Palestinians and Israelis call for a Single Democratic State November 15, 2020 The Palestinian-led One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC), comprised of Palestinians from every major community (’48, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refugee camps and the Diaspora/Exile), together with their critical Israeli Jewish partners, has issued a call for the establishment of a single democratic state including everyone living between the River and the Sea, including Palestinian refugees who choose to return to their homeland. Over the past three years, the ODSC, founded in Haifa but with working relations throughout the worldwide Palestinian community, has formulated a 10-point political program [https://onestatecampaign.org/all/en-manifesto] setting out the vision and framework of a shared democracy in which all the inhabitants of historic Palestine would enjoy common citizenship and equality under the law in a new and pluralistic political community. After decades in which the justice of the Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonization has been recognized by the international community, after decades of chasing after the chimera of a “two-state solution,” and after decades of asserting Palestinian rights with no viable political expression, the time for an effective campaign of decolonization and liberation is now, and it is urgent. Every day the Israeli government, aided by the international community, imposes draconian and irreversible “facts on the ground,” locking the country’s majority population, the Palestinians, into tiny, impoverished enclaves, perpetuating as well the exile of half the Palestinian population. A democratic state in historic Palestine is no utopia if we organize around a just political program, organize, strategize and effectively mobilize our forces, the global grassroots, the international civil society — you. We call on you to join our One Democratic State Campaign and help us build it into an effective anti-colonial, liberation movement. For further information, contact us at . Much work still needs to be done to flesh out our program. We understand that we all will not agree on every issue, but our task in this historic moment is clear: armed with a clear and compelling political program, we need to fully enter the political arena. We call on the entire international community, and especially civil society, to support our Call for a democratic state in historic Palestine. The time has come. It is in this spirit of solidarity, as part of a process of liberation, that we are reaching out to you to join us, beginning by endorsing our program. The struggle goes on. In solidarity, Awad Abdel Fattah, Galilee Haidar Eid, Gaza Diana Buttu, Haifa, Canada Mohammad Al Helu, Ramallah Ilan Pappe, Haifa Nur Masalha, UK Rafah Anabtawi, Shefa-ʻAmr Sari Bashi, Ramallah Jamil Hilal, Ramallah Areen Hawari, Nazareth Munir Nuseibah, Jerusalem Umar al-Ghubari, Triangle Areej Sabbagh, Nazareth Mazin Qumsiyeh, Bethlehem Ghada Karmi, UK George Bisharat, USA Radi Jarai, Ramallah Issam Odwan, Gaza Nadia Naser Najab, Ramallah, UK Jeff Halper, Jerusalem Samah Sabawi, Australia Rula Hurdal, Galilee Sami Miaari, Sakhnin Ramzi Baroud, USA Hamada Jaber, Ramallah Bassem Tamimi, Nabi Salah Susan Abulhawa, USA Abdallah Grifat, Galilee, South Africa Ronnen Ben-Arie, Haifa Raja Deeb, Yarmouk Camp, Netherlands Yoav Haifawi, Haifa Majd Nasrallah, Triangle Bana Shaghri, Kufr Yaseef Issa Debi, Haifa, Switzerland Hatem Kanaaneh, ‘Arrabat al-Battuf Asaad Abu Sharkh, Gaza, Ireland Livnat Konopni, Tel Aviv Leila Farsakh, USA Mohamed Kabha, Galilee Jonathan Cook, Nazareth Saleh Hijazi, Ramallah Jowan Safadi, Haifa Naji al-Khatib,France Johnny Mansour, Haifa Haim Bresheeth, UK Amir Kaadan, Galilee Eitan Bronstein, Brussels Bilal Yousef, Galilee Mohamed Noman, Jordan Wehbi Badarni, Nazareth Miko Peled, USA Ramez Eid, Eilabun Nidal Rafa, Haifa Shir Hever, Germany — ICAHD (icahd.org) /news/palestinians-and-israelis-call-for-a-single-democratic-state