Anti-Israel Scholarship as Pro-Palestinian Activism: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Neve Gordon

15.11.23

Editorial Note

In January 2023, IAM reported how Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian abused her academic position to bash Israel. The Hebrew University Law Faculty professor spoke at a George Washington University Professional Psychology Program event in September 2022, where she espoused anti-Israel arguments. She said that Israel uses its humanitarian aid to distract from its “oppressive power.” She argued in support of Palestinians throwing stones at Jews as a form of “violent resistance.” She examined the “framing, production and performance of security regimes that create and encourage systems of racialized oppression.”

Shalhoub-Kevorkian has a history of anti-Israel scholarship. In 2017, she wrote that in the Palestinian city space of “occupied” East Jerusalem, “Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives… one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony.”

IAM also reported that Shalhoub-Kevorkian espoused fake news about Israel in her co-authored 2021 article, “Colonial Necrocapitalism, State Secrecy and the Palestinian Freedom Tunnel,” arguing that in Israel, “the very existence of the Palestinian endangers the colonial state… their death is necessary for the survival” of Israel. That “Necrocapitalism” is “operationalized through violent policing of Palestinians.” For Shalhoub-Kevorkian, necrocapitalism is the “means of accumulating capital and profit from the death” of Palestinians, where “profit flows from visible and invisible violence, as well as the killing of the colonized, as a state of fear generates continuous insecurity, which in turn generates a demand for security goods.” Because “Israel is one of the top arms exporters in the world.” 

Her anti-Israel bias, paid by the Israeli taxpayers, prompted anger against her. 

Things came to a head when she signed two anti-Israel petitions recently, after the Black Sabbath of 7 October, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians.

The first petition, “Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza” from 15 October, stated, “As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” The second petition, published on November 7, 2023, “Childhood researchers and students call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” stated, “We write this letter as academics and students who specialize in the study of children and childhood to call for the immediate cessation of the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and the egregious violation of Palestinian children’s rights.”

Neither of the petitions expressed any empathy for the suffering of Israelis during the Black Sabbath attack by Hamas. 

The Israeli media reported on the petitions, generating anger among Israelis against the professor. 

For almost two decades, IAM has been reporting on Israeli academics who have used their position as a platform for anti-Israeli agitation. Professor Neve Gordon stands out in this context. 

Gordon, formerly of the Ben Gurion Department of Politics and Government who called for the boycott of Israel in 2009, is currently teaching Human Rights Law at the Queen Mary University of London. For two decades, Gordon has been espousing the false Palestinian narrative that the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank live under Israeli occupation. He is a political scientist with no experience in human rights law, which is what he teaches, who apparently was recruited due to his anti-Israel bias. 

Shalhoub-Kevorkian also works as the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, where Gordon also teaches. 

A couple of weeks ago, Gordon, as the vice president of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), sent a letter on behalf of the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom, addressing Prof. Asher Cohen, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Tamir Sheafer, the Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

In his letter, Gordon stated that while “we grieve the heinous killings of Israeli and Palestinian civilians,” he wished to express the “profound concern over the content of your letter of 29 October to Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian… given the current atmosphere in Israel, its capacity to incite both verbal and physical violence against Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian.” According to Gordon, the letter’s widespread circulation has “potentially endangered Professor Shalhoub Kevorkian’s mental and physical wellbeing and contravenes your duty of care towards her.”

Gordon was referring to a letter sent to Shalhoub Kevorkian by Prof. Cohen and Prof. Sheafer, who were “astonished, disgusted and deeply disappointed” of Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian signing a petition, which is “not very far from crimes of incitement and sedition.”  

Prof. Cohen’s and Prof. Sheafer’s letter maintains that Israel’s actions in Gaza “do not come close to the definition of genocide” while Hamas’ massacre of 7 October “falls completely under this definition.” Prof. Cohen’s and Prof. Sheafer’s letter concludes, “We are sorry and ashamed that the Hebrew University includes a faculty member like you. In light of your feelings, we believe that it is appropriate for you to consider leaving your position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” 

On behalf of BRISMES, Gordon responded to Prof. Cohen and Prof. Sheafer that he understands “why some people might find the text of the petition of childhood researchers offensive, for example because the text does not refer to the Israeli children killed by Hamas. We further note that there is currently a disagreement among genocide and legal scholars about whether Israel’s attacks on Gaza are genocidal. However, with close to 900 scholars releasing a statement to that effect on 15 October, Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was simply echoing a widely held scholarly opinion.”

As can be seen, for Gordon, espousing a false accusation is an acceptable academic practice since it is widely held among pro-Palestinian academics.

According to Gordon, the letter of 29 October by Prof. Cohen and Prof. Sheafer breaches Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s academic freedom and “produces a chilling effect among the University’s staff and students, particularly Palestinian staff and students, many of whom will feel unable to voice their lawful opinions on a wide range of urgent questions.” Gordon ended his letter by requesting Hebrew University to rescind the letter and issue an apology with a commitment to academic freedom to be circulated to all Hebrew University staff. 

However, Gordon, on behalf of BRISMES and academic freedom, did not express any empathy over the killing of Dr. Haim Katzman, his former MA student, who was murdered by Hamas at home in Kibbutz Holit during the 7 October Black Sabbath. 

Neither Shalhoub-Kevorkian nor Gordon, her colleague from Queen Mary University, expressed their disgust about the pogrom executed by Hamas. Their selective compassion is illustrative of the moral deficiency of the neo-Marxist, critical scholars who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that Hamas is an ISIS-type terror group waging jihad on Israel. The same moral callousness prevents the neo-Marxist critical scholars from admitting that Hamas has used the population of Gaza as human shields and constructed an enormous command center under Al Shifa, the largest medical center in Gaza. 

Professors Gordon and Shalhoub-Kevorkian are advised to look at the Hague and Geneva Conventions that make it illegal to hide behind non-combatants.

REFERENCES:

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/letter-to-hebrew-university-regarding-treatment-of-prof-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian

Letter to Hebrew University Regarding Treatment of Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

  • Posted: 30/10/2023

The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the president and rector of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to express our profound concern over the content of their letter of 29 October to Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, its widespread dissemination and, given the current atmosphere in Israel, its capacity to incite both verbal and physical violence against Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

It is precisely during times of war that academic freedom and freedom of expression are tested and need to be assiduously and robustly protected. Yet, the University’s letter of 29 October appears to do exactly the opposite. It not only breaches Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s academic freedom, but it also produces a chilling effect among the University’s staff and students, particularly Palestinian staff and students, many of whom will feel unable to voice their lawful opinions on a wide range of urgent questions. Moreover, and as mentioned above, the letter’s widespread circulation has potentially endangered Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s mental and physical wellbeing and contravenes the University’s duty of care towards her. 

We ask that the president and rector rescind their letter to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian and issue an apology alongside a commitment to academic freedom that will be circulated to all Hebrew University staff. We further ask that they urgently inquire about her safety and offer her their support, including by assessing whether she needs the University to provide a security detail in the coming weeks.

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 

71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, 

London WC2H 9JQ 

Email: office@brismes.org 

Website: www.brismes.ac.uk 

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales. 

Company Number: 08747770 | 

Registered Charity Number: 1161206 | 

VAT Registration Number: 828 5681 90 

Prof Asher Cohen President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Sent by Email: hupres@savion.huji.ac.il 

Prof Tamir Sheafer Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Sent By Email: rector@savion.huji.ac.il 

30 October 2023 

Dear Professors Asher Cohen and Tamir Sheafer, 

Even as we grieve the heinous killings of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, I write on behalf of the Academic Freedom Committee of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) in order to express our profound concern over the content of your letter of 29 October to Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, its widespread dissemination by you and/or your staff, and, given the current atmosphere in Israel, its capacity to incite both verbal and physical violence against Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian. 

Founded in 1973, BRISMES is the largest national academic association in Europe focused on the study of the Middle East and North Africa. It is committed to supporting academic freedom and freedom of expression, both within the region and in connection with the study of the region, both in the UK and globally. In your letter, you note that you were “astonished, disgusted and deeply disappointed” that Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian published and signed the petition of “Childhood researchers and students call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza”. In your letter, you then claimed that by doing so Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian had committed an act that is “not very far from crimes of incitement and sedition.” You also maintain that Israel’s actions in Gaza “do not come close to the definition of genocide” while Hamas’ massacre of 7 October “falls completely under this definition.” You then conclude the letter to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian by stating, “We are sorry and ashamed that the Hebrew University includes a faculty member like you. In light of your feelings, we believe that it is appropriate for you to consider leaving your position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” 

After sending the letter to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian either you and/or members of your staff shared it with members of the Hebrew University community and the letter was quickly posted and disseminated on social media. Since then, Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been receiving hate messages and threats of violence, creating a risk to her physical well-being. As two eminent scholars who are rooted in Israeli society you will be well-aware of the current atmosphere within Israel. The atmosphere to which we refer includes video clips made and circulated by Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s colleague Professor Gad Yair, in which he calls for a ‘Nakba 2’ (recently taken offline), articles from Tel-Aviv University Professor Eviatar Matania calling in an op-ed for the complete destruction of Gaza City and the establishment of a park in its stead (Makor Rishon 27 Oct.), as well as attacks on student dorms in Netanya, where a mob surrounding the dorms is seen yelling “death to Arabs, death to Arabs.” 

The threats to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian arriving in the wake of your letter could easily have been anticipated by those who chose to publish and/or disseminate it. We understand why some people might find the text of the petition of childhood researchers offensive, for example because the text does not refer to the Israeli children killed by Hamas. We further note that there is currently a disagreement among genocide and legal scholars about whether Israel’s attacks on Gaza are genocidal. However, with close to 900 scholars releasing a statement to that effect on 15 October, Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was simply echoing a widely held scholarly opinion. 

It is precisely during times of war that academic freedom and freedom of expression are tested and must be assiduously and robustly protected. Yet, your letter of 29 October appears to do exactly the opposite. It not only breaches Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s academic freedom, but it also produces a chilling effect among the University’s staff and students, particularly Palestinian staff and students, many of whom will feel unable to voice their lawful opinions on a wide range of urgent questions. Moreover, and as mentioned above, the letter’s widespread circulation by you and/or members of your staff has potentially endangered Professor ShalhoubKevorkian’s mental and physical wellbeing and contravenes your duty of care towards her. We therefore ask that you rescind your letter to Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian and issue an apology alongside a commitment to academic freedom that will be circulated to all Hebrew University staff. We further ask that you urgently inquire about her safety and offer her your support, including by assessing whether she needs the University to provide a security detail in the coming weeks. 

