“The plight of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people makes each one of us a Palestinian. The people of Palestine are not merely ‘the Palestinian question’ to be mentioned in speeches in the UN when someone remembers that people are dying to preserve the State of Israel and its military machine. The feeble throwaway and carelessness by which the leaders of the developed world speak of death in Palestine, of hunger, of children not at school, of a wall of steel that locks in land stolen, of segregated roads and detentions without trial - is more than shame. It is the manifestation of humanity having lost its meaning . We must do more than lament and carry banners. We must be steadfast in our resolve to deny the State of Israel any formal recognition. We must ensure that our own government makes friends with people who show respect for human life and dignity, we need to shun the Israeli government . The time has come to stop making calls on deaf ears; the time for sanctions against Israel has come and gone. The world has to act. Systematic genocide is still genocide and the State of Israel has long ago lost its right to be considered as a state with any semblance of human rights ethics. Apartheid in Israel is Apartheid and this is a crime against humanity.” Jessie Duarte (Launch of Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid – A South African Perspective by Suraya Dadoo and Firoz Osman (Sunday, 1 September 2013 Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg)
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