Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags march past the Washington Monument during a rally on 21 October, 2024. Photograph: Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
Recognizing Palestine as a sovereign and independent state is not a favor granted by the international community: it is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people, taken away by decades of occupation, colonization, and ethnic cleansing.
This step, which some governments present as a political gesture, has been achieved only thanks to popular pressure and the clamor of the world’s peoples who have not stopped demanding justice. The voices of the streets, solidarity campaigns, and Palestinian resistance have forced those in power to acknowledge the obvious: Palestine exists, Palestine resists.
But let us not fool ourselves. Recognition in itself is not enough. It is useless for governments to raise the Palestinian flag in their speeches if at the same time they continue to trade arms, technology, and goods with the genocidal Israeli regime. Diplomatic rhetoric is useless if it is not accompanied by political, economic, and military sanctions that isolate the executioner.
Recognition must be accompanied by concrete actions: breaking relations with Zionism, suspending free trade agreements, imposing arms embargoes, and resolutely supporting the return of Palestinian refugees to their stolen homes.
The dignity of the Palestinian people is not bought with words; it is won with deeds. And those deeds today mean sanctions against the genocidaire and real support for the construction of a single democratic state where Muslims, Christians, and Jews coexist without Zionist apartheid.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
September 23, 2025
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