Yours sincerely, 

Professor Neve Gordon 

Vice President, BRISMES 

On behalf of the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom  

=====================================================

Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza

15 October 2023 

As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, recognising the weight of this crime, but the gravity of the current situation demands it. The pre-existing conditions in the Gaza Strip had already prompted discussions of genocide prior to the current escalation – such as by the National Lawyers Guild in 2014, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in 2014, and the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2016. Scholars have warned over the years that the siege of Gaza may amount to a “prelude to genocide” or a “slow-motion genocide”. The prevalence of racist and dehumanising language and hate speech in social media was also noted in a warning issued in July 2014 by the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, in response to Israel’s conduct against the protected Palestinian population. The Special Advisers noted that individual Israelis had disseminated messages that could be dehumanising to the Palestinians and that had called for the killing of members of this group, and reiterated that incitement to commit atrocity crimes is prohibited under international law. Israel’s current military offensive on the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, however, is unprecedented in scale and severity, and consequently in its ramifications for the population of Gaza. Following the incursion by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October 2023, including criminal attacks against Israeli civilians, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to incessant and indiscriminate bombardment by Israeli forces. Between 7 October and 9:00 a.m. on 15 October, there have been 2,329 Palestinians killed and 9,042 Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza, including over 724 children, huge swathes of neighbourhoods and entire families across Gaza have been obliterated. Israel’s Defence Minister ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip prohibiting the supply of fuel, electricity, water and other essential necessities. This terminology itself indicates an intensification of an already illegal, potentially genocidal siege to an outright destructive assault. Late on 12 October, the Israeli authorities issued an order for more than 1.1million Palestinians in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and flee to the south of Gaza within 24 hours, knowing that this would be practically impossible for many. Palestinians who did start to evacuate south reported that civilians and ambulances were targeted and hit by Israeli airstrikes on the designated “safe route”, killing at least 70 Palestinians who were fleeing to seek refuge. The ICRC stated that “the evacuation orders, coupled with the complete siege” are incompatible with international humanitarian law. Almost half a million Palestinians have already been displaced, and Israeli forces have bombed the only possible exit route that Israel does not control, the Rafah crossing to Egypt multiple times. The World Health Organisation published a warning that “[f]orcing more than 2000 patients to relocate to southern Gaza, where health facilities are already running at maximum capacity and unable to absorb a dramatic rise in the number patients, could be tantamount to a death sentence”. There has also been an escalation of violence, arrests, expulsions, and destruction of whole Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Since 7 October, Israeli settlers, with the backing of the army and police, have attacked and shot Palestinian civilians at point blank range (as documented in the villages of a-Tuwani and Qusra), have invaded their homes and assaulted residents. A number of Palestinian communities have already been forced to abandon their homes, after which settlers arrived and destroyed their property. Between 7 – 15 October, Al-Haq documented the killing by Israeli military and settlers of 55 Palestinians in the West Bank, and more the injury of 1,200 Palestinians there. Statements of Israeli officials since 7 October 2023 suggest that beyond the killings and restriction of basic conditions for life perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza, there are also indications that the ongoing and imminent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip are being conducted with potentially genocidal intent. Language used by Israeli political and military figures appears to reproduce rhetoric and tropes associated with genocide and incitement to genocide. Dehumanising descriptions of Palestinians have been prevalent. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared on 9 October that “we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly”. He subsequently announced that Israel was moving to “a fullscale response” and that he had “removed every restriction” on Israeli forces, as well as stating: “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything.” On 10 October, the head of the Israeli army’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, addressed a message directly to Gaza residents: “Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell”. The same day, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari acknowledged the wanton and intentionally destructive nature of Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza: “The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.” Since 2007, Israel has defined the Gaza Strip as a whole as an “enemy entity”. On 7 October, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Gazans would pay an “immense price” for the actions of Hamas fighters. He asserted that Israel will wage a prolonged offensive and will turn parts of Gaza’s densely populated urban centres “into rubble”. Israel’s President emphasised that the Israeli authorities view the entire Palestinian population of Gaza as responsible for the actions of militant groups, and subject accordingly to collective punishment and unrestricted use of force: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true”. Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Israel Katz added: “All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Evidence of incitement to genocide has also been present in Israeli public discourse. This ranges from statements by elected officials – such as Knesset member Ariel Kallner’s call on 7 October for “one goal: Nakba! [catastrophe for Palestinians] A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 1948” – to public banners displayed in Israeli cities calling for a “victory” signified by “zero population in Gaza” and the “annihilation of Gaza”. On national television, security correspondent Alon Ben David relayed the Israeli military’s plan to destroy Gaza City, Jabaliyya, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanun. Such statements are not new and resonate with a wider Israeli discourse showcasing the intent for elimination and genocide against the Palestinian people. Earlier in the year, for example, Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich called Palestinians “repugnant”, “disgusting” and called for “wiping out” the entire Palestinian village of Huwwara in the West Bank. On 12 October 2023, a group of UN Special Rapporteurs’ condemned “Israel’s indiscriminate military attacks against the already exhausted Palestinian people of Gaza, comprising over 2.3 million people, nearly half of whom are children. They have lived under unlawful blockade for 16 years, and already gone through five major brutal wars, which remain unaccounted for”. The UN experts warned against “the withholding of essential supplies such as food, water, electricity and medicines. Such actions will precipitate a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where its population is now at inescapable risk of starvation. Intentional starvation is a crime against humanity”. On 14 October 2023, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory warned against “a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale” as Israel carries out “mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the fog of war”. The Palestinian people constitute a national group for the purposes of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip constitute a substantial proportion of the Palestinian nation, and are being targeted by Israel because they are Palestinian. The Palestinian population of Gaza appears to be presently subjected by the Israeli forces and authorities to widespread killing, bodily and mental harm, and unviable conditions of life – against a backdrop of Israeli statements which evidence signs of intent to physically destroy the population. Article II of the Genocide Convention provides that “genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” All states are bound as a matter of law by the principle that genocide is a crime prohibited under international law. The International Court of Justice has affirmed that the prohibition of genocide is a peremptory norm of international law from which no derogation is allowed. The Convention provides that individuals who attempt genocide or who incite to genocide “shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals”. Article I of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide provides that: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish”. The International Court of Justice has clarified that “a State’s obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be committed. From that moment onwards, if the State has available to it means likely to have a deterrent effect on those suspected of preparing genocide, or reasonably suspected of harbouring specific intent (dolus specialis), it is under a duty to make such use of these means as the circumstances permit”. Palestinian human rights organisations, Jewish civil society groups, Holocaust and genocide studies scholars and others have by now warned of an imminent genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. We emphasise the existence of a serious risk of genocide being committed in the Gaza Strip. The undersigned urgently appeal to states to take concrete and meaningful steps to individually and collectively prevent genocidal acts, in line with their legal duty to prevent the crime of genocide. They must protect the Palestinian population, and ensure that Israel refrains from any further incitement to genocide and from the perpetration of conduct prohibited by Article II of the Genocide Convention. All states should immediately act under Article VIII, and should call upon the competent organs of the United Nations, particularly the UN General Assembly, to take urgent action under the Charter of the United Nations appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide. We note specifically the role of the General Assembly here, given that the Security Council is compromised by the United States and the United Kingdom (both permanent veto-holding members) sending military forces to the eastern Mediterranean in support of Israel. We recall that in 1982, the General Assembly condemned the massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps as “an act of genocide”. We note also that the state of Palestine is entitled to initiate, in accordance with Article IX of the Genocide Convention, proceedings before the International Court of Justice in order to prevent the perpetration of genocidal acts. Finally, we call on all relevant UN bodies, including the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to immediately intervene, to carry out the necessary investigations and invoke the necessary warning procedures to protect the Palestinian population from genocide. Signatories: 1. Aanchal Saraf, Dartmouth College 2. Aaron Seymour, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney 3. Aasiya Lodhi, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster 4. Abdelghany Sayed, Assistant Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Kent Law School. 5. Abdullah Omran, PhD student, Indiana University 6. Abigail Balbale, New York University 7. Adalmir Marquetti, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). 8. Adam Elliott-Cooper, Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London 9. Adil Hasan Khan, Melbourne Law School 10. Adrian Carrillo Gomez, PhD student, Deusto University. 11. Afshin Matin-Asgari, Professor of Middle East history, California State University, Los Angeles 12. Ahmad Al-Dissi, Professor, University of Saskatchewan 13. Ahmad Fouad, Lecturer of Law, the British University in Egypt 14. Ahmad Khaled, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Law, Birzeit University. 15. Ahmad Mustafa, Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas 16. Ahmed Abofoul, International Lawyer, Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer at Al-Haq Organisation 17. Ahmed Selim, PhD Student, University of Chicago 18. Ahmet Ferhat Baran, PhD Student, University of Aberdeen. 19. Ajantha Subramanian, Professor, City University of New York. 20. Alba Valenciano-Mañé, post-doctoral researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 21. Albert Caramés, Adjunct Professor, Blanquerna – Ramon Llull University 22. Alessandra Mezzadri SOAS Reader in Global Development and Political Economy 23. Alessandro Donadio Miebach, Adjunct Professor, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. 24. Alexander D. Barder, Professor of International Relations, Florida International University 25. Alexandre Abreu, Assistant Professor, ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management. 26. Alfredo Alietti, Professor, University of Ferrara Italy 27. Ali Cebeci, PhD, Georgetown University 28. Ali Raza, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences 29. Alice Panepinto, Reader, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast 30. Alicia Campos Serrano, Profesora Titular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 31. Alison Phipps, UNESCO, Chair University of Glasgow 32. Alma Khasawnih, The College of New Jersey 33. Alyosxa Tudor, Reader in Gender Studies, SOAS University of London. 34. Alyssa Kristeller, Graduate Student Georgetown University. 35. Aman, Associate Professor of Legal Practice, Jindal Global University 36. Amber De Clerck, PhD Student & Teaching Assistant, Ghent University, Belgium 37. Amber Lakhani, PhD Candidate & GTA, SOAS University of London. 38. Amina Adanan, Lecturer in Law, Maynooth University 39. Amira Abdelhamid, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Portsmouth 40. Amy Strecker, Associate Professor of Law, University College Dublin 41. Anamika Misra, Associate Lecturer, University of Bristol 42. Anand Sheombar, researcher & lecturer, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht 43. Anand Vaidya, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College 44. Ananya Chakravarti, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University 45. Anas Karzai, Laurentian University, Canada 46. Anastasiya Kotova, Doctoral candidate, Lund University 47. Anchita Dasgupta, Oxford Law Faculty 48. Andrea Cornwall, Professor of Global Development and Anthropology, King’s College London. 49. Andrea Gadberry, Associate Professor, NYU 50. Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Teaching Associate, University of Nottingham 51. Andrea Mura, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London 52. Andrea Teti, Associate Professor of Political Science, Univeristy of Salerno, Italy 53. Andrew Bush, Assistant Professor, Bard College 54. Andrew Woolford, PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba 55. Angana Chatterji, University of California, Berkeley. 56. Angela Daly, Professor of Law & Technology, University of Dundee. 57. Angela Smith, Sessional Academic, University of New South Wales 58. Angela Zito, Anthropology/Religious Studies, NYU 59. Anita H. Fábos, Professor, International Development, Community & Environment Department, Clark University 60. Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton 61. Anjali Arondekar, Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC 62. Anna Bigelow, Stanford University. 63. Anna Ferguson, Georgetown University 64. Anna Rosellini, University of Bologna 65. Anna-Claire Steffen, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst 66. Annaclaudia Martini, Assistant Professor at University of Bologna, Italy 67. Annapurna Menon, Teaching Associate, University of Sheffield 68. Anne Berg, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. 69. Anne Hunnell Chen, Assistant Professor of Art History and visual culture, Bard College 70. Anne Norton, Professor, University of Pennsylvania 71. Anne-Claire Defossez, Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 72. Anneke Newman, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ghent 73. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barnard College, Columbia University 74. Anthony Alessandrini, Professor, City University of New York 75. Anthony Gorman, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh. 76. Anton Shammas, Prof. Emeritus of Middle East Literatures, University of Michigan 77. Antonio Scialà, Università Roma Tre, Italy 78. Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo, Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Newark. 79. Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, School of Law, University College Cork 80. Arathi Sriprakash, University of Oxford 81. Ardi Imseis, Professor of International Law, Queen’s University 82. Arun Kundnani, independent scholar and writer 83. Arzu Somalı, PhD student, University of Istanbul. 84. Aseil Abu-Baker, Legal Consultant. 85. Ashok Kumar, Senior Lecturer of Political Economy, Birkbeck University. 86. Aslı Bâli, Professor of Law, Yale University 87. Astrid Mrkich, refugee lawyer, Toronto, Canada 88. Ata Hindi, Birzeit University. 89. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai, retired Professor, Jawharlal Nehru University, India 90. Avital Ronell, University Professor of the Humanities, NYU 91. Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights, LSE 92. Ayesha Khalid Chaudhry, Doctoral candidate at Deakin University Australia 93. Ayesha Umaña Dajud, JSD student, Cornell University 94. Ayushman Bhagat, Lecturer, Brunel University London 95. Azam Khatam, Instructor, York University 96. Azeezah Kanji, legal academic and journalist 97. Badreddine Rachidi, Graduate Student & Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. 98. Baki Tezcan, Professor of History, University of California, Davis 99. Banah Ghadbian, Assistant Professor Of Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College 100. Barbara Aiolfi, research fellow University of Milan – BICOCCA 101. Barbara De Poli, Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University Venice 102. Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University, North Carolina. 103. Basheer Ahmad, Retired professor, JNU, New Delhi 104. Bashir Saade, Lecturer in Politics and Religion, University of Stirling 105. Bayan Abusneineh, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University 106. Ben Golder, Professor, UNSW 107. Ben Whitham, Lecturer in International Relations, SOAS University of London 108. Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann, Lecturer, The Open University. 109. Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and Development, University of Sussex. 110. Benjamin Thorne, Lecturer in Law, University of Kent 111. Berklee Baum, DPhil, University of Oxford 112. Besan Jaber, Georgetown University 113. Bielasan Tareq Zaina, PhD Student, Georgetown University 114. Bikrum Gill, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech 115. Bilal Maanaki, University of Virginia 116. Bilge Yesil, City University of New York 117. Bircan Ciytak, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham 118. Birgul Kutan, University of Sussex 119. Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor, UC Santa Barbara 120. Blanca Camps-Febrer, Adjunct Lecturer, Autonomous University of Barcelona 121. Brannon Ingram, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, North-western University 122. Brendan Ciaran Browne, Assistant Professor, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin 123. Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor, Allard Law Faculty 124. Brian McMahon, Lecturer in Sociology and Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing, Munster Technological University 125. Bridget Guarasci, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College 126. Bruce Robbins, Columbia University 127. Bruna A. Gonçalves, PhD Researcher, European University Institute 128. Cahal McLaughlin, Professor, School of Arts, English and Languages Queen’s University Belfast 129. Camila Vergara, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex 130. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Executive Director, National Lawyers’ Guild – San Francisco Bay Area chapter 131. Carla Winston, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne 132. Carles Fernández-Torné, Adjunct Professor in transitional justice and conflict analysis, Ramon Llull University 133. Carlo Caprioglio, Legal Clinic on Migration and Asylum, Università Roma Tre 134. Carlo Leget, Professor of Care Ethics, University of Humanistic Studies. 135. Carlos Bichet, Assistant Professor, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas , Universidad de Panama 136. Catherine Charrett, Senior Lecturer, International Relations, University of Westminster. 137. Catherine Larocque, PhD candidate, University of Ottawa 138. Cemil Aydin, Professor of International History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 139. Ceyda Turan, Lawyer at Turan Law Office 140. Chaman Lal Retd Professor JNU 141. Charles des Portes, Teaching Fellow in Political Theory, University of Leeds 142. Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor, NYU Journalism 143. Chi-Chi Shi, PhD Researcher, Durham University 144. Chiara De Cesari, Professor of Heritage, Memory and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam. 145. Chiara Pagano, Post-doc, University of Graz 146. Chris Barker, Assistant Professor, The American University in Cairo 147. Chris Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College 148. Chris Gilbert, Professor of Political Studies, Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela 149. Christina Murray, Graduate Student, MAAS, Georgetown. 150. Christine Hong, Professor, UC Santa Cruz 151. Christo El Morr, Professor, York University, Canada 152. Christopher Gevers, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal 153. Christopher Parker, Associate Professor, Ghent University 154. Christopher Roberts, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong 155. Cigdem Cidam, Professor of Political Science, Union College Schenectady NY 156. Cira Pascual Marquina, Professor of Political Studies, Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela 157. Claire Begbie, PhD student at Concordia University, Montreal. 158. Claire Gallien, Professor, University Montpellier 3 159. Clara Han, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University 160. Claudia Dides, Universidad de Santiago. 161. Claudia Saba, Adjunct Lecturer, Ramon Llull University 162. Clement Sichimwa, Lecturer and Researcher at University of Zambia 163. Clíodhna Murphy, Associate Professor of Law, Maynooth University 164. Clod Marlan Krister Yambao, Asst. Professor University of the Philippines Dept. of Art Studies and Doctoral Research Fellow, Conflict Research Group, Ghent Univesity 165. Colin Breen, Reader, Ulster University 166. Colleen Bell, Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan 167. Cristiana Fiamingo, assistant prof. University of Milan 168. Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii-Manoa 169. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, Research Professor of Law, Department of Law, University of Makeni 170. Cynthia Franklin, Professor, University of Hawai’i 171. Cyra Akila Choudhury, Professor of Law, FIU College of Law 172. Dalia Said Mostafa, Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar 173. Damien Short, Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice; Co-Director, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London 174. Daniel Brown, PhD, LSE Sociology Department 175. Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, PhD Candidate, Geneva Graduate Institute 176. Daniel Segal, Jean M Pitzer Professor Emeritus, Pitzer College 177. Daniel Stein, Assistant Professor, O.P. Jindal Global Law School 178. Daniela Meneghini ca’ Foscari università of Venice 179. Daniela Pioppi University of Naples L’Orientale 180. Daniele Conversi, Research Professor at the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science and the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV), Bilbao, Euskadi 181. Danielle Fernandes, Doctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 182. Dara Leyden, PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London 183. Daragh Murray, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. 