms and shades. I 
die a thousand times when I see a child suffering. I break into a 
thousand pieces, only my ashes remain. What we have become hurts me. 
This nonsense hurts me and the monster that devours us every day: it hurts.

Every day, as I leave, my mother says goodbye to me, but I don't turn to 
look. I don't want to face that look. I don't want so much grief for my 
mother, but what is left of this city? Only death.

Speaking of death, inevitable death:

If I have to die, I want a death that will resonate everywhere. I don't 
want to become just another news story, just another number among so 
many. I want a death that the whole world will know about, whose imprint 
will remain indelibly engraved, in everlasting photographs, that they 
will never be able to bury anywhere.

Group Against Patriarchy - APO

https://apo.squathost.com/palestini-simeni-antistasi-omada-enantia-stin-patriarchia/
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