Unmask the Zionists who start waving Palestinian flags! 

Declaration of comrade Massimiliano Ay, general secretary of the Communist Party (Switzerland) 

Israel may be winning tactically, but strategically it will certainly be defeated: it is suffering major military and economic losses, and the contradictions within the Zionist system itself are growing day by day, not to mention the terrible reputation it has now built up in the eyes not only of the popular masses in the emerging countries, but also in the West. The Western elites, interested in keeping Israel in place, must now therefore reorganise : the genocide that began in 1948 with the founding of Israel and that for more than two years now has been taking place in an increasingly ruthless and manifest manner against the Palestinian people has always been tolerated by the EU, the US and NATO, but is now becoming a factor of instability that must stop. To do this, without at the same time undermining Zionist power as such, which remains necessary geopolitically in the conflict between imperialism and multipolarity, it is necessary that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu alone falls, in order to make the world public opinion believe that the problem is only him (and his extreme right-wing party) but not Zionism itself. 

That's why the warmongering Kaja Kallas, EU high representative (and Zionist), has suddenly started to say that she wants to revise the EU-Israel Association Agreement and, with two years delay, is even starting to show mercy for the Palestinians: these are obviously crocodile tears! And that is why the ultra-Zionist Donald Trump could also get the US to recognise the State of Palestine. Obviously these are partial victories due to the popular and student pressure that has not tired of demonstrating and occupying Western universities, but it is not yet the triumph and therefore we must not demobilise; above all, we must not believe in the good faith of certain fake friends, certain self-appointed “leaders” who will begin to emerge in public waving Palestinian flags but only to deviate the movement! Only naïve people can have illusions that, almost in unison, indefatigable pro-Zionists begin, out of the blue, to change their narrative: from the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which after justifying it for years now publishes front-page cartoons that (rightly) accuse Netanyahu's government of “massacre”, to notoriously pro-Zionist parties (such as the Italian Democratic Party) that are cautiously beginning to distance themselves. 

The pro-EU left (let's think about the German LINKE for example), which for fear of being accused of “anti-Semitism” has been nothing short of ambiguous in siding with the Palestinian partisan struggle, now suddenly finds the “courage” to take to the streets by “anonymously” promoting “spontaneous” and “silent” demonstrations in which, however, a liberal journalist of the moment will speak, who will instrumentalise the pro-Palestine streets to condemn, for example, the alleged “Russian imperialism” in order to defend the Ukrainian regime (which, by the way, is pro-Zionist) and who will go so far as to invite the protesters not to define as “genocide” what is promoted by Israel or to renounce claiming “free Palestine from the Jordan to the sea”. This is an insidious method of using one's influence not to advance a struggle as the masses who have taken to the streets demand, but to divert it! The attempt is to weaken the movement by making it an exclusively ethical and humanitarian phenomenon: thus castrating it in its political potential and normalising it ideologically. This is what is needed to legitimise post-Netanyahu Israel even at the left! This is neither an accident nor a mistake: it is a premeditated strategy that occurs throughout Europe in the face of the risk of a strategic defeat of Zionism and the advance of multipolarity! 

Communists don't like silent marches: not only because they are extraneous to the tradition of the workers' movement, but above all because against Israel you have to make a noise! This is not a silent funeral for the Palestinians: it is a partisan struggle for national liberation that will last for a long time to come! Participating in mass demonstrations, in which it is the people in good faith who move, even if they are contradictory in the content of their platforms, may be right to strengthen the cause, as long as one does not allow oneself to be led by the fifth columns praising the EU and the “two peoples, two states” solution. Indeed, idealising the EU (or the French or Polish governments) because, after using it to exterminate a people now - goodness gracious! - has decided to get rid of Netanyahu to put in his place a more saleable Zionist who will rebuild Israel's image while keeping the Zionist system standing, is a serious mistake. And the recognition of the State of Palestine, which is of course a right and necessary first step (which the communists in Switzerland first claimed years ago, not today that Israel has razed Gaza to the ground!), will not solve the underlying problem as long as Zionism and Israel's neo-colonial project exist. 

Recently, Comrade Moni Ovadia, a Jew and a Marxist, said in effect that "the ‘two peoples two states’ solution is a fraud" to put the Palestinian people under protection, consolidate the Zionist Entity and deceive the progressive good souls into demobilising them. Exactly what our Party predicted in 2021 during its 21st Congress. 

So we need caution: let us continue to mobilise en masse, but by isolating those masked Zionists who want to take control of the movement! The password remains one: Free Palestine, from the river to the sea!