Statement: Palestinians will never disappear
Israel’s horrific genocide in Gaza continues to unfold before our eyes. Trump, ever the embodiment of imperial hubris, schemes for a U.S.-colonial takeover of Gaza—another grotesque attempt to erase the Palestinian people and entrench oppressive Zionist control. In this dark hour, Israel brazenly threatens to shatter the fragile ceasefire, proving once again that mass slaughter is not just a tactic in its arsenal; instead, it is Israel’s entire policy.
Genocide and mass murder are in service of erasing the refugees from the camps in Gaza to the camps of the West Bank. This is not merely an escalation; it is a tragic, relentless continuation of an atrocity. For over 77 long years, Zionism has waged a brutal war to erase the Palestinian people—to starve us, to bomb us, to exile us, to make us vanish into the void.
Yet we endure.
The conditions in Gaza are not an accident. They are the result of a deliberate Israeli policy to depopulate, to force Palestinians off their land, to imprison them in ever-smaller spaces until death or exile are the only choices. But Gaza refuses to choose exile. Gaza, against all odds, is asserting the right to life. The people of Gaza are not just fighting for survival—they are fighting for the right to exist, for the right to return to their ancestral homes, for the right to live freely on their land. And still they rise.
The United States is the architect of these horrors. For decades, it has bombed nations, toppled democratically elected leaders, and installed fascist dictators to enforce a system of global dominance. It has funded and armed Israel’s apartheid regime while perfecting its own mechanisms of control at home. The same empire that funds genocide in Palestine also poisons water in Flint, allows wildfires to devour Maui, and leaves the people of Puerto Rico to fend for themselves after disaster. The rooster has come home to roost. Fascism is no longer just foreign policy—it is here, unmasked, before our very eyes. And yet, many are still in shock, unable to accept that the very system they held dear was always built upon a foundation of violence.
But Palestinians have never held such illusions. We have waged a valiant fight against fascism for generations. We understand the nefarious ambitions of the Trump administration, just as we hold a mirror to the spineless complicity of the Democratic Party. We see clearly that these are not failures of a flawed system. The system, cruelly and effectively, is working exactly as it was intended.
Yet, let us not wallow in despair. Let us rise in fierce resistance.
If the people of Gaza, who have endured 15 months of high-tech genocide, can return to the north knowing their homes lie in ruins and still cry out, “We will remain”, then we too must confront the fascism looming before us with the same unyielding spirit. We must take to heart Gaza’s unwavering courage: the path forward is not paved with fear or hopelessness, but built on our collective struggle.
Our Palestinian elders taught us well. We must organize locally, build relationships, and lean on one another in these dark times. The road ahead demands sacrifices—of comfort, time, resources—but we have learned through seven decades of resistance that solidarity is the only way forward. That disciplined and intentional solidarity can and will dismantle the empire.
We refuse to abandon our people to fend for themselves in isolation. We will not allow fascism to consume us in silence. We are determined to create pathways for action—through boycotts, direct action, political education, and the cultivation of strong, enduring connections.
We are not just fighting to end genocide in Gaza. We are fighting for a world where no people, anywhere, are subject to colonial violence.
And we will triumph.
Because despite 77 years of massacres, expulsions, and walls, Zionists and their Western allies have failed to grasp a simple truth: Palestinians will never disappear. We are rooted in our land, in its olive trees, its wildflowers, its hills, its shores. We are in the sky, the air, and the very soil beneath our feet. Our essence flows through our zaatar, lingers in our sage, resonates in our villages and towns, in our mosques and churches. Palestinians, both in the homeland and in exile, remain bound to Palestine. As Mahmoud Darwish, the orator of our experience, reminds the world: “We have on this land that which makes life worth living.”
Palestine is not just a cause—it is our past, our present, and our future. Despite every attempt to push us out, we know Palestine will be free. This is not a mere wish, but rather a promise carried forward by every generation until it is reality.
This is the fight of our lifetime. And we need you in it.
Signed,
The Adalah Justice Project Team