Pro-Palestinian rally in London, October 14, 2023 [Alisdare Hickson].
The day of October 7th was revealing. Two years after the Toufan Al-Aqsa, the world once again looked to Palestine, and it was the people—not the governments—who shook the squares with their voices. From Latin America to South Africa, from Europe to Asia, millions of men and women demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, demanding an end to the genocide and respect for the rights of a people who have been under occupation for more than seven decades.
But this human wave of awareness contrasted with a painful silence: that of the Arab and Muslim countries. Not that of their people, many of whom also feel the Palestinian cause as their own, but that of their governments, which have taken refuge in indifference, political calculation, or submission to the Western powers.
It is painful to see how those who share Palestine’s language, culture, history, and faith have chosen to remain silent or look the other way, while children are massacred, cities reduced to rubble, and entire families wiped off the map. Instead of acting firmly, many Arab governments prefer to maintain relations with the occupier, sign economic agreements, and remain silent in the face of the most documented crime of our time.
The Palestinian cause does not need empty speeches or symbolic gestures. It needs action, dignity, and consistency. If the Arab and Muslim governments had acted with even a modicum of courage, Israel would not have been able to maintain its machinery of death with impunity for so long.
This October 7th demonstrated that true solidarity has no passport or religion. The peoples of the world—from Caracas to Johannesburg, from Buenos Aires to Istanbul—understood that defending Palestine is defending humanity itself.
Meanwhile, the complicit silence of those who should have been the first to speak out will be etched in the collective memory as a historical shame.
History will judge clearly: the people stood with Palestine; Many of its leaders do not.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
October 9, 2025
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