184. Darryl Li, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Member of the Law School, University of Chicago. 185. David Keane, Assistant Professor of Law, Dublin City University 186. David Landy, Director of MPhil in Race Ethnicity and Conflict, Trinity College Dublin 187. David Leadbeater, Adjunct Professor, Laurentian University, Canada 188. David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University. 189. David Theo Goldberg, Professor, University of California, Irvine 190. David van Leeuwen, professor, Radboud University Nijmegen 191. David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London 192. Dearbhla Minogue, Senior Lawyer at Global Legal Action Network 193. Deborah B. Gould, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz 194. Deborah Lawson, PhD Candidate, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. 195. Deen Sharp, Visiting Fellow, LSE 196. Diana Allan, McGill University 197. Diana Jeater, Professor of African History, University of Liverpool 198. Diane Lamoureux, professeure émérite, Université Laval. 199. Didier Fassin, Professor, Collège de France 200. Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London. 201. Dina Al-Kassim, Professor, University of British Columbia 202. Dina M. Siddiqi, Global Liberal Studies, New York University 203. Dina Matar, Professor Political Communication, SOAS 204. Dino Pancani C, Facultad de Comunicacion e Imagen, Universidad de Chile 205. Dipti Khera, Associate Professor, New York University 206. Dolly Kikon, University of Melbourne 207. Donia Khraishi, Georgetown University 208. Douaa Sheet, Assistant Professor, American University 209. Douglas Carson, University College Dublin 210. Edemilson Paraná, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, LUT University, Finland 211. Eduardo Villavicencio, PhD Student, Kent Law School. 212. Edward Brennan, Lecturer, Technological University, Dublin 213. Edwin Bikundo, Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School 214. Eftychia Mylona, Lecturer, Leiden University 215. Egidio de Bustamante, Senior Lecturer, Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck. 216. Ekin Kurtic, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University 217. Elena Vezzadini, Research affiliate, Institute for African Worlds 218. Elif Babül, Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College 219. Elif Durmuş, Postdoctoral Researcher in International Law and Human Rights, University of Antwerp 220. Elisa Giunchi, Professor, Università degli studi di Milano 221. Elisabeth Weber, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara 222. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Professor of Politics and Religious Studies, Northwestern University. 223. Elora Halim Chowdhury, Professor, UMass Boston 224. Elora Shehabuddin, Professor, UC Berkeley 225. Elyse Crystall, Teaching Professor, UNC Chapel Hill 226. Emilio Dabed, adjunct professor of law, York University, Toronto 227. Emily J. Sumner, Ph.D. candidate, University of Minnesota 228. Emily Watkins, Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor, University of Kansas 229. Emma Palmer, Senior Lecturer, Griffith University 230. Enrica Rigo, Associate professor of law, University of Roma Tre 231. Eren Duzgun, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Cyprus 232. Eric Hooglund, Editor, Middle East Critique 233. Eskandar Sadeghi, Associate Professor, University of York 234. Estella Carpi, Assistant Professor in Humanitarian Studies, University College London 235. Ettore Asoni, University of Bologna 236. Eva Nanopoulos, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London 237. Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo 238. Fabio Lanza, Professor, University of Arizona 239. Fabio Marcelli, Senior Researcher of the Institute for International legal studies. 240. Fadi Ennab, Vanier Scholar/PhD Student, University of Manitoba 241. Farah Mahmoud, Doctoral Candidate, Florida International University 242. Farida Khan, Professor, University of Colorado 243. Fatemeh Shams, Associate Professor of Persian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A 244. Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, PhD Candidate, SOAS University of London 245. Fatima Sajjad, Associate professor, Director Center for Critical Peace Studies, University of Management and Technology Lahore 246. Fauzia Ahmad, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths 247. Féilim Ó hAdhmaill, Lecturer, University College Cork 248. Felícia Campos, PhD researcher in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh. 249. Felicite Fairer-Wessels, emeritus professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa 250. Fernando Quintana, PhD Student and GTA, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law 251. Ferran Izquierdo Brichs / Profesor Agregat / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 252. Fida Adely, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University 253. Fien De Meyer, PhD, University of Antwerp. 254. Flagg Miller, Professor, University of California, Davis 255. Fleur van Leeuwen, Assistant professor in international law, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 256. Frances Tanzer, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture, Assistant Professor of History, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University 257. Francesca Biancani, Associate Professor, University of Bologna 258. Francesca Romana Ammaturo, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University. 259. Francis Cody, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto 260. Francisca James Hernandez, Instructional Faculty, Pima Community College 261. Fulya Pinar, Postdoctoral scholar, Middle East Studies, Brown University. 262. Gabriela Kuetting, Professor of Global Politics, Rutgers University-Newark 263. Gabriele vom Bruck, SOAS. 264. Gabriele Wadlig, Max Weber Fellow, Department of Law, European University Institute 265. Gareth Dale, Politics, Brunel University 266. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor, University of the Arts 267. Gary Fields, University of California San Diego 268. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor, Columbia University 269. Gearóid Ó Cuinn, Founding Director, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) 270. Gene Carolan, Lecturer in Law, Technological University Dublin 271. Gennaro Gervasio, Associate Professor, Università Roma Tre 272. German Correa profesor Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 273. Germán Santana Pérez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 274. Ghada Ageel, University of Alberta. 275. Ghadir Zannoun, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky 276. Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London 277. Gianfranco Ragona, professor at University of Turin 278. Gijs Verbossen, Senior lecturer in conflict studies, University of Amsterdam 279. Gillian Hart, Professor Emeritus, University of California Berkeley 280. Gillian Maris Jones, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania 281. Giorgia Baldi, Lecturer, University of Sussex. 282. Giulia Contes, project manger and PhD student, UAntwerpen 283. Giulia Pinzauti, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Leiden Law School 284. Giuseppe Aragno, Storico, Fondazione Humaniter, Napoli 285. Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Director, International University College of Turin 286. Gloria Novovic, Gender, Development and Globalisation Fellow, London School of Economics. 287. Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick, UK 288. Golnar Nikpour, Assistant Professor or History, Dartmouth College 289. Gordon Christie, Professor, Peter A Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia 290. Goretti Horgan, Senior Lecturer, Ulster University 291. Greg Albo, professor, Politics, York University 292. Greg Burris, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut. 293. Guido Donini, former Assistant Professor 0ffof Classics at the University of Chicago 294. Guillem Farrés Fernández, Professor Lector, UOC 295. Guillermo Gigliani, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Moreno, Argentina 296. Hadia Mubarak, Assistant Professor of Religion, Queens University of Charlotte. 297. Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London 298. Hakeem Yusuf, Professor of Global Law, University of Derby 299. Hamed Al-Mogarry, Sana’a University. 300. Hanan Elsayed, Occidental College 301. Hanan Kashou, Associate Teaching Professor, Rutger University. 302. Hanan Toukan, Associate Professor, Bard College Berlin 303. Hannah Birkenkoetter, Assistant Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México 304. Hannah Boast, Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh 305. Hannah NS Bahrin, PhD student, Queen Mary University 306. Hannelore Van Bavel, postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Bristol 307. Harold Marcuse, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara 308. Hasan Basri Bülbül, Assistant Professor of International Law, Boğaziçi University, Turkey. 309. Hasan Shuaib, PhD Graduate, Rutgers University 310. Hassan Jabareen, General Director, Adalah Legal Center. 311. Hatice Ozturk, PhD student, Georgetown University 312. Hayley Gibson, University of Kent. 313. Hazem Jamjoum, Curator, British Library. 314. Helena Sheehan, Emeritus Professor, Dublin City University 315. Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor, New York University 316. Helmi Mohammed Abdo, Sana’a Community College. 317. Helyeh Doutaghi, Research Scholar, Yale University. 318. Hesham Sallam, Stanford University 319. Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College. 320. Hossein Kamaly, Professor of Interfaith Studies, Hartford international University for Religion and Peace 321. Howard Pflanzer, Adj. Associate Professor, Hunter College 322. Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara 323. Howie Rechavia-Taylor, Fellow, LSE 324. Hulya Dagdeviren, Professor of Economic Development, University of Hertfordshire. 325. Humeira Iqtidar, King’s College London 326. Humoud Y. Alfadhli, Assistant Professor of International Law, Kuwait University 327. Huseyin Disli & Kent Law School/Worldwide Lawyers Association Research and Programmes Executive. 328. Idil Abdillahi Assistant Professor, TMU. 329. Ignasi Bernat, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Barcelona 330. Inessa Hadjivayanis, PhD candidate, SOAS. 331. Inge van Nistelrooij, associate professor, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht. 332. Intan Suwandi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University. 333. Iqra Anugrah, Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. 334. Ira Bhaskar, Retd. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 335. Irene Van Staveren, professor of economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. 336. Irina Ceric, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor Faculty of Law 337. Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Assistant Professor, Columbia University 338. Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bern 339. Isabella Camera d’Afflitto – Honorary Professor, Sapienza università di Roma 340. Isabelle Mildonian, Graduate, Roanoke College. 341. Işıl Aral, Assistant professor of international law, Koç University 342. Isobel Roele, Reader in Law, Queen Mary University of London 343. Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus, University of Dar es Salaam 344. Itziar Ruiz Giménez, Profesora de RRII y Coordinadora del Grupo de Estudios Africanos e Internacionales, UAM 345. J. Travis Shutz, Assistant Professor, California State University Los Angeles 346. Jack Halberstam, Columbia University 347. Jack McGinn, PhD candidate, LSE 348. Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University 349. Jalal Kawash, Academic, University of Calgary 350. Jamal Ali, Assistant Teaching Professor, Rutgers University 351. James Eastwood, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London 352. Jan Selby, Professor of International Politics, University of Leeds 353. Jaskiran Dhillon, Associate Professor, The New School 354. Jasmin Johurun Nessa, University of Liverpool. 355. Jasmine Barzani, PhD candidate Melbourne University 356. Jason Beckett, Associate Professor, American University in Cairo 357. Javier González-Arellano, Profesor asociado de filosofía del Derecho Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 358. Jay Ramasubramanyam, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University 359. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara 360. Jeannette Graulau, Associate Professor, CUNY 361. Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam. 362. Jeffrey Sacks, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside 363. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence, University of St Andrews 364. Jehan Mohamed, Lecturer, Rutgers State University. 365. Jenny Phillimore, Professor, University of Birmingham 366. Jeremy Dell, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh 367. Jessie Daniels, PhD, Professor, CUNY 368. Jillian Rogin, Associate Professor (Law), University of Windsor. 369. Jinan Bastaki, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, NYUAD. 370. Jo Bluen, London School of Economics, PhD candidate 371. Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, George Mason University 372. Joel Gordon, Professor of History, University of Arkansas 373. Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Associate Professor, Clark University 374. John Bellamy Foster, Profesor Emeritus, University of Oregon. 375. John Cox, Director, Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 376. John L. Esposito, Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University 377. John Reynolds, Associate Professor of International Law, Maynooth University 378. Jolanda Guardi, Professor, University of Turin 379. Jonathan Wheeler, Assistant professor and researcher, National University of TucumánCONICET. 380. Jordan Cortesi, PhD student, University of Kansas. 381. Jordana Silverstein, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne 382. Jose Itzigsohn, Professor of Sociology, Brown University 383. Joseph Elsayyid, Yale University 384. Juan M. Amaya-Castro, Universidad de los Andes 385. Julia Dehm, Senior Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University 386. Julian Go, Professor, University of Chicago 387. Juliane Hammer, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 388. Julie Carlson, Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara 389. Jyotirmaya Sharma, Professor, University of Hyderabad 390. Kaiya Aboagye, Senior Lecturer, University Western Sydney 391. Kalbir Shukra, former senior lecturer now independent researcher. 392. Kanad Bagchi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam 393. Kareem Rabie, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 394. Karen Crawley, Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School 395. Karin Arts, Professor of International Law and Development, International Institute of Social Studies 396. Karin White, ECCE Programme Chair, Atlantic Technological University 397. Karma Nabulsi, Professor, University of Oxford 398. Kasia Paprocki, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science 399. Katherine Gallagher, Center for Constitutional Rights 400. Katherine Natanel, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Exeter 401. Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin, UCD Professor of Equality Studies (Emerita) 402. Kathy Engel, Associate Arts Professor, NYU 403. Katy Kalemkerian, John Abbott College 404. Kaveh Ehsani, Associate Professor, DePaul University- Chicago 405. Ken Fero Assistant Professor Coventry University 406. Kenzie El Bakry, Graduate Social Sciences, University of Düsseldorf 407. Kevin A. Gould, Associate Professor of Geography, Concordia University 408. Kevin Skerrett, Adjunct Research Professor, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University 409. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor, UCLA law School 410. Kiran Asher, Professor and Chair, Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst 411. Kirsten Forkert, Professor of Cultural Studies, Birmingham City University. 412. Koen Leurs, Associate Professor, Utrecht University. 413. Kristina Richardson, Professor, University of Virginia. 414. Kurt Schock, Professor, Rutgers University, Newark 415. Laila Farah, Depaul University, Associate Professor 416. Laila Parsons, Professor, McGill University 417. Laila Shereen Sakr, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara 418. Laith Aqel, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. 419. Laleh Khalili, Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter 420. Lana Sirri, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam. 421. Lana Tatour, University of New South Wales 422. Lara Deeb, Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College 423. Lara Fricke, PhD candidate University of Exeter 424. Lara Khattab, Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University 425. Laura Betancur Restrepo, Associate Professor of International Law, Universidad de Los Andes 426. Laura De Vos, Assistant Professor American Studies, Radboud University 427. Laura Fair, Professor, Columbia University 428. Laura Feliu Martinez, Profesora titular, UAB 429. Laura Maghețiu, Doctoral Researcher, CLaSP, Queen Mary University of London 430. Laura McAtackney, Professor of Radical Humanities Laboratory and Archaeology, University College Cork (Ireland) and Professor of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University (Denmark) 431. Laura Rodriguez Castro, Southern Cross University 432. Laurie King, Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University 433. Layli Uddin, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London 434. Leena Grover, Associate Professor of International Law, Tilburg University 435. Leila Ullrich, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford. 436. Lena Alhusseini, Phd Student, California Institute of Integral Studies 437. Leo Spitzer, Professor of History Emeritus, Dartmouth College 438. Leon Sealey-Huggins, Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick 439. Leticia Rovira-Facultad de Humanidades y Artes- Universidad Nacional de Rosario – Argentina 440. Leyla Neyzi, Research Fellow, University of Glasgow 441. Lila Pine, Associate Professor, New Media, Toronto Metropolitan University 442. Liliana Suárez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 443. Lillian Robb, PhD Candidate Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva 444. Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara 445. Livia Wick, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut. 446. Liyana Kayali, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney 447. Lori Allen, Reader in Anthropology, SOAS University of London. 448. Lucia Sorbera, Senior Lecturer and Chair Arabic Language and Cultures, The University of Sydney 449. Lucia Sorbera, Senior Lecturer and Chair Arabic Language and Cultures, University of Sydney 450. Luigi Daniele, Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University 451. Luis Andueza, Lecturer in International Development, King’s College London 452. Luis Eslava, Professor of International Law, La Trobe University & University of Kent 453. M. Bahati Kuumba, Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College 454. M. Muhannad Ayyash, Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University. 455. Macarena Aguiló, Académica Universidad de Chile 456. Madawi Al-Rasheed, Professor, LSE 457. Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 458. Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History, New York University 459. Maggie Ronayne, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland. 460. Maghraoui Driss, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. 461. Maha Abdallah, Graduate Teaching Assistant & PhD researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp. 462. Maha Nassar, Associate Professor, University of Arizona. 463. Maha Shuayb, University of Cambridge and Centre for Lebanese Studies. 464. Maher Hamoud, Associate Scholar, KU Leuven 465. Mahsheed Ansari, Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University 466. Mahvish Ahmad, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, LSE & Co-Director LSE Human Rights. 467. Mairaj Syed, Professor, Religious Studies and Middle East South Asia Studies, University of California, Davis 468. Maisha Prome, PhD Candidate, Yale University 469. Maja Janmyr, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 470. Malek Abisaab, Associate Professor McGill University 471. Mandy Turner, professor of conflict, peace and humanitarian affairs, University of Manchester, UK. 472. Marcela Alvarez Pérez, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla 473. Marcela Pizarro , Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London 474. Margaux L Kristjansson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College 475. Maria Bhatti, lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University 476. Maria Cristina Paciello, researcher, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 477. Maria Federica Moscati, Reader in Law and Society, University of Sussex. 478. Maria Haro Sly, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University. 479. Maria LaHood, Deputy Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. 480. Maria Rashid Fellow, Gender Studies Department, London School of Economics. 481. Maria Tzanakopoulou, Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck, University of London 482. Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 483. Mariana Gkiati, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University 484. Marianne Hirschberg, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany. 485. Marieke Potma, PhD-candidate, University for Humanistic Studies. 486. Marilù Mastrogiovanni, Adjunct professor in Journalism, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” 487. Mario Novelli, University of Sussex 488. Marion Kaplan, NYU, Emerita 489. Marios Costa, Senior Lecturer, City, University of London 490. Marissa Jackson Sow, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law 491. Marjorie Cohn, Founding Dean, People’s Academy of International Law 492. Mark Goodman, Professor, Sociology, York University, Toronto 493. Marnie Holborow, Associate Faculty, Dublin City University 494. Marsha Henry, London School of Economics 495. Marsha Rosengarten, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London 496. Marta Giallombardo, PhD candidate, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. 497. Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, Georgetown University 498. Marwa Neji, researcher, Ghent University, Belgium. 499. Mary Ana McGlasson, Director, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University, Melbourne 500. Mary Ellen Davis, part-time faculty, Concordia University, Montréal 501. Mary Laheen, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin 502. Mary Nolan, Professor of History Emerita, New York University 503. Marya Farah, Legal Researcher 504. Maryam Aldossari, Associate Professor, Royal Holloway University of London 505. Matiangai Sirleaf, Professor of Law, University of Maryland 506. Matt Howard, Lecturer, University of Kent 507. Matteo Capasso, University of Venice, Italy. 508. Matthew Cole, Lecturer in Technology, Work and Employment. 509. Maud Anne Bracke, Professor of modern European history, University of Glasgow UK 510. Maura Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Muhlenberg College 511. Mauricio Amar, Centro de Estudios Árabes Eugenio Chahuan, Universidad de Chile 512. Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor, Rutgers University. 513. Mayur Suresh, Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of London. 514. Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law, The City Law School, City University of London. 515. Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University 516. Meera Sabaratnam, Associate Professor, University of Oxford 517. Mehmet Erken, İstanbul University 518. Mehrdad F. Samadzadeh, University of Toronto 519. Melania Brito Clavijo, PhD candidate; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona 520. Melanie Richter-Montpetit, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex. 521. Melinda González, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University 522. Micah Khater, Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley 523. Michael Daniel Yates, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburghersity of Pittsburgh 524. Michael Fakhri, Professor of Law, University of Oregon. 525. Michael Lynk, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University 526. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley 527. Michael Rothberg, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Holocaust Studies, UCLA. 528. Michel Feher, Editor/Publisher, Zone books, NY. 529. Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, Senior Lecturer in Public International Law 530. Michelle Farrell, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool 531. Michelle Hartman, Professor, McGill University 532. Michiel Bot, Associate Professor, Tilburg Law School. 533. Miguel Valderrama, investigador adjunto Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Diego Portales. 534. Mikki Stelder, Assistant Professor Global Arts and Politics, University of Amsterdam. 535. Minoo Moallem, Professor, UC Berkeley 536. Miriam Ticktin, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center. 537. Miriyam Aouragh, Professor, University of Westminster. 538. Mirjam Twigt, Leiden University 539. Moara Assis Crivelente, Researcher in the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra 540. Mohamad Arnaout, Associate Professor, Lebanese International University 541. Mohamed Adhikari, Emeritus Associate Professor, History Department, University of Cape Town 542. Mohamed Ali, PhD Candidate, Georgetown University 543. Mohamed Mathee, Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg. 544. Mohamed Sayed, Associate instructor and PhD candidate at Indiana University 545. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley 546. Mohammad Ataie, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 547. Mohammad Fakhreddine, Assistant Teaching Professor, Georgetown University 548. Mohammad Shahabuddin, Professor, University of Birmingham 549. Mohammed Abukhdeir. Abukhdeir family President 550. Mohammed Sawaie, Professor, University of Virginia 551. Mohan Rao, former professor at JNU, New Delhi 552. Mohsen al Attar, Reader, Associate Dean, XJTLU 553. Mona Baker, University of Oslo 554. Monisha Das Gupta, University of Hawaiʻi 555. Mridula Mukherjee JNU India Retired Professor 556. Murad Idris, Associate Professor, University of Michigan 557. Myria Georgiou, Professor, LSE 558. Mythri Jegathesan, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University. 559. Nabil Al-Tikriti, Professor, University of Mary Washington 560. Nabil Salih, graduate student at Bard College 561. Nada Elia, Visiting Professor, Western Washington University 562. Nadeem Karkabi, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Haifa 563. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Lawrence D Biele Chair in Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Global Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London. 564. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Barnard College & Columbia University. 565. Nadia Ahmad, Associate Professor of Law, Barry University; PhD Student, Yale School of the Environment 566. Nadia Guessous, Colorado College 567. Nadia Silhi Chahin, PhD researcher, Law School – University of Edinburgh 568. Nadine El-Enany, Professor of Law, University of Kent. 569. Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University 570. Nahla Abdo, Professor, Carleton University. 571. Naiefa Rashied, Lecturer: School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 572. Nalini Mohabir, Associate Professor, Concordia University. 573. Namita Wahi, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research. 574. Nancy Gallagher, professor emerita, UCSB 575. Nandini Chandra, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa 576. Naomi Taub, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA 577. Naoual El Yattouti, PhD Researcher University of Antwerp 578. Natalie Kouri-Towe, Associate Professor, Concordia University 579. Natasha Iskander, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, New York University 580. Natasha Remoundou, Lecturer, University College Dublin 581. Nathalie Khankan, Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley 582. Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law 583. Nathaniel George, Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East, SOAS, University of London 584. Naveed Ahmad Mir. PhD student and GTA, Kent Law School. 585. Naveeda Khan, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University 586. Nazia Kazi, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stockton University. 587. Nesrine Badawi, Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo 588. Niall Meehan, Head, Journalism & Media Faculty, Griffith College, Dublin (retired) 589. Niamh Rooney, Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of International Development, Maynooth University 590. Nichola Khan. Professor, University of Edinburgh 591. Nicola Perugini, Associate Professor, University of Edinburgh. 592. Nicola Pratt, Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick 593. Nicola Soekoe, Counsel, Pan African Bar Association of South Africa (PABASA). 594. Nicole Beardsworth, Wits University 595. Nicole Ranganath, Assistant Professor, UC Davis 596. Nicos Trimikliniotis, Professor, University of Nicosia. 597. Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences 598. Nikhita Mendis, Anthropology PhD Student, University of Chicago 599. Nimer Sultany, Reader in Public Law, SOAS University of London. 600. Nimet Cebeci, PhD Candidate, Harvard University 601. Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California 602. Nina Farnia, Assistant Professor, Albany Law School 603. Nisha Kapoor, Associate Professor, University of Warwick 604. Nivi Manchanda, Reader in International Politics Queen Mary University of London 605. Noah Salomon, Associate Professor, University of Virginia 606. Noam Peleg, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law and Justice 607. Noga Wolff, Independent Scholar 608. Noor Gieles, MD & PhD student, Amsterdam UMC. 609. Nora E.H. Parr, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham 610. Norma Rantisi, Concordia University. 611. Nour El Kadri, Professor, University of Ottawa 612. Noura Erakat, Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 613. Noura Nasser, PhD student, LSE. 614. Noureddine Jebnoun, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University 615. Ntina Tzouvala, Associate Professor ANU College of Law. 616. Nusrat S Chowdhury, Associate Professor, Amherst College 617. Oishik Sircar, Professor, Jindal Global Law Schoo 618. Olga Grau, Universidad de Chile 619. Olga Touloumi, Associate Professor, Bard College 620. Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia 621. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University 622. Omar Al-Ghazzi, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science 623. Omar Farahat, Associate Professor, McGill University 624. Omar Jabary Salamanca, Postdoc Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles. 625. Omer Bartov, Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History; Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University. 626. Omid Safi, Professor, Duke University 627. Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History, Yale University 628. Omr Kassem, University of Chicago 629. Orla Kelleher, Assistant Professor, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University 630. Osama Siddique. Inaugural Henry J. Steiner Professor of Human Rights. Harvard law School. 631. Osman Bakar, Professor of Islamic Thought, International Islamic University Malaysia 632. Othman Belkebir, Ph.D researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute. 633. Oudai Tozan, PhD candidate, researcher, and tutor at the University of Cambridge 634. Ozlem Biner Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, SOAS 635. Pablo Oyarzun R., Universidad de Chile. 636. Padraig McAuliffe, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool 637. Paola Rivetti, Associate Professor, Dublin City University 638. Paola Zichi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Warwick Law School 639. Patricia Sampedro, postgraduate student in International Development at the University of Oxford 640. Patrick Shi Timmer, Postgraduate Student, King’s College London. 641. Paul Michael Garrett, PhD, D. Lit, MRIA, University of Galway 642. Paula Chakravartty, James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies, NYU 643. Pauline Martini, Doctoral researcher, Queen Mary University of London. 644. Pere Franch, Professor of Journalism and International Relations, Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations 645. Pete W. Moore, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University 646. Peter Drury, Kent Law School, PhD Student. 647. Peter Hallward, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University UK 648. Pietro Masina, professor, University of Naples L’Orientale. 649. Pınar Kemerli, Assistant Professor, Bard College 650. Polly Withers, Leverhulme ECF, LSE 651. Pooja Rangan, Associate Professor of English in Film and Media Studies, Amherst College 652. Popy Begum, Saint Louis University. 653. Praggya Surana, PhD student at the Graduate Institute, Geneva 654. R. Brian Ferguson, Rutgers University-Newark 655. Rabea Eghbariah, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School. 656. Rachad Antonius, retired full professor, Université du Québec à Montréal 657. Rachel Brown, author of Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech 658. Rafael Quintero Godinez Affiliation: Lecturer, Birmingham City Law School 659. Rahima Siddique, Phd Student, University of Manchester. 660. Rahul Rao, Reader, University of St Andrews 661. Rami G Khouri, American University of Beirut. 662. Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University. 663. Rana Kazkaz, Associate Professor, Northwestern University Qatar 664. Rana Khalaf, PhD, Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Response – University of Manchester 665. Randa M. Wahbe; PhD student; Harvard University 666. Randa Tawil, Texas Christian University 667. Randle DeFalco, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law 668. Rania Muhareb, PhD researcher, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway 669. Raphael Salkie, Emeritus Professor of Language Studies, University of Brighton 670. Rasha Bayoumi, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham 671. Rashid Yahiaoui, Assistant Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. 672. Ratna Kapur, Professor, Queen Mary University of London 673. Raz Segal, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University. 674. Razan AlSalah, Concordia University. 675. Rebecca Ruth Gould, Professor, SOAS University of London. 676. Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East, SOAS University of London 677. Reem Al-Botmeh, Lecturer, Institute of Law, Birzeit University 678. Reem Awny Abuzaid, PhD candidate, University of Warwick 679. Renate Bridenthal, The City University of New York 680. Renisa Mawani, Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia. 681. Reuven Pinnata, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington. 682. Rhys Machold, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow 683. Ricarda Hammer, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley 684. Richard Clements, Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School 685. Richard Falk, Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University. 686. Richard Marcuse, Anthropology, formerly University of Victoria 687. Richard Wild, Principal Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich 688. Rita Sakr, Maynooth University 689. Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University 690. Roberto Filippello, Assistant Professor at University of Amsterd. 691. Rochelle Davis, Sultanate of Oman Associate Professor, Georgetown University 692. Rodante van der Waal, PhD-candidate, University for Humanistic Studies. 693. Rodrigo C. Bulamah, Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro 694. Roger Heacock, Professor of history emeritus , Birzeit University, Palestine 695. Rohini Sen, School of Law, University of Warwick. 696. Ronak Kapadia, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago 697. Ronit Lentin, Retired Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin 698. Rose Parfitt, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Kent. 699. Rosemarie Buikema , professor of art, culture and diversity 700. Rosie Bsheer, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University 701. Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, University of Brighton 702. Roxana Pey, académica Universidad de Chile. 703. Ruba Salih, Professor, Università di Bologna. 704. Ruth Fletcher, Reader in Law, Queen Mary University of London 705. S. Hasan Mahmud, retired professor Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 706. S. Sayyid, Professor of Decolonial Thought and Social Theory, University of Leeds. 707. S. Yaser Mirdamadi Researcher and lecturere at the Institute of Ismaʼili Studies, London. 708. Sa’ed Atshan, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore College 709. Saada Hammad, part time instructor, Holt Spirit University of Kaslik. 710. Saadat Umar Pirzada, Assistant Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Kent Law School. 711. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui Sheridan College 712. Sacide Ataş, Ph.D. Candidate, Istanbul Medeniyet University 713. Sadiyya Haffejee, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg. 714. Sai Englert, Lecturer, Leiden University. 715. Salem Abdellatif Al-Shawafi, Professor of Philosophy, Community College Qatar. 716. Samantha Morgan-Williams, Lecturer & Director of the LLM International Human Rights Law & Public Policy, School of Law, University College Cork 717. Samantha Payne, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Charleston 718. Samer Abdelnour, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh. 719. Samer Jabbour, Researcher, Syrian Center for Policy Studies. 720. Sami Hermez, Director of Liberal Arts Program and Associate professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University in Qatar 721. Samia Bano, SOAS, University of London. 722. Samia Henni, Cornell University 723. Sandro Mezzadra, Professor, University of Bologna 724. Santiago Alberto Vargas Niño, Lecturer in IH(R)L and ICL, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D.C., Colombia 725. Santosh Anand, Assistant Lecturer, Kent Law School, University of Kent 726. Santosh Mehrotra, Visiting Professor, institute for Policy Research, University of Bath 727. Sara Alsaraf, University of Birmingham, UK, PhD Student 728. Sara Chaudhry, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck 729. Sara Cheikh Husain, Research Assistant, Melbourne University 730. Sara Dehm, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney 731. Sara Elbrolosy, Georgetown University. 732. Sara Matthews, Associate Professor of Culture and Conflict, Global Studies and Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University 733. Sara Pursley, Associate Professor, New York University 734. Sara Razai , Lecturer, University of Westminster. 735. Sarah Bracke, Professor, University of Amsterdam. 736. Sarah El-Kazaz, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London 737. Sarah Ghabrial, Assoc. Prof, Concordia University (Montreal) 738. Sarah Ihmoud, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The College of the Holy Cross. 739. Sarah Irving, Lecturer in History, Staffordshire University 740. Sarah Keenan, Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London 741. Sarah Lamble, Reader in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London 742. Sarah Phillips, Professor of Global Conflict and Development, The University of Sydney 743. Sarah Raymundo , Assistant Professor, Center for International Studies University of the Philippines Diliman 744. Sasan Fayazmanesh, Professor Emeritus of Economics, California State University, Fresno 745. Scheherazade Bloul, PhD, Deakin University 746. Scott Newton, Professor of Laws of Central Asia, SOAS University of London 747. Sean Lee, Assistant Professor of Political Science, American University in Cairo 748. Sean T. Mitchell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark 749. Sebastián Link, PhD student, Johns Hopkins University. 750. Selim Can Bilgin, Partner at Kabine Law 751. Shabbir Agha Abbas, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona 752. Shabnam Holliday, University of Plymouth 753. Shahd Hammouri, University of Kent. 754. Shahd Qannam, PhD candidate, City Law School, University of London 755. Shakuntala Banaji, Professor, LSE 756. Shane Darcy, Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway 757. Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor, Stanford University Dept. of Anthropology. 758. Sharmila Parmanand, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science. 759. Sheer Ganor, History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 760. Shehnaz Abdeljaber, University of Pennsylavania 761. Sherene Seikaly, UCSB 762. Shirin Saeidi, University of Arkansas 763. Shohini Sengupta, Associate Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, India 764. Siddhartha Deb, Associate Professor, The New School 765. Siggie Vertommen, Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam. 766. Sigrid Schmalzer, Professor of History, University of Masschusetts Amherst 767. Silvia Groaz, Professor of Architecture History, ENSA Paris-Est 768. Silvia Posocco, Reader in Social Anthropology, Birkbeck, University of London 769. Simidele Dosekun, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science 770. Simon McKenzie, Lecturer, Griffith Law School 771. Simone Sibilio, Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 772. Sinéad Mercier, PhD Researcher (international law), University College Dublin 773. Sinead Ring, Lecturer School of Law and Criminology Maynooth University 774. Siobhan Airey, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam 775. Siobhán Wills, Director of the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University 776. Sivamohan Valluvan, Associate Professor, University of Warwick 777. Sladjana Lazic, Assistant Professor, University of Innsbruck. 778. Sneha Annavarapu, Yale-NUS college 779. Sophia Brown, postdoctoral researcher, Freie Universität Berlin 780. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bard College 781. Sophie Richter-Devroe, Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University 782. Souheir Edelbi, Lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University 783. Stefan Kipfer, York University 784. Stephanie Deig, PhD Candidate, University of Lucerne 785. Steven Alan Carr, Director, Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Purdue University Fort Wayne (affiliation for identification purposes only). 786. Steven I. Levine, Research Faculty Associate, Dept. of History, University of Montana, USA 787. Su-ming Khoo, Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Head of Sociology, School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway 788. Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor, University of Windsor 789. Sultan Doughan, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London. 790. Sumathy Sivamohan, Professor, University of Peradeniya. 791. Sumayya Kassamali, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto 792. Sumedha Choudhury, PhD candidate, Melbourne Law School 793. Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics. 794. Sune Haugbolle, Professor, Roskilde University 795. Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law; Director of Postgraduate Education, University of Cambridge 796. Suraya Khan, Assistant Professor, San Antonio College 797. Susan M. Akram, Clinical Professor, Boston University School of Law 798. Susan Power, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy, Al-Haq 799. Susanne Wessendorf, Professor of Social Anthropology, Coventry University 800. Suzana Rahde Gerchmann, PhD candidate and GTA at City, University of London. 801. Swati Chattopadhyay, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara 802. Sydney Chuen, Georgetown University. 803. Syed Muhammad Omar, PhD Research, University of Kansas 804. Syeda Masood, Phd candidate, Brown University 805. Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York 806. Tamanisha J. John, Assistant Professor at York University 807. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Senior Lecturer, Deakin Law School 808. Taner Akcam, Director of Armenian Genocide Research Program at Promise Armenian Institute, UCLA. 809. Tani Barlow, Professor of History, Rice University 810. Tania Saeed, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan 811. Tanya Serisier, Reader in Feminist Theory and Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London 812. Tanzil Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Public Law, Queen Mary University of London 813. Tarik Nejat Dinc, Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College 814. Tariq Khan, Associate Professor, Govt College Township Lahore. 815. Tasniem Anwar, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 816. Taygeti Michalakea, Postdoc Fellow, Panteion University 817. Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law UCLA School of Law 818. Teresa Almeida Cravo, Associate Professor, University of Coimbra, Portugal 819. Terri Ginsberg, Faculty, City University of New York 820. Thalia Kruger, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp 821. Thomas Blom Hansen, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University. 822. Thomas Cowan, University of Nottingham 823. Thomas Earl Porter, Professor of Russian, Modern European and Genocide Studies, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University 824. Tim Lindgren, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam. 825. Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Columbia University 826. Tom Frost, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School. 827. Tom Pettinger, Research Fellow, University of Warwick 828. Tor Krever, Assistant Professor in International Law, University of Cambridge 829. Tori Fleming, Doctoral Student, York University 830. Traek Z. Ismail, CUNY School of Law 831. Trevor Lies, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kansas. 832. Trevor Ngwane, Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg 833. Triestino Mariniello, Senior Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University 834. Ubeydullah Ademi, PhD Student, Northwestern University 835. Umair Pervez, Instructor University of Calgary 836. Usha Natarajan, LPE Faculty Fellow, Yale Law School 837. Valentina Zagaria, Research Associate, Anthropology Department, University of Manchester 838. Valerie Forman, Associate professor, New York University 839. Van Aken Mauro University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy 840. Vanessa Ramos, Asociación Americana de Juristas, President 841. Vanina Trojan, former Director, Irish Rule of Law International 842. Vasiliki Touhouliotis, Adjunct Faculty and Independent Scholar, Portland State University 843. Vasken Markarian, PhD, University of Texas at Austin 844. Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice in Human Rights and International Law, The Gallatin School, NYU. 845. Véronique Bontemps, CNRS, France 846. Victoria Sanford, PhD, Lehman Professor of Excellence, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 847. Victoria Veguilla del Moral, Pablo de Olvide University 848. Vida Samiian, Professor & Dean Emerita, CSU Fresno 849. Vidya Kumar, Senior Lecturer in Law, SOAS, University of London 850. Vikki Bell, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 851. Vivan, Itala, Professor, Università degli Studi, Milano, Italy 852. Wade McMullen, international human rights lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights 853. Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 854. Walaa Alqaisiya, University of Venice-Italy. 855. Waqas Tufail, Reader in Criminology, Leeds Beckett University 856. Waseem Yaqoob, Lecturer, History of Political Thought 857. Wassim Naboulsi, Research Associate in IR, University of Sussex. 858. Wendy Brown, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study. 859. Wendy DeSouza, Adjunct Professor in Women and Gender Studies, Sonoma State University 860. Wendy Gifford, Professor, University of Ottawa 861. Wendy Pearlman, Professof Political Science, Northwestern University. 862. William I Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara 863. William Mazzarella, Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago 864. Yael Navaro, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge 865. Yaseen Noorani, Associate Professor, University of Arizona 866. Yaser Amouri, PhD, Public International Law, Birzeit University, Palestine 867. Yasmeen Azam, graduate student, UC Berkeley 868. Yasmeen Hanoosh, Professor, Portland State University 869. Yasmine Kherfi, PhD Student, LSE 870. Yasmine Nahlawi, Legal Consultant. 871. Yolande Jansen, Professor, University of Amsterdam 872. Yosefa Loshitzky, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London 873. Yusuf Ahmed, Tutor, SOAS. 874. Zahra Ali, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University-Newark. 875. Zahra Moloo, PhD candidate, Human Geography, University of Toronto 876. Zakia Salime, Associate Professor , Rutgers 877. Zeina Jamal, PhD, Queen Margaret University 878. Zoé Samudzi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University 879. Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick 880. Zoya Hasan, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi  

