[News] Palestinians stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation

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  Palestinians stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) - February 13, 2020
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 From the occupied Palestinian territory, we stand in solidarity with 
the Wet’suwet’en nation and land defenders at the Unist’ot’en Camp and 
Gidimt’en who continue to resist Canada’s colonial incursions of their 
unceded territories.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in 
Palestinian civil society that leads the global BDS movement, sends a 
message of support to your struggle.

We call on the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island and 
elsewhere to stand with the Wet’suwet’en nation.

As Palestinians, we have firsthand experience with a colonial power, 
Israel’s regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid, that 
systemically works to dispossess, divide and strip us of our lands and 
resources.

We know too well, from our own experience, that the TransCanada Coastal 
Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land, use resource 
extraction to solidify control over Indigenous territories, destroy the 
environment and violate Indigenous laws. We also know that the Royal 
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attacks, sanctioned by the Trudeau 
government, against the Hereditary Wet’suwet’en leadership, matriarchs 
and land defenders, are used to violate Indigenous sovereignty. The RCMP 
is employing tactics and equipment similar to Israel’s government 
<https://bdsmovement.net/news/no-impunity-ethnic-cleansing-jerusalem-boycott-israel-now>, 
including Caterpillar bulldozers 
<https://twitter.com/UnistotenCamp/status/1226695842259537925>, to seize 
indigenous lands.

We are deeply grateful for the Wet’suwet’en people for their indomitable 
spirit, and their tireless defence of the land and water resources. We 
stand firmly with you in your struggle for your land and ancestral rights.

Palestinians owe the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island a great debt 
for teaching us how to resist settler colonialism generation after 
generation through your powerful resistance, grace and indomitable spirit.

The BNC is committed to building stronger ties of solidarity between our 
peoples and movements, and we will work with our partners in Turtle 
Island to make this a reality.

 From Palestine to Wet’suwet’en, we stand united with you in the 
struggle against settler colonialism, racism, corporate criminality and 
your inalienable rights for justice and self-determination.

We would be honoured to welcome you in Palestine, when the time is right.

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