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US Regime Seeks Death Penalty for Pro-Resistance Fighter Elias Rodriguez

US federal pigs announced Friday that they are seeking the death penalty against Elias Rodriguez, revolutionary fighter accused of assassinating two zionist colonizers.

Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, stated in court documents that the seriousness of the action called for the death sentence.

The assassination marks one of the only acts of resistance in the US that rose beyond the symbolic level.

One of the people who died during the incident was a citizen and employee of the occupying colonial zionist regime. His fiance was also employed by the fascist regime.

US Regime Intends to Execute Pro Palestinian Revolutionary Elias Rodriguez

The Attorney General for the US criminal regime, Pam Bondi, opened a Friday address to the Zionist-American Council (IAC) National Summit by recalling the May 2025 revolutionary action assassinating two Zionist, genocidal employees in Washington DC.

The action was notable for its militancy and it represented a rare instance where the genocidal countries — the settler-colonial US regime and its client the Zionist colony — received a small dose of the violence it unleashed on Palestine and the rest of the colonized world.

Bondi told the audience that federal prosecutors are pursuing capital punishment in the case, framing the action as “anti-semetic.”

The US regime and its puppet Zionist state use this framing to hide their genocidal behavior and to attempt to distort the reality of the situation from their own publics perception.

Genocidal states and those complicit in their crimes are judged harshly by history, and often judged worse when they perpetrate the actions.

Rodriguez has not be convicted and may likely be innocent of the accusation, but the two states making the accusation have no place to judge anyone.

Free Elias Posters in Magdeburg, Germany

In Magdeburg, Germany, posters were pasted in solidarity with Elias Rodriguez, a political prisoner who is accused of assassinating two Zionist diplomats in Washington, DC and is potentially facing the death penalty.

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Oct 7 Call to Action Committee Statement on Principled Prisoner Support

On October 7th we called for a week of solidarity with US-held political prisoners Casey Goonan and Elias Rodriguez who are in state captivity due to their support for the Palestinian Revolution. The call was published on various sites and social media pages, but it was anonymous, autonomous, and was not put out by Workshops4Gaza or any other public formations. We chose the date of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation because, like the fall of Batista’s Havana, or the fleeing of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, the uprising represented a new historical juncture that changed the global trajectory of anti-colonial and socialist struggle internationally. In fact, there are very few moments with such significance in history, therefore, the insurgent memory of the action must be defended and unequivocally supported. Our frame of reference, in regards to revolution in settler colonial Amerikkka, must be rooted in solidarity and complicity with the most advanced, and most principled, sectors of the internationalist struggle.

We did not expect to face opposition and sabotage from within the movement about expanding solidarity efforts for political prisoners. The desire to depoliticize political prisoners while minimizing the political context of their detention is not a path for revolutionary struggle, but an attempt to slow walk the movement into its death throes. Furthermore, attributing this call to action to people and organizations who weren’t involved – like the public and private whisper campaign condemning Workshops4Gaza – is malicious and duplicitous; particularly with the associated fedjacketing and doxxing crusade launched by people who should clearly know better.

These problems are part and parcel of a larger schism that will be resolved through internal movement struggle and external revolutionary conflict with the colonial state. The power brokers in the movement have long pushed an imperialist social democratic agenda couched in revolutionary language, but in actuality, their posture is mere defeatism and an ineffectual form of politics that cannot rise to the historical moment. This is why the support for Palestine has been either non-existent, tepid, or contradictory from this milieu. It also explains why, even after the George Floyd uprising and the rise of the Palestinian Revolution, the movement has remained among the whitest arenas in US politics.

The Palestinian Resistance and their regional comrades confrontation with the US and zionist war machines are the tip of the revolutionary spear and our actions, our deeds and our words should distinctly strengthen their posture and resolve. The student uprising was an attempt at establishing a support front in the imperial core that never quite coalesced into the political force that was requisite to address the genocidal nature of the US/zionist project. But even with the inadequacy of the movement there were notable moments and individuals. Casey and Elias are two of those people. The state has criminalized them, condemning Casey to a remarkably draconian sentence, and threatening Elias with execution. This counter-revolutionary repression is part of a larger strategic push by the state and must not be viewed in isolation. The capitalist class is in acute crisis and the US world-system is in an astonishing, barbaric death spiral. Severe imperialist miscalculations from the NATO war against Russia and the trade war have profoundly upended the system and the Palestinian Revolution accelerated the rapid decline.

It is in this context that the state’s repression has become a significant tool for the self-preservation of the colonial and imperialist project. The proscription of antifascism, the manic drive to deport migrants, the increase in policing, and the draconian sentencing passed down to our comrades all must be recognized in light of the crisis, and like the Palestinian Revolution, the Black Liberation Army, and other revolutionary formations, we have an obligation to support our comrades behind enemy lines, to politicize their cases appropriately, and to expand the field of struggle. Our prisoners are the compass of our movement, and we heed their calls for escalation in the fight to free them all. The nature of the empire’s surveillance regime necessitates that these calls often be made autonomously, without direct or explicit coordination with our prisoners.

