The Time Has Come: End All Aid to Apartheid Israel!

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[We are reprinting below a copy of the ad which appeared in the March 13, 1988, New York Times. We urge our readers to support this Campaign and to send money to the address listed below to help publish more such ads.—Ed.]

The New York Times, Sunday, March 13, 1988

THE TIME HAS COME

END ALL AID TO APARTHEID ISRAEL!

We cannot stand silently by as we watch young men and old, women and children murdered daily in cold blood — shot at point blank range, savagely beaten unto death with heavy staves, their heads, hands and limbs smashed.

We cannot permit a ruthless state to poison people with toxic gas and bury young men alive.

We shall never accept an entire people denied the elementary democratic and human rights we insist upon for ourselves. Were we subjected to a brutal occupation, daily humiliation, military rule, mass imprisonment and institutionalized torture, we too would rise up in revolt.

The rebellion of the Palestinian people has been a long time coming. Twenty years of occupation are but one dimension of their tragedy. They were driven from their original homes, villages and land by sustained massacre, condemned to miserable camps, subjected in a far-flung Diaspora to renewed slaughter, saturation bombing and unending persecution.

The tyranny suffered in the West Bank and Gaza is but the little continuation of how all of Palestine was colonized. Between the time of the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the formation of Israel, Zionist militia seized 75% of the land and drove out 800,000 Palestinians through a series of massacres.

When the state of Israel was declared, there were 475 Palestinian cities, towns and villages. Of these, 385 were razed to the ground — disappearing from the map. The 90 remaining were denuded of land, confiscated without compensation.

Today, the Jewish National Fund administers 93% of the land of Israel. To live on land, lease it, sharecrop or work on it, one must establish four generations of maternal Jewish descent.

If, in any country, people had to prove they did not have generations of maternal Jewish descent in order to enjoy elementary rights, no one would mistake the quintessentially racist character of such a state.

Israel is an apartheid state, founded on pillage and predicated on exclusivity. Rights flow from ethnic and religious identity.

How is this to end?

There are over five million settlers of European origin in South Africa. The Afrikaaner population and those of British descent have lived in South Africa for many generations. Yet, very few people, let alone those purporting to be advocates of self-determination for Blacks in South Africa, propose two states — a European white state with guaranteed security abutting a demilitarized, subordinate African state.

A dependent Bantustan alongside an apartheid state is a mockery of self-determination — whether in South Africa, colonial Rhodesia and Algeria — or apartheid Israel.

In Israel, no less than in South Africa, minimum justice requires dismantling the apartheid state and replacing it with a democratic secular Palestine, where Jews and Arabs, Christians and Moslems, live together with equal rights and opportunities.

Apartheid Israel cannot exist without the U.S. treasury. Since 1948, $92 billion of U.S. tax money — $6 billion in 1987 alone — have financed Israel, a state built on expulsion, dispossession and subjugation. The American people have no interest in subsidizing the world's fourth largest military power or the torment of the Palestinian people. End all aid now!

The response to four decades of outrageous tyranny exists — in the stone throwing children of Jabaliya, the Beach Camp, Balata and Dheisheh. It is echoed in those Israeli Jews who resist the oppression of others.

Theirs is the struggle, slingshots in hand, of David against Goliath.

Theirs is the passion for a life without oppression.

Theirs is the vision of a country shorn of racist dominion.

Palestinians and Jews, free at last from discrimination and injustice, will forge lasting peace only in a democratic and secular society where elementary rights are accorded to all.

• Extend your hand to the heroic people of Palestine.

• Support the campaign to end all aid to apartheid Israel.

• Join the worldwide call for a democratic and secular Palestine.