==================================================

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6Y8T7YLQrQ32Nl_7JXrRKjJKw_JYxQKpAV4KGubNgEca3Ww/viewform

Childhood researchers and students call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

We write this letter as academics and students who specialise in the study of children and childhood to call for the immediate cessation of the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and the egregious violation of Palestinian children’s rights.

For many of us, entering this field of study was motivated by a desire to improve the material, social, and political conditions of life for children globally. We cannot, therefore, sit by as the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate because of Israeli bombardment with arms provided by Western powers; the forced evacuation of over a million people by the Israeli Defence Forces; and the denial of food, water, and fuel by the Israeli state. This compounds 75 years of settler-colonial occupation in Palestine and 17 years in which Gaza has been little more than an open-air prison. Together, this has produced some of the most heinous conditions of life imaginable for Gaza’s civilian population, almost half of whom are children.

Children are losing their lives, their futures, and their ability to breathe. As we write, more than 7,000 people have been killed in Gaza, nearly 3,000 of whom are children, and more than 16,000 have been wounded since Israel launched its attack on the besieged territory on 7th October. According to Defence for Children International, more than 100 children killed each day or 1 child every 15 minutes. Many others are among the wounded and orphaned. As the British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta pointed out, the Al Shifa Hospital has had to create the category of ‘wounded child with no surviving family’ given the sheer numbers the hospital is supporting. He explained that children are being operated on without anaesthesia and with no support, leaving them in a state of “daze” and total loss. Gazan children are writing their names on their arms so their bodies can be identified should they be killed.

Our research with children has shown that colonial occupation, state violence, and terrorism means a real threat to children’s physical and psycho-social continuity. Our research exposes the long-term effects of wartime experiences, and in Gaza it reveals the ongoing cumulative trauma, and its effect on children’s well-being and emotional, mental, and physical health. There is no moral justification whatsoever for continuing this brutality which will result in the debilitation, wounding and death of thousands more children. These injuries and deaths are preventable. It is a choice, and we call upon those who have the power and can act to save the lives of these children to do so. Stopping the genocidal war NOW is crucial for the survival and wellbeing of children.

It is often assumed that if children are the targets of state-sanctioned killings, enforced starvation, and dispossession, perpetrators will be immediately condemned. As they should be. Yet, not all lives are treated equally. The lack of attention to the horrific hardship facing Palestinian children furthers their debilitation and traumatisation, and continues to be complicit in dehumanising them, while minimising their agonies and death. Palestinian children have names, families, stories, and dreams, yet they are facing global and local brutalities that reduce them to anonymous numbers. As academics and students of childhood, we say that no child should be subjected to violent death, injury, or starvation, no matter where they are from. We affirm: Palestinian children’s lives are precious.

The intolerable consequences of the genocide in Gaza are not just affecting children, but their parents, grandparents, relatives, and adult neighbours. To protect and support children also means protecting and supporting the adults in their lives. The availability of emotional resources for children – including from family, friends, and neighbours – can ease the ‘wounds inside’.  But the lives of Palestinian adults do not only matter because they care for children. We say: all Palestinian lives are precious.

 

We therefore support the call for immediate action from the people of Gaza for:

1.       An immediate ceasefire.

2.       The urgent restoration of water, food, fuel, medical supplies and humanitarian aid.

3.       Immediate protection of medical and mental health facilities and the reversal of the illegal and inhumane evacuation orders for hospitals.

4.       The facilitation of safe passage for casualties and critically-ill individuals.

5.       The opening of crossings for those seeking to evacuate and permitting the entry of medical and rescue teams.


We support calls from within Palestine/Israel for a long-term political solution, premised on ending the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the Israeli apartheid regime.


We support global calls for the immediate release of civilians, including the 500-700 Palestinian children arbitrarily detained by Israel each year and those children held hostage by Hamas.


We commit ourselves to taking action wherever we are by:

●     Demanding that our governments urgently and actively press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, publicly on the international stage and in back-channel discussions with Israel.

●     Calling for Israel, our local and national governments and professional associations, the international community, and Hamas to uphold the rights of children affected by armed conflict as laid out in the Geneva Conventions and Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children.

●     Countering the dehumanisation of Palestinian children and adults, wherever we encounter these, whether in our schools, universities, media, or communities.

●     Demanding the immediate release of Palestinian children arbitrarily held in detention and children held hostage by Hamas.

●     Exposing our governments’ complicity in enabling the Israeli genocide in Gaza to continue unabated.

●     Standing in solidarity with those organisations and individuals working for a just and lasting peace in Palestine/Israel, including those who have faced threats and harassment for speaking out in support of Palestine.


26th October 2023.

Please sign by completing the information below. Names of new signatories will be added in blocks.

Thank you to Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu for translating the statement into Turkish.

Thank you to Elise Reslinger for translating the statement into French.

