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Statement by Israeli citizens calling Israel an apartheid state

The statement below was signed by 94 citizens of Israel to express support for the various resolutions put at the world conference against racism in Durban, South Africa, denouncing Israeli apartheid. The signatories are either Jewish citizens of Israel, designated to be the beneficiaries of Israel's inequality, or Palestinian citizens of Israel, designated as its victims.

We, citizens of Israel, applaud the various declarations coming out of Durban that Israel is an apartheid state. After 53 years of racism and discrimination, it is time for the world community to organize and publicly challenge Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. Even as we write, Israeli politicians unabashedly declare their support for Jewish supremacy and Judaization of the land, in an attempt to sustain Jewish control over 7 million Palestinians through military occupation, as second-class citizens or denial of return to their homeland.

Especially because we are citizens of this state, we see our struggle as no less than ending such apartheid and discrimination and attaining, simultaneously, political, social and economic equality for all.

Your support from Durban is consistent with our view that the struggle to liberate Palestine from this regime and to return the Palestinian refugees to their homeland is part of the global struggle to end racism, political and economic oppression, and to terminate the colonialist project in the Middle East. We call on you to continue your loyal solidarity with us, as we strive for freedom and dignity for every person in Palestine.

Signatories

Diaa Asaade	Ahmad Abu Salah	Moran Cohen	Ali Hamada	Vida Kahn	Alon Marcus	Akiva Orr	Fadi Shaqour	Assaf Schurr	Wakim Wakim
Arar Abdel Razek	Rama Ashuach	Karin Eliyahu	Tikva Honig-Parnass	Yusuf Khalili	Lunjin Mahajni	Omer Ori	Shlomi Segall	Ibrahim Sha abi	Shani Weiner
Ahmed Abbas	Rachely Bar Or	Sam (Uli) Freed	Maya Johnston	Murad Khatib	Kaputchi Mahajni	Mitchell Plitnick	Samer Sleibeh	Jamil Saffori	Elana Wesley
Rizik Aibed	Danial Boyarin	Galit Gelbort	Haggai Katriel	Peretz Kidron	Ala Mahajni	Allegra Pacheco	Pavel Simonovsky	Ora Slonim	Naif Zoebi
Eli Aminov	Chava Boyarin	Neta Golan	Irit Katriel	Liad Kantorowicz	Munir Mansour	Amit Perelson	Sana Salamah	Smadar Sharon
Rony Armon	Shamma Boyarin	Maya Gal	Jacob Katriel	Liora Kaplan	Yusuf Mansour	Eyal Rozenberg	Ehud Sivosh	Yossef Schwartz
Yochai Avrahami	Micheline Beth-Levy	Anat Greenstein	Chava Keller	Israel Levy	Mohammed Mansour	Galit Rabed	Tha er Salim	Suheil Sleibeh
Walid Asleh	Rashid Baranzi	Itay Greenstein	Mohammed Kayyal	Naomy Levy	Julia Majlin	Gabrial Rubin	Nazim Saleh	Tirza Tauber
Samer Azzezeh	Hillel Barak	Dafna Hirsch	Yael Oren Kahn	Tamar Levy	Dorthoy Naor	Ora Slonim	Ibrahim Shalabi	Eran Torbiner
Fouad AbuRiya	Rafram Chaddad	Ismail Hamoud	Michael Posen Kahn	Rayna Moss	Regev Nathansohn	Sergeiy Sandler	Malek Shehada	Manar Wakim