Join our efforts — oppose Israel's onslaught

U.S. signers*

Samir Abed-Rabbo, publisher, Amana Press; Philip Agee; Bashar Al-Asadi; Rashid Al-Banna; Dr. Ali Alboosi; Robert Allen, author; Prof. Abbas Alnasrawi, U. of Vermont; Prof. Khamis Al-Omari, U. of Cinn.; Prof. Stanley Anderson, U.C.S.B.; Prof. Miguel Angel, Laney College; Dr. Philip Antypas; Joe W. Aossey; Prof. Halem Baraket, Georgetown Univ.; George Barghought, Arab Amer. Assn.; Prof. Sam Beck, Assoc. Dean, New School for Soc. Res.; Prof. Martin Bendersky, Rider College; Mary Benns, Co-chair, Gtr. Balt. Rainbow Coal.; Rabbi Elmer Berger; Ione Biggs, Pres., Cleve. Women Speak Out for Peace & Justice/WILPF; Ronald Bleier, Educ. for Soc. Responsib.; Prof. Carl Boggs, U.S.C.; Kamal J. Boullata, artist; Kay Boyle; Elombe Brath, Chair, Patrice Lumumba Coal.; Lenni Brenner, author; Kye Briesath; Bob Brown, Balt. Ctte. in Solid. with the Palestinian People; Elaine Brown; Alexander Buchman; Cynthia Burke, Pres., Transp. Communic. Union, 1310, Minn.; Rena Cacoullos, Young Socialist Alliance; David W. Campbell, Chevron Unit Chair, O.C.A.W. 1-547; Nick Castle, film director; Shirley Ceresesto, Prof. Emer., Cal. State Long Beach; Mary Chamelly, Palestine Solid. Ctte., Chi.; Lynn Chandler, songwriter; Carole Courey; Michael Cowan, Exec. Dir., Natl. Lawyers Guild; Tom Culotta, Pres., Cmmty. Survival Ctr.; Prof. Shawkat J. Dallal, Utica College; Prof. Mike Davis, U.C.L.A.; Rev. Robert N. Davis, Grace Episcopal Church, Utica; Prof. William Doyle, L.A. Southwest College; Gerald Dunbar, atty.; Prof. Clifford DuRand, Morgan State Univ.; Prof. John Edmond, M.I.T.; Fouzi El-Asmar, author; Prof. Hassan El-Nouty, U.C.L.A.; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Prof. Robert A. Fernia, Univ. of Texas; Carl Finamore; Prof. Carolyn Fleuhr Lobban, R. I. College; Donald Freed, playwright; Prof. Nancy Gallagher, U.C.S.B.; Prof. Mario T. Garcia, Chair, Chicano Studies Dept., U.C.S.B.; Kathleen Geathers, Coord., N.E. Ohio Anti-Apartheid Ctte.; John George, Supervisor, Alameda Cnty., Calif.; Suhair Ghanim; Janet Gibson, Alameda Peace Educ. Net.; Earl Gilman, Net. of Solid. with Chile; Prof. Richard Greeman, U. of Hartford; Jim Guyette, former Pres., Local P-9, Austin, Minn.; Jerry Hall, Pres., SEIU 535, L.A.; Dr. Muhammad Hallaj, Ed., Palestine Perspectives; Nathan Hare, psychologist; Prof. Barbara Harlow, U. of Texas; Prof. Bryce Harris, Occidental College; James Haughton, Dir., Harlem Fight Back; Brian Heron, Celtic Art Ctr.; Dr. Will L. Herzfeld, Pastor, Bethlehem Lutheran Church; Carrie Hewitt, Exec. Bd., AFSCME 3357; Richard Hill, C. Amer. Solid. Ctte.; Prof. Patricia Hills, art historian; Rod Holt; Prof. Ruth Hubbard, Harvard Univ.; Clyde Johnson, Pres., Black Employees Assn., L. A.; Dr. Hymon T. Johnson, U.C.S.B.; Prof. Theophile Karam, Cypress College; Mujid Kazimi, Dir., Fin. Aid, M.I.T.; Fathi Khalil, atty.; Prof. Baheej Khleif, Worcester State College; Morris Kight, Gay & Lesbian Concerns; Janet Koenig, artist; Tamara Kohns; Ron Kovic, peace activist; Seymour Kramer, Steward, U.T.U. 1741; William M. Kuntsler, atty.; Felix S. Kury, instructor, S.F. State Univ.; Catherine R. Kusic Koppel, Coord., Nicaragua Info. Ctr., Calif.; Prof. Robert M. Laffey, R. I. College; Edwin L. Laing, atty.; Mark Lane, atty., Ed., New American Perspectives; P.J. Laska, poet; Hannah Lessinger, journalist, The Guardian; Bill Leumer, Pres., I.A.M. 565; Bridie Letzer, Irish activist; Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal, author; Prof. Sheldon B. Liss, U. of Akron; Prof. Richard Lobban, R. I. College; Prof. Froben Lozada, Merritt College; Chokwe Lumumba, Natl. Conf. of Black Lawyers; Gretchen Mackler, State Council, Calif. Teachers Assn.; Jeff Mackler; Victor Marchetti, Ed., New American Perspectives; Bill May, atty.; Prof. Jesse McDade, Morgan State