10.08.23

Editorial Note

A few days ago, anti-Israeli academics circulated a petition titled “The Elephant in the Room.” 

Since 2004, the IAM’s has analyzed scores of similar writings. They are all based on the dominant neo-Marxist, critical paradigm alternatively known as postmodernism. It offers several claims: the traditional positivist school of thought, which emphasized objectivity and facts, is a cover-up for Western dominance; scholars have a duty to expose these “falsehoods” and craft an alternative historical narrative. In the new narrative, the Palestinians are considered the blameless victims of Western colonialism, with Israel being the modern colonial manifestation – an apartheid state.   

With wealthy Arab states pouring money into Western academic institutions, and the new paradigm taking over, Israeli academics who wanted to advance their careers had to fit in. Israeli academics had to produce anti-Israel scholarships to be accepted. For example, Prof. Neve Gordon was invited to UC Berkeley by Prof. Nezar AlSayyad. Prof. Ariella Azoulay was recruited to Brown University by Prof. Beshara Doumani. Prof. Ilan Pappe was recruited to the Exeter University European Center for Palestinian Studies. In 2002, Prof. Oren Yiftachel was forced by the editor to compare Israel to South Africa’s apartheid in an academic journal, among the many other cases IAM exposed in the last twenty years. 

The “Elephant in the Room” takes the activist paradigm to new heights. The group finds a “direct link between Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and its illegal occupation of millions of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Palestinian people lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest. They face constant violence: this year alone, Israeli forces have killed over 190 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and demolished over 590 structures.” They demand “equal rights for all.” The “Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid.” The “ultimate purpose of the judicial overhaul is to tighten restrictions on Gaza, deprive Palestinians of equal rights both beyond the Green Line and within it, annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.” Moreover, “Jewish supremacism has been growing for years and was enshrined in law by the 2018 Nation State Law.” 

According to them, Israel’s “long-standing occupation… has yielded a regime of apartheid. As Israel has grown more right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have grown more and more alienated from it.” They call “to embrace equality for Jews and Palestinians within the Green Line and in the OPT. Support human rights organizations which defend Palestinians and provide real-time information on the lived reality of occupation and apartheid.” Moreover, the group demands from the “elected leaders in the United States that they help end the occupation, restrict American military aid from being used in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and end Israeli impunity in the UN and other international organizations.”  

Those who are familiar with history know that the Palestinian narrative is ostensibly fabricated. The Balfour Declaration did not mention the Palestinians because, back then, all natives were Palestinians, including Jews. It stated on November 2nd, 1917: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” The League of Nations adopted a resolution to this effect. In return, the Arab World received Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The Arabs objected to the national home for the Jewish People in Palestine for antisemitic reasons. They rejected the 1947 UN Partition Proposal, a clear indication that the Palestinians made a bad decision.

Even more egregious, the brutal regimes of Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank are not mentioned in the petition. It is well known that when the Oslo Peace Process established the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat created a dysfunctional and corrupt political system. If anything, his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, has exceeded in mismanagement to the point of running the PA into the ground. The situation in Gaza is even more tragic, as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have appropriated enormous amounts of international aid to purchase weapons to fight Israel. Several rounds of widespread protests, including the current one, have been put down with extreme brutality.   

There is, of course, little hope that the anti-Israel academics would note the tragic situation of the Palestinians. To acknowledge this would go against the paradigm in which the West, in general, and Israel, in particular, are the perennial “bad guys” of history. 

References:

https://portside.org/2023-08-06/elephant-room

Material of Interest to People on the Left

Maavigatio

The Elephant in the Room

There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it.

August 6, 2023  

  

Shoshke

We, academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad, call attention to the direct link between Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and its illegal occupation of millions of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Palestinian people lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest. They face constant violence: this year alone, Israeli forces have killed over 190 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and demolished over 590 structures. Settler vigilantes burn, loot, and kill with impunity.

Without equal rights for all, whether in one state, two states, or in some other political framework, there is always a danger of dictatorship. There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it. Indeed, the ultimate purpose of the judicial overhaul is to tighten restrictions on Gaza, deprive Palestinians of equal rights both beyond the Green Line and within it, annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population. The problems did not start with the current radical government: Jewish supremacism has been growing for years and was enshrined in law by the 2018 Nation State Law.

