Let’s not fall into the trap of philanthropy. Let’s organize ourselves and fight.
Solidarity with the Palestinian people is measured by a single question: does our action change anything for those who resist under bombardment? Does it change anything in the real balance of power between those who support the genocide and those who are its victims?
By the same yardstick we must evaluate any form of struggle — and we can say with certainty — including the one we are waging in Italy. We must be honest with ourselves: until our collective energy is translated into real costs for the accomplices of the genocide on Italian soil, what we are doing is a symbolic policy; perhaps honourable and even necessary, but still symbolic.
It is now clear to everyone that the Italian masses are not spectators of the genocide, but rather one of its main cogs. Dozens of studies and investigative reports have shown that Leonardo produces parts used in the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 fighter jets. That Italian banks finance companies linked to the occupation of our lands. Those Italian ports transport goods and fuel to Israel. And that the Meloni government has maintained military flows towards the Zionist entity while Gaza was being razed to the ground and Lebanon was being bombed. This is our material reality, and this is the reality of our battlefield.
As a Palestinian organization rooted in this country and among the masses, we say without any ambiguity: creating a gap in the fabric of Italian imperialist complicity is the most tangible form of supporting the resistance of our people. It may not be the easiest, but it is undoubtedly the most effective.
Our aim cannot be to present a petition to Meloni or to rely on the goodwill of the rulers. Our aim must be to upset the balance of power to the point where support for Zionism becomes politically, economically and socially intolerable for its supporters. Strikes in the military and logistics industries, blockades of ports, campaigns that cancel contracts, stop financing and make costly any form of complicity with the colonial project, wherever it appears on Italian soil.
But there is a point that we cannot escape and we state it openly. Part of what is called the Italian “progressive camp” wants to embrace the Palestinian cause but to empty it of its anti-imperialist content; it wants the flag without material analysis, sympathy without responsibility, solidarity without real conflict with the powers that support genocide. A kind of solidarity that hurts no one and therefore changes nothing; A solidarity that is entirely compatible with the very system that enables, finances, and arms this genocide.
This emptying of political content goes hand in hand with the attempt to separate the Palestinian cause from the global struggle for the emancipation of the masses from the capitalist system. As a result, a clear contradiction emerges: while Palestinians and diaspora organizations ask the world to link their struggle to any struggle to change the status quo — because the best support for Palestine is the struggle for itself and everywhere, for wages, dignity, and against all forms of exploitation and oppression — the so-called “progressive” camp systematically tries to reduce the struggle for the Palestinian people to a struggle “only” for the Palestinian people, even when it is forced to say otherwise in its rhetoric. Nothing has shown this more clearly than the inability to confront the regional expansion of the Zionist war, especially in relation to Lebanon and Iran.
We workers will not let this happen; not because we want to exclude anyone from the struggle, but because the Palestinian masses do not need emotional witnesses or saviors who want to ease their consciences. They need a movement that knows where to strike, that acts where it can really act, and that does not allow those who have a vested interest in keeping us safe to reduce the struggle to an aesthetic gesture.
The data that prove the complicity of the Italian government are documented and undeniable: Zionism is based on a global network of material support that passes through Italy, its military companies, its ports, its banks, its institutions and its state media. This is not a coincidence; it is the strategy of the class enemy. The capitalist system, of which the state in which we live is an inseparable part, has its bulwark in the Zionist entity. Only by fighting this system from within can we tangibly support the resistance of our people. Now is the time to turn this awareness into action.
GIOVANI PALESTINESI ITALIA (YOUNG PALESTINIANS IN ITALY)
May 22, 2026
