The global movement rejecting the Israeli aggression on Gaza and expressing solidarity with Palestine marked a turning point in the history of international solidarity actions. For more than two years, a sweeping wave of protests and support spread across major world capitals, becoming the largest in decades in terms of size, nature, and momentum.
This global movement generated a notable dynamic—not only in relation to its central cause, the aggression on Gaza, but also in reshaping and redirecting public opinion across many countries, influencing electoral trends, political stances, and cultural identities in unprecedented ways.
One of the clearest expressions of this dynamic was the victory of Zahran Mamdani, a leading figure in the US solidarity movement, who won the office of Mayor of New York—signalling how deeply the global solidarity wave has penetrated major centres of power.
With the war on Gaza officially declared over, and with the UN Security Council adopting a controversial resolution that formalises the end of the aggression and supports US President Trump’s post-war plan, the need for continued global solidarity with Gaza and Palestine—and the launch of a strong “second wave”—is no less urgent than during the first wave. The first wave succeeded in stopping the war, thwarting the forced displacement of Gaza’s population, and ultimately defeating Netanyahu’s central objective: destroying the resistance and ending the national liberation movement.
Trump himself justified his decision to halt the war by telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “You cannot fight the entire world.” He also told the British Times: “I stopped the attack because I saw that the whole world was against Israel.”
Thus, the United States was forced to compel Israel to end its assault on Gaza because the continuation of the aggression had become impossible. The global isolation Tel Aviv faced turned it into a pariah entity.
Today, a second wave of global solidarity is urgently needed for the following reasons and imperatives:
First:
The global movement against the aggression on Gaza restored the Palestinian cause to the centre of global attention as a national liberation struggle. For more than two years, Palestine dominated worldwide concern—publicly, officially, politically, diplomatically, legally, and culturally.
This renewed momentum, achieved after three decades of attempts to sideline and erase the cause, now requires preservation, reinforcement, and continuity. The achievements and transformations produced by this movement must be protected from regression and extended until the Palestinian people regain their full rights, national independence, and the end of occupation.
Second:
Israel’s practices and the rhetoric of its leaders—government and opposition alike—confirm that it rejects coexistence and peace entirely. Its ideology is built on perpetual expansion toward achieving “Greater Israel”, using force to intimidate opponents while reinforcing its sacred-victim narrative that demands constant protection from global powers.
The most extremist government in Israel’s history, led by Netanyahu, will not embrace peace, nor halt its regional wars. It merely shifts tactics—oscillating between total war and partial war, advancing two steps and retreating one—while relentlessly seeking regional dominance secured by its US ally under the maxim: “We do not want them to love us, but to fear us.”
Israel will not accept Trump’s initiative or any settlement granting Palestinians their full rights. Instead, it is turning this deceptive initiative into a new war plan under the cloak of “peace”.
Thus, the second wave of global solidarity is essential to entrench Israel’s political isolation, curb its drift toward renewed war, and neutralise its plans for genocide and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank.
Third:
The hidden dangers within Trump’s Gaza initiative are gradually surfacing and raising justified concerns.
Although the initiative halted all-out war and although the resistance adhered to the first phase, Israel continues to commit near-daily massacres, close crossings, and restrict humanitarian aid.
More troubling is Trump’s coerced UN Security Council decision, which resembles a system of guardianship and mandate over Gaza, enabling Israel to shape Gaza’s political future while excluding Palestinians entirely.
The decision offers no guarantees against renewed war. Despite ongoing Israeli attacks and massacres, Trump insists Israel is “fully complying” with the agreement.
This indicates that the war on Gaza and the Palestinian people continues—now under the umbrella of “international legitimacy” and UNSC Resolution 2803, which had been met with reservations by permanent members such as Russia and China.
Netanyahu and Trump appear to be seeking international cover to continue the war and achieve long-desired objectives that two years of relentless aggression failed to accomplish, while Arab and Muslim countries place misplaced trust in Trump’s assurances.
Fourth:
Although the Zionist lobby suffered unprecedented blows from the global solidarity movement—which weakened its grip over many centres of influence worldwide—it remains powerful, wealthy, and capable of containing much of the momentum generated by the protests.
The drop in global protests should not be interpreted merely as a result of Trump halting the aggression, but also as the lobby’s efforts to spread misleading narratives suggesting that Israel has stopped attacking Palestinians and that the world is now in a “climate of peace”, not one requiring protest.
This is contradicted by reality: in besieged Gaza and across the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and settlers continue to kill, attack, and expand settlements.
Fifth:
For two years, Israel and its Western allies justified genocide in Gaza—and accompanying aggression in the West Bank—on moral grounds, claiming concern for around 250 Israeli captives held by the resistance.
International media, influenced by the Zionist lobby, turned this file into a global drama, relying on emotional narratives while ignoring the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli camps, subjected to torture, starvation, and documented cases of mass sexual assault.
The world cannot accept moral double standards that express panic over Israeli prisoners while remaining silent toward Palestinian men, women, children, and elderly detainees suffering unspeakable abuse.
The continued detention of thousands of Palestinians, amid documented Israeli crimes—torture, starvation, and slow-killing—constitutes a major crime demanding global mobilisation.
Sixth:
The first wave of solidarity began as a reaction to the genocide in Gaza, but the second wave must reconnect Gaza with the root cause: the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation and return.
The global momentum must be redirected to its foundational reference point: the liberation of Palestine.
This will sustain and amplify the movement while transforming it from reactive emotional protests into a mature, principled liberation culture—especially among younger generations shaped by a new consciousness of freedom and justice.
Seventh:
A second wave is necessary for deeper civilisational reasons.
The global movement has awakened entire societies to rediscover themselves and their identities. It has injected into the global consciousness a renewed sense of moral clarity and human dignity—countering the dehumanising impacts of globalisation, consumerism, and capitalist excess.
Its impact is evident in Western electoral behaviour, where voters have shifted from apathy to politically motivated participation aligned with justice, rejecting the grip of entrenched lobbies.
Eighth:
Global solidarity with Palestine has revealed that international public opinion—when protesting for Gaza and the Palestinian people—is simultaneously rejecting the policies of the Western “capitals of decision” that unconditionally support Israel.
Through this movement, the world is expressing its own desire for liberation from the control of powerful financial, media, political, and academic lobbies that dominate democratic processes and produce compromised political elites.
Thus, the second wave is a path toward global emancipation from lobbies that have long hijacked the true will of the public.
Ninth:
A renewed global solidarity movement is the only guarantee for compelling the international community to establish justice and hold accountable those responsible for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, racial crimes, and environmental crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank.
Only a strong, persistent global movement can empower the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to prosecute Israel’s war leaders for some of the most horrific crimes of the 21st century—crimes that spared no infant, no woman, no pregnant mother, no elderly person, no doctor, no journalist, no patient, and no prisoner.
Allowing Israeli leaders to escape accountability would entrench the law of the jungle and institutionalise global barbarism.
Humanity cannot surrender to forces of evil that foster and shield atrocity. Nor can the world accept the elusion of justice or allow raw power to dictate the fate of truth and morality. Such surrender would pave the way to chaos and unrestrained savagery.