Revolutionary organizations must begin to sincerely assess the situation, organize around and through these contradictions, unrepentantly support anti-colonial movements and we must, principally, struggle against imperialist social democracy. If these prisoner support organizations cannot work through these problems then they may need to be discarded. The ongoing conflict between reformist and revolutionary struggle will continue to persist in all political arenas, and in prisoner support specifically, the reformist wing must be defeated.

The Oct 7th Call to Action Committee

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22564

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Free Casey and Elias Images for Week of Solidarity

In response to the week of action for political prisoners, Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan, we were sent images that comrades can use for their activities. Casey and Elias are two US-held prisoners who are in captivity due to their support for the Palestianian Revolution.

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Campaña en solidaridad con Elías Rodríguez y Casey Goonan, presos en el sistema carcelario imperialista por luchar contra el genocidio en Gaza.

Por favor, ayuda difundiendo.

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Campaña en solidaridad con Elías y Casey

Hice este tríptico difundiendo el llamado de solidaridad con los presos politicos Elias Rodriguez y Casey Goonan. Lo realicé en Inkscape, las fuentes que usé fueron Molot y Trueno.

Estoy muy conmovido por las acciones de ambos camaradas. En un mundo de hipocresía y acciones a medias, ellos se atrevieron, sabiendo el precio que podían pagar. Lo que me deja no solo admiración, sino principalmente la urgencia de también hacer más.

Estoy trabajando en una versión en español y haré más diseños a partir de las imágenes que ya trabajé aquí.

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Free the Thunder, Free the Flame.

Call to action in support of Elías Rodríguez and Casey Goonan, from October 25th to November 1st

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Support Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan: Call to Action – Oct 25th – Nov 1st

In commemoration of October 7th, the revolutionary Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, we are calling for a week of action for  pro-Palestinian political prisoners Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan.

The Palestinian Revolution, with dignity and pride, changed the course of history two years ago, and on this anniversary we must also stand up for those who took action. Former political prisoner Georges Abdallah said, “it is the duty of every revolutionary to respond with the means at their disposal” in his salute to Elias, noting that it is a duty for revolutionaries in the west to rise in response to genocide and in solidarity with the Resistance. Elias is accused of being such a figure and Casey has been convicted of fulfilling this duty.

Elias is accused of assassinating two zionist pigs in DC in solidarity with anti-colonial Resistance forces in West Asia fighting for a free Palestine. He is currently pre-trial and potentially facing the death penalty.

Casey Goonan is a political prisoner who has been convicted of torching a UC Berkeley pig vehicle in support of the pro-Palestine student movement and in support of the Palestinian Revolution. They were accused of a series of arsons in what was termed Operation Campus Flood. They were recently sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.

From October 25 through November 1st take action in support of our comrades. Direct actions, letter writing, wheat pasting, banner drops, or whatever you may have in your toolkit. Stand up for our comrades in the imperialist dungeons.

Email us any photos or reports of your actions and we will publish them in a later round up.

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Free Elias Rodríguez.

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Action Against General Dynamics in Vermont

🚨Activists painted “stop arming genocide / G.D. kills / free Palestine” on a General Dynamics office building in colchester, vermont. They broke several windows, splashed red paint on the front doors, and planted a Palestinian flag in front of the building.

General Dynamics OTS in colchester pays engineers 100k+ salaries to design weapon systems and provide project management for operations in saco, maine, where a factory produces parts for the MK-80 bomb series. These bombs have been used extensively in Gaza.

The office building is leased to several tenants through the real estate broker, V/T Commercial. By leasing this building to GD, V/T Commercial provides cover for genocide profiteers.

The activists priorities were to build unity with their comrades through struggle, to build their skills in direct action, to impose consequences upon genocide profiteers (and their collaborators), and to ensure this work could continue.

It is the responsibility of all those living in the imperial core to strike blows against imperialism wherever and however they can. It is not enough to feel rage about the genocide of Palestinians – we must try to stop it. We cannot just glorify the Palestinian resistance – we must also bring the war home. This is the broader framework for the action taken in colchester.

Finally, this action was not committed in a silo. Unconditional solidarity with all those who wage war against empire. Free Elias. Glory to Iran. We are all Palestine Action.

(Anonymous submission)

Source: https://x.com/unityoffields/status/1941146907461419137

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20130

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Jacobin Magazine and Imperial Mediation

What did Jacobin magazine write about Elias Rodriguez, the Latin American hero of last month’s attack in Washington? Nothing, as if nothing had happened. But the same magazine celebrated Luigi Mangione, who assassinated United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. American progressives are hypersensitive to armed resistance in our country. Weapons are used exclusively for their own purposes, “weapons exclusivity,” and of course, their subsequent distribution exclusively to U.S. allies.

Not only do they want us to resist genocide peacefully, but they also want to: first, liberate us, not for us to do it (and therefore we must appeal to the conscience of American voters and the American working class, which, regardless of its ethnic background, elected Donald Trump. Perhaps we haven’t appealed enough to the American working class, which Jacobin considers sacred even more sacred than our blood and takes precedence over our very existence, as is clear from its articles). Second, they call for arming Ukraine with all the military technology available to the United States against Russia (American Trotskyist leftist magazines are full of articles boasting that leftists on the front lines in Ukraine are at the forefront of the fighters; bear witness to the American working class that we were the first to fight Washington’s enemies. But the same magazine doesn’t boast about the operations of the heroes of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in the West Bank and Gaza Strip).

