On Friday 3/10, following the call of the Coordination of activity for the defense of Exarcheia, an anti-Zionist intervention took place in the neighborhood of Exarcheia. More than 100 comrades took part in the intervention, while throughout its course, the body, moving in a march through the streets of Exarcheia, filled the walls and streets with pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist posters, sprays, stencils and trikes, distributed texts, while at the same time various interventions were carried out in hotels and accommodations of Israeli (and non-) interests.
Exarcheia is not a neighborhood where Zionist discourse is expressed with great ease in the public space, due to the broader political characteristics of Exarcheia and the pro-Palestinian actions of the neighborhood’s assemblies/initiatives. Nevertheless, Israeli capital has settled in the neighborhood mainly through hotels/accommodations. The sharp increase in Israeli real estate and Israeli tourist investments in Greece, centered on the center of Athens, strengthens the economy of the murderous state of Israel, contributing to the resilience of the Israeli economy. All this at a time when Israel continues to ruthlessly ethnically cleanse and genocide the Palestinians. At the same time, the existence of Israeli capital in downtown neighborhoods, such as Exarcheia, seeks to make Exarcheia a safe place, both for Zionists in general and for the Israelis who actively participate in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
For the above reasons, as well as in view of October 7th of 2023, we called for an anti-Zionist intervention defending both the Palestinians’ undeniable right to land and freedom, and the political characteristics of Exarcheia. A vibrant neighborhood that will remain welcoming to immigrants, that takes to the streets against state violence, labor exploitation, patriarchy, wars, colonialism, genocides, that resists and self organizes. In the Exarcheia of internationalism and self-organization, of struggles and insurrection, where solidarity with the Palestinian struggle has been timeless: through the dozens of solidarity demonstrations at the square, in Strefi, in the social centers, the squats, the political spaces and from the streets of clashes and riots. We refuse to surrender Exarcheia to any capital, we refuse to remain inactive in the face of Israeli capital that silently profits in our neighborhood.
EXARCHEIA ALWAYS ON THE CORRECT SIDE WITH PALESTINE UNTIL FREEDOM