Jonathan Freedland (My plea to the left,30 April) asks us to imagine if a country far absent was created for black people and asks if the left would treat it as it does Israel. As a Palestinian I want to show him that if, instead of a country for Jews, and a country for black people or any other group had been created in our homeland without our consent,we would maintain objected and resisted as Palestinians with the same vigour.
If it continued to defy international law and occupy, colonise and murder and build our lives so depressing that we would leave, or we would call for its boycott as we do in the case of the real occupier,Israel. And if that occupation had continued for as long as Israel’s has, we would maintain called supporters of human rights to help us end this occupation, and treat Palestinian citizens of that state equally and allow Palestinian refugees to return. As it happens,those are the valid demands of the BDS movement called by Palestinian civil society organisations in 2005.
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Source: theguardian.com