Israeli racist "Love in the Time of Apartheid" law extended

Several UN bodies condemned the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) for violating international law, in particular the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The UN Human Rights Committee, for example, explicitly called in 2003 and in 2010 for revoking this law. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) also called several times for revoking this racist law.

The racist and arbitrary Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) prevents Palestinian families from leading a dignified family life and enjoying their social, civil, and other rights. The law was approved by the Israeli government in 2002 as a Temporary Suspension Order, and was then approved by the Israeli Knesset; it was amended several times, while several appeals presented by several legal and human rights organizations to the Israeli Supreme Court were rejected. Most recently, on 11 January 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court reemphasized (Resolution 466/07) the "constitutionality" of this law, which was described as "racist" by international law experts from several countries around the world.

The "Love in the Time of Apartheid" campaign confirmed that it is an inseparable part of the Palestinian people's struggle against Israeli occupation and apartheid, which violates the human dignity on a daily basis. Therefore, the campaign calls upon the Palestinian people to oppose this racist law by all possible means, the most important of which is the deepening of the social, national, familial, and cultural bonds between all of our people wherever they may be, irrespective of our place of residence and the type of documentation that we are forced to carry. The campaign also calls upon Palestinian civil society institutions to mobilize, each with its own resources, in opposition to this law on the popular and international levels.