Statement by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

Belgium’s decision to target comrade Mohammed Khatib will have serious consequences

The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement holds the Belgian government fully responsible for the grave consequences resulting from its recent decision to revoke the residency rights of Comrade Mohammed Khatib, a member of the movement’s Executive Committee and the Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The movement considers this decision a fully-fledged act of political assassination, granting the Zionist enemy a license to continue targeting him politically, and potentially physically. It is clear that the Belgian government does not grasp the magnitude and danger of what it has done, nor the direct threat this racist decision poses to the comrade’s safety, and the blatant violation it constitutes against political freedoms and human rights.

This racist policy pursued today by the Belgian authorities is nothing new, nor is it isolated from Belgium’s bloody colonial history, in which it committed the most heinous crimes against the peoples of Africa, foremost among them the brutal massacres it carried out in the Congo, where it plundered resources and exterminated millions. What we are witnessing today is merely an extension of that criminal legacy, this time in service of the Zionist settler-colonial project in occupied Palestine, amid the ongoing genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip.

We salute all friendly forces and the broad solidarity expressed by many forces, movements, and organizations with Comrade Mohammed Khatib, and we call on all solidarity movements with the Palestinian people, and all revolutionary forces around the world, to transform this solidarity into building a mass revolutionary struggle against the ongoing genocide and war of extermination in Gaza, and to form a unified front of struggle to defend the rights of migrants, refugees, and the impoverished popular classes in Europe.

We reaffirm once again that the Belgian government’s decision does not target Comrade Mohammed Khatib alone, but deliberately targets the rights of Palestinian refugees, the entire Palestinian people, and their just cause. Accordingly, we call on everyone to exert popular pressure on the Belgian government to immediately revoke this unjust decision, without any delay or procrastination.