15.04.26

Editorial Note

At the beginning of April, Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) reported on the University of Edinburgh (UoE) being targeted by anti-Israel activists. The post described how these activists have occupied buildings on this campus because Lord Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) served as the university’s chancellor from 1891 to 1930. At the same time, he served as the British Foreign Minister (1916- 1919) and issued a Declaration expressing British support in Palestine for a “national home for the Jewish people.” The 1917 document has become known as the Balfour Declaration. Also, in 1925, Balfour visited Palestine to inaugurate the Hebrew University, wearing his University of Edinburgh academic robes.

One comment that IAM received was from Micah Leshem, Professor Emeritus at the University of Haifa, Department of Psychology. He wrote, “Thanks, encouraging news, let’s hope the UoE reforms its legacy. Israel Academia Monitor response is full of disinformation and falsifications and totally decontextualized from real-life events. Best, Micah.”

Leshem is a long-time anti-Israel activist. Already in 2002, as IAM noted, Leshem was among the 360 signatories of an “Open Letter from Faculty Members,” urging student army-reservists to refuse, stating, “We, faculty members from a number of Israeli universities, wish to express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories. Such service too often involves carrying out orders that have no place in a democratic society founded on the sanctity of human life. For thirty-five years an entire people, some three and a half million in number, have been held without basic human rights. The occupation and oppression of another people have brought the State of Israel to where it is today. Without an Israeli declaration of an end to the occupation, accompanied by appropriate action–unilateral, if necessary–the present war is not being fought for our home but for the settlements beyond the green line and for the continued oppression of another people. We hereby express our readiness to do our best to help students who encounter academic, administrative or economic difficulties as a result of their refusal to serve in the territories. We call on the University community at large to support them.”

About a decade later, in 2013, IAM reported on a cartoon drawn by Leshem containing anti-Semitic imagery. The cartoon appeared on an Italian pro-Palestinian website. The image showed two Jews smiling while cutting with a handsaw the limbs of an Arab. As IAM noted, “as a rank and file citizen, Leshem has the right to produce a most egregious anti-Semitic piece that would have found a place of pride in Nazi-era propaganda. The question is whether Leshem, a professor at a public university supported by taxpayers should engage in this type of behavior. Academics are expected to serve as role models in and out of a classroom. By any measure, Leshem does not live up to such expectations.”

In 2014, Leshem was among the signatories to a statement, which says that they are “all academics at Israeli universities, wish it to be known that they utterly deplore the aggressive military strategy being deployed by the Israeli government. The slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent people, is placing yet more barriers of blood in the way of the negotiated agreement which is the only alternative to the occupation and endless oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel must agree to an immediate cease-fire, and start negotiating in good faith for the end of the occupation and settlements, through a just peace agreement.”

In 2019, the BDS movement reported that some 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars wrote a letter to the German government, stating that “boycotts are a legitimate and non-violent tool of resistance.” Explaining, “We reject this motion, which is based on the false allegation that BDS as such equals anti-Semitism. We call on the German government not to endorse this motion and to fight anti-Semitism, while respecting and protecting freedom of speech and of association, which are undeniably under attack.” Leshem was one of the signatories.

Also in 2019, Academia for Equality, an anti-Israel Israeli academic group, reported that “129 Jewish and Israeli scholars, including some of the most important researchers of Antisemitism today, sent a letter to members of the French National Assembly urging them not to support the resolution equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and endorsing IHRA definition.” The letter was also published by Le Monde Diplomatique. Leshem was one of the signatories.

On October 19, 2023, Israel Academia Monitor reported that the “University of Haifa Students Suspended for Supporting Hamas.” The Rector, Prof. Gur Elroey, suspended six students due to expressions of support for Hamas just days after the terror organization brutally massacred residents of communities along the border of Gaza. Shortly afterward, twenty-five senior lecturers at the University of Haifa appealed against the rector’s decision in a letter, claiming that the suspension was “illegal.” Leshem was one of the signatories. Elroey responded harshly to the lecturers: “Women and men, young and old, IDF soldiers and minor girls were raped, kidnapped and murdered… Hundreds of families are anxious about the fate of their missing, and you are busy with the issue of whether I exceeded my duty and acted contrary to the regulations after suspending six students until it is clarified. We are working to comply with the regulations along with the officer in charge of disciplinary actions.”

In December 2023, Leshem was among the signatories of a letter titled “Biden, stop the assault on Gaza,” addressing President Biden, and stating, among other things, “We call on the US to stop its unconditional support of Israel’s assault on Gaza and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.”

As these examples show, Leshem and his radical academic peers have unilaterally blamed Israel without mentioning that the Palestinians are culpable in creating the situation by refusing numerous generous offers to settle the conflict with Israel. The October 7 attack and the Gaza War are the most egregious examples of willfully ignoring this reality. Yahia Sinwar, the architect of the assault, made no effort to hide his goal of destroying the State of Israel as part of his divine mission. Documents recovered from the tunnel network and published by the IDF have indicated that Iran has supported Hamas to create obstacles to the Abraham Accords. Indeed, the theocratic regime in Tehran viewed the Accords as an existential threat to its existence and its vision to dominate the Middle East.

Leshem is a prime example of a radical anti-Zionist activist profiled by the IAM since its founding in 2004. The question is always the same – why should a public university in Israel, supported by taxpayers, employ Leshem and his ideological peers? Over the years, IAM have published studies indicating that, in the West, public universities limit their faculty’s political activism. Radical activists who promote army refusal should not be able to teach students, many of whom are army reservists. IAM never received an answer as to why this is allowed to happen.

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———- Forwarded message ———
From: Micah Leshem
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: The University of Edinburgh Targeted by Anti-Israel Activists
To: Dana Barnett <email.israel.academia.monitor@gmail.com>

Thanks, encouraging news, let’s hope the UoE reforms its legacy.

Israel Academia Monitor response is full of disinformation and falsifications and totally decontextualized from real-life events.

Best

Micah

From: Dana Barnett <email.israel.academia.monitor@gmail.com>
Sent: 1 April, 2026 20:28
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: The University of Edinburgh Targeted by Anti-Israel Activists

BY ISRAEL ACADEMIA MONITOR (IAM)

The University of Edinburgh Targeted by Anti-Israel Activists

01.04.26

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https://www.academicsforpeace.org/petition-december-2023

Biden, stop the assault on Gaza

Published December 7, 2023

To sign the petition, use our form. For press inquiries, contact Dr. Lior Sternfeld. For other inquiries, contact Dr. Shira Klein.

President Biden,

We, the undersigned academics and supporters, call on the US to lead the way in negotiating an immediate and lasting ceasefire, implementing a hostage-prisoner exchange, and supplying urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The human toll is unbearable, with both sides committing grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and humanitarian law. Some 1,200 Israelis were killed in the Hamas attack on October 7, close to 7,000 wounded, and 240 taken hostage. Hamas committed atrocious crimes that day, including rape.

Since then, a staggering 15,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombing, the majority of them women and children. Tens of thousands are wounded, 7,000 are still missing under the rubble, and – in what amounts to a humanitarian disaster – most of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are starving, displaced, and deprived of water, electricity, and medicine.

We denounce the October 7 attacks. At the same time, 75 years of displacement, 56 years of occupation, and 16 years of blockade have generated an ever-worsening spiral of violence that can only be stopped with a political solution. Israel’s continued apartheid in the West Bank, administrative detention (jail without trial) of 2000 civilians, and daily terrorizing of Palestinians by armed settlers, are causing an escalation of violence. This historic injustice continues unchecked because the US allows Israel to flout binding UN Security Council Resolutions.

We call on the US to stop its unconditional support of Israel’s assault on Gaza and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law. Ideas for a political resolution abound; they require political will. The US must set the tone for a paradigm shift, from managing the conflict to solving it within a short and reasonable timeframe.

Two peoples live and will continue living between the Jordan river and the sea. The only way forward is recognizing the right of both to self-determination and full equality.

We welcome signatures from the broader community, regardless of affiliation or profession.

To sign the petition, use our form. For press inquiries, contact Dr. Lior Sternfeld . For other inquiries, contact Dr. Shira Klein.

