For more than seventy years, the Israeli state has inflicted oppression, suffering, apartheid and occupation on the Palestinian people. 
As this pamphlet explains, such brutality is no accident. 
Since its creation, Israel has always been a racist state. Founded out of a brutal process of ethnic cleansing which drove hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their home, it evolved into imperialism’s watchdog in the Middle East.
This pamphlet is for everyone who wants to go beyond sympathy and condemnation to get organised in solidarity with the struggle for freedom in Palestine and across the Middle East.

Introduction…3

Israel’s birth and Palestine’s catastrophe…4

The rise of Palestinian resistance…6

Oslo and after: neoliberal Palestine…8

Gaza: Hamas’ rise to power…13

2021: the ‘Unity Intifada’…17

Inside Israel’s racist state…18

Imperialism’s watchdog…19

Revolution and counter-revolution in the Arab world…21

The rise of BDS and the Zionist counter-offensive…24

Antisemitism, anti-Zionism and the Left…27

How can the Palestinians win?…28