Thus, one of the most absurd statements today is solidarity with both Palestine and Ukraine. The left’s litmus test today is not the keffiyeh or the colors of the watermelon, but rather the question of whether you support armed resistance against Israel and support sending money and weapons to it (as you do in the case of Ukraine). Will Jacobin magazine send money and weapons to the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, or at least grant legitimacy to those who wish to do so? To support the transfer of American military technology to Ukraine while expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people without resisting them is the essence of imperialist progressivism, and undoubtedly more dangerous than Trump’s blatant fascism.

This question should also be posed to Lula da Silva (although his positions are better than those of all Arab leaders combined, there is an intellectual flaw in his approach to the Palestinian issue. This flaw exists in his approach, as does that of many who once embraced armed resistance in Latin America before coming to power—Mujica, Rousseff, Petro, and others). In the months leading up to October 7, Jacobin magazine, The Guardian, and others were engaged in describing the Israeli regime as an apartheid regime. This meant, “We liberate you, and we see the time and method appropriate for this.”

But to liberate yourselves, even worse, through armed violence, and to dare to decide when to do so, cannot be granted intellectual and moral legitimacy (since this is the mission entrusted to them in the imperial metropolis). It’s true that we don’t support crushing your resistance with imperialist force, but we will not grant any legitimacy to your armed resistance against imperialism. You, imperialism and its armed resistance, are equally bad (this is the essence of the genocidal whitewashing that makes it possible to understand it academically and as institutional material).

Since the beginning of the war, there has been a consistent policy in Jacobin, The Guardian (the American edition written by “respected” American progressives), and others, to trivialize our resistance and every operation it carries out. When it becomes clear that serious blows are being carried out by the resistance, the achievements of the resistance are presented in boring installments over months so that the reader doesn’t sense them. The frightening thing is that these platforms are the best we can find in American society; to this degree, it is an imperialist society, where its progressives are worse than its fascists, because they make the reality of the world even more opaque for us, the peoples of the peripheries who are fighting for some clarity.

Our armed violence is a counter to the ambiguity of the global order (to which American progressives contribute) with the ambiguity of death, our Heideggerian approach to engaging with the international order. What is required is not a “more moral” stance toward these platforms, but rather a limitation of their ability to control the opinions of our local “elites” (whose power is unacceptable), because their power has a genocidal dimension, even among the most committed to moral discourse. In light of the Israeli-American attack on Iran, what did Jacobin find? It turned out to be a war “no one wants.” Jacobin magazine is the mediator between imperialism and the left around the world.

The left around the world questions the US administration’s rhetoric about the peoples of this or that region, and Jacobin then jumps in to present the same rhetoric with a leftist accent, making it easier for the world to embrace it. (Washington wants to fight Russia because of the power struggle. Jacobin comes along and says, “Well, we have to fight Russia because it isn’t Marxist, not because it’s an adversary of Washington.” The same rhetoric will be repeated about Taiwan tomorrow.) From propagating the theory that Israel founded Hamas to eliminate the secular Fatah movement (some segments of the Latin American left have been convinced of this nonsense as a result of Jacobin’s commendable efforts), to demonizing Hezbollah and stripping it of any liberal character (the same applies to Iran today), to nostalgia about the 1970s in the Arab world, as if there weren’t any armed Marxist resistance factions in Palestine today, and yes, they could be supplied with weapons now.

Worse still, some leftist voices in our region are being used to whitewash imperialist rhetoric, rather than to encourage armed resistance or support and arm them to organize armed resistance. The ability of the Spanish-language magazine Jacobin to be virtually the only effective platform for the left in Latin America is an imperialist ability. It uses this ability to disseminate moralizing discourse about the genocide in the Gaza Strip (rather than systematic analysis) and, of course, to argue that Hamas and Israel are equal in their oppression of the Palestinian people (as does Bernie Sanders, the unabashed progressive knight).

Jacobin has the ability (on a global scale) to legitimize the armed resistance of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, precisely because it is an American magazine. But don’t expect that from it. It will only invite them to speak about their suffering under Israeli genocide, on the one hand, and Islamic hegemony over the resistance, on the other. Wait for how Jacobin will deal with Venezuela or Nicaragua when they are bombed by the United States. You’ll find the same evasive rhetoric about regimes that “claim” to be Marxist. In light of the Israeli-American attack on Iran, what does Jacobin find?

Branko Marketić is undoubtedly the best voice within Jacobin, but even his writing is subpar. The magazine is currently preoccupied with Zahran Mamandi’s conquests, while the real conquests of Elias Rodriguez are of no interest to it. The Guardian is quick to publish any pseudo-demonstration against Hamas in Gaza (the Guardian has a very sensitive democratic barometer; they conduct polls, even under pressure of genocide and starvation, to ask whether people are happy with the killing and starvation).

Of course, there are Jacobin names who also write for The Guardian, instead of denouncing it, which is the least left-wing belief. Jacobin magazine delegitimized our resistance under the pretext that it is not a Marxist resistance, but the magazine doesn’t have the nerve to publish any supportive material, even if the resistance is Marxist. Even more so, they will accuse the resistance of not being Marxist enough. Just look at how Jacobin delegitimizes the regime in Venezuela. All the talk is that it isn’t a Marxist regime, as it claims and alleges. In other words, even if a Marxist resistance were to arise, they would find that it “claims” to be so, because Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the true Marxists, not Nicolás Maduro or Daniel Ortega.

