Free Palestine

Palestine is located in West Asia in the levant. Since 1948, it has been occupied by the state of Israel: a Jewish ethnostate established by zionists. Zionism is an ideology and movement that advocates for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. It is a settler-colonial ideology that is inherently anti-Palestinian because the only way for the state of Israel to be established is through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland.

Zionism had its beginnings in 1897, with the first Zionist congress being the first to make organized plans to colonize Palestine and make it a Jewish nation state with a Jewish majority. Of course, the problem was that there were Palestinians already in Palestine. Ultimately, it was decided that Palestinians must be displaced from their homes by force in order to establish this state, and here began over a century of struggle that rages on to this day.

Today, after decades of war, massacres, looting, atrocities, destruction, and oppression of Palestinians by Zionist and Israeli forces, Palestinians are divided into the Gaza Strip, West Bank, "Israel," and the diaspora. The Gaza Strip has been referred to as the "world's largest open air prison," the West Bank is separated from Israel by a wall that was ruled to violate international law, and it is virtually impossible to travel between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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