American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid. As Israel has grown more right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have grown more and more alienated from it. Meanwhile, American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right. 

In this moment of urgency and also possibility for change, we call on leaders of North American Jewry – foundation leaders, scholars, rabbis, educators – to

1. Support the Israeli protest movement, yet call on it to embrace equality for Jews and Palestinians within the Green Line and in the OPT. 
2. Support human rights organizations which defend Palestinians and provide real-time information on the lived reality of occupation and apartheid.
3. Commit to overhaul educational norms and curricula for Jewish children and youth in order to provide a more honest appraisal of Israel’s past and present.
4. Demand from elected leaders in the United States that they help end the occupation, restrict American military aid from being used in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and end Israeli impunity in the UN and other international organizations.
    

No more silence. The time to act is now.Sign now

List of signatories

1.      Shira Klein, Associate Professor of History, Chapman University

2.      Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University

3.      Meir Amor, Associate Professor Concordia University (ret.) 

4.      Lior Sternfeld, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University

5.      David N. Myers, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA 

6.      Yair Mintzker, Professor of History, Princeton University

7.      Tamir Sorek, Professor, Penn State University

8.      Nitzan Lebovic, Professor of History, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies, Lehigh University

9.      Samuel Moyn, Professor, Yale University

10.  Amos Goldberg, Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

11.  Zach Adam, Professor Emeritus, the Hebrew University   

12.  Sarah Stroumsa, Professor Emerita, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

13.  Daniel Blatman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

14.  Ella Segev, Associate Professor, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

15.  Ben Kiernan, Professor of History, Yale University (ret.) 

16.  Efraim Davidi, lecturer, Tel Aviv University 

17.  Yael Hashiloni Dolev, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

18.  Anat Matar, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Tel Aviv University 

19.  Dr. Noga Wolff, Independent Scholar 

20.  Omri Boehm, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research 

21.  Oren Yiftachel, Professor of Geography, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev

22.  Naama Meishar, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

23.  Yael Sela, Research Associate, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam University 

24.  Yiftah Elazar, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

25.  Dudy Tzfati, Associate Professor of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

26.  Ofer Ashkenazi, Associate Professor of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

27.  Sara Helman, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (ret.)

28.  Outi Bat-El Foux, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University 

29.  Benny Morris, Professor Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

30.  Meron Mendel, Professor, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences 

31.  Yitzhak Hen, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

32.  Ronen Segev, Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev 

33.  Uri Mor, Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

34.  Michael Steinberg, Professor of History, Brown University 

35.  Avraham Sela, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

36.  Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame 

37.  Jung Cyrulnik Daphna, Social Worker

38.  Alon Confino, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, UMass Amherst 

39.  Isaac Nevo, Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

40.  Raya Morag, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

41.  Katharina Galor, Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Brown University

42.  Guy Stroumsa, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & University of Oxford 

43.  Dr. Tammy Razi 

44.  Yosi Avron, Professor Emeritus, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

45.  Rachel Burnett, undergraduate student of Psychology & Middle East Studies at UCLA

46.  Liora Halperin, Professor, University of Washington 

47.  Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University 

48.  Hanno Loewy, Jewish Museum Hohenems 

49.  Avrum Burg, Associate Professor, former speaker of the knesset, former chairman of the Jewish Agency 

50.  Abigail Jacobson, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

51.  Susan Neiman, Director, Einstein Forum 

52.  David Enoch, Professor of Law and Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

53.  Assaf Hasson, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

54.  David De Vries, Professor Emeritus, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University 

55.  Galit Hasan-Rokem, Professor Emerita, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

56.  Ron Naiweld, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS

57.  Edouard Jurkevitch, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

58.  Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor Emerita, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

59.  David Abraham, Professor of Law, University of Miami 

60.  David Guggenheim, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

61.  Ian Balfour, Professor Emeritus, York University 

62.  David Feldman, Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London

63.  Michael Rothberg, Professor of English, Comparative LIterature, and Holocaust Studies, UCLA

64.  Fareed Mahameed, Assistant Director, Center for Transboundary Water Management, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

65.  Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor, The University of Chicago