Jacobin’s discourse hurts us, but its discourse against the “establishment” (which I prefer to call the “imperial metropolis” to emphasize its status as a spatial and institutional unit and to make its analysis and the analysis of its institutions more coherent than the monstrous term “establishment”) is irrelevant and unrelated. The magazine’s discourse is aimed at us and our consciousness, not the decision-makers in Washington. What we read in Jacobin is not “cowardice,” or cleverness and deception of the American administration, but rather the real role of these people within the imperial discourse management system. What do we in the peripheries lose if Jacobin and its counterparts in the United States are shut down? Nothing.

Quite the contrary: the left around the world, especially in Latin America, will breathe fresh, methodological oxygen again, and the world and the global order will become more clear. Our voice, which American progressives want to hear in the wave of “decolonize X” and “listen to X” in some academic departments in the United States, is not our opinion of them or of the imperial metropolis that granted them discursive authority. For them, our armed resistance is not part of “listening to the locals.” They simply want to hold us accountable for what happens to us (contrary to their hypersensitivity to the suffering of their own people).

There is currently a trend in American universities that we have talked too much about colonialism and we should start paying attention to the “effectiveness” of the colonized—that they pampered oppressed peoples too much, and now we must hold them accountable. It’s similar to what Donald Trump is doing to US allies: We gave you a lot of money, now give it back. This is an American academic shift before it was fascist. American progressives have a share of our blood, and this fact must never go away. You’re being sarcastic toward us, not the American administration (of course, regardless of the “ageist” farce that the new generations are “different”).

source: Al-Akhbar

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20109

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Free Elias Rodriguez: Legal Defense Fund

Elias Rodriguez needs support: moral, political, and legal. This fundraiser aims fulfill the last of those tasks, to fund his legal defense against federal charges carrying a potential death sentence for alleged actions against israeli diplomatic staff in Washington DC (United States of America v. Elias Rodriguez). Currently, it appears that Elias is represented by an attorney with the federal public defenders office. We hope to raise enough money that Elias will be able to choose the best attorney possible. If he stays with the federal defender, the funds raised here will be forwarded to that defense team, perhaps to be used to supplement his defense by paying for additional costs, such as defense investigators and expert testimony. Any funds that are not able to be forwarded or are not accepted by Elias’ defense team will be used to support other political prisoners and defendants.

Elias has not entered a plea yet. While we believe the actions he’s alleged to have taken are legally justified, he may or may not choose to pursue that defense. Regardless of how he and his lawyers decide to proceed, we will financially support his legal defense to the best of our abilities, with your help. At a minimum, given that he is facing capital charges, he will likely be facing a penalty phase, should he be convicted, which would determine if he’s given a death sentence. In this case, your support could help save his life.

For those of us who have been moved by the horrors of the genocide in Gaza, the possibility of saving just one life from the powers that are enacting that slaughter is worth grasping. And it is clear that the US government and the zionist movement, responsible for the killing fields of Gaza, are equally intent on killing Elias. In this way, his case is part of the same fight for Palestinian national liberation. The forces of oppression cannot be allowed to win in either context. It’s time to stop running from the fight. Donate here to help Elias beat them in the court of law and in the court of public opinion.

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Elías Rodríguez… El Feda’i que Reveló las Posiciones de la Resistencia

Khaled Barakat 2

Publicado originalmente en árabe en el periódico Libanes Al-Akhbar, traducido al español a partir de la traducción al inglés de Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement.

La operación que llevó acabo el Feda’i1 Elías Rodríguez no fue un evento pasajero o un acto aislado del contexto político y estratégico actual. Más bien, marcó un momento escencial en la clarificación de las posiciones y expuso las contradicciones – especialmente en la arena internacional donde los movimientos de solidaridad con el pueblo Palestino están activos. Ocurre en una de las fases más fieras del la guerra genocida que la entidad sionista desata en contra de la Franja de Gaza desde hace veinte meses, la operación fue una respuesta legítima y natural a esta brutal agresión y un eco de la voz de la resistencia que sigue viva y profundamente enraizada en la conciencia de las gentes libres.

El intelectual revolucionario y mártir Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) era el teórico de vanguardia de la violencia revolucionaria para confrontar al imperialismo y al sionismo. El vínculo de Kanafani con la lucha armada no era romántico, sino que estaba fuertemente atado a su pensamiento político, su convicción, y la perspectiva cuya coherencia lógica y moral defendió hasta el momento de su martirio. Esta conexión práctica y moral fue una de las principales razones de su asesinato.

Kanafani también libró una lucha sin cuartel en contra de aquellos – palestinos, árabes u otros – que se oponían a las “operaciones externas”. El autor del dictamen “detrás del enemigo en todas partes” afirmaba continuamente, hasta el momento de su asesinato, que no hay ni separación ni contradicción entre las acciones de los fedayines dentro de las fronteras de Palestina y las “operaciones externas,” mientras que la estrategia política sea unificada y el enemigo sea uno solo. ¿Hoy ha cambiado el campo enemigo? ¿Han cambiado sus políticas coloniales, o se han vuelto más salvajes?

