Friends of the Hague Group (FOTHG), which launched in July 2025 to support multilateral efforts to end the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people and to ensure that all such efforts be grounded in the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, has called for a Global Day of Action in solidarity with Colombia on Monday, November 17. FOTHG’s coordinator, Adrienne Pine, explains:
“PNGO [the Palestinian NGO network—the largest collective representation of Palestinian civil society] has demanded that a Uniting for Peace measure be introduced at the UN General Assembly to send a multinational protection force to Palestine and implement sanctions and a military blockade, and President Petro of Colombia has heeded its call by committing to introduce such a resolution. But in working closely with Colombian political and social movement leaders, we have come to understand that that Petro faces enormous challenges in order to be able to carry out his promise. The primary impediment is retaliation by the US government, which has shown bipartisan determination to block any attempt to undermine the genocide that it has enthusiastically enabled Israel to carry out, by criminalizing and punishing solidarity with Palestine at home and abroad. This is evidence of what President Petro himself has repeatedly stated—that none of us will be free until Palestine is free.
Therefore, at the urging of PNGO, Friends of The Hague Group is organizing global actions in solidarity with the president and people of Colombia, to send a strong and clear message that we stand with them in their fight for sovereignty, and with everyone who stands up to Zionist empire, at great risk to themselves. We additionally commit to president Petro and the Colombian people that we will pressure the world’s governments to support Colombia’s Uniting for Peace resolution, and that when he introduces it, the world will have their back.”
The November 17 Global Day of Action will include friendly rallies at Colombian embassies and consulates around the world, and deliveries of letters of support signed by organizations from each participating country. Following the upcoming Global Day of Action, Friends of the Hague Group will continue to collect signatures of support and mobilize solidarity with Colombia
In response to the campaign, the Colombian Action Front for Palestine and People’s Health Movement issued a joint statement, which reads (in part):
“[We] welcome the expressions of solidarity with President Gustavo Petro Urrego at various Colombian embassies, promoted by the global social movement in response to the aggression and threats of intervention by US imperialism. The extrajudicial and illegal killings with missiles of innocent and poor artisanal fishermen in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, the military offensive to besiege our countries, and the false accusations and attacks against President Petro, his family, and members of his government are nothing more than a ploy by the Trump administration to punish our president for his audacity in calling on the world to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza perpetrated by the Zionist regime of Israel with the explicit support of the United States, to request an international protection force for the Palestinian people, and to halt the process of change led by Petro in Colombia by forcibly changing his government in disregard of the democratic will of the Colombian people…
The people of Colombia, who will rise up in their millions in defense of President Petro, their territory, and their natural resources against the designs of the imperialist elites, welcome internationalist solidarity and join the struggle for peace in the region, the self-determination of our peoples, and the defense of national sovereignty.”
Ubai Aboudi, director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development and member of PNGO’s steering committee, stated: “The attack on Colombia is the same attack colonialism carries out against Palestine, against Cuba, against Yemen and all other free people of the world. The idea behind it is that empire wants to rein in those countries that refuse to give away their sovereignty. Standing with Colombia and Venezuela against US imperialism is a must for all those who dream of a world without occupation, colonialism or racism.”
Alejandra Laprea, Latin American and Caribbean coordinator for World March of Women (a member organization of the Friends of the Hague Group coalition), states:
“The attacks suffered by Colombia and Petro are a demonstration of what US imperialism imposes as international policy: abuse, blackmail, impunity, and constant violation of international laws and human rights. Any voice that rises up to defend the dignity of peoples, to defend sovereignty and the right to self-determination, becomes a target for US imperialism.
As a Venezuelan, I have suffered this firsthand for more than 20 years, with more than 1,000 unilateral coercive measures imposed on my country and now with disproportionate military attacks in the Caribbean. To be on the side of the Palestinian cause is to be on the side of humanity, on the side of the peoples, and today we are on the side of Colombia and Petro, accompanying their resistance and struggle.”
Friends of The Hague Group asks organizations around the world to sign the letter of support to President Petro along with a letter to their own governments demanding support for the Colombian Uniting for Peace resolution at the UN General Assembly, and to come out on Monday, November 17 to show solidarity for Colombia. Actions will be posted here in the coming days.
