Crazy people from Jaude to demand justice and peace in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria

Remember this already distant time when every week, these mothers, these women from April 1977 to 1981 marched in circles on the May Square, described as crazy by the Argentine dictatorship and its 11,000 missing people. They wanted justice for their husbands, their missing children. They did not wonder when this bloodthirsty dictatorship like all others would fall. They protested and demanded justice. They were called and claimed it as a sign of resistance, “the crazy people of May” quite simply the “mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”.

In Clermont-Ferrand too, without tiring, while renewing itself with various interventions (oral, singing, poetry), since October 2023, despite the cowardice and complicity here, the horrors there, every other week, these “mad men and women of Jaude” who cry for peace and justice in Palestine, who cry for an end to the genocide and deportations, for an immediate ceasefire and sustainable, no longer wonder when it will happen. It will be. They roam the Place de Jaude and its surroundings as in the past that of the “crazy people of the Place de May”. Summer and winter, in the rain or the sun, in the wind or in the cold, more or less numerous depending on the terrible news that comes from Palestine and Lebanon before perhaps other countries*, they resist against resignation, against abandonment, against cowardice and averted gaze, sure that light will emerge from this rubble, that the genocidal assassins will be judged and condemned to the opprobrium of the present and of History. They do not give up like the Palestinian people who will never give up.

They are the conscience of humanity with many others, a humanity that will come after these killings, these thefts, this racism, this decline of humanity in its worst cruelty.

Led by the AFPS63, thirty-two organizations in the department support these marches to “break the wall of silence” and say “No to the massacre of the Palestinian people” knowing well that they are being massacred and to “the extension of the conflict” even if Israel continues to expand it. They and they are good “ the crazy people of Jaude’s place “. Nothing will stop this determination to protest even if each of us does not know how to stop these massacres, this genocide, this colonial expansion when the West does nothing that could. The confinement of Israeli Jews in perpetual headlong flight, ever more extremist, allows us to expect nothing other than prolonging this war indefinitely when this country allows itself in the face of the world what no other country can allow itself, encouraged and for as long. Israel and the countries that support it, including France, are shattering the force of international law that our countries boast of and opposing to global mega-dictatorships and others in a constant inconsistency which weakens and distorts this fight.

From the start, Yves from AFPS63 specifies: “Our commitment to the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian peoples is synonymous with justice, humanism, fraternity and solidarity; he is fundamentally against all racism, against anti-Semitism and against Islamophobia. The massacres continue in all their horror in Gaza and the West Bank and the Israeli war of aggression extends from Lebanon to Syria.

During this end-of-year period, let’s address the passers-by who flock to the city center. Thanks to the Solidaires union for the sound truck and thanks to the SNES FSU union for drawing the leaflet distributed.

We invite you to listen to the reading of the united appeal leaflet by the CGT Education; then a news update by the AFPS, then an intervention by the FPRA (Anti-Fachist Revolutionary Popular Front) for the urgent release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. After a minute of silence for the victims we will listen to the songs of two children whose words you will discover, then we will take group photos around the banners that we will send to the Palestinians under the bombs and to Georges Ibrahim Abdallah in the Lannemezan prison.”

Statement from Marie-Noëlle AFPS63:

“Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (Lebanese defender of the Palestinian cause) imprisoned in France, in Lannemezan, begins his 41st year of detention. He is the oldest political prisoner in Europe. He was convicted without proof of complicity in intentional homicide for acts he always denied.
Legally releasable since 1999 and although his release was pronounced 3 times by the sentence enforcement judge, Georges I. Abdallah is still languishing in prison due to obstruction from the USA and Israel. A scandal of the spinelessness of French leaders.”(Excerpt from the jitters distributed during the demonstration).

An activist on behalf of the FPRA:

She sings in Arabic a song well known to toddlers (and others):

*Israel is already allowing itself to bomb in Syria, today freed from 50 years of prison misery and continuous oppression.