07/10/2026
Today, we are asked to choose whom we remember, which lives we mourn, and what we must forget. But we cannot choose; we will not choose. Our hearts break for all the lives shattered by this brutality: those murdered on October 7th, those taken hostage, those displaced, and the countless lives destroyed in the three years of violence that followed, all across the region.
Today, as always, we stand by our moral values and insist on the truth: to see reality as it is, not as we wish it to be.
The horrifying massacre of October 7th was not an isolated incident, nor was it the beginning. It is part of a long and painful history of occupation, dispossession and violence, where every uprising is met with ruthless suppression.
For three years, we have witnessed the genocide in Gaza: the mass killing and displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, universities, the environment and the devastation of an entire society. We have watched violence spread far beyond Gaza: devastating attacks in Lebanon and Syria, a dangerous war with Iran, and Israeli military violence across the region.
At the same time, the violence against Palestinians has intensified in the Occupied West Bank, where military occupation and state-backed settler violence has resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. At the same time, Palestinian citizens of Israel face growing repression and discrimination, while Palestinian voices are increasingly treated as a threat needed to be silenced, rather than as a steadfast part of society.
Three years later, the logic of escalation has not brought safety. It has brought more death, more destruction, more displacement, more hatred, and more grief. Under the facade of a long-awaited โceasefireโ and following the return of the hostages, the bloodshed continues daily.
We refuse to accept this reality, we choose to resist it.
We mourn those murdered on October 7th. We mourn the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, the families torn apart, the communities erased, those yet to be found under the rubble, the communities displaced inside Israel, and the communities being forcibly displaced from their homes in the Occupied West Bank. We mourn all those whose lives have been shattered by three years of ongoing violence and genocide.
And we refuse to forget what brought us to this moment.
We must keep asking: what are we doing to resist this violence? How can we radically re-structure our society to be just and equal, rooted in freedom, safety and liberation for everyone from the river to the sea?
Because none of us are free until all of us are free
