As abolitionists, we recognize the brutal apartheid regime of Israel and its US-backed occupation of Palestine for what it is: a prison that must be abolished. 

In solidarity with Palestine, we reject the blatantly racist, Islamophobic narrative that claims Hamas is a terrorist organization. We do not condemn Gazan resistance. The expectation that the victims of a brutal 75 year imperialist occupation denounce their own resistance and betray their cause is a manipulative tactic of the US and other world leaders to delegitimize Palestine’s right to sovereignty. We acknowledge Hamas as a legitimate political actor and democratically elected Gazan resistance working to free Palestinian people. We unequivocally support Palestine’s demands and acknowledge Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as a necessary step to secure Palestine’s freedom. There are not two sides to genocide. As Palestinian people resist ethnic cleansing they must have unwavering global support. 

We refuse to acknowledge Israel as a legitimate state. No apartheid state has a right to exist. Zionism is not an excuse for mass extermination and support of Israel equals dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians as a people. Israel is a racist, violent, settler-colonial apartheid regime with no exclusive right to the land. The genocidal campaign by Zionists against Palestinian people is responsible for every single death – Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim – that has taken place on Palestine’s soil since 1920. And still, nearly 100 years later, Israel has dropped over 6,000 bombs in a single week, killing children at schools, patients in hospitals, and people in their homes, wiping out entire Palestinian family bloodlines, leaving Gazans to pull their loved ones from the rubble with their bare hands. Those who remain are completely trapped; imprisoned by the Israeli military who have, with the help of the US, cut off all aid, including electricity, water, food, and medical supplies. 

Mass Liberation AZ remains in continued solidarity with Palestine’s struggle for life and liberation. We do not acknowledge tactics that aim to silence our solidarity. We wholeheartedly reject the false Zionist narrative that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism. Palestinian people are Semitic people and any claim that Palestinian resistance is anti-Semitic is just another attempt to erase Palestinian people. We will not be bribed or extorted by funders or philanthropy who use anti-BDS clauses to silence our movement’s solidarity with Palestine.