{"id":8563,"date":"2023-11-02T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/146.190.235.232rayinskij-list-solidarnosti\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:15:20","slug":"ukrayinskij-list-solidarnosti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.com.ua\/en\/ukrayinskij-list-solidarnosti\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence<\/a>, ethnic cleansing<\/a>, land dispossession<\/a> and apartheid<\/a>. We write this letter as people to people. The dominant discourse on the governmental level and even among solidarity groups that support the struggles of Ukrainians and Palestinians often creates separation. With this letter we reject these divisions, and affirm our solidarity with everyone who is oppressed and struggling for freedom.<\/p>

As activists committed to freedom, human rights, democracy and social justice, and while fully acknowledging power differentials, we firmly condemn attacks on civilian populations \u2013 be they Israelis attacked by Hamas or Palestinians attacked by the Israeli occupation forces and armed settler gangs. Deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. Yet this is no justification for the collective punishment<\/a> of Palestinian people, identifying all residents of Gaza with Hamas and the indiscriminate use of the term \u201cterrorism\u201d<\/a> applied to the whole Palestinian resistance. Nor is this a justification of continuation of the ongoing occupation. Echoing multiple UN resolutions, we know that there will be no lasting peace without justice for the Palestinian people.<\/p>

On October 7 we witnessed Hamas\u2019 violence against the civilians in Israel, an event that is now singled out by many to demonize and dehumanize Palestinian resistance altogether. Hamas, a reactionary islamist organization, needs to be seen in a wider historical context and decades of Israel encroaching on Palestinian land, long before this organization came to exist in the late 1980s. During the Nakba (\u201ccatastrophe\u201d) of 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were brutally displaced from their homes, with entire villages massacred and destroyed<\/a>. Since its creation Israel has never stopped pursuing its colonial expansion<\/a>. The Palestinians were forced to exile, fragmented and administered under different regimes. Some of them are Israeli citizens affected by structural discrimination and racism. Those living in the occupied West Bank are subjected to apartheid under decades of Israel\u2019s military control. The people of the Gaza Strip have suffered from the blockade imposed by Israel since 2006, which restricted movement of people and goods, resulting in growing poverty and deprivation.<\/p>

Since the 7th of October and at the time of writing the death toll in the Gaza Strip is more than 8,500 people<\/a>. Women and children<\/a> have made up more than 62 percent of the fatalities, while more than 21,048<\/a> people have been injured. In recent days, Israel has bombed schools, residential areas, Greek Orthodox Church and several hospitals. Israel has also cut all water, electricity, and fuel supply in the Gaza Strip. There is a severe shortage of food and medicine, causing a total collapse of a healthcare system<\/a>.<\/p>

Most of the Western and Israeli media justifies these deaths as mere collateral damage to fighting Hamas but is silent when it comes to Palestinian civilians targeted and killed in the Occupied West Bank. Since the beginning of 2023 alone, and before October 7, the death toll on the Palestinian side had already reached 227<\/a>. Since the 7 of October, 121<\/a> Palestinian civilians have been killed in the occupied West Bank. More than 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners<\/a> are currently detained in Israeli prisons. Lasting peace and justice are only possible with the end of the ongoing occupation. Palestinians have the right to self-determination and resistance against Israeli\u2019s occupation, just like Ukrainians have the right to resist Russian invasion<\/a>.<\/p>

Our solidarity comes from a place of anger at the injustice, and a place of deep pain of knowing the devastating impacts of occupation, shelling of civil infrastructure, and humanitarian blockade from experiences in our homeland. Parts of Ukraine have been occupied since 2014, and the international community failed to stop Russian aggression then, ignoring the imperial and colonial nature of the armed violence, which consequently escalated on the 24th of February 2022. Civilians in Ukraine are shelled daily, in their homes, in hospitals, on bus stops, in queues for bread. As a result of the Russian occupation, thousands of people in Ukraine live without access to water, electricity or heating, and it is the most vulnerable groups that are mostly affected by the destruction of critical infrastructure. In the months of the siege and heavy bombardment of Mariupol there was no humanitarian corridor. Watching the Israeli targeting the civilian infrastructure in Gaza, the Israeli humanitarian blockade and occupation of land resonates especially painfully with us. From this place of pain of experience and solidarity, we call on our fellow Ukrainians globally and all the people to raise their voices in support of the Palestinian people and condemn the ongoing\u00a0Israeli mass ethnic cleansing.<\/p>