66.  Iris Hefets, Psychoanalyst, Berlin

67.  Meir Aridor, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh 

68.  Elazar Barkan, Professor, Columbia University 

69.  Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York 

70.  Dmitry Shumsky, Associate Professor of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

71.  Li Wai-yee, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University 

72.  Nina Robins, Masters student of Global Public Health, New York University 

73.  Hannan Hever, Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University 

74.  Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS 

75.  Dr. Adi Avivi

76.  Niv Likwornik, student, Franklin & Marshall College 

77.  Avner Ben-Amos, Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University 

78.  Oded Heilbronner, Professor of History and Cultural Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

79.  Ivy Sichel, Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz 

80.  Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, activist, Gate48 and Academia for Equality 

81.  Khalefah Alghanim, Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA 

82.  Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Professor Emerita, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

83.  Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Associate Professor of English, Universty of Haifa 

84.  Margaret Olin, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Yale University 

85.  Jacob Katriel, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

86.  Yuval Tal, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

87.  Stefan Rokem, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School

88.  Heather Stone, Adv. 

89.  Uri Horesh, Senior Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics, Achva Academic College

90.  Ariel Chipman, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, The Hebrew University

91.  Lev Grinberg, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

92.  Arie M. Dubnov, Max Ticktin Professor of Israel Studies and History, George Washington University

93.  Sofia Fani Gutman, researcher and activist in Palestine, architecture student, The Cooper Union

94.  Aaron Hahn Tapper, Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor of Jewish Studies, University of San Francisco

95.  Yael Poznanski, Senior Lecturer, Achva Academic College

96.  Oded Bein, Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University

97.  Tamar Katriel, Professor Emerita, University of Haifa

98.  Tal Bruttmann, Researcher, Paris Cergy Université 

99.  Marcello Flores, Professor, University of Siena (ret.)

100.                      Nurit Peled Elhanan, Lecturer, David Yellin Academic College of Education

101.                      Cora Galpern, student, University of Michigan 

102.                      Rela Mazali, Writer, Independent Scholar, Activist

103.                      Daniel Lieberman, Professor, Harvard University 

104.                      Froma Zeitlin, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature, Princeton University 

105.                      Adi M. Ophir, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University 

106.                      Hasia Diner, Professor Emeritus of American Jewish History, New York University

107.                      David Zonsheine, Former chairperson of B’Tselem and Courage to Refuse 

108.                      Dr. Sigal Yawetz, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

109.                      Dr. Dan Eshet, Salem State University

110.                      Yuri Pines, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

111.                      Avigail Arnheim, Musical Director

112.                      Dr. Theodor Bughici

113.                      Robert A. Slayton, Professor Emeritus, Chapman University

114.                      Diana Kormos Buchwald, Professor of History, Caltech

115.                      Ronald Zweig, Taub Professor of Israel Studies (Emeritus), NYU 

116.                      Daria Goren, student, Tel Aviv University

117.                      Itzik Goldberger, Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary’s College

118.                      David M. Mittelman, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, United States Air Force Academy (personal speech, not a statement on behalf of the U.S. Government or any agency) 

119.                      Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University

120.                      Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Senior Editor, California Institute of Technology

121.                      Eyal Landman, Architect and Masters student, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design 

122.                      Hannah Safran, Haifa Feminist Research Center

123.                      Bennett Simon, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard University

124.                      Marion Kaplan, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History, New York University 

125.                      Dr. Ira Avneri, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

126.                      Renee Poznanski, Professor Emerita, Ben Gurion University of the Negev 

127.                      Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

128.                      Lawrence Baron, Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University

129.                      Ellanora Lerner, undergraduate student, Clark University 

130.                      Joseph Zernik, Human Rights Alert NGO

131.                      Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies, Penn State University

132.                      Phyllis Albert, Local Affiliate, Center for European Studies. Harvard University

133.                      Allon M Klein, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School 

134.                      Einor Cervone, Associate Curator, Denver Art Museum

135.                      Lane Schnell, student at American University

136.                      Anjuska Weil, former member of parliament, Canton of Zurich 

137.                      Maria Mejia-Botero, student, University of Miami 

138.                      Isabella Childress, student, University of Miami 

139.                      Ranen Omer-Sherman, Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Louisville 

140.                      Yair Wallach, Reader in Israeli Studies, SOAS, University of London 

141.                      Ron Barkai, Professor, Tel Aviv University

142.                      Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology, UCLA 

