CPI(M) conference adopts resolution to declare Israel as an ‘apartheid State’

Leaders at the CPI(M) conference in Madurai on Friday

Demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the 24th Congress of the CPI(M) on Friday (April 4, 2025) said Israel should be declared as an “apartheid State” and dealt with accordingly.

A resolution adopted in the congress in Madurai said the BJP-led government at the Centre should stop supporting Israel and revert to the established Indian policy of backing Palestine.

All the delegates attending the congress raised slogans in support of Palestine, wearing kafiya, the traditional scarf of Palestine people.

“Lasting peace in the region is possible only by the establishment of a Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital and with pre-1967 borders,” said the resolution. While expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine, it called upon Indians to stand firmly with them in their just struggle for their homeland.

Alleging that Israel had encouraged Zionist settlers to occupy Palestinian land and establish Jewish settlements, the resolution said Israel was slowly annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank. “All these acts are intended to drive away Palestinians from their homeland and completely annex Palestine as part of realising its agenda of establishing a greater Israel,” the resolution said.

The party said the United States and other imperialist countries in Western Europe were actively supporting Israel by arming and standing by it in the international forums. “US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his condemnable plans for converting Gaza into a tourist paradise by pushing out all Palestines suits Israel’s interests,” the resolution added.

It said the BJP government had watered down the long-held official position of India on Palestine. “In order to defend its position, the BJP, along with the sangh parivar is projecting the Israeli attack on Gaza as a religious war. The RSS shares close ideological bonds with the Zionists in identifying nationality with religion and their hatred towards Muslims,” the resolution alleged.