Group seeks police permission for pro-Palestine rally

The Barbados-based Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) is planning to join global solidarity protests for Palestine with a rally next weekend, once it gets the green light from police.

The organisation has sought permission for a ‘Rally for Palestine’ outside the US Embassy in Wildey, St Michael on Saturday, October 21.

There have been several pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests across the world as the war between Israel and Hamas militants escalates.

Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 and Israel has hit back, cutting off supplies of electricity, fuel, food, goods and water in Gaza.

In a statement issued on Thursday, CAAP condemned attacks on civilians in all conflicts, and in particular the continued and consistent genocide of the Palestinian people over the past 75 years by Zionists.

It called for an immediate halt to the genocide of Palestinians and the end to “this violence, bloodshed, and racist oppression”.

“We express our full support for the Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle for liberation of the Palestinian lands and people from the occupying, dehumanising forces of the fascist Zionist regime of Israel,” it said.

“No longer can the world continue to ignore the systematic cycle of destruction perpetrated against the Palestinian people and lands by the fascist Zionist regime of Israel.”

CAAP contended that in the last few days “collective punishment” has increased manifold with the imminent total annihilation of the Palestinians of Gaza, which is being “aided and abetted by the hypocritical United States of America and its Western Allies”.

They argued that it is just as wrong to bomb civilian targets in Gaza, as it is to bomb civilian targets in Kiev.

Attorney-at-law Lalu Hanuman, who is secretary of CAAP, said in an invited comment: “Gaza 2023 is today’s Warsaw Ghetto 1943. Just as the brave Jewish people herded into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 by the fascists, fought back against racist oppression, the Gazan people today, herded into the Gaza Ghetto by the fascist Zionists, are fighting back against racist oppression.”

 (EJ/PR)