Id like to clarify two points about this declaration. First, many of you have thanked and praised me for my willingness to give away my Right of Return. But the fact is that, as much as I would love to actually do this, we all know that the Israeli State would never accept this gesture as legally valid. So then the whole thing is just a farce, right? Not exactly, because framing it this way highlights the fundamental racism at the core of the Jewish Nationalist project. Imagine two million Jewish people were to sign over their Right to every person in Gaza, and even match them with particular Gazans, sign contracts of transfer and formally petition the Israeli government. The fact that the Israeli government would surely not even consider this, even though it would never refuse the same two million Jews were they themselves to emigrate to Israel (or, even better, to the West Bank settlements) would reveal in the starkest terms that Israel is nothing but a one great process of ethnic cleansing (foreign Jews in, indigenous Palestinians out). This would unveil as the current focus on Hamas as the irrelevant diversion that it is - Its the ethnic cleansing, stupid! The second point is that, while the Right is a fact in Israeli law, it is morally absurd and questionable under international law. The ones who have an internationally recognized Right of Return are the Palestinians who were born there and their immediate descendants, not someone like me who cannot even trace his ancestry directly back to the area.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 03:14:47 +0000
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