List of signatories

Shira Klein, Associate Professor of History, Chapman University
Joel Beinin, Donald J. Mclachlan Profesor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
Tamir Sorek, Professor of History, Penn State University
Dr. Warda Sada, Educator
Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University
Lior Sternfeld, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University
Meir Amor, Associate Professor Concordia University (ret.)
Nubar Hovsepian, , Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Chapman University
Rabbi Brian Walt, Rabbi Emeritus, Mishkan Shalom, Philadelphia
Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman, Congregation Shaarei Shamayim
Karin Loevy, Researcher at the Institute for International Law and Justice, New York University School of Law
Marion Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of History, New York University
Mordehai Amihai Bivas, Ambassador (retired)
Hasia Diner, Professor Emeritus of History, New York University
Rabbi Joey Wolf, Rabbi Emeritus, Havurah Shalom, Portland, OR
Rabbi Benjamin Barnett, Havurah Shalom, Portland, OR
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle East History, New York University
Lital Levy, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Max Weiss, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University
Paul Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Irene Gendzier, Professor Emeritus, Boston University
Howard Winant, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shay Hazkani, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Paul Adler, Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Prof. of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
Matan Kaminer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Martin Buber Society, Hebrew University
Arie Arnon, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University
Lev Grinberg, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; ex-president of the Israeli Sociological Society (2020-2023)
Ruth Butler, Professor Emerita, Hebrew University
Janet Klein, Professor of Middle East History, Akron University
Liora Halperin, Professor of History, University of Washington
Hannah Safran, Haifa Feminist Institute
Oren Yiftachel, Professor of Geography, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev
Susan LaDue, Member of Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement
Sandy Polishuk, Retired oral historian and Adjunct Instructor, Portland State University
Diane Koosed, Retired educator
Robin Banerji, Talmud teacher
Carole Romm, Visual artist
Andrea Belasco, Retired physician (psychiatry)
G Brock Roben, Retired physician (psychiatry)
Robin Roth, Retired professor, City College of San Francisco
Aya Rosen, Illustrator and photographer
Mika Nachtailer, PhD candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noa Shaindlinger, Assistant professor of History, Worcester State University
Alex Lubin, Professor of African American Studies and History, Penn State University
Ron J Smith, Associated professor of International Relations, Bucknell University
Doug Rossinow, Professor of History, Metro State University, St. Paul, MN
Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Associate professor of English, University of Haifa
Carolyn Toll Oppenheim, (retired) Assistant Professor, Emerson Colleege
Yaron Klein, Associate Professor of Arabic, Carleton College
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Rabbi David Mivasair, State College, PA
Rebecca Alpert, Professor Emerita, Temple University
Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College, co-founder of Academia for Equality
David Zonsheine, Former chairperson of B’Tselem and Courage to Refuse
Johanna Sellman, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Vanesa Ribas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California San Diego
Ron Naiweld, CNRS, Paris, France
Crystal Murphy, Associate professor of Political Science, Chapman University
Kamel Toubache, Retired IT Manager, Canada
Noel Saleh, Attorney, Saleh & Cordovilla Immigration Law
Edna Gruvman, MS, LCAT, BCDTR
Smadar Lavie, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Davis
Yael Shomroni, Artist
Wendy Busch, Artist
Colin Dayan, Professor of English, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
Jessica Mecellem, Independent scholar
Uri Horesh, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Essex
Dorit Naaman, Professor, Queen’s University
Shir Alon, Assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
Reut Ben Yaakov, Postdoctoral Associate in Hebrew Culture, Duke University
Alexander Jabbari, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
Oana Firica, Journalist, TV producer
Susan S. Lanser, Professor Emerita, Brandeis University
Eleanor Shapiro, Independent scholar
Beverly Shalom, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Tal Jarus, Professor, University of British Columbia
Rabbi Leah Shakdiel, Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel
Eva Mroczek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, UC Davis
Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
Abe Silberstein, Writer
Amalia Saar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Haifa
Ilana Hairston, Tel Hai College
Andy Ratto, journalist
Zachary Kolodny, New Mexico Jew
Sheera Talpaz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Oberlin College
Noah Asher Golden, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, California State University, Long Beach
Lydia Kiesling, writer
Michelle Decker, Associate Professor of English, Scripps College
Soumava Basu, President and Founder, Council for Global Cooperation
Marcelo Svirsky, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong
Rafi Greenberg, Professor of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
Sasha Senderovich, Associate Professor of Slavic and Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Michael Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Wollongong, Australia
Emmanuel Szurek, Associate Professor of History, EHESS, Paris
Ika Willis, Associate Professor of English Literatures, University of Wollongong
Noor-Aiman Khan, Asc Prof of History and Director, Middle East Studies
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tamar Novick, Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Debbie Eylon, translator and editor
Michal Sapir, writer and musician
Kobi Peterzil, Professor of Mathematics, U. of Haifa
Omri Boehm, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
Lynna Dhanani, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UC Davis
Efraim Davidi, Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University
Roni Tzoreff, Michigan University
Anath Ariel de Vidas, anthropologist, CNRS, France
Dalia Sachs, Assistant Professor Emerita, Haifa University
Rasmus Elling, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Renata Schneider, INAH
Aziz Abuzayed, Activist
Eli Osheroff, Historion, Postdoc, Hebrew University
Snait Gissis, Tel Aviv University
Suzi Weissman, Professor of Politics, Saint Mary’s College of CA
Angela Flynn, Lecturer, University College Cork
Robert Brenner, History, UCLA, Director, Center for Social Theory & Comparative History
Dr. Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College
Erella Shadmi, Beit Berl Academic College retired, independent scholer
Edna Gorney, Writer
Sara Helman, Associate Professor (retired)
Harry Hochheiser, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Joakim Parslow, Assistant professor of Middle East Studies, University of Copenhagen
Ari Zighelboim, Independent scholar
Jessica Marglin, Professor of Religion, Law and History, University of Southern California
Jeffrey Konen, Electrician
David Blanc, University of Haifa
Robert Kraftowitz, Retired physician
Tayfun Guttstadt, Musician and Scholar
Noa Levin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana
Elly Levy, Attorney
Gopal Balachandran, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, Penn State Law
Ruthie Wyshogrod, clinical social work student
Amira Saunders, educator
Silvana Rabinovich, UNAM
Ross Hyman Ph.D., Computational Scientist, University of Chicago
Persis Karim, San Francisco State University
Eleanor Stein, lecturer, State University of New York
Irus Braverman, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Joshua Eisenthal, Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology
Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca, Anthropologist, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France
Nufar Shimony, Philosophy Lecturer (retired)
Tavi Gevinson, Actor and writer
Wolff Catherine, Teacher
Alina Aksiyote, musician and teacher
George P. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
Amy L. Beck Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco
Mairaj Syed, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California Davis
Martinez Rocio, Profesora
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Kimberly Katz, Professor of Middle East History, Towson University
Uri Talil, R. E investor, Los Angeles
Szymon Piechnik, Electronic Musician
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Ryan Brizendine, PhD candidate, Yale University
Ursula Wokoeck, PhD, Historian
Pier-Luc Turcotte, Professor, University of Ottawa
Megan Callahan, Arts educator
Hadas Weiss, Humboldt University, Berlin
Cheryl Harris, MPH, RD
Joshua Schreier, Professor of History, Vassar College
Susan S. Lanser, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
Benjamin Wexler, Student
Yosef Khan, LA Jews for Peace
Miriam Beinin, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Stanford, Retired
Steve Jordan, Associate Professor, McGill University
Nathan Dickman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of the Ozarks
Yael Zeira, Associate Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
Carolina Perez, Paralegal
Karen Ross, Univeristy of Massachusetts Boston
Diane L. Wolf, Professor Emerita of Sociology, UC Davis
Eleanor Russell, Lecturer, Texas State University
Dan Berger, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Washington Bothell
James Martell, Associate French Professor, Lyon College
Vera Khovanskaya, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego
Hiba Zafran, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
David A. Larsen, Professor of Public Health, Syracuse University
Mikael Wolfe, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Claudio García Ehrenfeld, Classicist, UNAM
Shoshana Hershkowitz, Lecturer, Stony Brook University
Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Josh Dubnau, Professor, Stony Brook University
Philip Metres Professor of English, John Carroll University
Sharika Thiranagama Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Blake Temple, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, UC-Davis
Paul Smaldino, Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced
Jacob Serruya is Historian
Odalis Hernández, Administrator, Stony Brook University
Zack Furness, Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State University
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford
Heather Randell, Assistant Professor of Global Policy, University of Minnesota
Arlette mintzer poet & clinical psychologist
Aaron Berman, Professor Emeritus of History, Hampshire College
Pernille Blom Hermansen, Philosopher
Aaron Katz, Principal Lecturer Emeritus, University of Washington
Simone Balachandran, Associate Professor Educator, University of Cincinnati
Adam Hochschild, Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Alan Balsam PhD, MPH Adjunct Associate Professor, BU School of Public Health and Tufts Medical School.
Sarah Kittilsen, Undergraduate Student in History
Brianna Salinas, M.A. in Literary Translation, M.A. in Hispanic Studies
Caglayan Baser, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
Philip Joseph, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver
Peyman Mostafaei, PhD stduent, University of Sheffield
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Elliott Green, Professor of Development Studies, London School of Economics
Christiane Burkhard, Filmmaker
Jyoti Balachandran , Associate Professor of History, Penn State University
Kate Levin, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Steven DeLue, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Miami University
Tamar Samir, PT Assistant Professor, The New School
Victor Silverman, Professor of History Emeritus, Pomona College
Thomas G. Weiss, Emeritus Presidential Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Erica Lehrer, Professor of History and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
Steven Heydemann, Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Smith College
Steven Gelb, Retired Professor of Education, University of San Diego
Danna Agmon, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech
Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Assistant Professor of Government, William & Mary
Koray Özbagci, Humboldt University Berlin
Tony Papanikolas, Lecturer, San Jose State University
Dr Yohai Hakak, Brunel University London
Cantor Michael Zoosman, Co-Founder: L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty
Yuval Yonay, Sociologist, University of Haifa
Ellen Siegel, WILPF
Yonatan Ginzburg, Professor of Linguistics, Université Paris Cité
Michal Brody Bareket, Professor of Mathematics
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Prof. Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Anthropology Dept, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Nancy Ruttenburg, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, Stanford University
Gayle Reid, retired elementary school teacher
Sara Feldman, Preceptor in Yiddish, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

Supporters with no stated affiliation:

Daniela Lichtman
Robyn Bem, Peace seeker
Karen Alqasem, Peace seeker
Alizah Wolfe
Brooke Daly
Maya Haber
Bo Skibelund
Jane Zighelboim Awni
Carter Vance
Catelyn Booher
Gail Steiner, activist
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

We welcome signatures from the broader community, regardless of affiliation or profession.

