[The following statement was issued by the below signatories on 29 July 2014.]
“Remaining silent while Palestinian people are slaughtered is a sin which nothing could absolve.”
We condemn the barbaric and frequent assaults that have been committed by the Israeli state against the people of Palestine. We also support Palestinians’ fight to win freedom and defend their homes and their country. These struggles have always inspired people to oppose tyranny all over the world. The pretext for beginning this new cycle of attacks was the murder of three Israeli teenagers. This crime should have been investigated by the police and if necessary, by Interpol. Regardless of their race, colour and religion, the perpetrators should be tried in court and punished according to the law. Without allowing any kind of independent investigation and before discovering the murderers` motives or identities, the state of Israel issued its tyrannical verdict and attacked Gaza. At the time of writing, the Israeli state has mercilessly killed 210 people [now more than 1000], while many others have been injured and homes have been demolished. This means that for each of the three Israeli teenagers, 70 Palestinians have been killed. The state of Israel has obfuscated the murder of the three teenagers and prevented any kind of independent investigation. Even the dead are not safe from the Zionists. The Israeli state has used the death of these three young Jewish people to develop their expansionist imperialism and massacre Palestinians who are fighting for their homeland. We declare that our hearts go out to the people of Palestine. Your dead are also ours. They are the dead of all those who seek freedom.
We see the United States government and the European Union as accomplices in these Israeli atrocities. In their speeches they don`t take any definite position, but in their actions they offer assistance to the criminal state of Israel and help to build the world’s filthiest and most terrifying ghetto. The first step in solving the Jewish Question is to obliterate any kind of real or symbolic ghetto, whoever the inhabitant. The situation will not be solved by using the suppression of the Jewish people in Europe as an excuse to create Gaza as the world`s most barbaric ghetto and capriciously slaughter its people. The philosopher Karl Jaspers called silence over the Nazi’s burning of human beings the “common guilt of the German people”. Now every single person on the earth is on the verge of repeating this offence. Remaining silent while Palestinian people are slaughtered is a sin which nothing could absolve. We ask all the people of the world not to remain silent. We urge everyone to declare their disgust as they witness these blatant slaughters and to help the Palestinian people in achieving their freedom, protecting their country and defending their human dignity.
Ali Abasbeigi
Sarah Abazari
Yousef Abazari
Rira Abbasi
Frida Afari
Taymaz Afsari
Iman Afsarian
Amir Ahmadi Arian
Delaram Ali
Elaheh Amani
Samila Amirebrahimi
Shahrzad Amiri
Elnaz Ansari
Hooshyar Ansarifar
Parvin Ardalan
Mohamad Karim Asayesh
Kamal Athari
Nafiseh Azad
Mohammad Baharloo
Rakhshan Banietemad
Mohammad Bastenegar
Bijan Bijari
Rahman Boozari
Kamran Bozorgnia
Amir Hasan Cheheltan
Aryasp Dadbeh
Ahmadreza Dalvand
Baraneh Emadian
Amir Esbati
Faezeh Esnaashari
Shapour Etemad
Babak Etminani
Nasser Fakouhi
Azadeh Faramarziha
Morad Farhadpour
Raana Farnoud
Nader Fatourehchi
Javad Ganji
Matin Ghaffarian
Mohammad Amin Ghaneirad
Mina Ghaziani
Mohammad Javad Gholamreza Kashi
Lili Golestan
Barbad Golshiri
Behzad Gorji
Farhad Hasanzadeh
Ghazaleh Hedayat
Jafar Homaei
Mahmoud Irani Kermani
Nima Isapour
Manouchehr Izadi
Afshin Jahandideh
Ziba Jalali
Amir Ehsan Karbasizadeh
Kazem Kardavani
Yourik Karimmasihi
Mohamad Reza Khajehpour
Azam Khatam
Amir Kianpour
Elaheh Koolaee
Sohrab Mahdavi
Mojtaba Mahdavi
Elham Malekzadeh
Mohammad Maljoo
Simin Marashi
Hossein Masoumi Hamedani
Hossein Mesbahian
Nahid Mirhaj
Ali Moazzami
Saeed Moghimi
Firouzeh Mohajer
Mehran Mohajer
Mahsa Mohammad Taheri
Abbas Mokhber
Ebrahim Mokhtari
Farideh Momtaz
Fateme Moosavi
Hassan Mortazavi
Minoo Mortazi Langaroodi
Nasib Mousavian
Zia Movahed
Masoumeh Mozaffari
Mohammad Nabavi
Saleh Najafy
Hossein Namakin
Mehdi Navid
Nima Parjam
Khosro Parsa
Majed Parvan
Habib Peyman
Kioomars Poorahmad
Saira Rafiee
Farzaneh Raji
Arsalan Reyhanzadeh
Mohamad Rezaee Rad
Siavash Rezaei
Ghasem Roobin
Parisa Roshanfekr
Mehdi Saberi
Morad Saghafi
Hesam Salamat
Nikoo Sarkhosh
Parviz Sedaghat
Ehteram Shadfar
Fakhri Shadfar
Rosita Sharafjahan
Ehsan Shariati
Sara Shariati
Soussan Shariati
Mahsa Shekarloo
Hossein Sheykh Rezaee
Masoud Sofi Majidpour
Farzaneh Taheri
Ardavan Tarakame
Nahid Tavassoli
Narges Tayebat
Farhad Tohidi
Foad Torshizi
Fariba Vafi
Shahriar Vaghfipour
Arash Veisi
Amir Yaghoubali
Arman Zakeri
Parvin Zarrabi