143.                      Liron Mor, Associate Professor, UC Irvine 

144.                      Mordechai Feingold, Van Nuys Page Professor of History of Science and the Humanities, Caltech

145.                      Roberta Apfel, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School 

146.                      Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr Professor, University of Chicago

147.                      Carolyn Dean, Professor, Yale University

148.                      Kenneth B. Moss, Professor, University of Chicago 

149.                      Helaine Blumenthal, Ph.D. 

150.                      Ziva Galili, Emerita Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University 

151.                      Nili Gesser, postdoctoral fellow, Drexel University 

152.                      Ian Barnard, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Chapman University 

153.                      Shaul Magid, Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College 

154.                      Aneil Rallin, former Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

155.                      Hagit Borer, Professor, Queen Mary University of London 

156.                      Tamar Barkay, Lecturer, Tel Hai College 

157.                      Zach Gershon, student, Oberlin College 

158.                      Avner Cohen, Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey 

159.                      Renate Bridenthal, Emerita Professor at The City University of New York 

160.                      Nadav Amir, postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University 

161.                      Eyal Sivan, Filmmaker, Independent scholar, essayist 

162.                      Omer Tamuz, Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech 

163.                      Ruvik Horesh, Professor (retired) 

164.                      Daniel Wittenberg, student, University of Arizona 

165.                      Dr. Liat Tsuman, Psychoanalytic Candidate, New York University 

166.                      Zamir Shatz, artist

167.                      Reshef Agam-Segal, Associate Professor, Virginia Military Institute

168.                      Wu Hung, Professor, University of Chicago 

169.                      Ori Yehudai, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University 

170.                      Snait Gissis, Researcher & Teacher, Tel Aviv University 

171.                      Teddy Fassberg, Tel Aviv University 

172.                      Dr Moshe Behar, Herzlia/Manchester 

173.                      Lisa Leitz, Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies, Chapman University 

174.                      Sahar Bostock, PhD candidate, Columbia University 

175.                      Nomi Stolzenberg, Professor of Law, University of Southern California 

176.                      Janice Hamer, composer, retired Visiting Associate Professor, Swarthmore College

177.                      Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University 

178.                      Sherry Gorelick, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University 

179.                      Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor, UCLA School of Law 

180.                      Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University 

181.                      Katya Frischer, MD

182.                      Irena Klepfisz, Barnard College, retired 

183.                      J.S.Varsano, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 

184.                      Ruti Margalit, Visiting Professor, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University

185.                      Amanda Bloom, retired Physician Associate

186.                      Allon Pratt, retired teacher, Jewish Theological Seminary

187.                      Shai Haran, Professor, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology 

188.                      Orly Benjamin, Professor, Bar Ilan University 

189.                      Aviva Halamish, Professor, The Open University of Israel 

190.                      Yofi Tirosh, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University 

191.                      Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Retired Professor, Tel Aviv University

192.                      Avi Rubin, Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

193.                      Daniel DeMalach, Lecturer, Sapir Academic College 

194.                      Gila Svirsky, Former CEO, New Israel Fund in Israel 

195.                      Rivka Nir Grinshtein, Lecturer, The Open University of Israel 

196.                      Haggai Ram, Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

197.                      Elchanan Reiner, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University 

198.                      Harvey Goldberg, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University

199.                      Rotem Tellem MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University

200.                      Frances Tanzer, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Culture, Clark University 

201.                      Rotem Geva, Lecturer, The Hebrew University

202.                      Avihay Dorfman, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University 

203.                      Gilad Sharvit, Assistant Professor, Towson University 

204.                      Rachman Chaim, Retired Associate Professor, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology 

205.                      Celia Wasserstein Fassberg, Professor Emerita, The Hebrew University

206.                      Amal Jamal, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University 

207.                      Shiri Regev-Messalem, Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University 

208.                      Chana Kronfeld, Professor of the Graduate School and Prof. Emerita, University of California, Berkeley 

209.                      Anat Ascher, Lecturer and Course Coordinator in Philosophy, The Open University of Israel

210.                      Roee Kibrik, Researcher, The Hebrew University 

211.                      Anat Keidar, Social Worker

212.                      Natalie Davidson, Senior Lecturer, Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University 