Univ.; Ralph McGehee, author, "Deadly Deceits"; Ann E. Menasche, atty.; Jessica Mitford; Abbas Mohammed, Palestine Solid. Ctte.; Dr. William Monsour; Lucetta Mowry, Prof. Emer., Wellesley College; Prof. Carlos Muñoz, Jr., U.C. Berkeley; Prof. Kamal Naffa, Fullerton College; Muhammad Najab; Ken Nash; Rev. Howard Nash, St. John's United Methodist Church; Kweilin Nassar, Steering Ctte., Gtr. Pitts. A.D.C.; Prof. J.B. Neilands, U.C. Berkeley; Pat Norman, Co-chair, 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian & Gay Rights; George Novack, author; Richard Ochs, Balt. Emer. Response Net.; Earl Ofari, Black author; Prof. Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan Univ.; Prof. Bertell Ollman, N.Y.U.; Walter Oszkowski; Palestinian Cultural Club, U.S.C.; Prof. Kostis Papadontanakis, Essex Cmmty. College; Prof. Michael Parenti; Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel Laureate - Chemistry, Peace; Prof. Fred Pfeil, Wesleyan Univ.; Prof. Gerard Pigeon, Chair, Black Studies Dept., U.C.S.B.; Christopher E. Platten, atty.; Daniel Plattner, Johns Hopkins Univ. Coal. for a Free S. Africa; Marilyn Plumlee; Leonard Potash, Rep., AFSCME Council 57, L.A.; Martha Quinn, Chair, Evanston Ctte. on C. Amer.; Prof. Peter Rachleff, Macalester College; William Randolph, All African Peoples Rev. Party; Richard O. Recknagel, Prof. Emer., Case Western Reserve Univ.; Prof. Roddey Reid, Middlebury College; Richard Reilly, Mid-West Reg. Coord., Palestine Solid. Ctte; Wilson Riles, Jr., Oakland City Council; Prof. Ann Robertson, S.F. State Univ.; Prof. Stewart Robinson, Cleve. State Univ.; Tony Rodriguez, atty., Palestine 8; Trudy Rudnick, Sec., AFT 3882; John Russo, Dir., Labor Studies, Youngstown State Univ.; Tony Russo, Pentagon Papers defendant; The Very Rev. Hanna S. Sakkab, Arch. Priest, Orthodox Church, Syracuse; Prof. Najib Saliba, Worcester State College; Ann Salmeron, member, Boston CASA; George Saunders, translator; Ralph Schoenman, Exec. Dir., Campaign to End All Aid to Israel; Theodore Schoenman, author; Stephen Schumacher, Dir., Ctr. for Peace Ed., Cinn.; Prof. James Scully, U. of Conn.; Amin Shafie, U. of Cinn.; Muhjah Shakir; Bassam Shalhoub; Prof. Steven Shaviro, U. of Wash.; Roland Sheppard, Delegate, S.F. Labor Council; Mustafa Siam, Chair, United American-Arab Congress; Paul N. Siegel, Prof. Emer., L.I.U.; Art Slater, Issues Chair, Rainbow Coal., Cinn.; Loretta Smith, filmmaker; Prof. Neil Smith, Rutgers Univ.; Rev. Donald L. Smith, Synod of Sthrn. Calif. & Hawaii; Jan Snipper, East Bay CLUW; Martha Stephens, Ed., Cinn. Review of Politics & Art; Prof. Jim Syfers, S.F. State Univ.; Harryet Tara, journalist; Rutthy Taubb, songwriter; Lynn Taylor, Exec. Bd., AFSCME 1930; Mary Jane Thacker, Dir., Christ. Educ., United Methodist Church, San Jose; Prof. Carol Thompson, U.S.C.; Daniel Thompson, poet; John Trinkl, The Guardian; Kwame Touré, formerly Stokely Carmichael; Valerie Van Isler; Rev. David Van Strien, Chair, Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Mid. East, Peterboro, N.H.; Gore Vidal; David Wald; Alice Walker, writer, poet; Prof. Alan Wallach, art historian; Sister Miriam Ward, Trinity College, Vt.; Roger Wareham, lecturer, Ctr. for Law & Soc. Justice, CUNY; James Mac Warren, Socialist Workers Party; Prof. Gloria Watkins, Yale Univ.; Nat Weinstein, Natl. Sec., Socialist Action; Suzi Weissman, KPFK, L. A.; Prof. Kevin Whitfield, U. of Mass.; Ron Wilkins, Unity in Action; Prof. Gretchen Willging, Essex Cmmty. College; John T. Williams, Former Pres., Teamsters 208, L.A.; Robert F. Williams, Monroe Civil Rights Defendant; Louis Wolf; Dr. Tony Wolf, Rev., Presbyterian Church, Irvine, Calif.; Claudia Wright, journalist; Dr. Munir Zaitoon; Raouf Zarrouk, art historian; Faith Zeadey, Pres., Arab-American Univ. Graduates; John J. Zogby, Americans for Mid. East Peace.