We reject the Ukrainian government statements<\/a> that express unconditional support for Israel’s military actions, and we consider the calls to avoid civilian casualties by Ukraine’s MFA<\/a> belated and insufficient. This position is a retreat from the support of Palestinian rights and condemnation of the Israeli occupation, which Ukraine has followed for decades, including voting in the UN<\/a>.\u00a0Aware of the pragmatic geopolitical reasoning behind Ukraine\u2019s decision to echo Western allies, on whom we are dependent for our survival, we see the current support of Israel and dismissing Palestinian right to self-determination as contradictory to Ukraine\u2019s own commitment to human rights and fight for our land and freedom. We as Ukrainians should stand in solidarity not with the oppressors, but with those who experience and resist the oppression.<\/p>

We strongly object to equating of Western military aid to Ukraine and Israel by some politicians. Ukraine doesn’t occupy the territories of other people, instead, it fights against the Russian occupation, and therefore international assistance serves a just cause and the protection of international law. Israel has occupied and annexed Palestinian and Syrian territories, and Western aid to it confirms an unjust order and demonstrates double standards in relation to international law.<\/p>

We oppose the new wave of Islamophobia, such as the brutal murder<\/a> of a Palestinian American 6-year old and assault on his family in Illinois, USA, and the equating of any criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. At the same time, we also oppose holding all Jewish people all over the world accountable for the politics of the state of Israel and we condemn anti-Semitic violence, such as the mob attack<\/a> on the airplane in Daghestan, Russia. We also reject the revival of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d rhetoric used by the US and EU to justify war crimes and violations of international law that have undermined the international security system,\u00a0caused countless deaths, and has been borrowed by other states, including Russia for the war in Chechnya and China for the Uyghur genocide. Now Israel is using it to carry out ethnic cleansing.<\/p>

Call to Action<\/strong><\/p>

  • We urge the implementation of the call to\u00a0ceasefire, put forward by the UN General Assembly resolution<\/a>.<\/p><\/li>

  • We call on the Israeli government to immediately stop attacks on civilians, and provide humanitarian aid; we insist on an immediate and indefinite lifting of siege on Gaza and an urgent relief operation to restore civilian infrastructure. We also call on the Israeli government to put an end to the occupation and recognise the right of Palestinian displaced people to return to their lands.<\/p><\/li>

  • We call on the Ukrainian government to condemn the use of state sanctioned terror and humanitarian blockade against the Gazan civilian population and reaffirm the Palestinian people\u2019s right to self-determination. We also call on the Ukrainian government to condemn deliberate assaults on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.<\/p><\/li>

  • We call on the international media to stop pitting Palestinians and Ukrainians against each other, where hierarchies of suffering perpetuate racist rhetoric and dehumanize those under attack.<\/p><\/li><\/ul>

    We have witnessed the world uniting in solidarity for the people of Ukraine and we call on everyone to do the same for the people of Palestine.<\/p>

    Sign the letter (for Ukrainians)<\/span><\/a><\/p>

    Signatures (as of 2024\/05\/16)<\/strong><\/p>

    1. Volodymyr Artiukh, researcher<\/p>

    2. Levon Azizian, human rights lawyer<\/p>

    3. Diana Azzuz, artist, musician<\/p>

    4. Taras Bilous, editor<\/p>

    5. Oksana Briukhovetska, artist, researcher, University of Michigan<\/p>

    6. Artem Chapeye, writer<\/p>

    7. Valentyn Dolhochub, researcher, soldier<\/p>

    8.\u00a0John-Paul Himka, professor emeritus, University of Alberta<\/p>

    9.\u00a0Karina Al Khmuz, biomedical engineer programmer<\/p>

    10.\u00a0Yuliia Kishchuk, researcher<\/p>

    11.\u00a0Amina Ktefan, fashion influencer, digital creator<\/p>

    12.\u00a0Svitlana Matviyenko, media scholar, SFU; Associate Director of Digital Democracies Institute<\/p>