To sign the petition, use our form. For press inquiries, contact Dr. Lior Sternfeld. For other inquiries, contact Dr. Shira Klein.

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Please consider signing the attached open letter!

As you probably know a battle over the definition of antisemitism and its relations to harsh critique of Israel, opposition to Zionism and support of the BDS, is being waged in Europe and America. Let us say right at the beginning that as signers of the letter and as stated explicitly in it, we don’t necessarily share a common view of the BDS, but we do contend that this in itself is not antisemitic and should not be abused for silencing harsh critique over Israel and/or its policies.

This is not a theoretical issue but rather a very acute one. Four recent cases in Germany accumulate to a very dangerous trend that if continues will make any substantial critique of Israel and its policies practically impossible:

1.    The Berlin House of Representatives passed the resolution “Against Any Antisemitism – Protect Jewish life in Berlin”, which adopts IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism and consequently describes any criticism of Israel, and even the rejection of the religious-ethnic discrimination within Israel, as a threat to Jewish life.

2.    Three activists who disrupted a “Hasbara” talk given by MK Aliza Lavie at the Humboldt University in Berlin are charged in a criminal court.

3.    The bank account of “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East”, a small activists group based in Germany and comprised mainly of former Israelis is since 2016 under a threat to be shut due to its support of the BDS. Recently the bank decided to conduct a ‘scientific review’ to determine whether the group is antisemitic.

4.    The very group was nominated for the 2019 Göttingen Peace Prize (and received it today!), but the local municipality, the sponsor of the event and the university of Göttingen withdrew their traditional support and participation in the ceremony following false accusations of antisemitism.

We, a group of scholars from Israel and all over the world, view it as our responsibility to protest against these trends and try to change them. We believe none of these actions advances the pressing fight against contemporary forms of antisemitism, but rather plays into the hands of the right-wing forces who wish to reduce the space of free speech when it comes to a discussion over Israel.

In case you decide to sign please send an email to Amos Goldberg (amos.goldberg@mail.huji.ac.il) or Yaara Benger Alaluf (benger@mpib-berlin.mpg.de) and include your full name, your institutional affiliation and your field of study.

March 2019

A CALL TO INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS IN GERMANY TO PUT AN END TO THE MANIPULATIVE AND DANGEROUS CONFLATION BETWEEN CRITICISM OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND ANTI-SEMITISM

We are scholars, Jewish and non-Jewish, Israeli and non-Israeli, many of whom focus professionally on Jewish studies and the Holocaust. We have been observing with great concern the rise in antisemitism around the world and, in particular, the increase in the number of violent crimes against Jews and Muslims in Germany in the last years. We unconditionally support the fight against hate crimes in Germany and Europe. We are also worried about a parallel trend – the growing tendency, especially in Germany, of conflating Judaism with Zionism and labeling supporters of Palestinian human rights as anti-Semitic.

Last May, the Berlin House of Representatives passed a resolution embracing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) controversial “working definition of antisemitism,” thus describing any criticism of Israel, and even opposition to religious-ethnic discrimination within Israel, as a threat to Jewish life. At the same time, it labels supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. Not all of us who have signed this letter support BDS, yet we all reject the deceitful allegation that it is anti-Semitic, and we strongly defend the right of any individual or organization to support it. False accusations of anti-Semitism are a shameful mockery of the Holocaust and serve only to bolster racist and anti-democratic forces. Likewise, the identification of anti-Zionism or harsh critique of Israeli policies with anti-Semitism undermines the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism and/or to Israeli policies, in addition to erasing legitimate critiques by non-Jews which have no basis in anti-Semitism.

Above all, the resolution reflects a persistent effort to delegitimize any discourse about Palestinian rights. Only days after the passing of the resolution, the Freie Universität Berlin was pressured to cancel a talk by the distinguished anthropologist Susan Slyomovics, a Jewish-Canadian scholar and herself the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Slyomovics, whose talk examined the possible application of reparations models to the conflict in Israel-Palestine, was said to be an illegitimate speaker due to her public support of the BDS movement.

A further worrisome example is the ongoing harassment that the organization “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East” (Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost e.V.) has faced from the Bank for Social Economy (Bank für Sozialwirtschaft) that closed and reopened the organization’s bank account in 2016-2017 because of the group’s support for BDS. The bank’s recent call to “scientifically” determine whether the group is “anti-Semitic” according to the IHRA’s definition illustrates the absurd consequences of the flawed association between critique of Israel and hatred of Jews. Unfortunately, academics are also taking part in political harassment disguised as “a fight against anti-Semitism” and the attendant severe violation of free speech. Today, “Jewish Voice” faces a smear campaign following its nomination for the 2019 Göttingen Peace Prize. Opponents called for the award not to be given to BDS supporters, inciting outrageous accusations that echo Nazi conspiracies. Once again, German politicians evaluate authentic “Jewishness.” Once again, internal Jewish politics are being controlled and monitored.

Last but not least, three BDS activists are being charged in a criminal court in Berlin for disrupting a talk given at the Humboldt University by former Member of the Knesset Aliza Lavie in June 2017. The German press immediately accepted Lavie’s propaganda and framed the incident as an anti-Semitic attack. The charges against the activists – trespassing and assault – are unreasonable and unprecedentedly disproportionate considering that the event was open to the public, that the only participant physically assaulted was one of the activists, and that interrupting a political (not academic) speaker should be considered a reasonable act of protest in any democratic public sphere. This persecution can only be understood in the context of the growing restrictions on freedom of speech when it comes to criticizing Israel and the unbearable ease with which boycott supporters are labelled as anti-Semites.

None of these actions advance the pressing fight against anti-Semitism.Moreover, all of these incidents support and are supported by the most rightwing Israeli government in history. This is a government which denies basic individual and collective rights to Palestinians and other minorities and whose prime minister recently embraced supremacist, misogynistic and homophobic extremists, said to be the Israeli equivalent of the KKK. We fail to see how supporting these political forces helps in the fight anti-Semitism or accords with the post-World War II German commitment to the values of human rights and fighting any form of racism.

The conflation of hostility against Jews with legitimate critique of Israeli policies and non-violent opposition to the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people ignores the serious problems that face us today. In practice, this conflation leads to the targeting of civil society organizations and smears against Jews for their political beliefs, instead of allocating resources for anti-racism education and applying effective measures against anti-Semitic offenders. Further, this conflation obscures valid critique of Israel’s war crimes and violation of human rights, undermining the Palestinian struggle for freedom and equality and discriminating against the Palestinian community in Germany by preventing Palestinian people to freely express their opinions, their grief and sorrow.

In light of both the increase in anti-Semitism and racist crimes in Germany and the escalation in Israeli violence against Palestinians, we urge the German authorities, media, educational and academic professionals and institutions to act responsibly and put an end to this manipulative and dangerous conflation between criticism of the state of Israel and anti-Semitism. We must fight real anti-Semitism and all forms of racism without playing into supremacist interests, and we must safeguard free expression and protect democratic spaces, rather than threaten and silence those who nonviolently express their political beliefs.

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3 December 2019

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129 חוקרות וחוקרים יהודים וישראלים, בהם כמה מהחוקרים החשובים של אנטשמיות בימנו, פנו אל חברי האספה הלאומית של צרפת בבקשה שיפעלו נגד האנטישמיות הגואה, אך מבלי שהמאבק הזה יבוא על חשבון העם הפלסטיני ומאבקו לחופש ולשוויון. המכתב המלא בהמשך (באנגלית).

129 من الباحثات والباحثين اليهود والإسرائيليين، منهمّ أهمّ العلماء وباحثيّ معاداة السامية في أيامنا هذه ، توجّهوا وناشدوا بطلب من أعضاء الجمعية الوطنية الفرنسية للتحرّك ضد معاداة السامية المتصاعدة والمتزايدة، ولكن دون ان يأتي هذا النضال على حسبان الشعب الفلسطينيّ وكفاحه من أجل الحرية والمساواة. سيتم نشر الرسالة كاملة لاحقا (باللغة الإنجليزية).

129 Jewish and Israeli scholars, including some of the most important researchers of Antisemitism today, sent a letter to members of the French National Assembly urging them not to support the resolution equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism and endorsing IHRA definition. The letter was published yesterday by Le Monde:

Dear Member of the French Parliament,

We, Jewish scholars from Israel and elsewhere, many of whom specialize in anti-Semitism and in Jewish and Holocaust history, are writing to you in anticipation of a resolution on combatting anti-Semitism, which the French parliament will debate and put to the vote on December 3rd and 4th.

We wish to express our deep concern about the rise in anti-Semitism around the world, including in France. We view anti-Semitism and all other forms of racism and bigotry as a real threat that must be fought most forcefully, and urge the French government and parliament to do so.

While we strongly emphasize this concern, we oppose the tabled resolution on anti-Semitism for two main reasons and call on you to withhold your signature and support from it.

First, the explanatory statement of the resolution associates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. It even equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism where it says that “criticizing the very existence of Israel as a collective composed of Jewish citizens is tantamount to hatred towards the Jewish community as a whole.”

Before we elaborate, we wish to deplore that the explanatory statement designates Israel “as a collective composed of Jewish citizens”. Some 20 percent of Israel’s population is composed of Palestinian citizens, most of whom are Muslims and Christians. The chosen designation obscures and denies their existence. We consider this highly problematic, also in view of your country’s commitment to a non-ethnic definition of French citizenship.

Our opinions on Zionism may differ, but all of us, including those who consider themselves Zionists, think the association of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is fundamentally wrong. To the many Jews who consider themselves anti-Zionist, it is also deeply offensive.

