Accompanying the Palestinian resistance against the occupation, many solidarity groups emerged all over the world, among them the ISM (International Solidarity Movement), and many other grassroots groups in Europe and North America, such as the Palestinian Solidarity campaign in the UK, the France-Palestine Solidarity Association or the solidarity network against the occupation. (RESCOP) in Spain.
Internationally, thousands of activists around the world have worked to persuade foreign governments to prioritise human rights over economic benefits and to show the true face of Israel to the world; they have organised various advocacy campaigns to expose Israeli crimes and human rights violations, as well as to draw attention to the complicity of other countries; and they have worked to activate international solidarity.
The involvement of international activists in Palestine, helping farmers to harvest the olive crop or simply sleeping in their homes, has had the effect of reducing human rights violations and has also helped to undermine the power of the occupation by assisting farmers to reach their land and spreading aggression and rights violations around the world. In a colonial context, international solidarity has always been led by Palestinians committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of their land and supporting popular resistance. It provides the Palestinian people with two resources: international protection and a voice with which to resist an overwhelming military occupation force.
The international feminist movement has always been instrumental in strengthening the struggle and resistance of the Palestinian people, understanding the struggle against Israeli colonisation as a feminist struggle. The intersectionality of feminism urges the global movement to support the Palestinian anti-colonial and anti-racist cause as a key factor. The feminist movement must once again take up the challenge to liberate all women, all oppressed peoples, and today this inevitably involves the Palestinian people, who are victims of oppression, colonialism and bombs from a West determined to abandon its values and international law to protect Israel and its colonial enterprise. War is not feminist. Struggles for peace are. Palestinian women have been fighting for decades against the intersection of national, social and economic oppressions, denouncing the patriarchal core inherent in Israel's regime of oppression. To Zionism and its global roots.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS stands for the simple principle that Palestinians have the same rights as the rest of humanity. The BDS campaign, launched in 2005, has become a key factor in harnessing the power of people around the world against the Israeli occupation and has achieved important victories that have forced Israel to build counter-strategies to inhibit its spread. 4.
4 https://bdsmovement.net/Palestine-Is-A-Feminist-Issue
