From Lenapehoking to Palestine, genocide is a crime! – Workers’ world

Philadelphia

On October 14, Indigenous Peoples Day, students, faculty and community activists gathered for a Palestine solidarity vigil with signs, banners, chants, loudspeakers and musical instruments. The vigil took place on the University of Pennsylvania campus, located in occupied Lenape territory, known as Lenapehoking.

Highlights included a speech by a Lenapehoking activist and a lecture condemning one of the Pentagon and Israeli occupation forces' newest weapons, invented by UPenn students and manufactured at Ghost Robotics. Protesters unfurled a long scroll with the names of 7,000 Palestinians killed by Israel and read out hundreds of their names. (tinyurl.com/2t8cc39m; tinyurl.com/3cv28ber)

The march, organized by the Faculty of Justice in Palestine, highlighted the similarities between the struggles of indigenous peoples from Turtle Island to Palestine.

Both the United States and Israel were founded as European settler-colonial outposts. Both carried out systematic expropriations, forced relocations and massacres, resulting in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples in order to gain control of maximum land and resources for a white supremacist ruling class.

To this day, US imperialists and genocidal Zionists use surveillance, military checkpoints, police brutality, mass incarceration, theft of water and other natural resources, environmental destruction, desecration of gravesites, cultural erasure and appropriation, and extreme violence to deny that indigenous populations have it Right to live in peace on their own land.

No to settler colonial projects, from Lenapehoking to Palestine!