La operación heroica de Rodríguez clarifica que el “movimiento de solidaridad” con el pueblo Palestino no es una sola corriente o una visión unificada, sino una mezcla de diversas fuerzas: algunos creen en el camino de la resistencia y la liberación de Palestina desde el río hasta el mar, mientras otros se posicionan en el marco liberal que confina el conflicto al discurso de derechos humanos y la arena diplomática, y que en la práctica claman por aquello que se ha denominado la “solución de dos Estados” como el único horizonte viable para el conflicto árabe-sionista. Esta divergencia no es nueva. Refleja las contradicciones políticas e ideológicas que siempre han acompañado a los movimientos internacionales de solidaridad, desde la revolución argelina hasta el apoyo a las luchas de Vietnam, Sudáfrica, Irlanda y otras. De hecho, también revela las contradicciones internas de los palestinos – pero esa es una discusión más larga…

En el centro de esta compleja imagen está la relevancia de la operación de Rodríguez. No fue solo un reto al aparato de seguridad de los Estados Unidos, sino que también se volvió un espejo donde se reflejan la realidad de las posturas: aquellos que en verdad apoyan a la resistencia, y aquellos que se esconden atrás de eslóganes generales para promover una visión entre el nihilismo y la rendición. Muchos hablan de “el derecho del pueblo palestino a resistir,” mientras rechazan cualquier práctica concreta, consciente de este derecho si sale del límite del discurso aceptable en occidente, un discurso que a menudo se traduce en llamados a arreglos y concesiones políticas, la primera entre ellas la promoción de la “solución de dos Estados” y la “paz” que implica el reconocimiento de la legitimidad de la Entidad Sionista y la rendición de Palestina – y de nuestras mentes.

En cambio, hay quienes apoyaron firme y claramente a la resistencia, no solo como concepto teórico, sino como acción práctica basada en los principios de liberación, retorno, y el rechazo de la legitimidad de la ocupación. Estos son la extensión natural del movimiento de liberación de Palestina alrededor del mundo, que ven la lucha palestina como parte de un frente global contra el colonialismo, el racismo y el capitalismo brutal y depredador. Por esto, estamos presenciando el avance de fuerzas radicales obreras, juveniles, estudiantiles, y de la mujer, mientras la tendencia de la “solidaridad condicionada” está en retroceso.

La operación de Rodríguez no solo reveló los límites del discurso liberal, también restauró el valor de la acción directa como una herramienta de movilización y agitación, enfrentando a todos con sus responsabilidades. La amplia respuesta popular a esta operación, sobre todo entre los jóvenes y las comunidades palestinas, árabes y musulmanas, revela que el sentimiento popular sigue alineado con la lucha armada y una posición revolucionaria en Palestina. La batalla librada por el pueblo palestino no está confinada a Cisjordania y Gaza, mas se extiende y expande globalmente dentro del marco del de la lucha revolucionaria contra el imperialismo, el sionismo, y los regímenes fascistas y reaccionarios.

Estas diferencias, a pesar de su agudeza, no deben de volverse una fuente de discordia nihilista; más bien, deben de ser comprendidas como parte de la pluralidad natural dentro de los movimientos globales de liberación. Históricamente, los movimientos de solidaridad con las causas justas han sido testigos de divergencias similares, tanto si era el apoyo a la revolución cubana, las luchas de América latina, o incluso posiciones en torno a la resistencia en Irak o Líbano. Sin embargo, hay una necesidad urgente de prevenir que el enemigo explote esta “pluralidad”, especialmente frente al genocidio. Los sionistas, vía las campañas de propaganda y la presión política legal, buscan demonizar a todos aquellos que apoyen la resistencia, y sembrar duda y desconfianza entre las filas de los activistas solidarios en general.

Nuestro balance es que la mayoría del pueblo palestino – tanto en la tierra natal como en la diáspora – especialmente de cara a las masacres en Gaza, ven el regreso de las acciones de feda’i como una necesidad revolucionaria. Llaman a una participación popular más amplia en apoyo a la resistencia, sea apoyo político, financiero, mediático o cultural, o vía involucrarse directamente. Esta es la plataforma popular y la fuerza del impulso revolucionario necesario para detener la agresión, cambiar la correlación de fuerzas, y alcanzar la liberación. Entre más grandes son los crímenes de la ocupación, más profunda es la convicción de que no hay lugar para la neutralidad y que confrontar al enemigo se ha vuelto un deber, no una elección.

El día de hoy la batalla no está confinada a Gaza o Cisjordania, sino que incluye también a la diáspora. Entonces, la operación de Rodríguez representa un grito frente al sistema norteamericano, y un mensaje de que la resistencia no depende de la geografía, raza o color, sino que es una afiliación, una identidad, y una postura ética y política que no permite ninguna consesión.

En conclusión, las fuerzas de la resistencia y sus aliadas deben de construir en este momento, ampliar los círculos del diálogo revolucionario con los movimientos de liberación a nivel internacional, y proteger sus filas contra la campaña sionista que busca aislar y difamar a la resistencia. La batalla es larga y abierta a todas las posibilidades, pero la claridad de visión y dirección – como la que demostró Rodríguez – es la primera condición para la victoria.