Anti-Zionism is a legitimate viewpoint in Jewish history, which has a long tradition, including in Israel. Some Jews oppose Zionism for religious reasons, others for political or cultural reasons. Many Holocaust victims were anti-Zionists. The tabled motion dishonours them and disgraces their memory by retroactively calling them anti-Semites.

For Palestinians, Zionism means dispossession, displacement, occupation and structural inequality. It is cynical and insensitive to stigmatize them as anti-Semites for opposing Zionism. They oppose Zionism not because they hate Jews, but because they experience Zionism as an oppressive political movement. It is particularly insensitive to do so, and attesting to a double standard, considering that Israel is denying Palestine’s right to exist – and undermining its very existence.

No doubt, anti-Semites exist among those opposing Zionism. But there are also plenty of anti- Semites who support Zionism. It is thus nonsensical and inappropriate to generally identify anti- Zionism with anti-Semitism. By conflating these two different phenomena, the National

Assembly would undermine the vital efforts to fight the real anti-Semitism, which is multi- dimensional and coming from different sectors in French society.

Our second objection: the tabled resolution endorses the “working definition” of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

This definition is highly problematic. The resolution asserts that the definition “makes it possible to designate as precisely as possible what contemporary anti-Semitism is”. In reality, however, the definition is unclear and indefinite and therefore not an effective instrument to fight anti-Semitism. Meanwhile, legislation to effectively fight and prosecute anti-Semitism already exists in France.

The explanatory statement to the tabled resolution says the IHRA definition “does not recognize criticism of the policies of the State of Israel as antisemitic”. In reality, however, several “contemporary examples of anti-Semitism” have been attached to the definition, which intentionally conflate criticism of and opposition to policies of the State of Israel with anti- Semitism. These examples are presented and treated as an integral part of the definition.

According to the examples and how they are being applied, if you criticize Israel in a way perceived as double standard, you are an anti-Semite. If you favour a binational or a democratic one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you are an anti-Semite. So are you, when you blame Israel for institutionalized racism. One can certainly disagree with these utterances. But such opinions are considered legitimate and protected by freedom of speech in any other political context. As a result, the definition creates an unjustified double standard in favour of Israel and against the Palestinians.

The IHRA definition is already being used to stigmatize and silence critics of the State of Israel, including human rights organizations and respected experts. This has been condemned by leading scholars of anti-Semitism. Kenneth Stern, one of the original drafters of the IHRA definition, has also warned against the definition’s use to undermine free speech.

The key question is: why is all of this happening? We cannot see it detached from the main agenda of the Israeli government to entrench its occupation and annexation of Palestine, and to silence any criticism of this agenda.

For years, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been denouncing any opposition to its policies as anti-Semitic. Netanyahu himself has been forcefully pushing the equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, as well as the IHRA definition. This illustrates how the fight against anti-Semitism has been instrumentalized to shield the Israeli government.

With concern, we note that these endeavours of the Israeli government are getting a political tailwind, also in France. On 28 May 2019, MP Sylvain Maillard participated in an event alongside Yossi Dagan, a militant settler leader, who chairs an Israeli state authority in charge of settlements in the occupied West Bank. As you know, MP Maillard initiated the present resolution on anti-Semitism – notably a few days before the event with Dagan.

We thus urge you: fight anti-Semitism and all forms of racism – but do so without aiding the Israeli government’s agenda of occupation and annexation.

The tabled resolution is not a credible and effective way to do so. Anti-Semitism needs to be fought on universal grounds, along other forms of racism and bigotry, to counter hate. Abandoning this universal approach will lead to further polarization in France, which would also harm the fight against anti-Semitism.

In this context, we note the tabled resolution is also at odds with the position of CNCDH, the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights. In its 2018 Report on the Fight Against Racism, CNCDH warned the IHRA definition risks weakening the French universal approach to fighting racism and insisted “on vigilance not to confuse between racism and legitimate criticism of a State and its policy”.

We urge you: don’t sign and support a resolution that falsely equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Don’t sign and support a resolution that endorses IHRA’s politicized definition of anti-Semitism, particularly if it does so without any distance to the definition’s problematic examples relating to Israel.

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Howard Tzvi Adelman, Associate Professor of History and of Jewish History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Dr.. Karin Adelman, physician

Prof. Ofer Aharony, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Prof. (emeritus) Mateo Alaluf, Institute of Sociology, Université Libre de Bruxelles Prof. Gadi Algazi, Professor of Medieval History, Department of History, Tel Aviv

University; associate fellow at Re:Work: International Research Center Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at Humboldt University, Berlin

Dr. Hila Amit, writer, researcher

Prof. Gil Anidjar, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department, Columbia University

Dr. Seth Anziska, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London Prof. Yonathan Anson, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Jean-Christophe Attias, Professor and Chair of Medieval Jewish Thought, École pratique des hautes études, Université PSL, Paris

Prof. (emerita) Elsa Auerbach, English Department, University of Massachusetts Boston (daughter of German Holocaust refugees)

Prof. (emeritus) Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University

Prof. Avner Ben-Amos, Department of History, Tel Aviv University

Yaara Benger Alaluf, independent scholar

Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Department of English Language, University of Haifa

Prof. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, History Department, University of Missouri-Kansas City Prof. Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London

Prof. Louise Bethlehem, English and Cultural Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. David Blanc, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa

Prof. Daniel D. Blatman, Head of Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Max and Rita Haber Chair in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies, The Hebrew University Jerusalem

Prof. Hagit Borer, Fellow of the British Academy; Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America; Chair in Linguistics, SLLF, Queen Mary University of London

Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at Berkeley, Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Von Humboldt Senior Laureate Dr. Rony Brauman, physician, Professor at University of Manchester

Prof. (emeritus) Jose Brunner, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Director, Eva & Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness, co-founder of Israel’s first legal clinic for the rights of Holocaust survivors, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley

Prof. (emerita) Jane Caplan, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford; Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor Emeritus of European History, Bryn Mawr College; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London

Dr. Nina Caputo, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

Prof. Michael Chanan, Professor of Film and Video, University of Roehampton, London Prof. Stephen Clingman, Distinguished University Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. Eyal Clyne, unaffiliated

Prof. James Cohen, Institut du monde anglophone, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Prof. Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Director of The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, Department of History, University of Massachusetts

Mike Cushman, research fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

Dr. Hilla Dayan, Department of Sociology, Amsterdam University College

Prof. (emerita) Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Faculty of Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot Paris 7

Prof. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Tal Dor, adjunct researcher, Experice, Université Paris 8

Prof. (emeritus) Tommy Dreyfus, Mathematics Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Awardee of the Felix Klein Medal

Prof. David Enoch, Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. (emerita) Judith Ferster, English Department, North Carolina State University

Dr. Cynthia Franklin, Department of English, University of Hawaii

Prof. (emeritus) Gideon Freudenthal, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

Prof. (emeritus) Chaim Gans, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art, Director of Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University College London Katharina Galor, Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor, Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University

Prof. Shai Ginsburg, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University Prof. Rachel Giora, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Snait Gissis, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Amos Goldberg, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. (emeritus) Steve Golin, History Department, Bloomfield College

Prof. Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Marie Curie Fellow, Queen Mary

University of London

Prof. Joel Gordon, The Department of History, University of Arkansas Fayetteville

Prof. Nir Gov, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Dr. Yann Guillaud, lecturer at Sciences Po and the Catholic University of Paris

Dr. Gérard Haddad, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer

Dr. Ilana Hammerman, writer, winner of the Yeshayahu Leibowitz Prize (2015)

Prof. David Harel, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science; winner of the Israel Prize (2004) and of the EMET prize Prof. Elizabeth Heineman, Department of History, University of Iowa

Dr. Shir Hever, Political Science, Free University of Berlin

Prof. Eva Jablonka, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

Michal Kaiser-Livne, psychoanalyst, Berlin Institute for Group Analysis

Dr. Brian Klug, senior research fellow and tutor in Philosophy, University of Oxford, honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton

Prof. (emeritus) Yehoshua Kolodny, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the Israel Prize (2009)

Dr. Hubert Krivine, physicist

Pascal Lederer, physicist, honorary research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Prof. (emeritus) Micah Leshem, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa

Dr. Les Levidow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University, United Kingdom

Dr. Mark Levene, emeritus fellow, Department of History, University of Southampton UK; Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations; winner of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York; Lemkin prize (2015)

Prof. Joseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. R. Ruth Linden, President Tree of Life Health Advocates, San Francisco; co-founder of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

Adi Liraz, interdisciplinary artist, instructor relating to the history of Jews in Greece and in Germany

Dr. Rachel Livne-Freudenthal, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem

Prof. (emeritus) Moshé Machover, Professor of Philosophy, University of London

Joëlle Marelli, independent scholar, former program director at the College International de Philosophie, Paris

Dr. Anat Matar, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Yehoshua Mathias, senior lecturer, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. David Mednicoff, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. Oded Na’aman, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr. Sheryl Nestel, independent scholar

Prof. Isaac Nevo, Associate Professor, Philosophy

Prof. (emerita) Benita Parry, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University

Hadas Pe’ery, lecturer at the The Buchmann Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University; laureate of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Award for Composers

Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The David Yellin Academic College of Education; co-winner of the Sakharov Prize (2001)

Prof. Yael Politi, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden

Dr. David Ranan, Birkbeck University, London

Prof. (emerita) Ada Rapoport-Albert, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University

