Joint declaration on the genocide against the Palestinian people
The members of the CLACSO Working Groups Universities and depatriarchalization y Anti-patriarchal struggles, families, genders, diversities and citizenshipsWe begin with the following premise: silence and omission are not options when we are witnessing in real time the ignominious genocide against the Palestinian people. Likewise, we recognize that universities are collectives of embodied histories, where we turn to critical thinking and "civilization" as a fundamental aspect of our work. So, how can we speak about this in the face of the genocidal and criminal blockade of food, medicine, and water to the Gaza Strip, where a ruler uses hunger as a tool of extermination? WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT! NOR CAN WE OVERLOOK THIS ISSUE at this Latin American and Caribbean gathering of knowledge, where we are reflecting on democracies, resistance, communities, rights, and peace.
At this moment, in this meeting space, we are experiencing the confluence of diverse citizens who have come from the five continents to reflect on the horizons and transformations of the Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to enable the construction of a scientific and political agenda that responds to these new academic and political turns mobilized by the continental and global right wing.
For these reasons that call us to build unity, we salute and stand with the civil organizations that, with political courage, are organizing trips to Egypt to march toward the Palestinian border to deliver food and medicine, paying for their own passage, as well as those who are sailing to deliver rice, water, and medicine to the people of Gaza. Let us not forget that a vessel carrying international activists was traveling with the same purpose when it was seized on June 9 by Israeli military personnel in the Mediterranean Sea. This delegation, led by Greta Thunberg, reminds us that the ecological struggle is not separate from the social struggle, and even less so from the struggles and social movements for life against far-right governments that implement fascist extermination policies, as has been done by the religious fanatic and war criminal, already declared as such by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The painful and urgent scenes of families fighting over a sack of flour in their desperation to get some food to take to their relatives are painful, infuriating, and reveal the necropolitical mechanisms of the current Israeli government, which are supported by figures who unfortunately hold political positions in their countries, such as Donald J. Trump and Javier Milei.
Therefore, we raise our voices and reject not only what they represent, but also the destabilization mechanisms they promote and develop in our countries of the Caribbean and Latin American region.
Finally, we would like to recall this reflection by Enrique Lavin:
“What would happen…if I had nothing to eat and almost nothing to drink, or if I had no legs to walk with, or if I had no arms to hug, or if my children had died under the rubble of a bombed building, or if I didn’t know where they were, or even if they were still alive, or if I could no longer cry or laugh and had to keep going…I couldn’t, and yet it’s normal in Gaza day after day. What would happen if I didn’t talk about Gaza…how can I justify it, normalize it, accept it…it’s so terrible that I risk getting used to it. What would happen…if everything were different and the people around me cared? Or if I understood that what’s like there is like here…”
Let's not stop talking about Palestine!
The X CLACSO Conference 2025 does not forget or omit that Palestine today is the shameful paradigm of what the return of the fascist far right represents in Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.
Bogotá, June 12, 2025
CLACSO Working Group on Universities and Depatriarchalization
CLACSO Working Group Anti-patriarchal struggles, families, genders, diversities and citizenships
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Groups and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
