Palestinian resistance enjoys great
support for civil society around world

Tehran (Qodsna) - On the eve of the International Quds Day, Qods News Agency intends to use the expert opinions of personalities and political analysts to better explain one of the most important initiatives of the great founder of the Islamic Revolution, an issue whose importance is increasingly understood every year.

In an exclusive interview with Qods News Agency, Jewish historian and writer Ilan Pape said that “Israel now fully moved to the right; namely, in terms of its policies, practices and basic constitutional infrastructure it had become, incrementally, a kind of Apartheid State.”

He then assessed the current status of the Palestinian resistance, highlighting that “the Palestinian resistance is since 2018, more or less, in a new phase.”

“The best way to describe is the lack of clear vision or ideological orientation of the established leadership and political bodies, which are mainly occupied with tactical responses to the Israeli colonization and less with strategic thinking. On the one hand, and clear orientation of the Palestinian civil society, in particular the younger generation, is able to put aside factionalism and disunity, but still finding it difficult to organize institutionally either within existing institutions or budling new ones. It enjoys great support for the civil society around the world, although not from political leaderships,” Pape further explained.

The staunch anti-Zionist Jewish historian also talked about different aspects of the Palestinian resistance, stressing that “I think this is a bottom-up, popular resistance, motivated mainly by a younger generation who had enough of living under occupation, even in areas which allegedly are not occupied. It is sporadic, and it does not have a center or leadership, but as I said earlier it is a bit too early to judge its possible success. We saw its impressive presence in the Great March on the Gaza fence in 2018 and the 11 days of unity in May 2021. So, we know they have a potential ability to coordinate, to unite, to show resilience and resistance.”

Stressing that the Zionist regime “is losing its moral legitimacy in the eyes of many people of the world,” Ilan Pape added that the identity and culture of Zionists are “sustained on injustice, dispossession, colonization, and apartheid that continues to this very day.”

“The more the Arab world, and the world, in general, adheres to protecting human and civil rights of as many people and groups as possible, the more de-Zionized and de-colonized historical Palestine becomes. To make it the reality of course you need the pressure from the outside (like the BDS) and the resilience of the national,” he said.