A Palestinian man waves his national flag during a demonstration in Gaza City marking the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.”
Photo credit: AFP via Arab News.
It is no coincidence that the most painful and defining dates for the Palestinian people have occurred in November. This month, which for more than a century has been repeated like a historical refrain, is both a wound and a reminder; a mirror where the world reveals its double standards and where Palestine reaffirms its dignity.
In November, the Balfour Declaration was signed in 1917, that document which gave away a foreign land without consulting its people. In November 1947, the partition plan was decreed, legitimizing the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. And every November since, the international community has demonstrated—with lukewarm resolutions, complicit silence, and empty rhetoric—that justice for Palestine is still an outstanding debt.
But November is not only a memory of injustice: it is also a memory of resistance. Every year, this month brings back to us the mothers of the martyrs who transformed their mourning into an act of national affirmation; To the prisoners who transformed the darkness of their cells into lessons of patience and resilience; to the children of Gaza who play among the ruins as if the future depended on them.
November leads us to Palestine because Palestine has never abandoned us. It lives on in the kufiya that travels with every migrant, in the key of return passed down from generation to generation, in the stories told by grandparents, in the Arabic language that survives across the distance, in the songs that cross oceans.
Today, from the Palestinian Union of Latin America (UPAL), we affirm that November is a call to the world’s conscience. It is a reminder that no people can be condemned to live under occupation forever, and that Zionism—despite its military power and alliances—cannot erase the existence of a people who have clung to their land for thousands of years.
Therefore, we firmly declare that:
As long as November exists, there will be memory.
As long as there is memory, there will be Palestine.
And as long as Palestine exists, there will be struggle, hope, and the certainty that freedom will come.
November takes us to Palestine… and Palestine takes us to justice.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
November 24, 2025