1. Palabra árabe que quiere decir “sacrificio” o “aquel que se sacrifica”, y que se usa para designar a los combatientes palestinos, más conocida por el plural fedayin. ↩
2. Miembro de la red de solidaridad con los presos palestinos (Samidou) ↩

#ElíasRodríguez #FPLP #Palestina #Samidou #traducción #Traducciones

#ElíasRodríguez ' action was "a message that resistance is not the preserve of geography, race, or color, but is an affiliation, an identity, and an ethical and political stance that allows for no compromise".

#Elias Rodriguez… The feda’i who revealed positions on the Resistance — Khaled Barakat

https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/05/5860/

@palestine #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #FreeElías

Free Elias Rodriguez: Build the International Popular Cradle of Resistance

Elias Rodriguez’s targeted attack on two israeli diplomatic staff on May 21, 2025 was a legitimate act of resistance against the zionist state and its genocidal campaign in Gaza. After twenty months of non-stop apocalyptic violence wrought by the zionist movement, inflicted upon Palestinian civilians striving for national liberation as well as on the freedom fighters advancing that national liberation; after twenty months of political and legal repression by these same zionists against our international movement opposing their campaign of total destruction—the time has now come for real consequences. They have left no other option for effectively opposing their rampage and utter disregard for any boundaries, whether those of human decency or political borders, as they engage in repression against even the possibility of non-violent protest across the entirety of the imperialist alliance led by the so-called United States.

Witness the outright banning of protest and expression of support for Palestinian liberation from within Europe, particularly in Germany and France; themselves no strangers to committing genocide. Witness the arbitrary arrests, detentions and deportations of Palestinians and Muslims across North America and Europe. Witness the targeted lawfare and phony “terrorist” and “sham charity” designations against Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network for their unwavering defense of the Axis of Resistance and the prisoners locked in zionist concentration camps. Witness the terror lists that criminalize international solidarity. Witness the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at multiple campuses, the civil suits aimed at students to demobilize the most active part of the movement, the collaboration between zionist vigilantes and militarized police forces, the doxxing and death threats and expulsions. Witness the terror of attacking the livelihoods of opponents, bullying people out of jobs and institutions. Witness the political prisoners of the Palestine solidarity movement locked up for their conscience, from the Holy Land 5 to Casey Goonan. Witness the brutal murder of six-year-old Palestinian Wadea al-Fayoume in Chicago, whose picture was displayed in Elias Rodriguez’s apartment window. Witness the utter impunity with which they accomplish all of this—cynically cowering behind the absurd assertion that zionists are the real victims while having the backing of the most militarized empire in the history of humanity, the USA.

Extending beyond this repression within the West, the zionist movement uses all means to repress opposition among the people and states existing outside of, or on the boundaries of, western dominance. They have used diplomatic, economic and even military means, through the provision of weapons, mercenaries, and training to any agents whom they can use as tools for their interests. They have crossed every line and boundary, attacking Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq. Engaging in perfidy across the world, killing civilians and assassinating even negotiators, often under a flag of truce. Witness their diplomatic and economic attacks on South Africa, through their senior partner in crimes against humanity, the US government. The zionist movement, as concentrated and formalized in the israeli state, are explicit that they will not respect any limits, everything and anything is permitted in advancing their supremacist world view, and cementing the festering settler colony they have, temporarily, established on Palestinian land.

In this light, the operation conducted by Elias Rodriguez against israel’s diplomatic functionaries in Washington DC—people actively engaged in facilitating this comprehensive violence across the globe by creating the diplomatic space to continue and deepen it—was, by his own account, a declaration of ENOUGH! To paraphrase a great revolutionary, protest is when we say “we don’t like this”, resistance is when we put an end to what we don’t like.

To be clear, what we are asserting is more than a recognition that the violence and oppression meted out by the zionist movement will inevitably give rise to counter-violence, an indisputable truism. We are saying that such counter-violence is legitimate. It is justice.

Elias Rodriguez’s act was fully justified, at that place where legal and moral duties meet. It is clear that international law, which the West itself established and whose institutions are dominated by the interest of these imperialists, establishes a duty to take action to stop genocide, including the use of violence to do so. Under international law, this duty is assigned to states—it is not for non-state actors to assert. But what of the case where no Western state has taken sufficient action to stop the devastation, where a genocide occurs in front of everyone’s eyes, live streamed both in the carnage of Gaza and also in the explicit and implicit admissions of the israeli government and broader zionist movement? In this case, our case, the only actors who dare to impose consequences have been, by the designation of the imperialists themselves, non-state actors, besides Iran.

This is the point at which those legal obligations, derogated and left unfulfilled by those responsible to them, fall to the free people of the world to fulfill. Elias Rodriguez exacted a consequence, a mere drop in the bucket of consequences due to the zionist movement and its military garrison of a state. May it redound to teach a lesson and set an example. To finally give pause to the zionists, that there are limits and that impunity will not be permitted, anywhere.

