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This will FOREVER change your views on Palestine and Climate Activism
This will FOREVER change your views on Palestine and Climate Activism
March 28, 2025
Worldwide
During the “Trade Unions Support the Call for Global Energy Embargo for Palestine” event at the Inter-Regional @TUED_Global South Meeting in Mexico City (Feb 4–6, 2025), Hamza Hamouchene delivered a powerful and urgent speech linking the Palestinian struggle to global climate justice and the imperialist fossil-fueled order. He described Gaza as a concentrated expression of capitalist imperialism, where genocide, ecocide, and militarised fossil capitalism collide. Hamouchene warned that the ongoing destruction in Palestine reflects a broader global trend of violence, militarism, and environmental collapse driven by the ruling classes.
Hamouchene called on trade unions, especially in the energy sector, to go beyond statements and take concrete action by supporting a Global Energy Embargo for Palestine. Citing Colombia’s decision to halt coal exports to Israel, he urged other countries like Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Gabon to stop supplying the fossil fuels that power Israel’s military machine. For him, the struggles for climate justice, energy democracy, and Palestinian liberation are inseparable—and must be fought together.
PARTICIPATE IN THE CHANGE
Everyone can play a role against energy oppression. Disrupting energy flows can be achieved at every node of the supply chain, and by challenging the infrastructure that sustains it. Join workers and communities already taking action. Pressure your bank, your pension fund, your university, your union, your government.
End energy complicity. Energy embargo now.
