Press release
🔴The Popular Front calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and stresses the necessity of not voting for advocates of genocide and supporters of colonialism.
• The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls on the free people of America, especially the supporters of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian and Arab communities, and the organizations of blacks and minorities, to boycott the Democratic and Republican parties in the American elections scheduled for tomorrow, which share clear colonial goals aimed at exterminating our people and strengthening the Zionist settlement project.
• These two parties were directly involved in the ongoing war of extermination against our Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, and they never concealed their blatant bias in favor of the occupation, and their continued support for its racist policies that target the existence of our Palestinian people and uproot them from their land.
• The positions of the two American parties reflect an explicit adoption of ethnic cleansing, and legitimize the Zionist crimes and massacres against our people, through financial, political and military support for the Zionist entity; the statements of the symbols of these parties also seek to beautify and justify their imperialist policies that adopt a colonial language, which sees the Palestinian people as an obstacle to their alleged “civilizational project”, and their election campaigns ignore the horrific crimes committed daily against Palestinian civilians, especially women and children, in an attempt to cover up the true face of the occupation and legitimize its crimes.
• The Democratic and Republican parties also continue their attempts to attract the support of Zionist lobbies and influential people, in efforts that aim to strengthen the policies of mass displacement and organized repression against the Palestinians.
• In this context, the Popular Front renews its explicit call to all honorable people in American society not to vote for these two parties that use American tax money, which is sucked from the blood of the American people, to support the Zionist genocidal regime.
• The Popular Front sees boycotting these two Zionist parties in tomorrow’s American elections as a moral stance no less important than any other form of solidarity with the Palestinian people and the rights of oppressed peoples. It is also an effective means of struggle to expose the falsehood of American slogans that speak of freedom and human rights. The United States, through its political tools, is trying to exploit these concepts to justify its crimes and consolidate its hegemony over peoples, without caring about the rights of the Palestinians who are subjected to the most heinous types of crimes.
• Finally, the Front considers that the boycott of the two parties is a clear internal message to the American administration and the international system around it that those who collude in shedding the blood of our people and displacing them should not receive the votes of the free people of the world and our communities, who refuse to be contributors to their election or false witnesses to their criminal policy in power.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department 4-November-2024
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I have voted for Jill Stein but only because the Democrats blocked Claudia De la Cruz in Pennsylvania.
Edit: corrected tense
Nowhere in this address PFLP call for boycotting the entire elections, but only to boycott two main parties.
Those two parties are cooperating, aren’t they?
Yes. Greens and PSL have advocated to vote for each other in four states where only one one of the two is one the ballot.
So you feel that your life and the world will be no different between Trump and Harris? One of those two are going to win.
If Harris truly saw Trump as a threat she would have at least come out against the genocide so that she doesn’t risk losing votes over it.
I’m taking her at her word. I think she’s being honest. She’s a Zionist, like Biden. I think that she wants to help Palestine, but with push coming to shove, she’ll support Israel over Palestine every time. This means that the genocide will continue, and the Palestinians will be run out of their country.
OK but that’s not what I asked. Do you feel that your life and the world will be the same regardless?
The best candidate should win. They can’t win if you’re don’t vote for them.
Pro tip: If anyone is trying to convince you not to vote, they do not have your best interests in mind.
They aren’t saying you shouldn’t vote. They’re saying you shouldn’t vote for the Democrat or Republican.
Is this the same popular front for the liberation of Palestine that described the US as their enemy and biggest evil in the world? Warning that a day of reckoning will come on which the US will pay the price for their behavior? They dont sound like someone one should base their voting preferences on, sorry.
With all due disrespect,
Death to AmeriKKKa
The United States is currently committing genocide against them. Why would they not describe the US as their enemy and the biggest evil in the world?
What kind of attitude do you think a resistance group should have to a political power that’s committing genocide against them?
US did pay the price once, very small for what it did, 9/11.
And Bush killed millions afterwards. Now the Democrats want to work with the same Republicans.
70% of Israeli weapons come from the United States…
Sure sounds like they know what they’re talking
One of the PFLP’s songs refers to America as the “Head of the Snake” specifically, which is coincidentally not actually dissimilar from Benjamin Franklin’s own choice of political symbolism — except Franklin, radical that he was, chose to represent the Thirteen Colonies as a whole snake rather than just the head.
In any case the PFLP didn’t choose to hate the USA, in the same way Ned Kelly didn’t choose to hate cops. Acting like the PFLP’s hostility to the USA is completely irrational and literally just came out of nowhere helps nothing except Septics’ cognitive dissonance about the nation’s grotesque banditry abroad — it’s just wilful ignorance, it’s pure and simple “My Little Pony logic” to act as if the world’s anti-Americans are just Evil Changelings who hate “a beautiful land abounding in the Magic of Friendship” for no reason other than that it is “a beautiful land abounding in the Magic of Friendship”.
Lol fuck off dickhead
They sound exactly like someone who understands the role of the US.
There is no moral choice regarding the palestine situation in this election. If both parties support the genocide and colonialism of Israel then boycotting solves nothing, one of the parties is going to win anyways.
This leads to the conclusion that the situation over there should not be a factor in how Americans vote. There are other issues, both domestic and foreign that hinge on this election and are still worthy of voters.
I don’t think that it should be about boycotting. I think it should be about supporting the candidate who best supports your values.
Boycotting will solve one thing, that parties won’t care about your electorate. If enough people do so, then a party might want to take a stance supportive of Palestine, and gain the votes of that electorate.
That said, it is def important to now vote.
Agree with the theory, but in practice what happens is the parties simply focus on courting the people who do vote and shift their attention to them even more, ratcheting the discourse further to the side that tends to have voters show up more reliably. It’s far cheaper and easier to nudge a willing and reliable buyer (in this case, voter) to buy your wares than it is to go out and bring new buyers into the existing market. Not impossible, but I personally don’t have faith in the plutocratic two party system the US has to self-reflect and seek out those disengaged voters instead of taking the easy route and pandering to the existing and reliable voter pool (at least not in the short term).
I thought the boycott proposed here was a boycott of the two major parties, not a boycott of voting at all.
Aaah I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying
That is false. When one of the two parties is desperate enough for those anti genocide votes they will cave. A third party is not required to win. The two major parties can win over their voters. If they so desire.