College London

Ben Ratskoff, University of California, Los Angeles

Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Jewish History

Prof. (emerita) Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Departments of English Literature and Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Dr. Noa Roei, Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam

Prof. (emerita) Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz

Prof. Dana Ron, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Prof. (emeritus) Steven Rose, Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, The Open University, United Kingdom

Prof. (emeritus) Jonathan Rosenhead, Professor of Operational Research, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prof. David M. Rosenthal, Cognitive Science Concentration Graduate Center, City University of New York

Prof. Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California; specializes in Holocaust studies

Dr. E. Natalie Rothman, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

Prof. Catherine Rottenberg, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham

Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Dr. Hannah Safran, Haifa Feminist Research Center

Dr. Ariel Salzmann, Department of History, Queen’s University, Ontario

Catherine Samary, economist (ret.), Paris Dauphine University

Prof. (emeritus) Donald Sassoon, Professor of Comparative European History, Queen Mary, University of London

Prof. (emerita) Naomi Scheman, Philosophy and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

Prof. (emerita) Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Sir Stephen Sedley, former Lord Justice of Appeal, England and Wales; former UK Judge ad hoc at European Court of Human Rights; former visiting professor of law, Oxford University

Prof. (emeritus) Graeme Segal, Mathematics, All Souls College

Prof. Gershon Shafir, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

Prof. (emerita) Alice Shalvi, English Departments, Hebrew University Jerusalem and Ben- Gurion University of the Negev; former Rector Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; winner of the Israel Prize (2007), co-winner of the Leibowitz Prize (2009), winner of the Bonei Zion Prize (2017)

Dr. Dimitry Shevchenko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Prof. (emeritus) Avi Shlaim, Department of Politics and International Relations, St. Antony’s College and University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy

Prof. David Shulman, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, winner of the EMET Prize (2010) and of the Israel Prize (2016)

Dr. Dmitry Shumsky, Department of Jewish history and Head of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky, lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield

Prof. Marc Steinling, physician, biophysicist, honorary Professor of Universities (son of French resistants FTP-MOI)

Prof. Sacha Stern, Head of Department, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London

Prof. (emeritus) Zeev Sternhell, Léon Blum Professor emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel Prize Laureate in Political Science; Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Letters; International Honorary member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Howard Rechavia Taylor, Columbia University

Prof. Barry Trachtenberg, Michael R. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Department of History, Wake Forest University

Prof. (emeritus) Rolf Verleger, psychologist, member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany 2005-2009

Dominique Vidal, historian and journalist

Prof. Roy Wagner, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich

Dr. Yair Wallach, Head of the Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East, SOAS, University of London

Daphna Westerman, MA Fine Arts Bauhaus-University, Weimar

Prof. Diane L. Wolf, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Prof. (emeritus) Niza Yanay, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. (emeritus) Moshe Zimmermann, former director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. (emeritus) Moshe Zuckermann, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

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240 Jewish and Israeli scholars to German government: boycotts are a legitimate and non-violent tool of resistance

June 12, 2019 / By 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars / Germany, Palestine

“We reject this motion, which is based on the false allegation that BDS as such equals anti-Semitism. We call on the German government not to endorse this motion and to fight anti-Semitism, while respecting and protecting freedom of speech and of association, which are undeniably under attack.”

June 3, 2019 – Mid-May, Jewish and Israeli scholars, many of whom specialized in anti-Semitism, Jewish history and history of the Holocaust, sounded alarm about the growing tendency to label supporters of Palestinian human rights as anti-Semitic. They did so in a call addressed to the German Bundestag in relation to several motions that were being tabled against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). Many of us signed this call.

On May 17, one of these motions, sponsored by CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, was adopted. We reject this motion, which is based on the false allegation that BDS as such equals anti-Semitism. We call on the German government not to endorse this motion and to fight anti-Semitism, while respecting and protecting freedom of speech and of association, which are undeniably under attack.

As expressed in the earlier statement, we view anti-Semitism and all forms of racism and bigotry as a threat that must be fought, and we encourage the German government and parliament to do so. However, the adopted motion does not assist this fight. On the contrary, it undermines it.

The opinions about BDS among the signatories of this call differ significantly: some may support BDS, while others reject it for different reasons. Yet, we all reject the deceitful allegation that BDS as such is anti-Semitic and maintain that boycotts are a legitimate and non-violent tool of resistance. We, leading researchers of anti-Semitism included, assert that one should be considered an anti-Semite according to the content and the context of one’s words and deeds – whether they come from BDS supporters or not.

Regrettably, the adopted motion ignores the explicit opposition of the BDS movement to “all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism”. The BDS movement seeks to influence the policies of the government of a state that is responsible for the ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. Such policies cannot be immune to criticism. In this context, it should also be noted that many Jewish and Israeli individuals and groups either support BDS explicitly, or defend the right to support it. We consider it inappropriate and offensive when German governmental and parliamentary institutions label them anti-Semitic.

Moreover, the three main goals of BDS – ending the occupation, full equality to the Arab citizens of Israel and the right of return of Palestinian refugees – adhere to international law, even if the third goal is undoubtedly debatable. We are shocked that demands for equality and compliance with international law are considered anti-Semitic.

We conclude that the rise in anti-Semitism is clearly not the concern which inspired the motion adopted by the Bundestag. On the contrary, this motion is driven by political interests and policies of Israel’s most right-wing government in history.

For years, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been labelling any opposition to its illegal and peace-undermining policies as anti-Semitic. No one can be surprised that Netanyahu warmly welcomed the motion by the Bundestag. This embrace illustrates how the fight against anti-Semitism is being instrumentalized to shield policies of the Israeli government that cause severe violations of human rights and that destroy the chances for peace. We find it unacceptable and utterly counterproductive when supporting “the right of the Jewish and democratic state of Israel to exist” and fighting anti-Semitism in fact encourages these policies.

To make things worse, the adopted motion does not distinguish between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. It categorically condemns all boycotts of Israeli businesses and goods – including of businesses in and goods from Israel’s illegal settlements. As a result, it would label a campaign to boycott of products of a settlement company complicit in human rights violations, as anti-Semitic. This constitutes a deplorable withdrawal from the unequivocal and consistent opposition of the German government and the EU to Israel’s settlement policy.

Furthermore, the motion ignores that statements in the context of BDS are protected by freedom of expression, as also confirmed by the EU, which “stands firm in protecting freedom of expression and freedom of association in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which is applicable on EU Member States’ territory, including with regard to BDS actions carried out on this territory”. Precisely because of its history, Germany should be very cautious about any retreat from these basic democratic norms.

Finally, the conflation of BDS with anti-Semitism does not advance the urgent fight against anti-Semitism. The threat of anti-Semitism does not originate from Palestinian rights activists, but mainly from the extreme right and from Jihadist groups. Denying that could alienate Muslims and Arabs from the vital struggle against anti-Semitism and hamper the possibility of building true solidarity between Jews, Israelis, Muslims and Arabs in fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of racism. It also sends a wrong message to those who choose to oppose the oppression of the Palestinian people by non-violent means.

For all those reasons, we, Jewish and Israeli scholars, reject the motion by CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Now that it has been adopted, we call on the German government not to endorse this motion and to refrain from equating BDS with anti-Semitism. Instead, the German government must act upon its positive responsibility to promote and protect the freedom of expression and of association.

In addition, we call on the German government to maintain its direct and indirect funding of Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organisations that peacefully challenge the Israeli occupation, expose severe violations of international law and strengthen civil society. These organizations defend the principles and values at the heart of liberal democracy and rule of law in Germany and elsewhere. More than ever, they need financial support and political backing.

Signed by 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars (institutional affiliations mentioned for identification purposes only):

