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To whom it may concern:

On Sunday, October 18, 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be featured at “An Evening of Unity,” the annual event of Yeshiva Beth Yehuda of Michigan.  The event also boasts of the attendance of a number of Michigan public figures, including politicians and civil rights activists.

Some of these individuals include Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan; Debbie Stabenow, US Senator-Michigan; Gary Peters, US Senator-Michigan; Mike Duggan, Mayor-Detroit; Reverend Dr. Wendell Anthony, President-Detroit NAACP

Benjamin Netanyahu, an avowed anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racist, is an affront to "unity."  Netanyahu has built his career and image on disunity and the subjection of the Palestinian people. He has championed Israel’s occupation and the establishment of an apartheid system.

In 2015, as he was running for re-election, Netanyahu told his supporters, "The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” More than 20% of Israel’s citizens are Palestinian.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/17/binyamin-netanyahu-israel-arab-election

In 2019, he championed Israel’s “nation-state” law, which declares, according to him, that Israel is "the national state, not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people.” Again, more than 20% of Israel’s citizens are Palestinian.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702264118/netanyahu-says-israel-is-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-and-them-alone

On more than one occasion, Netanyahu has vowed to never allow the creation a Palestinian state.
In 2015: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-says-no-palestinian-state-as-long-as-hes-prime-minister-idUSKBN0MC1I820150316
In 2019: https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-a-palestinian-state-wont-be-created-586017
In 2020: https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-likud-mk-says-netanyahu-vowed-hell-never-recognize-a-palestinian-state/

He continues to support the inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza that chokes off 2 million Palestinians from vital supplies and aid. The United Nations calls the blockade “a denial of basic human rights in contravention of international law and amounts to collective punishment.” This illegal blockade has led to skyrocketing rates of unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity.

Source: https://www.un.org/unispal/humanitarian-situation-in-the-gaza-strip-fast-facts-ocha-factsheet/

In 2014, South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu noted the following after a visit to occupied Palestine: "I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces… Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.”

Source: https://www.jpost.com/diplomacy-and-politics/desmond-tutu-israel-guilty-of-apartheid-in-treatment-of-palestinians-344874

In 1997, Nelson Mandela declared, “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Source: http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1997/971204_palestinian.htm

I call on you to reject Netanyahu and his racist views. I call on all people of conscience to refuse to share a stage with Netanyahu, a man who denies the rights of Palestinians based on their race, ethnicity, and religion.

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This letter was created by New Generation for Palestine, a Michigan nonprofit organization whose mission is:

To create a network of Palestinian Americans to bond with and empower each other, to promote and celebrate Palestinian Arab culture, to preserve and disseminate Palestinian narratives, to educate the public about Palestinian history and heritage, and to articulate and advocate for a peaceful and just future in our homeland Palestine.