An Israeli-born Jewish author based in the US announced he is renouncing his Israeli citizenship citing “ethnically determined supremacist laws” and the “genocidal campaign” against Palestinians, Haaretz reported on Monday.
Avi Steinberg made the announcement in an op-ed for media outlet Truthout, where he said he went to the Israeli consulate and submitted papers to formally renounce his citizenship.
“Even as Palestinians were still counting bodies or, in many cases, collecting what remained of loved ones, the suburban woman in front of me in line at the consulate cheerfully asked what brought me here today,” he wrote, as Israel’s war on the enclave has killed over 45,484 Palestinians. ……more