213.                      Dr. Chemi Shiff, Head of Research, Emek Shaveh 

214.                      Efrat Eizenberg, Associate Professor, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

215.                      Maxim Reider, Journalist/Photographer 

216.                      Goren Hilit, Psychologist

217.                      Orr Comay, PhD, Tel Aviv University 

218.                      Claude Stern, Lawyer, former Stanford DCI 2020 cohort member

219.                      Dr. Suzy Ben Dori

220.                      Gina Ben David, Performance Artist

221.                      Dr. Chen Misgav, The Open University, Israel

222.                      Yoav Di-Capua, Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin 

223.                      Mr. Gilad Melzer, Beit Berl College 

224.                      Maayan Padan, PhD Student, Bar Ilan University, Adjunct Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

225.                      Jennifer Robertson, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan  

226.                      Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University 

227.                      Alma Itzhaky, research fellow, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, ZfL Berlin 

228.                      Itamar Haritan, PhD Student at Cornell University

229.                      Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

230.                      Sagit Mor, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa 

231.                      Rachel Kallus, Professor Emerita, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

232.                      Ophira Gamliel, Lecturer in South Asian Religions, University of Glasgow

233.                      Alon Marcus, Teaching faculty member, The Open University of Israel 

234.                      Ido Roll, Associate Professor and Deputy Senior Vice President, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology

235.                      Erica Weitzman, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

236.                      Simon Levis-Sullam, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

237.                      Raz Chen Morris, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University

238.                      Chen Bram, Research Fellow, Truman Institute, The Hebrew University 

239.                      Matityaho Shemoeloff, Author and poet

240.                      Gideon Freudenthal, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University

241.                      Uri Ram, Professor Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

242.                      Roii Ball, Historian, University of Münster 

243.                      Edith Lutz, PhD in Jewish Studies

244.                      David Winizki, MD, Zürich 

245.                      Marcelo Svirsky, University of Wollongong, Australia 

246.                      Chamutal Eitam, Humanitarian advisor MSF – Médecins Sans Frontières

247.                      Michal Kaiser-Livne, Psychoanalyst, Berlin

248.                      Na’ama Rokem, Associate Professor, University of Chicago

249.                      Jenna M Gibbs, Associate Professor of History, Florida International University 

250.                      Ruth Luschnat, case worker, Berlin

251.                      Rafi Greenberg, Professor, Archaeology, Tel Aviv University 

252.                      Jeff Peck, Professor and Dean, CUNY (retired) 

253.                      Eran Fisher, Associate Professor, The Open University of Israel 

254.                      Guy Bollag, Student, University of Zurich 

255.                      Ruth Fruchtman, Writer and Journalist, Berlin 

256.                      Leah Gruenpeter Gold, PhD candidate, Tel-Aviv University 

257.                      Jonathan Zeitlin, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Public Policy and Governance Emeritus, University of Amsterdam 

258.                      Dr. David Senesh, senior clinical psychologist

259.                      Tal Shkedi, Student, Ono Academic College

260.                      Betty Amstutz Gerson, retired teacher and writer

261.                      Hadas Shintel, Lecturer in Psychology, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan

262.                      Yossi Dahan, Associate Professor, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan 

263.                      Itay Shalit, Student, Tel Aviv University

264.                      Miriam Victory Spiegel, Family Therapist, Zürich

265.                      Yoav Beirach, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

266.                      Jeffrey B Cooper, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

267.                      Tamir Swissa, Student, Tel Aviv University

268.                      Hadassah Danit O’Reilly, Independent Scholar of Holocaust and Genocide

269.                      Naomi Tauber, Clinical psychologist

270.                      Patrick Barnard, Journalist

271.                      Chiara Adorisio, Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology, La Sapienza University

