Various social entities, political parties and unions have starred in 25 municipalities in Catalonia this Monday in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The manifestations, convened “urgently” by the ‘coalició Pou complicitat amb Israel’ and the ‘Community Palestine Catalunya’ under the slogan Proposition of law that will be defended tomorrow in Congress. The text, presented by the coalition of adding in the Congress of Deputies and will undergo the plenary vote, is an embargo of weapons to the State of Israel and “, as said Aina Vidal, an attached spokesman and Coportovoz de los Commons.
The mobilization plans to extend further, as they have assured since today’s protests, which raise an camping at the faculty of the Raval of the University of Barcelona for Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Together with the UB, the students of the Autonomous University of Barcelona also project an camp so that the rector “breaks institutional and economic relations with Israeli universities and companies.”
Salah Jamal, representative of ‘Community Palestine Catalunya’ -one of the organizing entities of today’s demonstrations -affirms that the population “will be on the street and will continue to cry out until the genocide is put an end”, urging the Barcelona session and the Generalitat to “put an end to hypocrisy”, since “it is not only about silence, but of complicity”. The representative states that there are 42 contracts for the sale of weapons with Israel, urging the Executive of Sánchez (and all the groups of the congress) to approve the proposition of the law of tomorrow. For his part, Alys Samson, spokesman for the ‘Coalició Pou Complicitat Amb Israel’, has strongly demanded the Generalitat of Catalonia “the immediate closure of the office of”, an office attached to the Department of Company and Labor of the Generalitat and that serves as an economic promoter between Catalonia and Israel. Samson states that entities “will not stop going out until institutional complicity is over,” pointing to companies connected to Israel that they can have businesses with the City Council of Barcelona or with the Generalitat de Cataluña, making special emphasis on the Fira in Barcelona.
Sant Jaume Plaza de Barcelona has been the epicenter of the day, hosting hundreds of protesters who, without incident, chanted slogans such as “Boicot A Israel”, “Free Free Palestine” and others in Arabic, while carrying banners and ‘kufiyas’ around.
