July 26, 2018

Manik Mukherjee, Vice-President of the All India Anti-imperialist Forum issued the following statement

All India Anti-imperialist Forum condemns the Israeli enactment which effectively denies the civil rights of the Palestinians living in Israel.

The All India Anti-imperialist Forum (AIAIF) strongly condemns the enactment of the heinous new law in the Israeli Parliament which declares Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish people” and asserts that Israel is the homeland of the Jews with Jerusalem as the capital, Hebrew as the official language and announces that the right of national self-determination is “unique to the Jewish people.” Ever since the birth of the State of Israel when millions of native Palestinians were driven out of their homeland and became perpetual refugees, through successive wars of aggression it has annexed a vast area of Palestinian land. It illegally occupied both East and West  Jerusalem  and proclaimed the “unified and complete” Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which was a clear violation of international law. Countless Resolutions were passed in the UN condemning Israel as the violator of International laws. But Israel paid little heed to the Resolutions being supported by USA and other imperialist powers. Sometime back the President of the United States, Donald Trump, defying world opinion, announced the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and shifted the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Israel was emboldened by this display of open US support and has now made this heinous and fascistic enactment. The new law effectively robs the constitutional rights of equality from the native Palestinians living in Israel.  It will establish Jewish supremacy to the detriment of the Non-Jewish people. The Arab legislators in the Israeli Parliament has branded it as racist and legalizing Apertheid. The world opinion has roundly condemned this move and even a section of saner Jewish population have opposed this nefarious move of the rulers. We urge the Indian government to bring pressure on Israel to rescind this law.

The All India Anti-imperialist Forum stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people fighting to realize their just demands   and strongly condemns the aggression of Israel against the people of Palestine. We call upon all the freedom-loving people of the world to rise up in protest against Israel’s heinous acts, abetted by USA in league with other imperialist powers. Israel must withdraw this despicable legislation.

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Manik Mukherjee

Vice-President

All India Anti-imperialist Forum (AIAIF)