I you are an European citizen, you can sign the European Citizen initiative in English language on Avaaz or SumOfUs

For us, writers, academics, artists, creators of various disciplines, equality between all human beings and respect for others are fundamental values to which we are very strongly attached. The acquisition of territories by force, population displacements and colonization are the exact opposite of these values. The supremacist and racist ideology that accompanies them is a poison that we must combat wherever it occurs.

The colonization of Palestine by the State of Israel, which has never stopped for decades, will further increase with the new Israeli government, which gives a large place and important powers to parties and personalities openly racists, and places at the forefront of its project the acceleration of the colonization of Palestinian lands. The Palestinian population, threatened in its means of existence, suffers the combined violence of the occupation army and the settlers.

Today, in this increasingly tragic context, we strongly ask the French and European authorities to act against this colonization and the endless military occupation that accompanies it, as well as for the protection of the Palestinian people. While the establishment of colonies in an occupied territory constitutes a war crime, the European Union continues to maintain commercial relations with the Israeli colonies established in occupied Palestine.

As citizens, we can and must act: the European Citizens’ Initiative #StopColonies (#StopSettlements), officially approved by the European Commission, aims to obtain from the latter that Europe end all trade with colonies established by an occupying power in any occupied territory.

We have a unique opportunity to send a clear signal and the prospect of a concrete result. To succeed, it is necessary to gather a million signatures.

We, writers, academics, artists, creators of various disciplines, signatories of this platform, support the European Citizens’ Initiative #StopColonies (#StopSettlements), and call on citizens to sign it and to have it widely signed in their entourage: https://stopcolonies.fr

First signatories:
Annie Ernaux, writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 2022
Maguy Marin, choreographer
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, visual artist
Adeline Rosenstein, director
HK, singer
Bernard Cavanna, composer
Maïa Sandoz, director
Yannis Youlountas, director
Dominique Vidal, journalist and historian
Nawal Ait Benalla Lagraa, choreographer
Rony Brauman, doctor, essayist, former president of MSF
Remo Gary, singer
Gérard Mordillat, writer and filmmaker
Irène Bonnaud, director and translator
Philippe Delaigue, director
Jean-Loup Chiflet, writer
Marie Alié, actress
Gérard Morel, performing artist
Alain Gresh, journalist
Mercedes Dassy, choreographer
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, Emeritus University Professor
Pierre-Yves Macé, composer
Bertrand Badie, Emeritus University Professor
Hanna El Fakir, radio producer
Dominique Ziegler, author - director
Daniel Muringer, artist singer musician composer
Stéphane Bérard, artist
Samir Abdalla, filmmaker
Elisa Firouzfar, actress
Jean-Luc Coudray, writer
Ahmad Dari, Palestinian artist
Julien Blaine, poet
Talu Raisson, actor, musician
Habib Ben Tanfous, choreographer
Ronny Trocker, director
Philippe Tancelin, poet-philosopher/academic
Philippe Coudray, comic strip author
Pierre Barbancey, journalist
Stéphanie Latte-Abdallah, political scientist and anthropologist, CNRS