272.                      Shaul Mitelpunkt, Department of History, University of York

273.                      Nadav Assor, Associate Professor of Art, Connecticut College

274.                      Dorit Peleg, writer

275.                      Hagar Dror Maliniek, Clinical Psychologist

276.                      Naomi Weiner, Professor, David Yellin Academic College

277.                      Amir Locker-Biletzki, Independent Scholar

278.                      Paul Osman, Associate Professor, Harvard University 

279.                      Kobi Peterzil, Professor, University of Haifa

280.                      Roy Hoshen, Student, Tel Aviv University

281.                      Geri Müller, President, Association Swiss Palestine, Baden, Switzerland

282.                      Lily Koliner, PhD student, The Hebrew University

283.                      Sharon Peled, Candidate, The Institute For Psychoanalytic Training And Research, NY

284.                      Dr. Lia Eshet, Family physician

285.                      Jill Hamberg, Retired Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State University

286.                      Ian Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

287.                      Tahel Gover, Academic Librarian, University of Haifa

288.                      Hadar Ahuvia, Choreographer, Rabbinical Student, Hebrew College

289.                      Robert Cohen, Writer

290.                      Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of East London

291.                      Neta Stahl, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

292.                      Sasha Senderovich, Associate Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies, University of Washington Seattle

293.                      Helena Desivilya Syna, Professor Emerita, Yezreel Valley College

294.                      Aram Ziai, Professor in Political Science, University of Kassel

295.                      Dan W Wasserman, Graduate student, Bar-Ilan University

296.                      Yanay Israeli, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan

297.                      Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, Columbia University

298.                      Clement Segal, Middle-Eastern Studies, Science Po Grenoble

299.                      Barry Cohen, Associate Dean (retired), Ying Wu College of Computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology

300.                      Tova Benjamin, PhD Candidate, New York University

301.                      Vanessa Tor, Theater Director

302.                      Mikhal Dekel, Distinguished Professor, City College of New York

303.                      John P Pittman, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

304.                      Joshua Schreier, Professor of History, Vassar College

305.                      Susan Shapiro, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

306.                      Alana M. Vincent, Associate Professor, History of Religion, Umeå University

307.                      Joshua Shanes, Professor, College of Charleston

308.                      Michael G Levine, Professor, Rutgers University

309.                      Allison Mickel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehigh University

310.                      Jonathan Buchsbaum, Professor Emeritus, Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York

311.                      Dan Simon, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Southern California

312.                      Rudolf Schär, Alumnus, ETH Zürich

313.                      Avner Baz, Professor, Tufts University

314.                      Mordehai Amihai Bivas, Ambassador (Rt.)

315.                      David Haig, Professor, Harvard University

316.                      Rachel Kapeliuk Azgad, Psychoanalyst

317.                      Avivit Ballas Baranes, Artist and Lecturer

318.                      Clifford Kulwin, Rabbi Emeritus, Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, NJ

319.                      Dor Yaccobi, PhD Candidate, Tel Aviv University

320.                      Nathaniel Berman, Professor, Religious Studies, Brown University

321.                      Sam Fleischacker, LAS Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

322.                      Avner Wishnitzer, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University

323.                      Vardit Rispler-Chaim, Associate Professor, University of Haifa (retired)

324.                      Anita Bardin, Retired Director, Shiluv Family Therapy Institute

325.                      Philip Prinz, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University

326.                      Dr. Einat Davidi, Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa

327.                      Rivka Ribak, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Haifa

328.                      Dr. Lian Malki-Schubert

329.                      Joy Ladin, Writer and teacher

330.                      Margaret Schabas, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor, University of British Columbia

