Liberal Zionist "solidarity" organization throws Palestine Action under the bus.
Electronic Intifada's Asa Winstanley reports:
While Palestine Action is fighting for its life against proscription, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign threatens its branches with consequences if they support them. I’ve obtained an internal PSC email which shows its director Ben Jamal has ordered his branches:
“We will not allow any branch to jeopardise the organisation … Please DO NOT share your own statements or comment on this issue… Branches SHOULD NOT be signing public statements or open letters on this or any other issue… Putting out content framed such as ‘we are all Palestine Action’ which may be legal to say now but could be illegal by next week, puts your members and followers at risk”
After becoming the US/Canada equivalent of this, this is the least surprising memo we've ever seen. There's nothing unique about this, unfortunately -- it's the standard large Western imperialist based NGO approach to designations, proscriptions and political bans.
An enormous amount of time and energy is spent on isolating groups subjected to such measures, and even on trying to do so with the actual resistance leading the movement, as they are also designated & proscribed, in the apparent belief that this provides some form of protection.
There is no shortage of "wise" and "smart" advice about how you should never: attend international events if someone or a group designated by the US/Canada/UK/EU will be there; speak to people from such groups as it may be "coordination"; doing otherwise is "putting ppl at risk."
People will even hold briefings about how to engage in compliance management most efficiently, and re-label this a service to the movement. Never mind all the advice about how you should never mourn Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, let alone Mohammed Deif.
This isn't a matter of alienating allies at a dangerous time, when the proscription of @Pal_action requires the organizing of all to fight. It's that every time the reaction is as described above, the imperialist powers learn that surely, they can get away with it.
If we don't rally - for real, even w/ risks - behind those who are targeted, and especially @Pal_action w/ its leadership in direct action materially resisting the Zionist-imperialist war machine, we encourage the state to do this MORE. So let's learn the lesson this time & act.
Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has issued a fatwa against the enemies of God. (Grand Ayatollah is the highest ranking title in Twelver Shiism)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Any individual or regime that threatens the Islamic Ummah and its leadership, the Rahbar, or Marjaiyyah, or – Allah forbid – attempts any aggression against them, is classified as a Muharib (one who wages war against Allah).
Any form of cooperation with them or strengthening them is Haram (religiously forbidden) for Muslims and Islamic governments.
It is incumbent upon all Muslims across the world to make such enemies regret their words and actions.
And if they (the Muslims) endure hardships or incur a loss while doing so, they shall – Allah willing – have the rewards of a Mujahid on the path of Allah.
May Allah protect the Islamic community from the evil of its enemies and hasten the reappearance of the Master of the Age and the Time (Imam Mahdi).
May you always be successful.
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi; 8 Tir 1404; 29 June 2025
Today, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran to pay their respects to the martyrs of the war imposed by the US-israel against Iran.
