[rad-green] Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Wet ’suwet’en Nation

*https://imemc.org/article/palestinians-stand-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-nation/
<https://imemc.org/article/palestinians-stand-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-nation/>International
Middle East Media Center           February 15, 2020*

Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Nation










*Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
<https://bdsmovement.net/news-listing-author/Palestinian%20BDS%20National%20Committee%20(BNC)>
/ Canada
<https://bdsmovement.net/countries/canada>*

*The TransCanada Coastal Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land,
use resource extraction to solidify control over Indigenous territories,
destroy the environment and violate Indigenous laws.*

From the occupied Palestinian territory, we stand in solidarity with the
Wet’suwet’en Nation and land defenders at the Unist’ot’en Camp and
Gidimt’en who continue to resist Canada’s colonial incursions of their
unceded territories.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in
Palestinian civil society that leads the global BDS movement, sends a
message of support to your struggle.

We call on the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island and elsewhere
to stand with the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

As Palestinians, we have firsthand experience with a colonial power,
Israel’s regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid, that
systemically works to dispossess, divide and strip us of our lands and
resources.

We know too well, from our own experience, that the TransCanada Coastal
Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land, use resource extraction
to solidify control over Indigenous territories, destroy the environment
and violate Indigenous laws. We also know that the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP) attacks, sanctioned by the Trudeau government, against the
Hereditary Wet’suwet’en leadership, matriarchs and land defenders, are used
to violate Indigenous sovereignty. The RCMP is employing tactics and
equipment similar to Israel’s government
<https://bdsmovement.net/news/no-impunity-ethnic-cleansing-jerusalem-boycott-israel-now>,
including Caterpillar bulldozers
<https://twitter.com/UnistotenCamp/status/1226695842259537925>, to seize
indigenous lands.

We are deeply grateful for the Wet’suwet’en people for their indomitable
spirit, and their tireless defence of the land and water resources. We
stand firmly with you in your struggle for your land and ancestral rights.

Palestinians owe the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island a great debt for
teaching us how to resist settler colonialism generation after generation
through your powerful resistance, grace and indomitable spirit.

The BNC is committed to building stronger ties of solidarity between our
peoples and movements, and we will work with our partners in Turtle Island
to make this a reality.

From Palestine to Wet’suwet’en, we stand united with you in the struggle
against settler colonialism, racism, corporate criminality and your
inalienable rights for justice and self-determination.

We would be honoured to welcome you in Palestine, when the time is right.

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