“Don’t let anyone fool you with the so-called two-state solution. That train has already passed.”
Prof. Sami Al-Arian addressed more than 200,000 people in Lahore, Pakistan, in a mass rally for Palestine, denouncing Zionism as a settler-colonial project that has targeted Palestinians for over a century, and argued that accepting the two-state framework effectively legitimizes Israeli rule.
Al-Arian said the reality exposed by the genocide in Gaza proves that “there is no Palestinian problem, there is an Israeli problem,” condemning Western governments as complicit in Israeli crimes. He warned Pakistan against normalization, calling Israel “a threat to national and regional security.”
He concluded by urging the creation of a global popular movement to dismantle the Zionist system, affirming that liberation requires collective action:
“Every person has a role to play. Free Palestine”.