International signers*

ALGERIA: Brajin Boukhaj, MDA.

BELGIUM: Prof. J. Gadisseur, U. of Liege; Julien Gallemi, Pres., F.N. Hertal Labor Fed.; Paul Gruselin, Ed., La Walonie; Prof. Jamoulle, ULG Liege; Prof. Y. Lion, U. of Liege; P. Longe, Res. Dir., FNRS; Jean Claude Renda, journalist, RPTB; Jacques Yerna, Gen. Sec., FGTB, Liege-Huiy-Waremme.

BRAZIL: Regis De Castro Andrade, Dir. of Res., Ctr. for Contemp. Cult. Stud.; Raymundo Faoro, historian; Florestan Fernandez, Natl. Deputy; Prof. Paolo Freire, author, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"; Dr. Anna Volochko, Dir., Cmmty. Med., Sao Paolo; Prof. Francisco Weffort, Sao Paolo Univ.

CANADA: Father Shafiq Farah; Najib Farah, Info. Dir., Palestinian Assn; Mohammed Ghieh, V.P., Quebec Palestine Assn.; Prof. James A. Graff, U. of Toronto; Pres., Near East Cult. & Educ. Fdtn. of Canada; Bohdan Krawchenko, Dir., Can. Inst. of Ukranian Stud., U. of Alberta; Prof. Pierre Lacasse, Pres. Quebec Palestine Assn.; Barry Weisleder, Pres., Ontario Pub. Ser. Employees Union 595.

FRANCE: Jean Pierre Barrois, linguist; Maître Delphine Bouit, atty.; Pierre Broué, Dir., Leon Trotsky Instit.; Maître Capelle-Hallier, atty.; Maître Gilbert Collard, atty.; Prof. François Guérin; Georges Grandin, Dir., Geology Ctr., Ecole des Mines; Prof. Paul Milliez, Hon. Dean, Broussais Med. School; Richard Nijoule, mathematician; Maître Perralta-Lequerré, atty.; Maurice Rajfus, journalist; Maître Helene Rubinstein-Carrera, atty.; Daniel Seldjouk, journalist; Michel Vale, translator.

GREECE: Costas Bakirdis, Gen. Sec., Fed. of Indust. Workers, CGT; Franceskos Faturos, Gen. Sec., Athens Labor Council; Mikalis Karalambidis, Central Ctte., PASOK; Vangelis Konstaninou, V.P., Fed. of Indust. Workers, CGT; Dionisis Mouzakis, V.P., Elect. Workers Fed.; Georgus Zerbas, Gen. Sec., Salonica Labor Council.

