Global Alliance for Palestine – my message on why we need it

On 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened in London for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). This new transnational initiative seeks to transform rising global solidarity for Palestine into coordinated political action. As a member of the steering committee, I was asked to explain why we need this Alliance. Here was my message to participants.

Greetings from me, Yanis Varoufakis, to all of you who have gathered so that we work, together, toward a Global Alliance for Palestine.

We need a Global Alliance for Palestine because the West, its governments and big business, constitute a Global Alliance in Support of the Genocide of Palestinians.

But let me be a little more precise.

The West says it wants a Two State Solution

Netanyahu’s life project, like that of the vast majority of political actors in Israel, is to use intense violence to make the Two State Solution impossible

Hamas responds with its own violence

Israel reacts by calculatingly raising its violence to the Nth power

The West then ritualistically condemns Hamas & backs Netanyahu

Inevitably, the West’s claim to want a Two State Solution withers into a tacit support of Israel’s genocide

Thus Israel secures the backing of a Global Alliance in Support of the Genocide of Palestinians.

Isn’t it time that we, people who oppose genocide, who mean it when we say NEVER AGAIN – isn’t it time that we formed a Global Alliance for Palestine?

I believe it is! Let’s do it then.