Prof. Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor of Jewish Studies, Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, Department of Theology & Religious Studies University of San Francisco
Adam Hochschild, Author and journalist, Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism. University of California at Berkeley, winner of the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award (2008)
Dr. Adam Kossoff, Reader at the School of Art, University of Wolverhampton, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Adam Sutcliffe, Department of History, King’s College London, specializes in Jewish History
Prof. (emerita) Alice Shalvi, English Departments, Hebrew University Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, former Rector Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, winner of the Israel Prize (2007), co-winner of the Leibowitz Prize (2009), winner of the Bonei Zion Prize (2017)
Prof. Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Director of The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Department of History, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Alon Liel, International MA in Security and Diplomacy, Tel Aviv University, former Ambassador to South Africa, Consul General in the south-east of the USA and Head of Diplomatic Mission in Turkey, former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Planning and of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr. Amir Minsky, Assistant Teaching Professor of History, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Prof. (emeritus) Amiram Goldblum, School of Pharmacy- Institute for Drug Research, the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the founders of the Israeli NGP “Peace Now” and its former spokesperson
Prof. Amos Goldberg, Former Chair of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in Holocaust History
Dr. Anat Matar, Philosophy Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Andre Levy, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializes in the concepts of diaspora and ethnicity
Prof. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, History Department, University of Missouri-Kansas City, specializes in history of modern Germany
Prof. Aner Preminger, Filmmaker and professor at the Department of Communication, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College
Dr. Annie Pfingst, Independent Scholar, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Anya Topolski, Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, specializes in racism in Europe
Dr. Ariel Salzmann, Associate Professor, Islamic and World History, Department of History, Queen’s University
Assaf Gavron, Writer, winner of the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011) and the Bernstein Prize (2013)
Prof. Audrey Macklin, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Professor of Law and Chair in Human Rights, University of Toronto
Prof. (emeritus) Avi Shlaim, The Department of Politics and International Relations, St Antony’s College and The University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy, specializes in Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Prof. Avner Ben-Amos, Department of History, Tel Aviv University, specializes in nationalism and collective memory in Israel
Avraham Burg, Former Member of the Israeli Knesset, Speaker of the Knesset and Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization
Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Department of English Language, University of Haifa
Prof. b.h. Yael, Filmmaker, Professor and former chair of Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Barak Kalir, Assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Amsterdam, specializes in migration in the Jewish-Israeli context
Prof. Barry Trachtenberg, Michael R. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Department of History, Wake Forest University
Dr. Ben Silverstein, School of History, Australian National University, specializes in indigenous histories and settler colonialism
Prof. (emerita) Benita Parry, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University
Prof. (emeritus) Ben-Tzion Munitz, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University
Prof. (emerita) Bilha Mannheim, Professor of Sociology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, winner of the Israel Prize (2003)
Dr. Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, University of Oxford, honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
Alex Levac, Photographer, winner of the Israel Prize (2005)
Prof. Bruce Rosenstock, Department of Religion College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Catherine Rottenberg, Foreign Literature and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. (emeritus) Chaim Gans, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, specializes in political and legal theory of nationalism and Zionism
Prof. Noy Chaim, School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Chana Kronfeld, Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Prof. (emeritus) Christiane Schomblond, Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Prof. Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, English Department and Professor at the Law School, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Cynthia Franklin, Department of English, University of Hawai’I, specializes in race and ethnicity
Prof. (emeritus) Dan Jacobson, the Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Dana Kaplan, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel
Dr. Dana Mills, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University
Prof. Dana Ron, Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Daniel D. Blatman, Head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Max and Rita Haber Chair in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew of University Jerusalem
Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley
Prof. Daryl Glaser, Department of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, specializes in the South African context
Prof. David Blanc, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa
Prof. David Enoch, The Faculty of Law and The Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. David Harel, Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, winner of the Israel Prize (2004) and of EMET prize (2010)
Dr. David Ranan, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck University of London
Prof. David Comedi, Director of the Physics Institute of Northwestern Argentina, INFINOA, National University of Tucumán and CONICET
Prof. David Shulman, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, winner of the EMET Prize (2010) and of the Israel Prize (2016)
Prof. Debórah Dwork, Inaugural Rose Professor of Holocaust History, Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Distinguished Research Scholar, Clark University
Dr. (emeritus) Dennis Kortheuer, Department of History at California State University, Long Beach
Prof. Diane L. Wolf, Department of Sociology and former Director of Jewish Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Dr. Dimitry Shevchenko, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Dmitry Shumsky, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Director of the Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. (emeritus) Donald Sassoon, Comparative European History, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr. Dorit Naaman, Alliance Atlantis Professor of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Canada, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. E. Natalie Rothman, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
Dr. Elizabeth Freund (emerita), Department of English Literature, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Prof. Elizabeth Heineman, Department of History, The University of Iowa, specializes in gender, war, and memory in Germany and in the Holocaust
Dr. Erella Grassiani, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. (emerita) Elsa Auerbach, English Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, daughter of German Holocaust refugees
Prof. (emeritus) Emmanuel Farjoun, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Eric Kligerman, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Florida
Prof. (emerita) Esther Dischereit, Writer, poet and Professor of Language Arts, University for Applied Arts Vienna, winner of the Erich Fried Prize (2009)
Prof. Eva Illouz, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, The European Centre for Sociology and Political Science , Paris, winner of the EMET Prize (2018)
Prof. Eva Jablonka, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Eyal Clyne, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, The University of Manchester, specializes in Israel-Palestine and in Jewish and Zionist thought
Dr. (emerita) Florence Lederer, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Université Paris-Sud
Prof. (emeritus) Francis Lowenthal, Cognitive Sciences, University of Mons
Prof. Gabriele Bergers, Department of Oncology, University of Leuven
Prof. Gadi Algazi, Professor of Medieval History, The Department of History, Tel Aviv University, and associate fellow at Re:Work: International Research Center Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at Humboldt University in Berlin
Dr. Gal Levy, Department of Political Science, Sociology & Communication, The Open University of Israel, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. (emerita) Galia Golan, Darwin Professor, The Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Gayle Levy, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages Department and director of UMKC Honors College, University of Missouri-Kansas City, specializes in Nazi-Germany and the Holocaust
Prof. (emeritus) Gideon Freudenthal, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Prof. (emeritus) Graeme Segal, Mathematics, All Souls College
Dr. Hadas Leonov, Software Developer, Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Rheinstetten, Germany
Hadas Pe’ery, Composer, sound artist, educator and activist, teaching fellow at The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Hagit Borer, FBA Chair in Linguistics, SLLF Queen Mary, University of London
Prof. Haim Bresheeth, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS University of London and Director of Camera Obscura Films
Dr. Halleli Pinson, The Department Of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. (emerita) Hanan J. Kisch, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Hannah Safran, Feminist Research Center, Haifa, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Heidi Grunebaum, Associate Professor at the Centre for Humanities Research University of the Western Cape, specializes in memory and reconciliation in Germany, South Africa and Israel-Palestine
Dr. Hila Amit, Independent scholar of Queer Theory and Migration and Diaspora Studies
Dr. Hilla Dayan, Sociology, Amsterdam University College, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Idan Landau, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Ilan Saban, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, specializes in minority rights, international law, and Nationalism
Dr. Ilana Hammerman, Writer, editor, translator and activist, winner of the Yeshayahu Leibowitz Prize (2015)
Dr. Inna Michaeli, Independent scholar and activist
Dr. Irit Dekel, Research Associate, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies Friedrich Schiller University, specializes in memory politics in Germany and Israel
Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Head of the Talmud and Late Antiquity section in the department of Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Isaac (Yanni) Nevo, The Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Itamar Kastner, Humboldt University, Berlin
Dr. Itamar Shachar, Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Dr. Itay Snir, Political Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Open University of Israel
Prof. (emeritus) Jacob Katriel, Chemistry Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. James Cohen, Anglophone World Department, Université de Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
Dr. Jared Margulies, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
Prof. Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Dr. (emeritus) Jeanne Fagnani, Senior researcher at The French National Centre for Scientific Research, associate researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research, member of the scientific committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for Nature and Mankind
Dr. Jeffrey Melnick, American Studies Department, University of Massachusetts
Prof. (emeritus) Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University
Prof. Joel Gordon, The Department of History, University of Arkansas Fayetteville
Prof. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Judith Norman, Department of Philosophy, Trinity University San Antonio, Texas USA
Prof. (emeritus) Jules Chametzky, Department of English, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Karel Arnaut, Associate Professor and Research Coordinator of the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof. (emerita) Karen Brodkin, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in anti-Semitism and racism
Dr. Katharina Galor, Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Brown University
Kathy Wazana, Documentary filmmaker, Master’s student at the Department of Cinema and Media Arts, York University
Dr. Katy Fox-Hodess, Lecturer in Employment Relations, Accreditations Management School, University of Sheffield
Prof. Kobi Peterzil, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa
Dr. Kobi Snitz, Mathematics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. (emeritus) Laurence Dreyfus, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Prof. (emeritus) Lawrence Blum, Professor of Philosophy, and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education University of Massachusetts Boston, specializes in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Dr. Les Levidow, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Open University, UK
Dr. Lin Chalozin-Dovrat, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University
Prof. (emerita) Linda Dittmar, The English Department, University of Massachusetts, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Linda Gordon, Florence Kelley Professor of History, New York University, specializes in right-wing populism
Dr. Lior Volinz, Post-doctoral researcher at the Crime and Society (CRiS) research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prof. Lisa Baraitser, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck Institute, University of London
Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, specializes in political violence
Prof. (emeritus) Louis Kampf, Literature and Women’s & Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Louise Bethlehem, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in South African apartheid
Prof. Lynne Segal, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck Institute, University of London
Prof. (emeritus) Marc David, Department of Mathematics – Computer Science, Universiteit Antwerpen
Prof. (emeritus) Marc Steinling, School of Medicine, University of Lille Nord de France
Prof. Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, co-director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, specializes in politics of memory, the Holocaust and Jewish memory
Prof. (emerita) Marianne Lederer, Former director of the School of Interpreters and Translators (ESIT), Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
Dr. Marie-José Durand-Richard, Associated researcher at Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot and honorary lecturer of Mathematics and History of Science, Université Paris 8
Dr. Mark Levene, Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
Prof. (emeritus) Mateo Alaluf, Institute of Sociology, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Prof. (emeritus), Maurice Pasternak, Artist and Professor at L’École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre
Prof. Menachem Klein, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, former advisor for Israeli officials regarding negotiations with Palestinian counterparts and participant in several Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Prof. Michael Chanan, Department of Media, Culture and Language, University of Roehampton
Prof. Michael Keren, Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. (cmeritus) Micah Leshem, The Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
Prof. Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, specializes in Holocaust studies
DipEd. Michel Staszewski, Visiting Researcher Department of Education Free University of Brussels
Dr. Mir Yarfitz, Associate Professor of History, Jewish Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University
Dr. Miriam Ticktin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
Prof. (emeritus) Mordechai Shechter, The Department of Economics and The Department of Natural Resource & Environmental Management, University of Haifa, former Rector of the University of Haifa, former President of Tel-Hai Academic College, former head of Israel’s National Parks and Nature Reserves Authority Council
Prof. (emeritus) Moshe Zimmermann, Former director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in the German Jewry during the Second World War and anti-Semitism
Prof. (emeritus) Moshe Zuckermann, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, son of Holocaust survivors, specializes in Zionism and anti-Semitism
Prof. (emeritus) Moshé Machover, Professor of Philosophy, University of London
Dr. Na’ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature & Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, specializes in Zionist and Israeli literature, and German-Jewish relations
Dr. Nadia Valman, Reader in English Literature Co-director, of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, Queen Mary, University of London, specializes in Jewish History
Dr. Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Prof. Neve Gordon, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializes in human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Prof. Nicholas Stargardt, History Department, Magdalen College, specializes in the history of Nazi Germany
Dr. Nina Caputo, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Florida
Prof. Nir Gov, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. (emeritus) Nira Yuval-Davis, Honorary Director Centre for Migration, Refugees & Belonging, The University of East London
Dr. Noa Roei, Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. (emeritus) Noam Chomsky, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Laureate Professor, The Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Prof. (emerita), Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The David Yellin Academic College of Education, co-winner of the Sakharov Prize (2001)
Prof. Oded Goldreich, Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Oded Na’aman, Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Ofer Aharony, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Ofri Ilany, Post-doctoral fellow, The Polonsky Academy The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, specializes in German history and in German-Jewish relations
D.Arch Olivier Tric, Honorary teacher at School of Architecture of Nantes
Prof. Oren Yiftachel, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr. Orian Zakai, The Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages, The George Washington University
Prof. Pascal Lederer, Honorary research director at The French National Centre for Scientific Research
Dr. Patricia Schor, Department of Social Sciences, Amsterdam University College, specializes in nationalism, race and racism
Prof. (emeritus) Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Associate Faculty in the Department of History, The University of Chicago Divinity School
Dr. Peter Cosyns, Post-doctoral researcher, Art History and Archeology, Free University Brussels
Pierre Getzler, Artist, “Pupille de la Nation”, his father died in July 1940 fighting with the French Foreign Legion against Nazi Germany and received The Cross of War decoration, his mother was deported to Auschwitz where she died in 1943
Dr. R. Ruth Linden, UCSF School of Medicine, founder of the Holocaust Media Project
Prof. Rachel Giora, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ran Greenstein, Associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Ran HaCohen, Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University, specializes in German-Jewish literature
Dr. Raya Cohen, Department of History, Tel Aviv University and The University of Naples Federico II, specializes in the history of the Holocaust and in the context of Israel-Palestine
Rela Mazali, Independent scholar, writer and peace activist
Revital Madar, PhD candidate, The Cultural Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. (emeritus) Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law, Princeton University and former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-14)
Prof. Robert C. Rosen, Department of English, William Paterson University
Dr. Roi Livne, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Prof. (emeritus) Rolf Verleger, Psychologist, Member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany 2005-2009
M.D. Rony Brauman, Director of Studies at the Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, associate professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Prof. Roy Wagner, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich
Dr. Sagi Schaefer, History Department, Tel Aviv University, specializes in the history of modern Germany
Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Sergio Tenenbaum, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Dr. Seth Anziska, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, specializes Jewish-Muslim relations and in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Seth L. Sanders, Professor of Religious Studies, Director of the Graduate Group for the Study of Religion Member, Jewish Studies Program University of California, Davis
Prof. Dr. Shani Tzoref, School of Jewish Theology, Hebrew Bible and Biblical Exegesis, University of Potsdam
Prof. (emerita) Sherna Gluck, Director of the Oral History Program, Department of History, California State University Long Beach, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Sheryl Nestel, Independent Scholar, Toronto, specializes in race and racism
Dr. Shir Hever, Political Science, Free University of Berlin, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Shira Havkin, PhD candidate in Political Sociology, Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences-Po Paris
Prof. (emerita) Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, English Department and the Department of General and Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. (emeritus) Shlomo Moran, Computer Science Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. (emeritus) Shlomo Sand, History Department, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Sidney Corbett, composer and teacher at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts
Prof. Simona Sharoni, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department, Interdisciplinary Institute, Merrimack College
Smadar Ben Natan, PhD candidate, Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal studies, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Snait B. Gissis, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Tel Aviv University, specializes in racism
Prof. (emerita) Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Prof. Stephen Clingman, Department of English, University of Massachusetts
Prof. Stephen Deutsch, Professor of Post-Production, Department of Media Production, Bournemouth University
Prof. Stephen R. Shalom, Political Science Department, William Paterson University, member of the executive board of the Gandhian Forum for Peace & Justice
Prof. (emeritus) Steve Golin, History Department, Bloomfield College
Dr. Steven Levine, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts
Prof. (emeritus) Steven Rose, Neuroscience, The Open University, UK
Prof. Susan Slyomovics, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in human rights, German Reparations and Israel-Palestine
Dr. Sven-Erik Rose, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, chair of the Department of German and Russian, University of California, Davis, specializes in German and German-Jewish literature and thought and Holocaust Studies
Dr. Tal Shuval, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic studies, The Open University of Israel, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Tamar Blickstein, Post-doctoral researcher, Affective Societies, The Free University of Berlin
Prof. Tamar Rapoport, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Tamir Sorek, Sociology and Jewish Studies, University of Florida, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Dr. Terri Ginsberg, Assistant Professor, Department of the Arts, The American University in Cairo
Dr. Tom Pessah, Independent scholar and activist
Prof. (emeritus) Tommy Dreyfus, Mathematics Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
Udi Aloni, Writer and filmmaker, specializes in Jewish and Zionist thought and in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Uri Hadar, Head of Gerontological Clinical Psychology department, Ruppin Academic Center
Prof. (emerita) Vered Kraus, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa
Prof. Victor Ginsburgh, The European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Prof. Willie van Peer, Intercultural Hermeneutics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Yaara Benger Alaluf, Post-doctoral fellow at The Center for The History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Dr. Yael Politi, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
Dr. Yair Wallach, Head of the Centre for Jewish Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East, SOAS, University of London, specializes in the context of Israel-Palestine
Prof. Yakov Rabkin, The Montreal Centre for International Studies and the Department of History, Université de Montréal, specializes in history of Jewish and Zionist thought
Dr. Yali Hashash, Haifa Feminist Research Center, Women and Gender Studies Program and The Oral History Laboratory: Life-stories under oppression at The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yann Guillaud, Lecturer at The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po
Prof. (emeritus) Yehoshua Kolodny, Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the Israel Prize (2010)
Prof. Yinon Cohen, Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israel & Jewish Studies, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Prof. (emeritus) Yonathan (Jon) Anson, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky, Centre for Media Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Prof. Yuri Pines, Director, The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies Department of Asian Studies The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Yuval Eylon, The Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
Dr. Yuval Yonay, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa
Dr. Zvi Bekerman, The Seymour Fox School of Education, The Melton Centre for Jewish Education and research fellow at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in intercultural encounters and minority education

