Right Of Return Quotes

“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”
― Tariq Ali

“There is no ability for any Palestinian leader to give up the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Giving up the right of return is an individual right, as Palestinians believe.”
― Gershon Baskin, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine

“for Palestinians, the principle of the right of return is a holy right and an individual right. It is not a collective right, and it is not a right that is negotiable. For Israel, the implementation of the right of return would be a death blow to the idea of a Jewish nation-state with a clear Jewish majority. Millions of Palestinian refugees returning to the State of Israel would render the State of Israel a binational state and eventually one with a Palestinian majority and a large Jewish minority. This is a nonstarter for Israel.”
― Gershon Baskin, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine

“If i and my two sons got on a plane tomorrow and flew to Tel Aviv, we could become citizens the day after. By Friday, we could be living in a settlement in the West Bank as a citizen of Israel with full rights that the Palestinians do not have. That's a racist situation.

If we have the right to return so-called after 2,000 years, not that i can prove that i came from there, why doesn't the Palestinian, who still carries in his pocket the deed to his parents home, have the right to even talk about the right of return?”
― Gabor Maté

“The road to Sepharad does not end at the border of Spain or Portugal. It ends when the descendant feels, for the first time, that they are no longer in exile. It ends when the shadows of the past are finally met with the light of the present. Beyond the passport lies a future where the Sephardim are no longer a people defined by their expulsion, but a people defined by their return. We have pulled the ancestors from oblivion. Now, it is our turn to walk the path they could only dream of".”
― Erik Andrés Reynoso y Márquez, The Road to Sepharad: My Years Inside the Sephardic Citizenship Gold Rush: How Spain and Portugal opened, and then closed, the Door to the Past