331.                      Robert Weinberg, Professor of History, Swarthmore College

332.                      Gal Gvili, Associate Professor, McGill University

333.                      Tamar Shochat, Professor, University of Haifa

334.                      Nora North, Retired, NYC Department of Education

335.                      Anat Prior, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa

336.                      Frances Geteles, Professor Emerita, City College, NY

337.                      Anna Gutgarts, Research Member, University of Haifa

338.                      David Hall, Illustrator

339.                      Edna Gorney, Lecturer, Haifa University (retired)

340.                      Alan Tansman, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

341.                      Paula Varsano, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

342.                      Dr Yohai Hakak, Senior Lecturer, Brunel University London 

343.                      Michael Sfard, Human Rights Lawyer

344.                      Ayla Matalon, Former Lecturer at Technion MBA Program

345.                      Linda Dirtmar, Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts

346.                      Pamela Burdman, Executive Director, Just Equations

347.                      Dorit Avnir, Doctor of Arts, Art Therapist

348.                      Ruth Ben-Artzi, Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College

349.                      Pini Herman, Past Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California 

350.                      Rawia Aburabia, Assistant Professor of Law, Sapir Academic College

351.                      Danny Rubinstein, Journalist and author

352.                      Dorit Barchana-Lorand, Kibbutzim College of Education and the Arts

353.                      Naftali Kaminski, Professor of Medicine, Yale University

354.                      Natasha Gordinsky, Senior lecturer, University of Haifa

355.                      Brigitte Hahn, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

356.                      Shelley Berlowitz, PhD, Alumna University of Konstanz

357.                      Zur Shalev, Professor, University of Haifa

358.                      Sheer Ganor, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

359.                      Leon Duveen, Chair Lib Dems (UK) for Peace in the Middle East

360.                      Elisabeth Goldwyn, Professor, Haifa University

361.                      Patrick Macklem, Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Toronto

362.                      Shir Alon, Assistant professor at the University of Minnesota

363.                      Ori Goldbergת Assistanא Professor, Reichman University

364.                      Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs

365.                      Marc Caplan, (APL) Professor, Heinrich-Heine University

366.                      Batja P. Guggenheim-Ami, Professor emeritus, FHSG St.Gall Switzerland

367.                      Menachem Elimelech, Professor, Yale University

368.                      Laura Levitt, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender, Temple University

369.                      Moshe Zuckermann, Professor of History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University

370.                      Alessandro Treves, Professor at SISSA, Trieste

371.                      David Blanc, Professor of Mathematics, University of Haifa

372.                      Jeremiah Riemer, former Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

373.                      Edy Kaufman, Professor, M.A. Peace and Conflict Management, University of Haifa

374.                      Elly Levy, Attorney

375.                      Mark Fichman, Associate Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University

376.                      Cara Rock-Singer, Assistant Professor at UW Madison

377.                      Iris Kaminski, Environmental Scientist, New Haven

378.                      Michael Hiller, Former board member, Grundrechtekomitee (Committee for Basic Rights)

379.                      Andras Hamori, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

380.                      Sandro Ventura, Psychiatrist

381.                      A. Kedem, PhD student, Hifa University

382.                      Seth Schwartz, Professor of History and Classics, Columbia University

383.                      Ellen Weiss, Children’s book author

384.                      Nir Friedman, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

385.                      Steve Fassberg, Professor of Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

386.                      Amos Laor, Labor union lawyer

387.                      Dennis Jett, Professor, Penn State University

388.                      Benny Miller, Professor of International Relations, Haifa University

389.                      Itamar Shachar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hasselt University

390.                      Or Simovitch, Arts Educator

391.                      Ran Shauli, Faculty member, Bar Ilan University

392.                      Marcos Silber, Associate Professor, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

393.                      Alice Robinson, Psychotherapist

394.                      Israel Charny, Professor of Psychology Hebrew University (retired)

395.                      Sana Knaneh, LSE Alumni, London

396.                      Uri Amir Koren, PhD student, Rutgers University

397.                      Itamar Kastner, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

398.                      Rosabel Kurth, Student, Carnegie Mellon University

399.                      Gil Gambash, Professor, University of Haifa

400.                      Mark Siegel, Professor, Yale University

401.                      Ellen Shaler, alum, University of Michigan

402.                      Richard Strier, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

403.                      Sigall Horovitz, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

404.                      Candice Breitz, Professor, HBK Braunschweig, Germany

405.                      Mabel Stilman Kolesas, Librarian

406.                      Ram Reshef, Senior lecturer, University of Haifa

407.                      Dr. Barbara Landau, Lawyer, Psychologist, Mediator, Co-founder J-Link International Network & Co-Chair Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims

408.                      Baruch Eitam, Associate Professor, University of Haifa

409.                      Marianne Hirschberg, Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany

410.                      Claire Bergen, Rabbinic Student, International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

411.                      Sandra Meiri, Senior Lecturer Emerita, The Open University of Israel

412.                      Zackary Berger, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

413.                      Igal Ezraty, Jaffa Theatre Director

414.                      Michal Kofman, Associate Professor (Term) of sociology, University of Louisville

415.                      Avraham Oz, Professor, University of Haifa