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Israeli Academics Condemn the Slaughter and Endless Oppression of the Palestinian People

Israeli Academics Condemn the Slaughter and Endless Oppression of the Palestinian People

July 20, 2014 Public Voices

This protest petition just came to our attention. As a pubic service we are circulating it here. In the coming days, analysis from alternative perspectives will follow, including pieces by Nahed Habiballah, Benoit Challand and yours truly. – Jeff Goldfarb

The signatories to this statement, all academics at Israeli universities, wish it to be known that they utterly deplore the aggressive military strategy being deployed by the Israeli government. The slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent people, is placing yet more barriers of blood in the way of the negotiated agreement which is the only alternative to the occupation and endless oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel must agree to an immediate cease-fire, and start negotiating in good faith for the end of the occupation and settlements, through a just peace agreement.

If you are an Israeli academic, working in Israel, and would like to sign this statement, please send an email to Prof. Rachel Giora rachel.giora@gmail.com with your name, title and affiliation.

Academics in Israeli universities who have signed the statement above:

Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Hebrew University
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University
Dr. Kobi Snitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University
Dr Efrat Ben-Zeev, Ruppin Academic Center
Prof. As’ad Ghanem, Haifa University
Prof. Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Zvi Tauber, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Vered Kraus, Haifa University
Dr. Yuval Yonay, Haifa University
Prof. Oded Goldreich, Weizman Institute
Prof. Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
Professor Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University
Professor Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University
Professor As’ad Ghanem, Haifa University
Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Haifa University
Prof. Micah Leshem, Haifa University
Dr. Ilan Saban, University of Haifa
Dr. Avishai Ehrlich, TAU
Dr. Ivy Sichel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Prof. Yehuda Shenhav, TAU
Dr. Hannah Safran, The Academic College for Society and the Arts
Dr. Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University
Prof. Dudy Tzfati, Hebrew University
Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Jerusalem
Professor David Blanc, University
Dr. Haim Yacobi Bezalel, Ben Gurion University
Elizabeth Ritter, Ben-Gurion University
Paul Wexler, Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Amatzia Weisel, Tel Aviv University (retired)
Prof. Tamar Katriel, Haifa University
Dr. Haim Deuelle Luski, Tel Aviv University & Bezalel Academy of Art
Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University
Dr. Roy Wagner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv University
Professor Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University
Professor Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amira Katz, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Prof. Julia Horvath, Tel-Aviv University
Dr. Arie M. Dubnov, University of Haifa
Dr. Raz Chen-Morris, Bar Ilan University
Dr. Amalia Sa’ar, University of Haifa

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Micah Leshem in Italian:

Don’t we set precondition to the negotiations of peace – because they ask for the Palestinian ones?

http://rete-eco.it/2012/approfondimenti/opposizione-israeliana/38483-precondizioni.html

Categoria: Opposizione israelianaPubblicato Giovedì, 18 Luglio 2013 08:22Scritto da Micah Leshem

24/06/2013

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BackOpen Letter from Faculty Members

