Siblings and Elders,
We are the Ulm 5 and we are currently being held in five different prisons in south Germany awaiting trial for resisting the manufacturing of arms and military technology used in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the military occupation of Palestine as a whole. Your solidarity has kept us waking up with a strong and steadfast spirit. So thank you for taking precious time to visit us in our cells through letters of solidarity. Thank you for breaking the repressive tool of isolation.
While Germany continues to arm and advocate for the genocidal Israeli state, let us be clear that no severity of repression can break our solidarity with our Palestinian siblings. That no severity of repression can break our solidarity with our siblings surviving occupation, colonial and neo-colonial rule all over the world.
While protecting profit and private property connected to manufacturing genocide remains more important than preventing the greatest crime against humanity, it has been clear for all too long that “nie wieder” is an empty promise.
Germany, you have made your position very clear: international law, human rights and basic decency do not concern you, as long as you are able to secure your geopolitical and economic interests. You will not stop short of aiding barbaric military violence and unthinkable semantic violence in executing and justifying the unjustifiable – genocide.
Now it is time for conscious people of Germany and the world to make our position clear – a position we must make clear day in and day out. We shall not be complicit or satisfied in a system where every tool available is used to legitimise colonialism and occupation and their result – unbelievable suffering. It is our duty to interrupt and disrupt until the narrative is set straight and justice is served.
To resist through anti-colonial struggle is not just justified, but necessary.
Free Palestine. !حرة فلسطني