It is time you come out of the closet and declare your true colors.
There are now many Jewish groups in the West and in Israel who claim to be on the side of justice for Palestinians in Palestine. They swing from proposing a Zionist regime, disguised in peaceful garb, to a guarded but not meaningful liberation of Palestine.
I tell them: You cannot keep dancing on the stairs. Do not swing between the two ends. Declare your colors, loyalty to a tribe or loyalty to human kind.
There is no half apartheid, no humane occupation (as propaganda machines claimed), no compromise between the killer and the victim, there is no justified killing or destruction.
Do not hide between slogans such as “equality”, “musawa”, One Democratic State. These are envelopes containing a prescription of poison.
There is no right of “self-defense” for the occupier and the killer. Self-defense is not the right of those coming from overseas to kill and plunder. Self-defense is the right of the people of the country to defend themselves against foreign invaders.
You are not a just human being when you say: kill children but not too much, starve people but keep some alive, keep them in cages but with a long rope, destroy hospitals but give them plasters.
You cannot bargain on how much to take of their robbed land, a half or a bit more. Do not preach adherence to “the two-state solution”. You are merely bargaining on how much you slice out of the Palestinian flesh.
Do not blame “the two sides”. You are hiding the killer behind the victim.
You cannot offer the captive population false freedom, to speak or breathe by measure dictated by the captor and expect applause.
If you are an Israeli, do not live in Israel on a land whose owner lives in a refugee camp.
If you are an Israeli, have the decency not to employ a laborer from the West Bank to cultivate, for you, the very field you robbed from his expelled family. Give him back his patrimony.
If you are an Israeli in Sderot, living on the land of Nejd village, whose people are refugees in Gaza three kilometers away, do not complain if they throw kitchen pipes at you. They tell you: they are still here and are not giving up their land.
If you are an Ashkenazi who arrived on our shores in a smuggler’s ship, to kill, destroy, plunder and rob, you are a coward. You should be fighting your countrymen who persecuted you where you lived. You should not sail to another country to kill a people who you did not know and who have not done you harm.
Be like Palestinians: fighting the aggressor, the occupier, the killer with all their strength.
If you are not active in the cause of justice, you are giving cover to the murderer.
Remember that the history of the Jews from now on will not be remembered by the Christian dogma of killing Jesus Christ nor by the atrocities of the Nazis, but by the persistent, continuous and barbaric atrocities against Palestinians amounting to genocide for more than 27,700 days so far.
This is a heavy load you have to relieve from your shoulders, by standing unconditionally on the side of Palestinians.
Your good thoughts, your dormant concept of justice swinging from zero to a hundred only aid the murderer.
If you are truly a just human being, show your true colors: join the Palestinian resistance, fight the aggressor in the field, side by side with the Palestinians.
This is the only way to bring justice back.
The litmus test of your humanity is clear: unfettered and complete fulfilment of the Right of Return with retribution, compensation and restoration of individual and collective material and non-material losses and damages.
All else is fake.
-Dr Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher. He writes about Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian right of return. His article appeared in MEMO.