We, faculty members from a number of Israeli universities, wish to express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories. Such service too often involves carrying out orders that have no place in a democratic society founded on the sanctity of human life.
For thirty five years an entire people, some three and a half million in number, have been held without basic human rights. The occupation and oppression of another people have brought the State of Israel to where it is today.
Without an Israeli declaration of an end to the occupation, accompanied by appropriate action–unilateral, if necessary–the present war is not being fought for our home but for the settlements beyond the green line and for the continued oppression of another people.
We hereby express our readiness to do our best to help students who encounter academic, administrative or economic difficulties as a result of their refusal to serve in the territories. We call on the University community at large to support them.
Faculty members who wish to join are welcome to contact Anat Biletzki (anatbi@post.tau.ac.il).This letter is being updated. So far, 360 faculty members have signed it.Tel-Aviv UniversityGadi AlgaziBenjamin ArbelMira ArielMordecai ArieliAharon AtzmonIrit AverbuchMichal AviadArnon AvronRon BarkaiOfer BarneaOuti Bat-ElAvner Ben-AmosZiva Ben-PoratSigal Ben-PorathLinda Ben-ZviRuth BermanAnat BiletzkiYigal BronnerJose BrunnerRaya CohenYinon CohenGerald CohenLeo CorryBilha Davidson-HaradDaniel DorTommy DreyfusZohar EitanMiri Eliav-FeldonGuy EvenAharon EviatarOvadia EzraRivka FeldhayAmos FiatMenachem FischGideon FreudenthalAriella FriedmanLyat FriedmanIris FryChaim GansIsrael GershoniRachel GioraSnait GissisEli GlaznerOfra Goldstein-GidoniYuval GorenJoseph GrodzinskyUri HadarAvraham HeffnerTalma HendlerHanna HerzogZe’ev HerzogYoram HirschfeldSylvie HonigmanJulia HorvathEva JablonkaDaphna JoelNaftali KaminskiHaggi KenaanAviad KleinbergNora Korin-LangerJudy KupfermanYehuda KupfermanYitzhak LaorHerardo LeibnerElia LeibovitzDafna LemishShimon LevyOrly LubinRuth ManorUri MaorShmulik MarcoAnat MatarAriel MeiravBen-Zion MunitzHannah NavehJudd Ne’emanJoseph NeumannYehuda NinyAdi OphirRonie ParciackYoav PeledEinat PeledTamar PiterbergDanny RabinowitzZvi RaziRaanan ReinElchanan ReinerTanya ReinhartFreddie RokemDana RonTova RosenSharon RotbardZeev RotemShlomo SandRakefet Sela-SheffyRuben SeroussiAharon ShabtaiRonen ShamirEdna ShavitUzi ShavitLeon SheleffYishayahu ShenYehuda ShenhavElana ShohamyTali SiloniAmy SingerRosalie SitmanZvi TauberShula VolkovPaul WexlerMina WilsonAmnon WolmanEli YassifNeta ZivMoshe ZuckermannHebrew UniversityZach AdamAmotz AgnonDaniel AmitShalom BaerMalachi Beit-ArieMatania Ben-ArtziJochanan BenbassatGershon Ben-ShakharShlomo BentinTzvi BentwichMichel BercovierLouise BethlehemMichael BrandeisMenahem BrinkerVictoria BuchRuth ButlerErik CohenItamar CwikSidra DeKoven EzrahiAvner De-ShalitFanny DoljanskiOtniel DrorDavid EnochYehouda EnzelRuma FalkRaphael FalkEmanuel FarjounMichal FrenkelElizabeth FreundEhud FriedgutDov FriedlanderAvraham GalDaphna Golan-AgnonAmiram GoldblumCharles GreenbaumRuth HaCohenDon HandelmanAlon HarelGalit Hasan-RokemYaacov HasingHannan HeverCarola HilfrichPeter HillmanAriel HirschfeldUdi HrushovskiRonen KadmonMichael KerenOrna KupfermanRaz KupfermanJohn LandauYonata LevyNati LinialJeanette MalkinNina MayorekPaul Mendes-FlohrNilly MorNava MoranStephane MosesUzi MotroGad NathanAnat NinioIlana PardesNurit Peled-ElhananShmuel PelegMotty PerryYuri PinesItamar PitowskyJulia ResnikYaacov RitovIlana RitovMoshe RonZeev RosenhekIdan SegevBenny ShanonGideon ShelachTuvia ShlonskyNita ShochatYinon ShrimDavid ShulmanIvy SichelWilfred SteinZeev SternhellMorris TeubalDudy TzfatiAmiel VardiVered VinitzkyMarcus WasemJoseph WeidenfeldAvital WolmanMenachem YaariJoseph ZeiraAnat ZeiraMoshe ZimmermanBen-Gurion UniversityYael AmitaiArie ArnonDanny Bar-OnNaomi BenbassatShmuel Ben-DorIts`hak DinsteinDalia DraiGerda Elata-AlsterDanny FilcAlon FriedmanOfer GalNeve GordonHaim GordonLev GrinbergYitzhak HenSam KaplanShoshana KeinyHanan KischBecky KookIlana KrauzmanIdan LandauDaphna LevitAmnon MeiselsPnina Mutzafi-HallerIsaac (Yanni) NevoDavid NewmanIris ParushAdi ParushAmit PinchevskiRenee PoznanskiHaggai RamUri RamAmnon Raz-KrakotzkinNomi ShirZvi SolovBarak WeissNitza YanayOren YiftachelJoseph YonahHaifa UniversityAnat ArielUri Bar-JosephYair BaumlBenjamin Beit-HallahmiDevorah BernsteinDavid BlancAmit GazitAvner GiladiIlan Gur-ZeevYossi GuttmanMeir HemoTali ItzhakiDeborah Kalekin-FishmanTamar KatrielAmalia KoriatVered KraussHaggai KupermintzRon KuzarMicah LeshemJoyce LivingstoneJudah MatrasAvraham OzNira PancerKobi Peter (Peterzil)Roni PiskerHenry RosenfeldIlan SabanDalia SachsHannah SafranMichael SaltmanAnna SfardArie ShapiraIlan TorenMichael YogevYuval YonayTechnionColman AltmanErez BraunDavid DeganiMichael FryHaggai GilboaJacob KatrielUri KatzHubert Law-YoneYaakov OshmanDanny RitterShammai SpeiserBronek WajnrybIrad YavnehOfer ZeitouniAcademic College, Tel-Aviv-JaffaOfer FeinHanan FrenkRebecca JacobyMichal ParnasAvraham SchweigerEran ShadakhDorit ShweikiDani SzpruchRoy WagnerWeizman InstituteOfer AharonyOded GoldreichSteve KarlishRon NaamanYossi NirItamar ProcacciaAmitai RegevDaniel RohrlichVered Rom-KedarUzy SmilanskyInterdisciplinary CenterDanny Ben-ShaharMike DahanBezalel AcademyZivia Yair AvigdorYuval BaerEyal Ben-DovMichal Broshi-BenlevyIdo BrunoMaya Cohen LeviAnat DavidTzachi FarberDavid GintonShuka GlotmanDavid GuggenheimLance HunterShmuel KaplanAnat KatsirYaacov KaufmanSharon KerenGil KleinMarylou LevinItzik RennertMiri SegalArie SivanKeren VinerHaim YakovyReuven ZehaviSapir CollegeDaniel DeMalachOrly SokerTel-Hai Academic CollegeAvihu RonenAshkelon Academic CollegeMenashe ShwedOpen UniversityAmira GelblumSimona GinsburgKaye College of EducationDoron NarkissGordon College of Education – HaifaAnat BarneaCollege of ManagementReuven HoreshBar Ilan UniversityHannah KasherRimon KasherBezalel ManekinDavid SeneshAcademic CenterOrly ShenkerBeit Berl CollegeDiana Silberman-KellerLevinsky College of EducationDorit CohenRamat Gan CollegeYael BerdaAbroadJacques Negre

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גילוי דעת של חברי סגל מהאוניברסיטאות והמכללותחזור

אנו חברי סגל מהאוניברסיטאות מביעים בזאת את תמיכתנו והערכתנו לסטודנטים ומרצים המסרבים לשרת כחיילים בשטחים הכבושים. שרות זה כרוך לעתים קרובות מדי בביצוע פקודות שאין להן מקום בחברה דמוקרטית המאמינה כי כל אדם נברא בצלם.
מזה 35 שנה, מוחזק עם שלם של שלשה וחצי מליון איש ללא זכויות אדם בסיסיות. הכיבוש והשליטה על עם אחר הביאו את מדינת ישראל אל המצב בו היא נמצאת היום.
ללא הצהרה ישראלית על סיום הכיבוש המלווה במעשים – ולו גם מעשים חד-צדדיים, אין מלחמה זאת מלחמה על הבית כי אם על המשך הדיכוי והמשך מפעל ההתנחלויות.
אנו מביעים בזאת את נכונותנו לעזור ככל יכולתנו לסטודנטים שכתוצאה מסירובם לשרת בשטחים יתקלו בקשיים לימודיים, כלכליים או מינהליים ואנו קוראים לקהילת האוניברסיטה לתמוך בסרבנים.
סטודנטים מוזמנים ליצור קשר עם כל אחד מהחתומים למעלה.
חברי סגל המעוניינים להצטרף מוזמנים לכתוב ל-anatbi@post.tau.ac.il
רשימה זאת מתעדכנת, עד כה חתמו עליה 360 חברי סגל מהאוניברסיטאות.
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