Palestinians Defending against Israeli 'Colonialism, Genocide': Professor
Speaking to IQNA, Professor Ramon Grosfoguel of the University of California Berkeley noted that the Palestinian operation Al-Aqsa Flood was a "huge success."
“It was a great surprise to the whole world not just to Israelis. It showed that the resistance axis is able and has capability to intervene this way and enter into occupied territories and take over police stations, towns, military bases and so on,” he said.
He went on to say: “It is a very important event because so far Israelis have been practicing, as everybody knows, genocide in Palestine. And the resistance has been fighting and in fact mostly on the defensive side because they basically have been defending themselves and the population from atrocities of the colonial racist Zionist regime and Israelis have been destroying the people of Palestine in an awful way.”
“For the first time we see here an offensive operation coming from the resistance against the genocide of the Palestinian people. As you know the only reason we don’t talk about genocide internationally in Palestine is the Veto of the US Imperialism in the UN,” Grosfoguel stressed.
Ramon Grosfoguel was born in 1956 in Puerto Rico. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in 1979. He then received his master's degree in Urban Studies at Temple University in 1986, his M.A. paper being on Puerto Rico's urbanization process from 1898-1980. He also obtained a doctorate in Sociology at Temple University in 1992. His teaching career began in fall 1990 at Temple University as an instructor. He began teaching courses such as Race/Ethnic Relations in America, Urban Sociology, and Introduction to Sociology. Later (1992-1993), he began teaching at Johns Hopkins University as a visiting professor and was awarded the Oraculum Award for Excellence in teaching. He also taught at State University of New York Binghamton (1995 - 1998), Boston College (1998 - 2000), and the University of California Berkeley from 2001 to present.
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