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- Al-Awda affirms that the Palestinian Arab people, regardless of
their religious affiliation, are indigenous to Palestine. Therefore, they
are entitled to live anywhere in Palestine which encompasses present-day
"Israel", the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Al-Awda regards the "Israeli"
definition of Jewish nationals, granting exclusive rights to citizenship and
land to any Jew from anywhere in the world, as part of the racism and
discrimination inherent in Zionist ideology which underlies the policies and
laws of the settler state of "Israel".
- Al-Awda unequivocally supports the fundamental, inalienable, individual and collective rights of all
Palestinian refugees to return to their original towns, villages
and lands anywhere in Palestine from which they were expelled. Al-Awda
also unequivocally supports the rights of all Palestinian
refugees to compensation for damages inflicted on their property
and lives, and to restitution of all destroyed and confiscated
property. All Palestinians are entitled to the rights to self-determination,
to political, economic and civil equality, and to live in a
single democratic state for all its citizens in all of Palestine.
The Palestinian national identity encompasses more than 5.5
million people living in exile, more than 2.5 million living
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and more than 1.2 million
living within the areas of Palestine controlled by "Israel" since
1948.
- Al-Awda firmly stands against the continued displacement
of Palestinians, the construction of illegal Jewish-only colonies
in the form of residential settlements, the racist confiscation
of land and the demolition of homes since 1948. Al-Awda firmly stands against the collective punishment of Palestinians,
and all violations of Palestinian civil, economic, political,
national and human rights. Al-Awda abhors and condemns
the use of massacres and abuse of civilians to further the
expansion of "Israel" to the detriment of Palestinian society.
- Al-Awda supports the struggle for the liberation
of Palestine and views it as a struggle against all forms of
colonialism. This struggle is inseparable from the universal
and labor struggles for social, economic and national equality,
development, justice and freedom against an imposed global
new world order. Al-Awda upholds all of the values
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
Fourth Geneva Convention, the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the
Convention on the Political Rights of Women, and the International
Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of
Apartheid. Al-Awda also upholds the African Charter
of Human and People's Rights, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid
Act (Pub. L. 99-440) and
the American Convention on Human Rights.
- Al-Awda respects, recognizes, and supports the
central role of Palestinian women in the struggle for national
liberation and the right to
return. This includes the leadership of Palestinian women in the right
to
return movement.
- Al-Awda will work to educate the public about "Israeli"
injustices the US government subsidizes with billions of dollars annually.
Until the dismantlement of the exclusionary and racist character of "Israel",
and until all Palestinians are granted the right to return and achieve
equality, Al-Awda is united in working for and demanding:
- An end to all US political, military and economic aid to "Israel"
- The divestment of all public and private entities from all "Israeli"
corporations and American corporations with subsidiaries operating within
"Israel"
- An end to the investment of Labor Union members' pension funds
in "Israel"
- The boycott of all "Israeli" products
- The right to return for all Palestinian refugees to their original
towns, villages and lands with compensation for damages inflicted on
their property and lives
- The right for all Palestinian refugees to full restitution of
all confiscated and destroyed property
- The formation of an independent, democratic state for all its
citizens in all of Palestine
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