By Salman Abu Sitta, a Nakba survivor and the founder and president of Palestine Land Society, re-posted from Facebook on 9/3/25.

A MESSAGE TO AN AMERICAN JEWISH PROFESSOR

Dear Prof xxx
For many years you wrote scholarly “moderate” articles on Zionism and Israel.
Yesterday you wrote that “Israel has a right to exist” is not in question.

As a Palestinian who was born in Al Ma’in Abu Sitta, I ask a simple personal non academic question: will this state exist on my land?
If yes, I do not agree, never did, never will.

My family was attacked by Zionist militia on 14 May 1948 and our landscape was destroyed. We became refugees ever since. Four kibbutzim were built on my land.

Simply put: criminals came to my country in smugglers’ ships with guns and support from other criminals and took my land. In that small place of mine (6x 8 km) I will never accept criminals to seize my land, expel me and call it their “state”.

I am not naïve. I am over 80 years of age with at least 60 years of scholarship. And I say this. We will never allow a state or its agents to take our home, even now after 18,000 days, or after multiples of intifadas or many Octobers or many Naksa.

I will not recite for you UN or international law or justice or the incarnate savagery of the Zionists. I and my family including future generations, will not ever accept It. We do not have F35, tanks or big guns, We did not buy the Congress. We did not appeal to the worst agents of racism. We did not peddle expressions of antisemitism with acts of savage Genocide and starvation.

We did not become the pariah of the world. The blood of our slaughtered women and children fueled the outrage of ordinary decent people around the world.

We are ordinary decent people .
We shall return.