Remain steadfast for Palestine |
The most famous Palestinian Jew in history, whose birthday is celebrated on December 25, imprinted the values of compassion, peace and justice into the ethos of a new religion some 2000 years ago.
Indigenous to the region, then under the control of the Roman Empire, this great teacher embodied truth and resistance. He was persecuted by the religious and state powers of his time. His story has exemplified the fate awaiting anyone who dares speak truth to power and whose actions are capable of initiating a people’s movement for justice and peace.
But the deterrence intended by his execution has not worked. Not then and not now.
For regardless of times or persuasions, people know injustice when they see it. Many stand up against it, moved by indignation and an innate sense of compassion, sometimes fortified by a spiritual compass, but always underpinned by intelligent understanding of fact. Driven by a burning clarity, they will attempt to right unbearable wrong.
We have seen proof of such humanity in action in the global mobilisation of people from all walks of life in solidarity with the contemporary victims in that region of oppression and injustice perpetrated by the current Empire and its vassals.
These modern truth-tellers, like their historical counterpart, know very well that solidarity........