Mexico City Mobilizes on 2nd Anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, Against Genocide of Palestinians

ByJay Watts

A broad coalition of Palestinian solidarity movement, 300 trade unions, student groups, engaged citizens and political parties occupied the streets of Mexico City to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood and demand the Mexican government break relations with the genocidal state of israel. Earlier in the day, Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs announced that the six Mexicans aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, kidnapped by israel, had been released to Jordan, where they were being repatriated, to arrive in Mexico on the morning of Wednesday, October 8th. Their actions were featured prominently in signs and speeches by the organizers.

The march began in the Plaza Palestina Libre, located at the Hemiciclo a Benito Juárez and featuring an anti-monument dedicated to the struggle for Palestine’s national liberation, and continued westward to the US Embassy. US imperialism as the also featured prominently featured in signs and chants of the many thousands strong crowd.

A march held in Mexico City the previous week, commemorating the 1968 massacre at Tlatelolco, also put the Palestinian liberation struggle front and centre, tying US imperialism’s historical and current machinations against the Mexican people to its proxy, the israel state.

The demands remain the same as the coalition’s previous march, which took place in the capital on Saturday, September 21st.

In the face of all this barbarity and recovering the best traditions of history by breaking diplomatic relations with dictatorships such as those of Francisco Franco in Spain, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, or Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, the manifesto of the Coordinator of Trade Unions for Palestine presented the following list of demands:

1.. Demand that the Mexican government sever diplomatic, commercial, military, and cultural relations with the Zionist State of Israel. Cancel the Israel-Mexico Free Trade Agreement. Prohibit the acquisition of any military, police, or security products or services.

2. Express our complete solidarity with the Palestinian people and support their right to their own state, in accordance with their sovereign decision, without any external interference. Stop the genocide!

3. Conduct an intensive educational campaign within the ranks of our
trade union organizations to inform them of the criminal nature of the Zionist State of Israel and the just struggle of the Palestinian people for their national liberation.

4. Promote various mobilizations, supported by the broadest sectors of the Mexican people, to condemn the Zionist regime of Israel, supporting international sanctions against Netanyahu and his genocidal government. Zionism is a danger to humanity!

5. End the criminal blockade of food, water, and medicine carried out by the occupying forces, using hunger as a weapon of war. We will seek the best ways to deliver our support to the Palestinian population and demand that the Mexican government promote this policy within the United Nations Security Council.

Photos by Jay Watts.