The Palestinian struggle is the tip of the spear against global imperialism. As imperialism has made the entire world its battlefield, it is justified to fight it, by any means necessary, without regard for geography. This holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines, inside the US, an entity that is an equal party in all crimes committed by the zionists. Whether in the beseiged Gaza Strip, the Red Sea, the South of Lebanon or the heart of the US, there must be consequences for genocidal zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous.

The moral force that compels us to put an end to the unprecedented brutality of the Gaza genocide—and the imperialist world system as a whole—is grounds for asserting a new law, a law created by revolutionary actors, and standing in defiance against established law which has proven itself to be inadequate and fundamentally illegitimate. In the face of unfathomable imperialist and colonial violence executed on a starved and imprisoned people with absolute impunity, we have an obligation to rupture with the authority that has made that violence possible. Elias Rodriguez did exactly that and his act of resistance has put the law itself on trial.

But this is only the beginning of his battle, and he must have the support of all free people around the world. Opponents of imperialism, zionism, and genocide must rally to defend Elias Rodriguez, and through this defense support the legitimacy and necessity of resistance itself. What takes place with regard to his case over the next months and years will fundamentally alter the trajectory of the international movement against zionism and US-led imperialism. Revolutionaries and people of conscience everywhere have a stake in this fight.

The US state will undoubtedly seek the death penalty for his case, as they have with Rodney Hinton Jr. and Luigi Mangione, whose alleged actions also helped to balance the scales of justice. The zionists will make Elias Rodriguez an avatar of our movement, while distorting his and our message, seeking to strike yet more fear, to intimidate us further into silence and hapless, hopeless “protest.” If we allow them to silently kill Elias Rodriguez, if we sit back and watch or allow ourselves to forget his resistance, then they will have also killed a part of our movement, a part of us; that part that yearns for justice against the outrageous and humiliating impunity of this system of genocide and, indeed, biocide. Again, we have no choice but to defend Elias Rodriguez. All the better that his actions are eminently defensible and morally righteous.

And so, we call on all people of conscience, those for whom the outrages of the last 20 months are simply too much to bear, to gather in support of Elias Rodriguez. Take some part of his act of justice for yourself by supporting his struggle to the end. Send him moral support by mailing letters. Send him monetary support by putting funds in his prison account and by supporting his legal defense. Gather at his court hearings. Gather at the dungeons in which they hold him. And, in all cases, raise your voices to echo his own words and actions for the sake of justice and accountability, that this genocide against the Palestinian people ends now and Palestine be free. Do it proudly and without shame. This too is a way of imposing consequences and sending a message to genocidaires and their accomplices that from this point forward accountability is coming, swift, unforgiving, and unrelenting.

FREE ELIAS RODRIGUEZ! FREE THEM ALL!

BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL POPULAR CRADLE OF RESISTANCE!

GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!

—Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee ([email protected])

Signatures:

Cultural Workers Against Empire

Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network

Bronx Anti War

Resistance News Network

Unity of Fields

JDPOD

Nidal Seattle

Third World Solidarity Front (TWSF)

Resistance Archives

Free Radical

Chorley4Palestine

Collectivize!

People’s Defense Charlotte

Crown Heights Bites Back

Teatro de la Psychomachia

Montgomery County for Palestine

Mateo Feliciano, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Kamau Franklin

DSA Liberation Caucus

Civilian Freedom Movement worldwide (CFM)

Costurero Anarquista Popular Nueva York

Jewish Bund at Brandeis

Community Liberation Programs

Palestine News Network (PNN)

Brevard Vanguard

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Note: We understand security-minded people may question why we are gathering a list of signatures. We believe showing as much possible public support for Elias is important right now, particularly from anti-imperialist and anti-repression political organizations. We especially encourage organizations and public individuals to sign on. Other individuals, especially those less known to the state, should be mindful of their security and consider signing anonymously with an anonymous Proton mail account if they want to receive updates from the Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee.

source: Tariq El-Tahrir

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19340

#alAqsaFlood #DirectAction #eliasRodriguez #northAmerica #resistance

The only thing the establishment truly fears.

#Luigi #Elías #eliasrodriguez

Dont let them lie to you about #EliasRodriguez #antisemitism is a term created by #Zionists so you are scared to act against their #racist bullshit. dont be #brainwashed #ZionismIsntJudaism #zionismisterrorism

Guess who? Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL). Go figure. 'Vanguard' as useful idiot. Same as it ever was. I dont feel sorry for those assassinated embassy employees, but the act was ABSOLUTELY counterproductive

"The barbarism of the live-streamed #genocide in #Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold... This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood..."

"#EliasRodriguez’s Murderous Gift to #Israel"

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/23/elias-rodriguezs-murderous-gift-to-israel/

Respecto a #EliasRodriguez solo pondré un tango, ya tocado en otras oportunidades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwdmOI13TPY

#Armate #LaLiraLibertaria #FreeElías #FreeElias #ElíasRodriguez #FreePalestineNow #FromTheRiverToTheSea

The righteous old dude with the Bernie hat and the statement he prepared and nailed, beautiful work there Neighbour Dude :catjam:

Bet we don't see that again on broadcast...

