Nearly two years on since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, in which are estimated to have been killed, the movement for Palestine has grown to be a truly international, predominantly working-class, popular movement.
This is despite attempts by many governments, especially in the Global North, but also in Arab countries, to suppress it.
But as Israel keeps bombing Gaza and the West Bank — massacring at least 100 starving Palestinians every day at so-called aid distribution points — it can be easy to fall into despair.
While we have not yet managed to stop Israel’s genocide, the movement has been successful in building popular support for Palestinians’ just struggle, including in the Global North, where support for Israel has typically been higher.
Many are drawing the links between the genocide in Gaza and capitalism, developing a class consciousness along with a deeper understanding of international solidarity.
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There is a growing rift between the mass of working people who support Palestine and the ruling class which supports Israel.
While leaders in the Global North continue to aid and abet the United States and Israeli aggression on Gaza and the Middle East more broadly, workers are out on the streets, in some cities in big numbers.
They are demanding a permanent ceasefire and building support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign in their workplaces, unions and communities. Some are bound for Israel and others are picketing weapons’ manufacturers sending arms to Israel.
Popular defiance of state repression was evident in Berlin, in June, when 50,000 marched for Gaza, flying banned flags and voicing banned chants. This was a breakthrough for the German movement because that government has carried out one of the most draconian crackdowns, involving police violence and .
The rift between Germans and the government is evident in opinion polls, which show that oppose shipping weapons to Israel.
Elsewhere in Europe, the campaign has had a win; Danish shipping company Maersk has announced it will cut ties with companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
In The Hague in June, around 150,000 people, wearing red, marched for Gaza, forming a symbolic Red Line against genocide and calling on their government to cut military and economic ties with Israel.
Britain’s Keir Starmer Labour government just added the non-violent direct action group , which has been targeting Elbit Systems, to its terrorist list.
The crackdown comes as mass popular support for Palestine explodes over the BBC’s refusal to livestream Kneecap at the Glastonbury Festival. The event turned into a rally for Palestine, with a number of acts making clear their support. The rap duo  went viral.
Meanwhile, a new report has  is providing diplomatic support and surveillance to Israel, as well as secretly allowing Israeli planes, involved in bombing Gaza, to land in Britain.Â
Longstanding public support in Egypt and Jordan for Palestine has been constrained by the West’s push for Arab governments to normalise relations with Israel. This comes on top of the repression of working-class protests over .
Activists from the Maghreb made up a large contingent of the approximately 7000-strong Global March to Gaza, which planned to travel from Arish, Egypt, to the Rafah border to break the blockade and establish a humanitarian corridor. The Tunisian and Libyan delegations were blocked by the Libyan National Army in eastern Libya and faced siege-like conditions.
In Egypt, activists were forced to  because of authorities’ violent crackdown, which included detaining 200 people and deporting 500.
Overall, however, the global Palestine solidarity movement is winning hearts and minds, and showing resilience in the face of extreme reaction by the ruling class.
The consistent rallies for Palestine across Australia for nearly two years are an important reminder to the powers-that-be that the movement to liberate Palestine will not go away.
But the question on all activists’ minds should be how can we make it stronger, deeper and more organised so that Labor and Western supporters of Zionism are forced to abandon their support for this doomed racist, colonialist project.
[Markela Panegyres is a member of National Executive and is campaigning for Palestine in the National Tertiary Education Union.]