    13.\u00a0Maria Mayerchyk, scholar<\/p>

    14.\u00a0Vitalii Pavliuk, writer, translator<\/p>

    15.\u00a0Sashko Protyah, filmmaker, volunteer<\/p>

    16.\u00a0Oleksiy Radynski, filmmaker<\/p>

    17.\u00a0Mykola Ridnyi, artist and filmmaker<\/p>

    18.\u00a0Daria Saburova, researcher, activist<\/p>

    19.\u00a0Alexander Skyba, labour activist<\/p>

    20.\u00a0Darya Tsymbalyuk, researcher<\/p>

    21.\u00a0Nelia Vakhovska, translator<\/p>

    22.\u00a0Yuliya Yurchenko, researcher, translator, activist<\/p>

    23.\u00a0Iryna Zamuruieva, ecofeminist researcher, artist, climate & land policy project manager<\/p>

    24. Alisha Andani, history of art student<\/p>

    25.\u00a0Da\u0161a Anosova, curator, researcher, UCL SSEES<\/p>

    26. Lilya Badekha, activist, culturologist, social media manager of the Spilne journal<\/p>

    27. Anastasia Bobrova, researcher<\/p>

    28.\u00a0Anastasiia Bobrovska, dj, activist, digital strategy consultant<\/p>

    29.\u00a0Mariana Bodnaruk, researcher<\/p>

    30.\u00a0Yuriy Boyko, researcher, scientific assistant<\/p>

    31.\u00a0Vladislava Chepurko<\/p>

    32.\u00a0Daria Demia, artist<\/p>

    33.\u00a0Olena Dmytryk, researcher<\/p>

    34.\u00a0Olha Dobrovolska, teacher, culture researcher<\/p>

    35.\u00a0Svitlana Dolbysheva, artist, filmmaker<\/p>

    36.\u00a0Hanna Dosenko, anthropologist<\/p>

    37. Vitalii Dudin, activist of NGO \u2018Sotsialnyi Rukh\u2019<\/p>

    38.\u00a0Oksana Dutchak, sociologist<\/p>

    39.\u00a0Nastya Dzyuban, choreographer and performer<\/p>

    40.\u00a0Kateryna Farbar, journalist<\/p>

    41.\u00a0Taras Gembik, culture worker, co-organizer of SDK Slonecznik at Musuem of Modern Art in Warsaw<\/p>

    42.\u00a0Anna Greszta researcher, co-founder of Collect4Ukraine<\/p>

    43.\u00a0Olenka Gu, sociologist<\/p>

    44.\u00a0Nataliya Gumenyuk, journalist<\/p>

    45. Tetiana Hanzha, documentary film director<\/p>

    46. Andrii Hulianytskyi, researcher<\/p>

    47. Serhii Ishchenko, journalist<\/p>

    48. Hanna Karpishena\u00a0<\/p>

    49. Milena Khomchenko, curator and writer, chief editor of SONIAKH digest<\/p>

    50. Daria Khrystych, researcher, activist<\/p>

    51. Amira Khussein, fashion business manager<\/p>

    52. Kyrylo Klymenko, historian<\/p>

    53. Lyuba Knorozok, producer, documentary filmmaker<\/p>

    54. Oleksandra Kokhan, researcher<\/p>

    55. Vladyslav Kononok, project manager<\/p>

    56. Mariia Kosenko, translator<\/p>

    57. Olga Kostyrko, independent researcher, activist, editor<\/p>

    58. Iaroslav Kovalchuk, PhD Candidate, historian<\/p>

    59. Anna Kovtoniuk, software developer<\/p>

    60. Dmytro Kozak, PhD candidate, anthropologist<\/p>

    61. Ruslana Koziienko, PhD candidate, social anthropologist<\/p>

    62. Yustyna Kravchuk, cultural worker, translator<\/p>

    63. Yulia Krivich, artist, co-organizer of SDK Slonecznik at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PhD fellow at Academy of Arts in Krakow, Poland\u00a0<\/p>