#USPOL #Gaza #FreePalestine #Gencoide #EliasRodriguez #JohnWayneFry

#ElíasRodríguez #FreeElías

This is so vile. I'm halfway expecting the #FreePalestine people to start doing what #Trump people do when one of their own does something bad... say #EliasRodriguez was an FBI/CIA plant or this was staged. He wasn't. He's only helped Trump & Netanyahu.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7anrictsxlbn5aaglvx5vcd/post/3lps6iriw4s2c

#ElíasRodríguez actions will bring a clamp down on the pro-Palestine movement and anything even remotely connected to it, of that we can be sure. I just saw a Republican calling for nuking #Gaza over the double homicide. What should we conclude of this?

Do we think appeasing fascists works? Do we think acting lawfully will protect us from fascism, knowing as anyone knows that fascism disregards the law when it's convenient to them?

@palestine #Palestine #FreePalestine #FreeElias

Remember folks, your life and my life is not worth as much as an pair of Israeli Embassy workers, we should mourn for days or we're all Jew Haters, remember to report your mourning to your local Zionist for judgement, (they love to judge!)

Sit there and do nothing, sit and watch the erasure of Gaza, and do nothing, look at the twisted corpses of the Palestinians and do nothing or you are a 'Jew Hater' ....look away......let It Happen Again...

#EliasRodriguez #Genocide #Gaza

Yeah, this Genocide....these would the 'atrocities' that misguided man was speaking of. The ones we're all painfully aware of yet powerless to stop....every fucking day.....

Life is cheap when Fascism reigns.

#Genocide #Gaza #FreePalestine #EliasRodriguez

You know, that Genocide that is currently going on, that one....there was a wee massacre this afternoon in fact, but those lives don't matter as much of course....gotta think about the Hierarchy, haven't you? /s

https://news.sky.com/story/washington-shooting-suspect-accused-israel-of-atrocities-in-social-media-post-sky-news-finds-13372548

#USPOL #Genocide #EliasRodriguez #FreePalestine

So, allegedly, #EliasRodriguez had been involved in social justice causes for years and felt the need to take action. I know folks are angry and fed up, but acts like this are going to be the excuse that #Trump and #KristiNoem need to declare #ProPalestinian protestors to be labeled as "terrorism" -- with subsequent crackdowns on peaceful protest. We can't give them excuses to enforce crackdowns. Those may be coming, so save the ammo for when it's really needed. Seriously...

https://apnews.com/article/israel-embassy-jewish-museum-shooting-10307b3b1a2a337e76730736b12ebbcb

Just another sample of how the #DSA is full of shit.

Believing in "a world where political struggle is free of bloodshed" is the same as not believing in revolution. Not believing in revolution is the same as not believing in socialism, so the DSA might as well get rid of the "S" in their acronym.

#USpol #Palestine #FreeElias #ElíasRodríguez

Why aren't y'all discussing about #ElíasRodríguez ? Don't keep quiet, you cowards. We need to debate the ethics of his act, not cower in silence about it.

And if our debates conclude that his actions were justified and rightful we should follow that conclusion.

#FreeElias

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"Ken Klippenstein, che aveva pubblicato per primo uno dei manifesti di Luigi Mangione (risultato poi autentico) ha pubblicato da poco il manifesto di #EliasRodriguez, il killer dei due membri dell'ambasciata israeliana a New York.

Il testo lungo tre cartelle, cita precedenti diversi, non solo #AaronBushnell, il militare che si immolò lo scorso anno di fronte all'ambasciata israeliana a #Washington, ma anche avvenimenti lontani, dal genocidio dei #Maya alla guerra del #Vietnam.

A leggerlo, siamo di fronte, in modo abbastanza puntuale a motivazioni e aspettative che assomigliano più a quelle di #LuigiMangione che a quelle di un 'terrorista antisemita' per come uno se lo potrebbe aspettare. È come se Mangione avesse aperto una nuova retorica di "propaganda armata" in cui il termine terrorismo fatica ad essere applicato."

(...)

writing:

“We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians' forgiveness. They've let us know as much.”

Rodriguez frames his act not as random violence but as “armed demonstration,” drawing parallels to historical cases of protest against impunity, including an attempt to throw Robert McNamara off a ferry in protest of Vietnam war crimes. He references Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in February, writing:

“Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves ... and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain ... We can't let them succeed.”

In his closing, Rodriguez reflects on the morality of action, expressing that the perpetrators of genocide may still be recognizably human, and that humanity “doesn’t exempt one from accountability.” He ends with a message to his family and signs off with:

“Free Palestine – Elias Rodriguez.”
#EliasRodriguez
#AaronBushnell #FreePalestine
Vía #thecradle

❗️Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein has published what he says is the alleged manifesto of #EliasRodriguez the man accused of shooting two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC.

Klippenstein believes the document is authentic, citing that it is signed by Rodriguez and timestamped before law enforcement or the media had named him. He states his intent in publishing it is not to glorify violence, which he condemns, but to “prevent information vacuums” that could be filled by disinformation, writing, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant, especially when politics is involved.”

The manifesto, titled “Explication” and dated May 20, offers a long, emotional justification for the attack as a political protest against Israel's war in Gaza, which Rodriguez describes as a genocide enabled by US complicity. He cites a death toll of 53,000 killed by traumatic force, 10,000 under rubble, and a population at risk of famine due to the blockade.”
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