GREAT BRITAIN: Jim Boumelha, Exec. Ctte., Natl. Union of Journalists; Ken Cameron, Gen. Sec., Firebrigade Union; Tamara Deutscher; Jake Eccleston, Dep. Gen. Sec., Natl. Union of Journalists; Dr. Donald A. Filtzer, Sr. Res. Fellow, U. of Birmingham; Baruch Hirson, historian; Quintin Hoare, author; Veronica Marris, Namibia Support Ctte.; Nadim Shehadi, Oxford Univ.; Hillel Ticktin, Ed., Critique; lecturer, U. of Glasgow; Ros Young, Namibia Support Ctte.

N. IRELAND: Gerry Adams, M.P., Pres., Sinn Fein; Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.

ISRAEL: Merav Devir, Ctte. for the Freedom of Expression of Palestinians and Israelis; Abraham Heilbronn, psychologist; Susan Mordechy, peace activist; Akiva Orr, author; Osnat Ron, "RETURN"; Shimon Tzabar, playwright; World Org. of Jews from Islamic Countries (not WOJAC); A.H. Yahooram, Gen. Sec., World Org. of Jews from Islamic Countries.

MEXICO: Adolfo Gilly, author.

NORWAY: Dr. Steinar Berge; Grette Klotrupp Larsen; Dr. Troy Rusli, Prof., Red Cross Hospital, Oslo.

PERU: Senator Rolando Breña Pantoja; Prof. Humberto Campodonico Sanchez, U. of San Marcos; Senator Javier Diez-Canseco; Senator Genaro Ledesma, Pres., FOCEP; Senator Andrés Luna Vargas; Moises Palomino, Pres., Natl. Miners and Metalworkers Fed.; Enrique Rodriguez, Gen. Sec., Natl. Teachers Fed.; Juan Rojas Vargas, Gen. Sec., Peruvian Peasants Fed.; Carlos Salazar Pasache, Intl. Rel., Peruvian Educ. Workers Union; Yeude Simon, Natl. Deputy, Co-Pres., ANP; Leonor Zamora, Workers Party.

SPAIN: Juan Francisco Anton Rodriguez, Pres., Assn. of Young Doctors, Alicante; Frances Casares, Deputy, Catalonian Parliament; Faustino Cordon, biologist; Juan Jose Diaz Sanchez, CNT, Valencia; Justo Fernandez, Gen. Sec., Bank Workers Fed., UGT; Regina Fuente, Pres., Assn. of Young Lawyers, Valencia; Julia Garcia, Exec. Bd., Madrid Neighbor. Assn.; Marianne Hermitte, film producer; Gregorio Lopez Raymundo, ex-Pres., P.S.U.C.; Francisco Manuel, atty.; Peré Mayor, Deputy, Valencia; Blas Ortega, Pres., Assn. of Young Doctors, Valencia; Jose Antonio Pallin, Pres., Natl. Human Rights Assn.; Ionis Peñaroja Gonzalez, Pres., Assn. of Young Doctors, Castellon; Prof. Vicent Pitarch, Exec. Bd., Unitat del Poble, Valencia; Roberto Ruiz, Fin. Sec., Health Workers Fed., CCOO, Valencia; Manuel San Nicolas, Gen. Sec., Bank Workers Fed., UGT, Catalonia; Joaquin Sicilia, La Crida; Jaume Soler, Mayor of Arbucias, leader of La Crida; Ramon Terrades, Pres., Metalworkers Ctte., UGT, Catalonia; Prof. Pedro Vilanova, U. of Barcelona.

SWITZERLAND: Eric Decarro, Pres., Fed. of Trade Unions, Geneva; Erica Deuber-Pauli, Deputy, Geneva; Dr. Nago Humbert; Armand Magnin, Deputy, Geneva; Berthier Perregaux, Deputy, Geneva; Jean Spielmann, Federal Deputy; Jean Ziegler, Federal Deputy.

VENEZUELA: Moises Moleiro, Natl. Deputy.

(* Partial list. Organizations indicated for identification only.)

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