    64. Amir Ktefan, personal translator and voice over artist<\/p>

    65. Olexii Kuchanskyi, researcher, film programmer<\/p>

    66. Veronika Kulak, student of business economics<\/p>

    67. Yuliia Kulish, researcher<\/p>

    68. Kateryna Lysovenko, artist<\/p>

    69. Kostiantyn Maleoniuk, activist<\/p>

    70. Daryna Mamaisur, filmmaker, visual artist, researcher<\/p>

    71. Daniil Marchenko, bike messenger, cook<\/p>

    72. Anastasia Marusii, art historian<\/p>

    73. Mykyta Mikhalkov, student, volunteer<\/p>

    74. Andrii Myroshnychenko, cultural manager and translator<\/p>

    75. Pavlo Molochko, signaller in the AFoU<\/p>

    76. Andriy Movchan, publicist<\/p>

    77. Serhii Movchan, left activist, volunteer<\/p>

    78. Zarina Netovkina<\/p>

    79. Zhanna Ohanesian, researcher, humanitarian worker<\/p>

    80. Kateryna Olieshko, artist, activist, creative producer<\/p>

    81. Olga Papash, researcher, producer, volunteer<\/p>

    82. Anton Parambul, soldier<\/p>

    83. Mariia Pastukh, activist, head of Ukraine solidarity collective \u201cVsesvit\u201d<\/p>

    84. Valerii Petrov, game maker<\/p>

    85. Julie Poly, artist<\/p>

    86. Mariia Ponomarova, film director, creative producer<\/p>

    87. Zakhar Popovych, activist\u00a0<\/p>

    88. Nina Potarska, researcher<\/p>

    89. Dariia Puhach, computer linguist<\/p>

    90. Olha Pylypenko, art manager<\/p>

    91. Anna Rebrii, journalist, PhD student, activist<\/p>

    92. Maksym Romanenko, doctor<\/p>

    93. Marta Romankiv, artist, researcher, PhD fellow at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk<\/p>

    94. Betty\u00a0Roytburd, artist, curator\u00a0<\/p>

    95. Kseniia Rybak, researcher<\/p>

    96. Bohdana Rybenchuk\u00a0<\/p>

    97. Mariia Salan, artist<\/p>

    98. Abdula Sarkhan, digital artist<\/p>

    99. Yulia Serdyukova, film producer\u00a0<\/p>

    100. Mariia Shynkarenko, researcher<\/p>

    101. Maria Sonevytsky, professor, researcher<\/p>

    102. Veronika Stancheva, psychologist<\/p>

    103. Vladyslav Starodubtsev, historian<\/p>

    104. Oleksandr Svitych, researcher<\/p>

    105. Olena Syrbu, researcher, cultural worker<\/p>

    106. Nast\u2019ey Teor, graphic artist and designer<\/p>

    107. Natasha Tseliuba, feminist, activist, artist, curator<\/p>

    108. Dr. Nataliya Tchermalykh, University of Geneva<\/p>

    109. Marharyta Tokarieva researcher, filmmaker<\/p>

    110. Leo Trotsenko, artist<\/p>

    111. Viacheslav Tsyba, philosopher, translator, editor<\/p>

    112. Elen Udud<\/p>

    113. Tetiana Usova, translator, filmmaker<\/p>

    114. Kateryna Volochniuk, researcher<\/p>

    115. Valeriia Voronova fashion influencer, digital creator, interior designer<\/p>

    116. Bogdana Yakovenko, photographer, activist, volunteer<\/p>

    117. Mariana Yaremchyshyna, culture worker, activist<\/p>

    118. Aisha Yusupova, translator<\/p>

    119. Fattukh Zhalal, student of international economic relations<\/p>

    120. Roma Zimenko, humanitarian worker<\/p>

    121.\u00a0Yevheniia Stepko, editor\u00a0<\/p>

    122. Oksana Karpovych, filmmaker<\/p>

    123. Rita Adel, research analyst<\/p>

    124.\u00a0Olena Martynchuk, cultural anthropologist<\/p>

    125.\u00a0Kris Maslyuk, student<\/p>

    126.\u00a0<\/p>