“Palestine Is Really the Center of the World” Democracy Now interview with Angela Davis

Written By Grahame Russell

Rights Action recommends this Democracy Now segment with Angela Davis. Like Angela, we thank Democracy Now for their ongoing media coverage, that – like many independent media outlets – is shining an ever brighter light on how much of the Western mainstream is directly complicit, to one degree or another, with the U.S.-led, Western-backed and legitimized genocidal ethnical cleansing of Palestine and the Palestinian people.

“Palestine Is Really the Center of the World”
Democracy Now, May 02, 2025 interview with Angela Davis
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/2/angela_davis

“We find ourselves in a very difficult moment, a moment of grief, a moment of witnessing the apartheid and the genocide unfolding in a way that we had never imagined before. But at the same time, we recognize that Palestine has never given up. Palestine will never give up.”

 “Those of us who are standing for justice and for freedom … it’s essential to recognize that we are actually in the majority, that we are on the right side of history, that we should follow the example of the Palestinian people and not give up, not succumb to the assumption that [Trump] as elected, and therefore he and his people get to dictate the direction of history.”

“Jewish Voice for Peace has been a powerful force, well, since its founding, but especially in this period when we’re trying to figure out how we negotiate ourselves through this horrendous combination of genocide in Gaza, and on the Palestinian people more broadly, and a McCarthyist-type repression that is unfolding here in the United States, especially on the university and college campuses around the country.”

Full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/2/angela_davis

U.S. and Western-backed genocides as policy, from Guatemala to Palestine

Rights Action does not lightly denounce Israel’s U.S. and Western-backed genocidal ethnic cleansing and destruction in Palestine.

We remember the genocides and scorched earth massacres carried out by U.S. and Western-backed military regimes in Guatemala in the 1970s- 80s, targeting and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, a majority being Mayan indigenous. During the worst years (1978-1983), US. allies/proxy states - including Britain, France, Israel, and military regimes in Chile and Argentina - also provided military aid, weapons and training to the Guatemalan regimes. 

The devastating legacies of the genocides and State repression are an on-going lived experience today in the lives and communities of the survivors, their children and grand-children.

Accountability for U.S. and Western complicity

As we try to do with our work in Guatemala and Honduras, Rights Action encourages and supports education, organizing and activism work to hold the U.S.-led West legally and politically accountable for supporting, enabling and legitimizing Israel’s systematic crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Urgent need to diversify media sources

Rights Action urges any and every one to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the mainstream government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news provided by Al Jazeera news (https://www.aljazeera.com), Democracy Now (www.democracynow.org), The Real News (https://therealnews.com/), etc.

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