Love in the Time of Apartheid held cultural event in Ramallah

Campaign for repealing Israel’s racist laws Occupied Ramallah - The Palestinian campaign for repealing Israel’s racist laws denying family unification, Love in the Time of Apartheid, held a cultural event in Ramallah under the name “Our Love Is Resistance” to bring attention to the discriminatory and persecutory  “Citizenship and Entry Into Israel Law (temporary order)” which prevents the family reunification of Palestinians.
During the event, the campaign announced that 100 Palestinian civil society organizations have endorsed the campaign and that renowned philosopher and writer Judith Butler, Former Justice John Dugard, and writer Alice Walker were the first three esteemed personalities to join the campaign’s international advisory board. In addition, a petition was launched to gather Palestinian signatures demonstrating the strong rejection of the law.
A volunteer based initiative; the “Love of in the Time of Apartheid” Campaign was launched in a symbolic wedding in March 2013 at Hizma checkpoint. It appeals to international human rights and civil society organizations, as well as, all people of conscious all over the world, to work together to hold Israel accountable in regional and international forums until it revokes its “Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (temporary order)”. This discriminatory law denies family reunification of Palestinian families when one partner holds Israeli citizenship (or Jerusalem residency) and the other is a resident of the occupied Palestinian territory (among other domiciles). It thus deprives these families of their civil, political, economic and social rights.
The program included singers Nai Barghouti and Jamil Sayeh, stand-up comedian Nidal Badarny, and a dance called “Desperate Attempt”.