Jacques Derrida (anti-racist Jewish French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction): “I wish to state right away my solidarity with all those, in this land, who advocate an end to violence, condemn the crimes of terrorism and of the military and police repression, and advocate the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied territories as well as the recognition of the Palestinians’ right to choose their own representatives to negotiations, now more indispensable than ever… [the Israeli State’s] existence, it goes without saying, must henceforth be recognised by all”(“Jewish Intellectuals Who Have Opposed Zionism and/or Israeli Racism, Injustices, Occupation, Apartheid and/or Ethnic Cleansing”, Hypertext: http://www.thehypertexts.com/Jewish%20Intellectuals%20Who%20Opposed%20Zionism%20Israel%20Racism%20Injustices%20Apartheid%20Ethnic%20Cleansing.htm ; Joseph Massad, “Sartre, European intellectuals and Zionism”, Electronic Intifada, 31 January 2003: https://electronicintifada.net/content/sartre-european-intellectuals-and-zionism/4384.