We, being members of the University of Malaya academic community, hereby
express our solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and
self-determination.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Israeli apartheid system which
subjects Palestinians to unending settler-colonialism violence in the form of warfare,
land theft, ethnic displacement and cleansing and other forms of repression for over
seven decades till now.
We urge our government and all governments of the world and the global community
in general to take cognisance of the fact that no fewer than three organisations,
have declared, after thorough study and observation, that Israel practices apartheid
which is a crime against humanity.
Therefore, Israel, as an apartheid nation, should be subjected to the same treatment
that apartheid South Africa received over thirty years ago from the global community,
a treatment that was successful in dismantling South African apartheid. We
henceforth call on Malaysians and all the citizens of the world to participate in
measures
The US government in giving unconditional support to Israel has given it impunity to
continue with its violations of Palestinian human rights and to brazenly disregard
international law and UN resolutions which seek to protect Palestinians as an
occupied people. We are therefore in full solidarity with members of the American
academic community who in their thousands have demanded that the US
government end its support for the Israeli apartheid regime.
We call on the citizens of the US and the West to take all steps at their disposal to
demand that their governments immediately withdraw support for the Israeli
apartheid regime and henceforth force the regime to face the reality that genuine
peace can only come about once it recognizes and respects the human rights of
Palestinians in both the occupied territories and within its borders ends its
occupation and colonisation of all Arab lands, dismantles the apartheid wall in the
West Bank and respects the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
We hereby affirm our support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and condemn
Israeli apartheid and state aggression in all its forms.