CPI representatives held a conference with Mexican Palestine solidarity activists

As part of their participation in the 18th annual International Seminar on “Political Parties and a New Society,” sponsored by the Workers Party of Mexico (PT de Mexico), Ofer Cassif and Hendiya Sghayer, representing the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), met in Mexico City with local Palestine solidarity activists.

Gabriel Pérez (CORPOSAL), Hendiya Sgayer and Offer Cassif during the meeting in Mexico City (Photo: CORPOSAL)

Gabriel Pérez (CORPOSAL), Hendiya Sgayer and Offer Cassif during the meeting in Mexico City (Photo: CORPOSAL)

The Coordinating Committee for Solidarity with Palestine (CORSOPAL) and the Museum of the Unshakeable Memory (dedicated to documenting and keeping alive the cases of Mexican activists “disappeared” by the police and paramilitary forces) sponsored a public conference on March 26 for the two CPI activists. More than 70 persons, most of them activists in left-wing and social organizations, attended, including a representative from the Palestine Embassy.

In his intervention in both the seminar and the conference, Cassif reported on the current situation in Israel, with special emphasis on the conditions faced by Palestinian citizens of the State and residents of the occupied territories, and the role of the CPI. He also explained why anti-Semitism and holocaust denial, in addition to being unacceptable in a progressive agenda, harm the Palestinian cause and cement Israeli Jews to the Zionist leadership. A lively question and answer period followed, and the CORSOPAL will be distributing the text of Caff’s intervention to its email list. Sghayer discussed the role of women in Israel and Palestine. For most of the participants, it was their first opportunity to hear such a first-hand report.

The PT seminar is a space for the Latin American and to a much lesser extent the world left to debate the characteristics of the current world and regional situation and the problems facing the movements for social change. The presence of Left governments in power in key Latin American countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, underscores the important role that the region continues to play in the world revolutionary process.

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