The political and social groups with Puerto Rican and Palestinian flags were thus integrated into the international day of solidarity with this people, Milagros Rivera of the Committee of Solidarity with Cuba explained to Prensa Latina.
Rivera emphasized that although this activity was in response to the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, “we have carried out other protests with the same purpose in light of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, with the complicity of the United States.”
With slogans such as “End the genocide of the Palestinian people” and “Liberation for all colonized peoples,” the demonstrators demonstrate the importance of joining forces against the domination exercised by the United States over the peoples, which is reflected in their Israel shows support.
“Both peoples had to resist various forms of annihilation, such as the ban on the use of our national flag. In 1948, acting as an independent and publicly using our national flag were criminalized in Puerto Rico,” said Ricardo Santos Ortiz, spokesman for the Palestine Solidarity Network.
The leader of the Socialist Workers’ Movement (MST) also recalled that as a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, in which Israel’s supremacy was consolidated, the use of its national flag was also banned in Palestine.
“Today both peoples raise our flags and warn the villain that Puerto Rico and Palestine will be free; that there is no power in the world that will destroy our desire for justice and freedom,” said Santos Ortiz.
The Hostosian National Independence Movement (MINH), Mothers against War, the Trade Union Solidarity Movement, the Feminist Collective in Construction, the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Commune, the Group of Vieques for the Peace of Palestine, Communist Workers and The event was attended by Students for Social Change and the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
Through its bombings and ground offensives, Israel has killed more than 11,000 people, including minors, and destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure.
“Palestine, like Puerto Rico, has been an occupied people for centuries; “The empires were passed to us from hand to hand, in our case as spoils of war and in the case of Palestine as a gift from the English Empire to the Jewish people,” said socialist Santos Ortiz.
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