In the early hours of Monday, October 13, 2025, at around 3:00 a.m., we went to the Nyx Hotel on the Limassol coast, throwing bottles of red, black, white, and green paint as a sign of solidarity with the struggling people of Palestine.
This particular hotel is Israeli-owned and constantly hosts Israelis who come to Cyprus for holidays, for sporting events, for neo-colonial entrepreneurship, all part of a general plan to expand Zionist politics and economics.
For two years now, Israel has been committing the worst war crimes, with the entire global inter-state system as an accomplice, either taking no position, whitewashing their crimes by normalizing and regularizing their relations with the genocidal regime, or shamelessly supporting morally, politically, and militarily. Among them are fascist states such as Turkey, which play the role of the strict and offended in order to exploit the genocide for the benefit of their influence in the Muslim world, or states like Iran that exploit the conflict for their own expansionist interests.
Gaza has been razed to the ground and we are counting sixty-five thousand dead (unofficially hundreds of thousands), including tens of thousands of children. The declaration of a ceasefire does not mean the end of suffering for the people of Gaza, who are returning to a destroyed, toxic city without infrastructure, with corpses still scattered among the rubble. The ceasefire itself is a mockery when Israel is still bombing, still holding thousands of abused prisoners, men, women, and children, still has its finger on the trigger against a people, still demands disarmament and the abolition of self-defense while baring its fangs.
We are witnessing wealthy Israelis buying up huge tracts of land on the island to create “a little Tel Aviv” or “a second Israel,” while at the same time creating a housing crisis and gentrification (capitalist development that excludes local and immigrant workers and students from city centers). The mayor of Limassol is also involved in gentrification, under the guise of progressiveness, with his own businesses. We see them moving around our cities with a colonialist attitude and a sense of class superiority and contempt for the local residents. All of the above historically characterise the bourgeois and colonial classes, but such an attitude, combined with genocidal policies and expansionist ambitions, puts the Israeli state and capital at the forefront of neo-colonial policy in southern Cyprus. Neocolonial policy is also blatantly expressed in the intervention and cooperation with state institutions, secret services, and direct influence on the police-military complex.
As always in such cases, there are willing collaborators and informers, from the local political and economic ruling class who rush to feed off the spoils of the warlords and extend their bloody hand of collaboration, while as far as the integration of the people into the neo-colonialists is concerned, the fascists take on the task. The pretext for all of this, especially the fascist rhetoric? “The protection of Cyprus from Turkey and the Muslims.” The last time the fascists sold such a fairy tale was with the Greek state, and we all know the tragic outcome of the intercommunal massacres, the invasion, and the refugees from both communities. The local collaborators have surrendered so much ground that the neo-colonial Zionist state does not hesitate to publicly order the local authorities to suppress and oppress any expression that brings up the genocide. From the violent attack by the police on the solidarity rally for Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla, to the order to erase any street art that highlights the genocide (at the request of Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs), clearly show Cyprus’s evolution into a new colony. The new colony adds to and further develops the oppression and exploitation that Cypriot society was already suffering from its own state.
With this action, we want to remind the Cypriot community that it must stand on the right side of history and support the oppressed people of Palestine, thus opposing any form of normalization of relations with its genocidal perpetrators. The future of humanity is being decided in Palestine. Every state is learning from previous wars. If genocide, famine as a means of warfare, and infanticide are legitimized and prevail, it will set a precedent that every state will know it can use at no cost against other peoples or even its own people. The fact that the Palestinian resistance, together with the international movement, despite so much bloodshed, forced the tyrants to stop the war, recognize it, and engage in dialogue with it, gives us all hope that no matter how bloodthirsty, ruthless, and sophisticated the systemic enemy may be, popular resistance will determine the facts, open up the prospect of liberation, and write the history of humanity from the side of the oppressed.
We welcome all acts of solidarity taking place on the island, from investigative journalism and demonstrations to direct action, and we will continue to support the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people and justice for all peoples in the Middle East. The Global Sumud Flotilla was a heartwarming political maritime action that stood as a bulwark against the transnational cover-up and consolidation of Zionist domination. The anti-tourism actions in Greece and the militant strikes of the Italian working class shook the class pseudo-peace that whitewashed the genocide in Europe.
We support the armed struggle of the Palestinians because it is the only option left to them and, in the grand scheme of things, it is a necessary war of self-defense and survival, unlike that of the Israeli state, which is a war of extermination and domination.
We are anarchists and we want an end to expansionist and exploitative wars. No state, no capitalist, no patriarchal ideology will offer solutions without reproducing the same problem. The people save the people, and they will achieve this through internationalist, organized unity that fights against all forms of exploitation and oppression.
We are not fighting for Palestine, but Palestine is fighting for us. Internationalist solidarity and the risks it entails are the least we can offer.
This action is dedicated to our comrade K. Xymitiris, who gave his life to the struggle.See you on the streets of fire
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Video: Action
Source: Act for Freedom Now