Signatories
1. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Queen Mary University of London & Hebrew University-Jerusalem 2. Rachel Rosen, University College London 3. Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto 4. Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University-Camden 5. Spyros Spyrou, European University Cyprus 6. Valeria Llobet, Universidad Nacional de San Martín 7. Kate Cairns, Rutgers University-Camden 8. Barbara Turk Niskac, Tampere University 9. Brenda A. LeFrançois, Memorial University of Newfoundland 10. Madhuwanti Mitro, Institute for Social & Economic Change 11. Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter 12. Leah Edwards 13. Simon Ungar, University College London 14. Valentina Glockner, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (CINVESTAV, México) 15. Gillian Stokes, University College London 16. Rebecca Richardson, Northumbria University 17. Ekta Oza, Queen Mary University of London 18. Andrea Rigon, University College London 19. Lourdes Gaitán, Grupo de Sociología de la Infancia y la Adolescencia 20. Adam Davies, University of Guelph 21. Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. 22. Susana Cortés Morales, Universidad Central de Chile 23. Meghanne Barker, University College London 24. Brenda Herbert, Goldsmiths, University of London 25. Jader Janer Moreira Lopes/Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) 26. Lauren Silver, Rutgers University-Camden 27. Maria Dolores Cervera, Cinvestav Unidad Mérida. México 28. Diane Hoffman, University of Virginia 29. Thaís de Carvalho, The Open University 30. Alison Clark, University of South-eastern Norway 31. Maria Kromidas, William Paterson Univesrity 32. Humera Iqbal, University College London 33. Sara Bragg, University College London 34. Manasa Gade, University of Edinburgh 35. Carlie D. Trott, PhD – University of Cincinnati 36. Hanan Hauari 37. Derick Bird 38. Jan Kampmann Roskilde University 39. Matías Cordero Arce, Independent Researcher and Educator in a Juvenile Justice Centre, Basque Country 40. Doris Bühler-Niederberger, University of Wuppertal, Germany 41. Elaine Chase UCL 42. Marina Korzenevica, University of Oxford 43. Marlies Kustatscher, University of Edinburgh 44. Samyia Ambreen (Manchester Metropolitan University) 45. Florencia Paz Landeira / Universidad Nacional de San Martín 46. Katie J Parsons Loughborough University 47. Gabriela Piña, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 48. Hilde Lidén, Institute for Social Research, Norway 49. Melisa Maida 50. Rachel Skrlac Lo, Villanova University, USA 51. Marie Skeie, University of South-Eastern Norway 52. Frank Edwards 53. Oishik Sircar, Jindal Global Law School, India 54. Dr Victoria Cann, University of East Anglia 55. Rebecca Swartz, University of the Free State 56. Christine Esknader- Rutgers University 57. Rachel Comly, Rutgers University-Camden 58. Nelly Ali – UCL University College London 59. Dr Mel McCree, Bath Spa University, UK 60. Elizabeth Chin, Editor in Chief, American Anthropologist 61. Linda Morrice, University of Sussex 62. Karishma Desai 63. Sarah Gallo, Rutgers University 64. Agnes Zenaida Camacho, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences 65. Colectivo Akarës 66. Phoebe Co, Rutgers University-Camden 67. Enes Akdağ /Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey 68. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana/UCLA 69. Sheridan Bartlett 70. Rachel Berman, Toronto Metropolitan University 71. Lourdes de León-CIESAS 72. Kirrily Pells, University College London 73. Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge 74. Priscilla Alderson, Unversity College London 75. Natália Fernandes UMinho 76. LaTiana Ridgell, Rutgers University-Camden 77. Bengi Sullu/The Graduate Center, CUNY 78. Feryal Awan, UCL 79. Anusha Iyer, Rutgers University 80. Karen Wells, Birkbeck, University of London 81. Sophia L. Ángeles, Pennsylvania State University 82. MYRIAM FERNANDEZ NEVADO Cofounder ASOCIACIÓN GSIA (GRUPO DE SOCIOLOGÍA DE LA INFANCIA Y LA ADOLESCENCIA) y Fdez.Nevado Asoc. 83. Cecelela Tomi, Rutgers University-Camden 84. MYRIAM FERNANDEZ NEVADO Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Cofounder Asoc. GSIA y CEO Fdez. Nevado & Asoc. 85. Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG/ Brazil) e 86. Robyn Linde, Rhode Island College 87. Nicolas Brando, University of Liverpool 88. Sara Sequeiros – CIEC, Minho University 89. Elena Colonna, freelance researcher, Mozambique 90. Ketaki Prabha, Rutgers University – Camden 91. Anastasia Shaw, University of York 92. Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Concordia University 93. Catherine Walker, Newcastle University 94. Erica Meiners, NEIU & PNAP 95. Erika Jiménez, Queen’s University Belfast 96. Kim Fleisher Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers Camden 97. Vanessa Bradbury-Leather, Durham University 98. Lucia Rabello de Castro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 99. Janelle Rabe Durham 100. W’Ayendjina Antchandie/UCL 101. Brenda Baker, Arizona State University 102. Katherine Twamley, University College London 103. Sarah Ropp, University of Pennsylvania 104. Laurie Kocher, retired 105. Tina Benigno, Albertus Magnus College 106. Valentina Pagani, Università di Milano Bicocca 107. Elizabeth Ackerley, University of Manchester 108. Anna Strhan, University of York, UK 109. Heidi Morrison, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse 110. Hannah Dyer, Brock University 111. Hanan Hammad, Texas Christian University 112. Stevi Jackson, University of York 113. Nada Abu Qaoud, Lesley University 114. Stuart Tannock, University College London 115. Morgan Foster, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 116. Nicola Ansell, Brunel University London 117. Dina EL Khawaga 118. syed kazmi University of Leeds 119. Sara Joiko UNAP 120. Galila El Kadi 121. Kristi Barnwell, University of Illinois Springfield 122. Maryam Hisham, the American University in Cairo 123. Vina Adriany, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 124. Estella Carpi, University College London 125. Kareena Gor, Vanderbilt University 126. Virginia Morrow, Visiting Prof, UCL London 127. Deborah Lawson, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool 128. Ana Sofia Ribeiro, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa 129. Luciana Maciel Bizzotto, University of São Paulo, Brazil 130. Eve Dickson 131. Manuel Sarmento, Universidade do Minho, Portugal 132. OURANIA ELENI ZACHARIADOU, UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE 133. Atika Khalaf, Kristianstad University, Sweden 134. Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara 135. Suzana Gomes, Universidade do Minho 136. Evelyn Palma, Laboratorio de Estudio en Violencia Institucional (Chile) 137. Susan Shepler, American University 138. Claudia Díaz Díaz, University of Victoria 139. Kerry Murphy (Goldsmiths University) 140. Elaysel Germán, Rutgers University 141. Victor Barrio Sierra, Derechos Infancia 142. Adriana Chaparro Universidad Nacional de Colombia 143. Massih Zekavat, University of Groningen 144. Julia Al-Kuwatli, University College London 145. Gulzar R. Charania, University of Ottawa 146. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London 147. Nigel Patrick Thomas, University of Central Lancashire 148. Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Université Officielle de Bukavu(DRC) 149. Mariana Ramírez, UC Irvine 150. Matt Benwell, Newcastle University 151. Birhanu Fufa Feyissa, Jimma University 152. Juan Eduardo Ortiz López, Universidad de Las Américas 153. Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez/University of California, Los Angeles 154. Dr sharon Pinkney 155. Noam Peleg, University of New South Wales 156. Moloud Soleimani, Rutgers university 157. Paola Gilliam, Rutgers University-Camden 158. Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis 159. Narges Sadat Sajjadieh- University of Tehran 160. Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan, Universitat de València (Spain) 161. Eren Sözüer, Istanbul University 162. Francesca Meloni King’s College London 163. Kenneth Stevens, Texas Christian University 164. Elise Reslinger, University of Bath 165. Rosie Walters Cardiff University 166. Rose-Anne Reynolds University of Cape Town 167. Jason Hartzenberg, University of Cape Town 168. Walter Omar Kohan Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 169. Jason Hart University of Bath 170. Sandra El Gemayel, Manchester Metropolitan University 171. Brian K. Everett, Rutgers University – Camden 172. Cheryl Cowdy, York University, Canada 173. Zoe Walshe, Goldsmiths University of London 174. Caitlin Procter, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) 175. Krista J Armstrong/UCL 176. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University 177. Maggie Morrison University of Edinburgh 178. Kristina Konstantoni University of Edinburgh 179. Maria João Gomes Gonçalves/Universidade do Minho 180. Anne Luke, University of Leeds 181. Laura Casu, University College London 182. Nicole Land, Toronto Metropolitan University 183. Deborah W. Parkes, University of Ottawa 184. Carla Pascoe Leahy, University of Melbourne 185. Harriot Beazley, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia 186. Gabriela Marzonetto Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 187. Sumaya Babamia / University of Cape Town, South Africa 188. Sarah Barriage, University of Kentucky 189. Dorothy Burlage, Harvard ‘78 190. Anna Markowitz, UCLA 191. Rose Ann Gutierrez, University of Nevada, Reno 192. Kate Feinberg Robins 193. Paulo Nin Ferreira – Universidade Federal de Alagoas (BR) 194. Sarah R. Meiners, Cornell University 195. Fatima Tufail, University of Minnesota 196. Hoda Elsadda Cairo University 197. Md Juel Rana 198. Anna Perry Rutgers University 199. Heloísa Matos Lins, Faculdade de Educação da UNICAMP, Brasil 200. Juanita Stephen, University of Windsor 201. Adriano De Francesco, University of Auckland 202. Bronwyn Wood, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 203. Jessica Taft, University of California Santa Cruz 204. Bilqis Deaney (University of Cape) 205. Tahmina Shayan, Capilano University Canada 206. Claudia Soares, Newcastle University 207. Malika Ndlovu – Sp(i) eel Art Therapies Collective 208. Adrienne Argent Capilano University 209. Jana Tsoneva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 210. Rositsa Kratunkova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 211. Louise Croker University of East London 212. BULA BHADRA ,SISTER NIVEDITA UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA INDIA 213. Amr Khairy, Lund University 214. Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Tampere University 215. Chiara DIANA, ULB 216. Arunima Mukherjee (University of Oslo) 217. Tahani Aldahdouh, Tampere University 218. Maija Repo, Tampere University 219. Eftychia Mylona, Leiden University 220. Valeriia Smirnova Tampere University 221. Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford 222. Arun Abraham Varghese, Central University of Tamil Nadu 223. Saad Alrayes, University of Exeter 224. Rosemarie Peña, Rutgers University-Camden 225. Professor Sue Nichols, University of South Australia 226. Kirstin Lewis Goldsmiths university of London 227. Annette Roos, autism support worker 228. Annette Roos, autism support worker 229. Maria Cristina Murano, La Paz University Hospital Health Research Institute 230. Francesca Vaghi, University of Strathclyde 231. Ella Mattila, Tampere University 232. Riikka Hohti, Tampere University 233. Zsuzsa Millei, Tampere University 234. Camila Rosa Ribeiro, Tampere University 235. Eleni Theodorou, European University Cyprus 236. Tuula Kolehmainen Tampere University 237. Jenny Robson University of East London 238. Tatek Abebe, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU 239. Alessio Surian, University of Padova 240. Elena Mignosi Professor University of Palermo 241. Rebecca Conway, Bielefeld University 242. Anne Harju, Malmö University 243. Johanna Sjöberg, Linköping University, Sweden 244. Åsa Wahlström Smith, University of Gothenburg 245. Mariam, University of Cumbria 246. Sally Watson, Newcastle University, UK 247. Maureen McBride, University of Glasgow 248. Caitriona Ni Laoire, University College Cork 249. Dr Leah Gilman, University of Sheffield 250. Athina Moroglou, University of Antwerp 251. Khushboo Jain, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 252. Lama Khouri Psychotherapy 253. Florence Halstead – University of Glasgow 254. Vanessa Cesário, Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS), IST Univ. Lisbon, Portugal 255. Micky LeVoguer, University of East London 256. Malena Janson, Stockholm University 257. Sharifa K Al Battashi, Queen Mary University of London 258. Majid Nasser Al Battashi 259. Eun K . Ahn 260. Karin Hognestad, University of South-Eastern Norway 261. Gregory Desierto 262. Saira Batasar-Johnie – Toronto Metropolitan University 263. Caterina Arciprete, University of Florence 264. International Burch university 265. Christie Garner, University of Sheffield 266. Bonnie Gitlin 267. university of Jyväskylä 268. Pavel Rubio-Hormazabal, University College London 269. Joseph Yaw Dwamena Quansah-University for Development Studies 270. Margaret Ravenscroft, Nottingham Trent University 271. Vesna Holubek, Tampere University 272. Dr Khawla Badwan, Manchester Metropolitan University 273. Juan Campo 274. Dr Jane McCarthy, Open University 275. Pauliina Alenius, Tampere University 276. Brooke Maddux, psychiatrist, France 277. Marcia Black PHD 278. Cheryl Qamar, LCSWR 279. Mansi Jain 280. Steven Knoblauch, New York University 281. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, University of Bristol 282. Claire O’Kane, Proteknon 283. Elizabeth Berger, George Washington University 284. Signe Hvid Thingstrup, University College Copenhagen, DK 285. Gloria Burrett – private practice 286. Kerstin von Brömssen, University West, Sweden 287. Charlotte Burck, Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust & Refugee Resilience Collective 288. Ngo Thuy Anh Tuyet 289. Lou Harvey, University of Leeds 290. Mohammed Alruzzi, University of Bristol 291. Alison McGrath Howard 292. Raquel Willerman 293. Flávia Ferreira Pires – Universidade Federal da Paraíba 294. Maija-Eliina Sequeira, University of Helsinki 295. Elvira Dragonia Vernengo 296. Charlie Azzopardi 297. Ismail moh’d Alafandi /Alquds Open University 298. Nidhi Kapur, Independent consultant and child protection specialist 299. Stephen Benson, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Cuoture and Society 300. Salah Bustami, Ackerman Institute for the Family 301. Jocelyn Litrownik LICSW 302. Valentina Pezzini, Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma. 303. Dympna Devine, University College Dublin 304. Melvin Calleja, Institute of Family Therapy-Malta 305. Mona Abuhamda, Thé George Washington University 306. Luise Eichenbaum WTCI 307. Julie Spray, University of Galway 308. Camille Warrington, University of Bedfordshire 309. Michelle Bellino, University of Michigan 310. Teresa Cambiano, Agrigento, Italy 311. barbara Eisold 312. Christina McMellon, University of Edinburgh 313. Md Fakhrul Alam, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology 314. Najiya Shanaa, Light and Life LLC 315. Leila Farsakh, Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston 316. Emma Galofré García, University of Colorado Boulder 317. Sophie Cockell Tavistock and Portman 318. Karen Quintano – Institute of Family Therapy, Malta 319. María Laura Manzi Araneda, University College London 320. María Eugenia Rausky, Universidad Nacional de La Plata 321. Kirsti Karila, Tampere University 322. Tejendra Pherali, University College London 323. Nancy van Groll, Capilano University 324. Alex Brousset, LMFT 325. Susan Ferguson, Wilfrid Laurier University 326. D 327. Wajiha Ali – University of Exeter 328. Zoe Walker Exeter University 329. Janine Hunter 330. Martin Kemp British Psychoanalytic Association 331. Haider Ali City, University of London 332. Cristiana Zara, University of Birmingham 333. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston 334. Amy Doyle 335. Alison McCowat, Child and Adolescent psychiatrist and University of Exeter 336. Valerie N Adams 337. Miroslav Budimir, University of Ljubljana 338. Gabriela Martinez Sainz, University College Dublin 339. Karen Dias, PsyD 340. Xuxin (Sichuan University) 341. Martha Bragin 342. Reva Yunus, University of York 343. Deborah Levison, University of Minnesota, USA 344. Stephen Anen 345. Maria Federica Moscati, University of Sussex 346. Haohao ZHANG (Sichuan University) 347. Ashwini Shridhar, University of Minnesota 348. MJ Maynes, University of Minnesota 349. Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex, UK 350. Kirsten Pontalti, Proteknôn Foundation for Innovation and Learning 351. Veena Meetoo, University College London 352. Alex Klapperich , University of Minnesota 353. Neil Ramjewan, Carleton University 354. Huang Anqi, Nanjing University 355. Krystal Strong, Rutgers University 356. Michleen Mickel 357. Magali Reis – PUC Minas 358. Michael Bourdillon, independent researcher 359. Stephanie Delaney 360. Magali Reis – PUC Minas/Núcleo de Pesquisa Social – Minas Gerais Brasil 361. Judy Blumenfeld 362. Zhenghong He, Sichuan University 363. Rebecca Fadil, USA Palestine Mental Health Network 364. Thi Nguyen, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 365. Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota 366. Ruth Brooks. University of Exeter 367. Michaela Wipond, Queen’s University-Kingston 368. Nicolas Mabillard, University of Geneva 369. Yuqian Li, LICSW 370. Neela Bibi 371. Ana Lucia Kassouf – University of Sao Paulo 372. Andréa Perosa Saigh Jurdi/Federal university of São Paulo 373. Ruth Fallenbaum, psychologist 374. Maria Li Puma 375. Rachel Thomson, University of Sussex 376. Pascale Denis 377. Travis Johnston 378. Laura May Lee, University of British Columbia 379. Atalia Omer, The University of Notre Dame 380. Minoo Moallem 381. Said Shehadeh, PsyD, Clinical psychologist in private practice 382. Rev. Don Wagner 383. Devin Atallah, University of Massachusetts Boston 384. Carmel OHara Family psychotherapist 385. Bill Slaughter MD Harvard Medical School, US Gaza Mental Health Foundation 386. University of Aruba 387. Shahnaaz Suffla, University of South Africa 388. Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota 389. Naiema Taliep UNISA 390. Péter Berta UCL 391. Betsy Sneller, Michigan State University 392. Begoña Leyra Fatou, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 393. Ussama Makdisi, UC Berkeley 394. Lucía del Moral-Espín. University of Cadiz (Spain) 395. Ronelle Carolissen, Stellenbosch university 396. Simona Taliani university of Turin (Italy) 397. Mary Ann Chacko 398. David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine 399. Tony haddad 400. Jean Hunleth, Washington University 401. Laura Miller-Graff, University of Notre Dame 402. Najla Athamnah 403. Courtney A. Hartman, PsyD 404. Ethel Kosminsky, Sao Paulo State University, retired 405. Penny Rubinfine 406. Manfred Liebel, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germ 407. Michelle Yanes University of Toronto 408. Aïda Diop 409. Mohamed Seedat University of South Africa 410. Claire spiteri , institute of family therapy, Malta 411. Hana Masud, PhD 412. Ashley van Niekerk, University of South Africa 413. Nancy Murray, PhD 414. Rev. Darrel Meyers, Burbank, Calif. 415. Abbey Eisenhower, University of Massachusetts Boston 416. Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown University 417. Kristen Cheney, University of Victoria 418. Ghouwa Ismail University of South Africa 419. Breny Mendoza, California State University, Northridge 420. Juan F. Caraballo-Resto, University of Puerto Rico 421. Khanum Shaikh 422. E Lapp, ECE 423. Meiyang Kadaba, PsyD 424. Marlinde Melissen 425. Lana Andoni, University of Massachusetts 426. Pavithra Sarma, SGSSS-ESRC funded PhD student, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh 427. Lorraine Alire,University of Massachusetts Boston 428. Erin T. Pereida, University of Massachusetts Boston 429. Ana María González UMass Boston 430. Ravza Nur Aksoy Eren/ The Pennsylvania State University 431. Timothy P. Williams, Boston College School of Social Work 432. Ida Marie Lyså, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 433. Tarah Brookfield Wilfrid Laurier University 434. Jonaathan Kuttab FOSNA 435. Ravza Nur Aksoy Eren, The Pennsylvania State University 436. Kelsey Kehoe, University of Massachusetts Boston 437. Dr Janbee Shaik Mopidevi 438. Fiona Shaw, University of Exeter 439. Mari Mori, Kobe Shinwa University 440. Janine Coates, Loughborough University 441. Sinéad Matson, Maynooth University 442. Leonora Herlihy, National University of Ireland, Galway 443. Sinead Matson, Maynooth University 444. Dr Sharon Lambert 445. Dr Briony Towers, Learning Ecologies for Action on DRR and Resilience 446. Sinead Kelly 447. Victoria Bernal 448. Leah Russell NC Ireland 449. Ahseea Ahmed 450. Muge Olgun Baytas – Penn State Uni Abington 451. Mariko Miyata, Shiraume Gakuen University 452. Dr Omar Abdel-mannan, Gaza Medic Voices 453. Joe Benge, MA student, CREC 454. Inderpal GREWAL, professor emeritus, Yale University 455. Lelanie Brewer, Newcastle University 456. Alannah canton trinity college Dublin 457. Anthony Wright, Rutgers University-Camden 458. Dr. Daniela Bascunan 459. E Lev Feinman, Rutgers University-Camden 460. Mike Burton, University of California, Irvine 461. Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University 462. Joyce Cassel retired public school teacher 463. Miwa Takeuchi, University of Calgary 464. Rita Giacaman, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Occupied Palestinian Territory 465. Tanika Sarkar retired professor JNU delhi 466. Sabeen Rizvi, Gargi College, University of Delhi 467. Arpita Bohra 468. Ragini Verma, Delhi University 469. Zoya Chaudhary – Gargi College, University of Delhi 470. Meetali Devgun 471. Jigesha Punj – Gargi college, University of Delhi 472. Anjali Tiwari, Gargi College, University of Delhi 473. Ruchira Sharma, Gargi College, University of Delhi 474. Stuti Agnihotri – Gargi College 475. Lakshita Thakur, Gargi College, University of Delhi 476. Divya Rathi, Gargi College, University of Delhi 477. Nakul Singh Bisht – Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi 478. Parvasika/ Gargi college, University of Delhi 479. Tripti, Gargi College, University of Delhi 480. Lydia Murphy- Dundalk Institute of Technology 481. Arya Mallik, University of Delhi 482. Bharbeeta Hazarika – Gargi College, University of Delhi 483. Nilza dechen – lady hardinge medical college Delhi 484. Rita Sharma, Gargi College, University of Delhi 485. Dr Mary O’Kane, Open University 486. Aditi Kaushik, Gargi College, University of Delhi 487. Misha Pal, Gargi College, University of Delhi 488. Pakhi Bargale- Gargi College University of Delhi 489. Umesh Bawa, University of the Western Cape, South Africa 490. Muireann Ranta South East Technological University Ireland 491. Nesibe Zeynep Arslanoğlu, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University 492. Jalalabad State University, Kyrgyzstan 493. Lorraine Davies-Smith 494. M. 495. Dr Stranger KGAMPHE-University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg SA 496. Esra Saĝlam, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University 497. Stranger Jacob KGAMPHE; Wits University Johannesburg SA 498. Dr Stranger KGAMPHE-University of the Witwatersrand 499. Vanya Tandon, Gargi College, University of Delhi 500. Kristen Hope, PhD student, University of Bath 501. Yunus dilber isternational university of sarajevo 502. Ben White, Erasmus Universoty Rotterdam 503. Jane Moloi- Social Worker- Private Practice- SA 504. Saths Cooper, Pan-African Psychology Union 505. Liz Latto University of Edinburgh 506. Lindile Jela / Elihle Development Programme 507. Nitya Ullas 508. Teresa Bailey UK-Palestine Mental Health Network 509. Dr Brooke Maddux, psychiatrist, France 510. Olga Nieuwenhuys, University of Amsterdam 511. Sümeyye Kuşakcı / İbn Haldun University 512. Rima sehgal, Founder, TherapySupports 513. Vasudha Darbari University of Hull, PhD Student 514. Maliha Ibrahim Yorkville University, Canada 515. Frank van de Schans, Fontys Hogeschool Pedagogiet Eindhoven 516. Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Michigan State University 517. Shruti Choudhary, Gargi College, University of Delhi 518. Nurlaila Tuttaqwa, practitioner 519. Anahita Ahuja, Gargi College, University of Delhi 520. Jo Albin-Clark, Edge Hill University 521. Samia Bano, SOAS, University of London 522. Dr Julie Ovington University of the West of Scotland 523. Smriti Gupta, Gargi College, University of Delhi 524. Jane Krishnadas CLOCK Keele University 525. Gita Febria Friskawati, STKIP Pasundan 526. Desvi Wahyuni, Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Fatah Palembang 527. Bintul huda, Kamala Nehru college, Delhi university. 528. Mohommad Haneef, BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology 529. Lívia Maria Fraga Vieira 530. Khatija Ahmed Setshaba Research Centre South Afruca 531. Arth Mohan, Manipal Institute of Technology 532. Sreemoyee Chatterjee, DU 533. Sangeetha K , Doctoral student, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and technology 534. Amenah Shaikh 535. Hariharan and Bs abdur rahman university 536. Tanvi (Gargi College, University of Delhi) 537. Siobhán Saravanamuttu 538. Fayiza Inas, B.S abdur rahman university 539. Mohammad Akif, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 540. Jo Staines, University of Bristol 541. Jameela Jamal (B.S abdur rahman crescent institute of science and technology) 542. Nishana. J B. S. A. Abdul rahman University 543. Magathoom Sameena M BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology 544. Judy Chen, Australian National University 545. Srimayee G, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Bangalore 546. Débora Teixeira de Mello-UFSM 547. Fathima Roshmi S / BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology 548. Lauren Hammond, University of Edinburgh 549. V A SUPRIYA 550. Anirudh Menon, Manipal institute of Technology Bangalore 551. Sreya Budharaju Manipal Institute of Technology Bangalore 552. Emma Davis, University of Worcester 553. Meghan L. Green, Erikson Institute 554. M.K MOHAMMED MUZZAMMIL /B.S Abdul rahman crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 555. Najuwa Arendse, University of South Africa 556. Zuhair Hussain, Crescent Institute Chennai 557. Saliha Selman, University of Wisconsin-Madison 558. BS Abdur Rahman Crescent University 559. Diana Apreda, Retired Registered Early Childhood Educator 560. Anna Chiara Satta, volunteer health professional psychotherapist Turin, Italy 561. Francesco Della Puppa Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 562. Saime ŞIK, PhD Student, Necmettin Erbakan University 563. Ahmed Arendse, University of the Western Cape 564. Enise Akçin, Boğaziçi University 565. Rajiya Sulthana.M , B.S Abdur Rahman Crescent institute of science and technology 566. Letícia Veiga Casanova 567. Sueda Pal, Uskudar University, Turkiye 568. Shafia Azzahra Setiawan, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 569. Mohammed Saad Khan – SRM University, Sonepat, India. 570. Anoushka Vij, University of Delhi 571. Elmas Kargın. Süleyman Demirel üniversitesi 572. Brenna Pendleton, Albertus Magnus College 573. Restine Andrea Portugal 574. Karen Suyemoto, University of Massachusetts Boston 575. Francisco Garate Vergara. Académico de UMCE y UNAB Chile 576. Jerome F Simmery, MTh, University of the Western Cape 577. Sarah Walker/University of Bologna 578. Ayse Ozcinar, PhD student university of İstanbul cerrahpasa 579. Asha Unni 580. Nindyah Rengganis, Early Childhood Care and Development Resource Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 581. Lenira Haddad, Federal University of Alagoas, Brasil 582. Ather Zia, UNCO Greeley 583. Bini Sebastian, University of California Berkeley 584. Mallika Akbar, psychoanalyst 585. Feyzanur Polat, Marmara University 586. Mehtap Alan 587. Lian Liu, Nemours Children’s Health 588. Tracy Hayes, Plymouth Marjon University 589. Zehra Akdağ 590. Hasan Kalyoncu University 591. Shereen Nased 592. Anoushka Sharan, SMGC 593. GENDER RESEARCH STUDENT CENTER 594. Fatiha Khoirotunnisa Elfahmi, National Dong Hwa University & Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 595. Shereen Naser, Cleveland State University 596. Maria Alexis Martinez Universidad de los Andes-Colombia 597. Mildred Dreyer, University of South Africa 598. Maria Angelica González, Universidad Europea de Madrid 599. Hatice Altindal 600. Erica Wang 601. Akash A. B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology 602. Catherine Maloney, University of Notre Dame 603. Registered Nurse . Chicago Illinois USA. 604. Juanita Mahecha Pardo 605. Andily Aprilia Rahmawati, Indonesia University of Education 606. Prasasti Suci Rahayu, Student, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 607. Alexandra Ronco 608. Kaidong Guo, UCL 609. Kate Pahl 610. Julia Gao, University of Edinburgh 611. Natalie Coulter, York University 612. Sabah Ouhassou, Fontys University of Applied Sciences 613. Asude Elmas, Medical Doctor of Giresun University 614. Gitika Talwar, Prānh Healing & Wellness PLLC 615. Nicole Fleischer, PsyD 616. Mel Nieuwenhuys primary school worker 617. Mariana Panji Ramadan, Early Childhood Education Post Doctoral Student, Jakarta State University ( UNJ) 618. Hina Naela, King’s College London 619. Christine Peddle 620. Nurul Ezkanandyta, Master student, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 621. Ankita Sharma, Gargi College, University of Delhi 622. Becky Sheppard, Child and Youth studies Grad, Mount Saint Vincent University 623. Dr Christiana Boules 624. Disha Barwal, Delhi University 625. Julia Sinclair-Palm, Carleton University, Canada 626. Krittika Ray, Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru 627. M. Brinton Lykes Boston College Center for Human Rights & International Justice 628. Camara Chea, PhD Student 629. Rachael Stryker, CSU East Bay 630. Mariam Hafiz, University of Texas at Dallas 631. Dr. Gabriela Tebet, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP 632. Cait Talbot-landers former Senior Lecturer for Primary Education LOTC and Teacher Researcher 633. Melissa da Silva Ferreira, São Paulo, Brasil 634. Mayssoun Sukarieh, King’s College London 635. Nelis Nazziatus Sadiah Qosyasih 636. Alyssa Dalos, University of Edinburgh 637. Rie Shigemori, University of Edinburgh 638. Yesenia Lagos 639. Nurul Fahimah, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah Rakeyan Santang Indonesia 640. Casey Mecija, York University 641. Aysel Sultan 642. Lisiane Koller Lecznieski, antropóloga, Brasil. 643. Fardus shafici, Frantz fanon university 644. Zeynep ÜSTÜNER from Unıversity of Bursa Uludağ 645. Irene Pérez, Universidad de los Andes 646. Agida Hafsyah Febriagivary, Marwah Research Institute 647. Diana Prasatya 648. Maria Ballesteros, UC Berkeley 649. Khushi Trehan; Gargi College, University of Delhi 650. Michelle Gabriela Del Rio, UMASS Boston 651. Xiaorong Gu University of Suffolk 652. Vanessa Zhou, PhD 653. Nim’o Ahmed abdilahi University of Hargeisa 654. Sakshi Bhargava, NIFT Delhi 655. Poorva Chauhan- Gargi College, University of Delhi 656. Shreya Sanya, University of Delhi 657. Abbas Mehdi Hasan, BBD UNIVERSITY in India 658. Tisha Saini 659. Betina Hsieh, California State University, Long Beach 660. Ragini Narang, University of Delhi 661. Alexandra Tomkins, University of Manchester 662. Sanya Singh, Gargi College, University of Delhi 663. Fábio Accardo de Freitas – MST/Universidade Estudal de Campinas 664. Ruby Batz, University of Nevada, Reno 665. Nida Sümeyya Çetin İnönü University 666. Aarushi Rohilla – Gargi College, University of Delhi 667. Tania de St Croix, King’s College London 668. Ipshita – Gargi College, Delhi University 669. Ansh maini, MIT-WPU Pune,India 670. Sreejith Murali, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 671. Sriramya Potluri/UMass Boston 672. Juliana Martínez Franzoni – University of Costa Rica 673. Marcela Rabello de Castro Centelhas, Colégio Pedro II, Brasil 674. Anwesha Guin, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 675. Adelaide Rezende de Souza UFRJ 676. Sonia Borges Cardoso de Oliveira / NIPIAC-UFRJ-Brasil 677. Dr. Paige Gray 678. Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary 679. Amrita Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India 680. Esma Çelik/ Izmir Democracy University 681. Houda mahamoud farah 682. Oas Kumar, Gargi College, University of Delhi 683. Raquel S L Guzzo ( Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas) 684. Juliana Prates Santana, Universidade Federal da Bahia 685. Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Barnard College, Columbia University 686. Andrea Vieira Zanella, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 687. Eve Manz, Boston University 688. Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence 689. Veriana de Fátima Rodrigues Colaço/UFC 690. Beatriz Bissio – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 691. Profª Dra. Sônia Altoé- UERJ Brasil 692. Adriana Carrijo/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 693. Nilisha Lal, University of Hyderabad 694. Nitu choudhary, University of Delhi 695. Yashvardhan Singh, University Of Delhi 696. ari , Gargi college, University of Delhi 697. Isabel Pérez de Sierra, FLACSO Uruguay 698. Aylın Dikmen, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University 699. Adrián Rozengardt. FLACSO Argentina 700. Arpith Isaac- UW- Madison 701. Emel Öncel, Gebze Technical University 702. Laura Rivera-Alfaro, Universidad de Costa Rica 703. Ragini S. Malhotra, University of Southern Maine 704. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 705. José Eduardo Gama Noronha, Instituto Camará Calunga; Unicamp 706. Ting Huang, University of Maryland Baltimore County 707. Gina Ocasion, CT State Manchester 708. Meryem durgun 709. Cristiana Carneiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 710. Heloisa Bezerra Unirio Brasil 711. Ana Maria Jacó Vilela- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 712. Sanra R Indian Institute of Technology Ropar 713. Leon Dittmann, Bergische Universität Wuppertal 714. Vanessa Ferraz Almeida Neves/ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 715. Ingrid Vorsatz, University of Rio de Janeiro State 716. Maggie Moskal, University of South Carolina 717. Maria Cristina Antunes, University Tuiuti of Paraná, Brazil. 718. Jessica Benson, St Olaf College 719. Sergio Leite / Unicamp 720. Sergio Leite / Unicamp 721. Patrícia Corsino- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro- UFRJ 722. Luciana Mourão Cerqueira e Silva; Universidade Salgado de Oliveira e Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 723. Mridula Vijayarangakumar, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence 724. Ailton de Souza Aragão/ Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro 725. Ângela Fátima Soligo, Unicamp (Brasil) 726. Carlos Alberto Pereira de Oliveira – Multidisciplinary Institute for Human Development with Technologies – UERJ 727. Wendy Leon Arias, University of Costa Rica 728. Mayurika Chakravorty, Carleton University 729. MARIA JULIA AZEVEDO GOUVEIA 730. Maria Aparecida Crepaldi/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 731. Lucia França/ universidade Salgado de Oliveira – Rio de Janeiro 732. Zeidi Araujo Trindade, UFES, Brasil 733. Anna-Claire Simpson, UMass Amherst 734. Ana maria Jacó Vilela – UERJ 735. Alejandra Conto 736. Eunhye Grace Lee / Rutgers University 737. Esther Maria de Magalhães Arantes – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil 738. Natalia Dobles Trejos. Centro de Investigación en Cultura y Desarrollo Uned Costa Rica 739. Maria isabel barros bellini 740. Ligia Leão de Aquino, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil 741. Matthieu Tubino, Unicamp 742. Maria Isabel Barros Bellini. Secretaria da Saude do Estado-RS-Brasil 743. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 744. Kaká Omowalê 745. Shaheeda Sadeck, WAM, IHOM, MRPS, UNISA 746. Swapandeep Mushiana MS, PsyD 747. Jane Kenner, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California 748. PROPED UERJ 749. Mônica Correia Baptista 750. Maria Ines Garcia de Freitas 751. Ademir Pacelli Ferreira 752. Danielle Monteiro de Sousa PPFH/UERJ 753. Dusan Bjelic 754. Juliana Siqueira de Lara 755. Ademir Pacelli Ferreira. UERJ 756. Paula Pimentel Tumolo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 757. Luciana Maria Saldanha Kuenerz_Filhos e Netos MVJR-RJ 758. Mario Ernesto Bravow Universidad Icesi 759. Floriano José Godinho de Oliveira, PPFH da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 760. Sherine Hamdy, University of California Irvine 761. Fernanda C. Magalhães, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 762. Mehtab Ülker, University of Wuppertal, Germany 763. Mehtab Ülker, University of Wuppertal, Germany 764. Edson Saggese/ IPUB/UFRJ 765. Ridha Aidah Azzahra, Indonesia University of Education 766. Manushree Sinha, Ambedkar University Delhi 767. 711 Carolina Ybirma Venezuela 768. Bárbara Castelo Branco Monte – University of Fortaleza ( UNIFOR) 769. Richard “Rich” Chang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 770. Max Müller Cerqueira Sobrinho 771. Luiz Carlos Vicentini 772. Mehtab Ülker, University of Wuppertal, Germany 773. Universidade Federal Fluminense 774. Suzete de Paiva Lima Kourliandsky 775. Ivone Evangelista Cabral Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 776. Ana Lucía Fernández F./ Universidad Estatal a Distancia Costa Rica 777. Gopika S Pillai 778. Helaine Piorotti/DEGASE 779. Rhea Kuthoore and Rutgers University 780. Celso Francisco Tondin – Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei – Brasil 781. Gülsüm Demir, Eskisehir Osmangazi University 782. Adriana Sánchez Lovell/UCR 783. Maria Isabel Pedrosa 784. Eunice Fávero. NCA-SGD, PPGSS, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) 785. luis zorraquino 786. Analice Lopes, Instituto Rede Abrigo 787. Lindomar Expedito Silva Darós – Aaspsi-Brasil 788. Renata Lira dos Santos Aléssio/ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 789. Alvaro Crosta Unicamp Brasil 790. Aline De Coster – UFRJ 791. Prof Niki Edwards, University of Southern Queensland, Australia 792. Erica dos Santos Vieira- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 793. Marcos Ribeiro Mesquita – Universidade Federal de Alagoas 794. Simone Ouvinha Peres – UFRJ 795. Clotilde Rossetti Ferreira – University of São Paulo, Brasil 796. Joana Garcia, UFRJ – Brazil 797. Einas Odeh Haj, Mada Al-Carmel 798. Maria Helena Magalhães de Mendonça – Fiocruz 799. Elena Mignosi Università di Palermo (Italy) 800. Friedrich Glorian, Zyriab Music Academy Stuttgar 801. Elza Ibrahim / SPCRJ Brasil 802. Instituto de Cidadania e Direitos Humanos 803. Claudia Sapag Ricci / UFMG Minas Gerais Brasil 804. John Matthew Ang, International Institute for Social Studies 805. Cleyton Gerhardt / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 806. Ana Cecilia Escalante Herrera, Universidad decCosta Rica 807. Emine Rana Akbayram, Hasan Kalyoncu University 808. Cristiano inguglia- university of Palermo 809. Jailson Rodrigo Ricardo de Sousa, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. 810. Eveline Algebaile, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 811. Caroline Faria Geography UT Austin 812. Vera Maria Ramos de Vasconcellos 813. Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil 814. Catalina Baeza Hidalgo 815. Vera Maria rsmos de Vasconcellos/uerj 816. Margarita Triana. Universidad de los Andes 817. Dr Shona Minson, University of Oxford 818. Natália Meireles Santos da Costa, Oslo Metropolitan University 819. Nora Thompson, retired faculty Michigan State University 820. Sonia Maria de Carvalho Moura (SPRJ) 821. Vania C. G. Almeida Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 822. Jacqueline Chaves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 823. Julio Rique Neto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba. 824. João Francisco Capece, Universidade de Brasília 825. Sabrina Dal Ongaro Savegnago – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 826. Andrea Lira Universidad de Magallanes 827. Sophie Geerken, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany 828. Marcus Basso/UFRGS-Brasil 829. EdmundoLuisAlvesDias. Centro de edtudos da tecnica de alexander 830. Adriana de Freitas Velloso; Clínica da Família Rogério Pinto da Mota, Rio de Janeiro 831. Elisabete Búrigo – Ufrgs 832. Jane Farias Chagas Ferreira 833. Willian José da Cruz – Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 834. 711. Leandra Anversa Fioreze, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 835. Haideh Hashemi Nouri, Capilano University 836. Fatima Maria Leite Cruz UFPE, Br 837. Kristen Goessling Penn State 838. Luciana Neves Nunes – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 839. Maria Cecilia Bueno Fischer / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 840. Nandini Manjrekar, TISS Mumbai, India 841. Tony monim haddad 842. Maria Cristina Kessler 843. Pronunciamiento hipócrita pues no habla nada de los terroristas de Hamás. La vida de todos los niños vale. 844. Celso Veras Baptista – NECA – Associação de Pesquisadores e Formadores da Área da Criança e do Adolescente (São Paulo, Brazil) 845. Umesh Bawa, University of the Western Cape, South Africa 846. Miriam Diederichs, FernUniversität in Hagen 847. Ana Maria Zagatti- Associacao de Pesquisadores e Formadores da area da Crianca e do Adolescente-NECA 848. Liana Albernaz de Melo Bastos , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 849. Shin Shin Tang, Oregon State University 850. Karla Barroca – Creche Escola Recife Associação Cristã Feminina; 851. Raimundo Gouveia 852. Aurea Satomí Fuziwara, Fórum Estadual da Criança e do Adolescente de Saot Paulo/Brazil 853. Addison Duane 854. James M. Mitchell CSU East Bay 855. Mariana Cesar Coral, Udesc 856. Maria Helena Zamora, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro 857. Suzana Libardi/ UFAL, ABRAPSO, Brazil. 858. Jen Newton Ohio University 859. Erica Atem Goncalves de Araujo Costa 860. João Carlos Alchieri 861. Kim Fernandes 862. Zeynep Kasap 863. Mufti Fauzi, Indonesia University of Education 864. Seni Apriliya/Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 865. Sumika Freitas FOPEIES MIEIB 866. Briseida Resende Universidade de São Paulo 867. Geraldine Brady, Nottingham Trent University 868. Stephan Baumgartel Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina/Brasil 869. Airton Fabro – UDESC Florianopolis/SC/Brasil 870. Elaine Beltran-Sellitti, Capilano University 871. Dalmo Coelho Córdova Filho – Engenheiro Civil e Metroviário 872. Cecília M A Goulart/UFF 873. Anne de Fátima Araújo Aguiar 874. 711. Alejandra Sanchez Alvarez 875. UFRGS/ Brasil 876. Lisandra Ogg Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 877. Katia de Souza e Almeida Bizzo Schaefer – Colégio Pedro II 878. Maria Regina Maciel UERJ 879. Claudia Glavam Duarte/UFRGS 880. Herenilda de Freitas Felix / GEPEP-CP2 881. Ângela de Alencar Araripe Pinheiro – Universidade Federal do Ceará 882. Nelson Bison- CEMIR 883. Ramon Silva de Carvalho – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 884. Carmem Maria Craidy 885. Janet Moses/retired 886. Angela Marquez Filipe, Durham University 887. Maria Natália Ornelas Pontes Bueno Guerra 888. Fernanda Gomes Duarte Cavalcante Anselmo, Universidade Estadual do Ceará 889. Maurício Rosa – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil 890. Fiocruz 891. Isheh Beck, NYU, Stanford University, Wright Institute 892. Monique Sidney Moreira/ PUC-Rio 893. Wendy Feng, Stanford University 894. Magda Marques Melo, CEAM – Universidade de Brasília 895. Liz Perdomo / Universidad de Cuauhtémoc 896. Marcus Kissoon University of the West Indies 897. Jéssica Araújo da Silva, Brasilian University-Brazil 898. Elaine Luciana Sobral Dantas, UFERSA RN Brasil 899. Jocelyn Olcott / Duke University 900. Nandini Chandra University of Hawaii at Manoa 901. Lídice Bessa, retired 902. Rose Anne Negele, Ed.D., Child and Adult Clinical Psychologist 903. Flávia Mendonça Pereira – ONG Associação Apadrinhe Um Sorriso /Duque de Caxias-RJ/Brasil 904. Ivanilde M. P. da Silva/UNB 905. André Rangel PPFH/UERJ 906. Ana Chrystina Mignot/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Brasil 907. Rita oktafil marisa, Persis Bandung Islamic Institute, Indonesia 908. Maria Lúcia Vidal Mattos / Uniacademia 909. Asyifa Rafsanjani, early childhood education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 910. Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, University of Nevada Las Vegas 911. Universidade de Brasilia 912. Jenny Santoyo A. 913. Jordanna Castelo Branco, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 914. Aila Lemos 915. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 916. Roberta Guimarães do PPGEDU FFP UERJ 917. Whasgthon Aguiar de Almeida – Universidade do Estado do Amazonas 918. Maria Tereza Goudard Tavares – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/risadeERJ/ Bra,il 919. Solange Jobim / PUC-Rio/UERJ 920. Pedro Henrique Gomes da Paz / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia (PPGA) – Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) 921. Jan DeFehr, University of Winnipeg 922. Laura Marques Lopes, Universidade Federal da Paraíba 923. Priscila Crispi, Roehampton University 924. Akhila Kumaran, Tata Institute of Social sciences 925. Eleta Freire, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil 926. Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina 927. Carlos Augusto Pereira de Sousa, Universidade de Brasilia 928. Marcia Soares de Alvarenga 929. Marcia Soares de Alvarenga Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 930. Rodrigo Sychocki da Silva/UFRGS 931. Ameya Singh, University of South Florida 932. Hiroaki Ishiguro, Rikkyo University 933. Anne Retzlaff 934. Alycia Ellington, UC Santa Cruz 935. Justine Adetola Ajao, PhD, University of Toronto 936. Farida khan independent researcher 937. Esya Anesty Mashudi ; Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 938. Farida khan, independent researcher 939. Rodrigo Sychocki da Silva/UFRGS 940. Esma Erbil/ İstanbul Medeniyet University 941. Maria Cristina Garcia Vilaça/Sinesp 942. Ana merces bahia bock PUC-SP 943. Yulia Hidayati, MEd(EC) 944. Santos 945. FIST Frente Internacionalista dos Sem Teto 946. Muslima Nazir. Dept. Of Higher Education, J and K 947. Fatma Rizki Intan / PGRI University Palembang 948. Sandra Ferraz de Castillo Dourado Freire, Universidade de Brasília 949. Isma Widiaty 950. Prateeti Chowdhury, University of Hyderabad 951. Gonca Dedemoğlu/Gaziosmanpaşa Üni.-Hacettepe Üni 952. Yun Pang 953. Anggi Meilani, Gender Research Student Center, Indonesia University of Education 954. Samprity Pal, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, M.P. 955. Manpreet Uni of Delhi 956. Setsuko Kubotera, Aoyamagakuin University, Japan 957. Shifa Haq, Ambedkar University Delhi 958. Elizabeth White, University of the West of England, Bristol 959. Nilofer Kaul 960. Shashank SR, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India 961. Maria Gercileni Campos de Araujo. Universidade Federal do Ceará 962. Karre Sailu Tata institute of social science India 963. Shipra Suneja, India 964. Garima Sharma, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights 965. Stefanie Steinbeck, Copenhagen Business School 966. Diana Marre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 967. Dominique Colinvaux UFF Brasil 968. Betül Kübra Nur DURU, Erciyes University 969. Sümeyye Pekcoşkun Çelik, Türkiye-Montreal 970. Donatella Savio Università di Pavia, Italia 971. Nimao Abdirahman, University of Hargeisa 972. Waikato Hospital 973. Ana Almeida, Child Studies Research Centre, Minho University 974. Catarina Tomás 975. 974. Brasil Luísa Urano 976. Isabel Soares , University of Minho, Portugal 977. Olivia Kunde, NHS, UK 978. Ana Luíza Bustamante Smolka, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil 979. Juan Carlos Martín Quintana 980. Teresa Sarmento 981. Sara Bahia, University of Lisbon 982. Conceição Nogueira/ Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, university of Porto, Portugal 983. Judith Butler MTU Cork Ireland 984. Chihiro Abe,Yokohama elementary school 985. Adair Mendes Nacarato/Universidade São Francisco 986. Myriam Clancy Munster Technological University 987. Cristina Serván Melero / University of Cádiz (UCA) 988. Maria Helena Martinho, Instituto de Educação, Universidade do Minho. Portugal 989. Madalena Melo – University of Evora – Portugal 990. Erica Burman, University of Manchester 991. Ghivo Pratama 992. Sumeet 993. Instituto estudos superiores europeus fafe 994. Anabela Leal de Barros, University of Minho 995. Gloria Georgina Seddon. Universidade ßanta Úrsula. 996. Karen Smith, University College Dublin 997. Paulo Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal 998. 974 Brasil Uillian Trindade Oliveira UFOB 999. Andrea Yankah 1000. Roosa Yli-Pietilä, Tampere University 1001. María Victoria Carrera-Fernández. University of Vigo, Spain 1002. Nele Johanna Dorsch, TH Köln, Germany 1003. Mansi Verma 1004. Maria Teresa Santos Ferreira Castro Laranjeiro/ Guimarães-Portugal 1005. Andreia Filipa Carvalho Rodrigues. Universidade do Minho 1006. Franziska Fay, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz 1007. Cristina del Barrio. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1008. Lúcia Isabel Silva _ UFPA – Brasil 1009. Aranzazu Gallego Molinero. Universidad de Granada 1010. Jo Boyden Oxford 1011. Qodri Azizi Akbar 1012. Paul Flanagan, University of Waikato, New Zealand 1013. José António Fernandes, Universidade do Minho 1014. Sadaf Lotfalian 1015. Pilar Soto, retired, UAM 1016. Noelia Vázquez Álvarez, Public Heath Agency of Barcelona 1017. Eugénia Maria Ribeiro Pereira /University of Minho 1018. Isabel Oetega 1019. Patrícia Domingos Universidde do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1020. Ana Fernández, Agencia de salut pública de Barcelona, Spain 1021. Laura Visu-Petra, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania 1022. Maria Rubio-Valera. Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu. Universitat Pompeu Fabra 1023. Claudia Gomes/ Faeterj e Unifase Petrópolis 1024. Juli Carrere. Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona 1025. Elena Martín Ortega universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1026. Maria Nabubhoga 1027. Maria da Conceição de Abreu Ramalho de Almeida, Universidade da Maia 1028. José Luis Linaza. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Spain 1029. Rosa Helena Mendonça – universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) 1030. Uaiana Prates, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal 1031. Dr Sid Mohandas, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom 1032. Helena Águeda Marujo/university of Lisbon 1033. Luísa Saavedra, University of Minho, Portugal 1034. Rejane Lucia Machado de Oliveira 1035. Maria Roseli Vianna Pereira/ UERJ/FFP/ RJ/ BRASIL 1036. Universidade federal de Juiz de Fora 1037. Clovis Bergere, Northwestern University in Qatar 1038. Carmen Paniagua Infantes, Universidad de Sevilla 1039. Maria de Fátima bueno fischer 1040. Iara Oliveira Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA, Brasil 1041. Sara Luna Rivas, Universidad de Sevilla 1042. Carmen Moreno. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) 1043. Jesús Palacios, University of Seville, Spain 1044. Concepción Moreno-Maldonado, Universidad de Sevilla 1045. Paulo Graziano/Unicamp Brazil 1046. Nayana Dhavan, KCL 1047. Maite Peñarrubia. University of Barcelona 1048. Dr Maria Mirza, Great western Hospital 1049. Rosa Jesus Ferreira Novo – FACULDADE DE PSICOLOGIA- UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA 1050. Maria Cecília de Góes 1051. Esperanza León (Universidad de Sevilla) 1052. Inmaculada Sánchez Queija, Universidad de Sevilla, España (Spain) 1053. Eduardo Brandão – UCAM 1054. Sibelle Maria Martins de Barros/ State University of Paraiba, Brazil 1055. Maite Román. Universidad de Sevilla 1056. Jean Von Hohendorff 1057. Ida Carneiro Martins 1058. Parceiros da Educação 1059. M. Clara Couto/FSU 1060. M. Clara Couto/FSU 1061. Maria Helena Teixeira 1062. Shaina Vasundhara Bhatia, Psychotherapist, India 1063. Ana Maria Costa e Silva, Universidade do Minho 1064. Tejaswinee Hazarika 1065. Julia Regueiro Sande 1066. Catherine Andreu, University of Valencia, Spain 1067. Luísa Habigzang/ pontifícia universidade católica do rio grande do sul 1068. Ana Cristina Serafim da Silva/Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Brasil 1069. Ana Paula de Freitas – Universidade São Francisco – SP/Brasil 1070. Isis Andrade Araújo 1071. Yuri Teixeira ISCED, Benguela 1072. Ana Paula de Freitas – Universidade São Francisco – SP/Brasil 1073. M. Teresa Anguera. Universidad de Barcelona 1074. Ana Paula Soares da Sila, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil 1075. M. Pilar Ramos Valverde, University of Seville (Spain) 1076. Joelma Arantes Vaes professora ds prefeitura de Juiz de Fora/MG/Brasil 1077. Karlla Zloccowick /USF São Paulo 1078. Mar González. Universidad de Sevilla. Spain 1079. Fabiana Maio, Universidade São Francisco, Brasil 1080. Paulo Cesar Rodrigues Carrano/Universidade Federal Fluminense 1081. Thaís Arnoud, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul 1082. Yuriko Kobayashi, Meijigakuin University 1083. Silvia Tkotz/ Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UNIRIO 1084. Kethelyn Hellen da Silva Pinto 1085. Julia Sacrano de Mendonca 1086. Degelane Duarte ( GECRIARP/UFSC ; IFC/SC) 1087. Ana Paula Carneiro, Instituto Superior de Educação Pró-Saber 1088. ColetivoRJ Memoria Verdade Justica 1089. Paula Cristina Martins, University of Minho , Portugal 1090. Bekir Duzcan / Utrecht University 1091. Luisa Alonso, University of Minho, Portugal 1092. Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy 1093. Sreya Nair, University of Delhi 1094. Águeda Parra Jiménez. University of Seville (Spain) 1095. Ana Cristina Figueiredo- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1096. Kartik Nair 1097. Marília Guimarães Vasconcellos, Physician, Brazil 1098. Pablo Carrera, Universidad Isabel I (España) 1099. Carlos Assunção Universidade dê Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro 1100. Luana de Melo Ribas – Universidade de Brasília 1101. Octavia C. Martin Danziato (Littera – Clínica de Psicanálise / Associação Ser Ponte / Rede Emancipa – Movimento de Educação Popular) 1102. Robson Silva 1103. Gisele Toassa, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil 1104. Pedro Henrique de Farias Martins, UFPA, Brasil 1105. Maria de Lurdes Serrazina 1106. Flávia Salazar Salgado/Universidade Federal Fluminense-Brasil 1107. Silvana Calvo Tuleski/ State University of Maringá/Paraná/Brazil 1108. Irene Grueiro Universidad de La Habana 1109. Federal University of Paraiba 1110. Ana Paula da Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) 1111. Universidade estado de Minas Gerais( UEMG) 1112. Ilana Lemos de Paiva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 1113. Izabel Hazin, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil 1114. Priscilla Costa Correia 1115. Annie Cummins, Munster Technological University 1116. Kappa Grealy, Autonomous University of Madrid 1117. Irene Bulcão / Universidade Federal Fluminense / Brasil 1118. Anna Carolina Lo Bianco – UFRJ 1119. Andre Mourthe de Oliveira University Federal of Ouro Preto, Brazil 1120. Süeda Vardar, Ozyegin University, Turkey 1121. Miriam Hassani, doctor, UK 1122. Catia da Silva Veloso Fernandez Casado 1123. Maria Jose Rodrigo. University of La Laguna, Spainnn 1124. Marco Aurélio Prado/federal university of Mina’s Gerais/Brazil 1125. Orlando Fernández Aquino 1126. Sophie Laurent, Expressive Arts Therapy Egypt 1127. Alejandra Navarro, U Autónoma de Madrid 1128. Maria Alice Rocha. UFRJ 1129. Denisa Kollarová 1130. Milene Maria Xavier Veloso 1131. Maria Carmen Silveira Barbosa 1132. Naiana Dapieve Patias 1133. Monica Winter, Journalist, Universidade Estacio de Sá – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 1134. Lubelia de Paula Souza Barbosa – Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação UFF 1135. Carolina Inda, PUCRS 1136. Maria Juracy Filgueiras Toneli/ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 1137. Aditi Subramaniam 1138. Débora Barbosa Alves 1139. Aline Leal/ Universidade Federal do Pará/Universidade de São Paulo 1140. Universidad del Valle 1141. Aadil Hussain M, BSA Crescent institute of science and technology 1142. Maria Morais UERJ/SMERJ Brasil 1143. Maria Rodrigues Pereira / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1144. Janete Magalhães Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo 1145. Robert Álvarez Ochoa, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Ecuador 1146. Maria Aparecida MELLO, Federal of São Carlos University , Brazil 1147. Renata Cristina Angelieri Badialli 1148. Fátima Morais . Universidade do Minho 1149. Thiago Costa Matos Carneiro da Cunha / UNIFOR – Universidade de Fortaleza 1150. Ann Marie Beals 1151. Maria Cristina de Oliveira/Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo/Brasil 1152. Alexandra Garcia/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ 1153. Porta da lembrança 1154. Roberta Cortez Gaio 1155. Rovena Lopes Paranhos, UNIFASE, Brasil. 1156. Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Paty do Alferes e Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) 1157. Héctor M. Jacobo Garcia. Universidad Pedagógica del Estado de Sinaloa, México 1158. Janette Habashi 1159. Carmo, Itamar Moreira,PUC/SP 1160. Adam Goren 1161. Velci muniz vieira 1162. Lenny Latip, Sherwood Forest Hospitals FoundationTrust, UK 1163. Gleice Azambuja Elali (ufrn) 1164. Andrea Jerônimo da Silva, UniChristus, Fort-CE 1165. Helena Valenzuela de Oliveira, Hospital São Matheus e Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, ( Brasil) 1166. Livia de Oliveira Borges, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) 1167. Alexandra Cavalcante de Farias. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 1168. Dorany Mendes Rosa/ UFG 1169. Claudia Alexandre Queiroz 1170. PPGE uerr/ifrr 1171. Fabiana Silva 1172. Sheilla Fristella, Gender Research Student Center Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia 1173. Shivani Nag (AUD, India) 1174. Atitus Educação 1175. Beatriz Morgado Camacho. University of Seville 1176. Conchi Medrano 1177. UFRR/UERR/CEFORR 1178. Kathy Roberts,Co-founder of Dandelion School ’71-2002 2 1179. Nauzet Gutierrez-Rodriguez Universidad de La Laguna 1180. Levindo Diniz Carvalho – UFMG – Brasil 1181. Cecília Marilaine Rego de Medeiros / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil 1182. Universidade Federal de São Carlos 1183. Ligia Lanna 1184. Raquel Rodrigues Capucci/Universidade de Brasília (UnB) 1185. Clarissa Freitas de Andrade – Programa de Pós Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo – UFRN 1186. Darci Neves Santos – Institute of Collective Health – Federal University of Bahia, Brazil 1187. Maria Figueiredo Brasil 1188. Ellen L. Paul, Fort Lewis College (Colorado) 1189. Charlotte COSQUER 1190. Helen B. Durgante, UFPel, Brazil 1191. Isabel de Oliveira e Silva/ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 1192. Érico dos Santos Junior 1193. Hanna Christina da Silva Marques dos Santos/ SEDUC Paty do Alferes e PUC-Rio 1194. UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS 1195. Lela Zaphiropoulos 1196. Lynne Hall/Early Childhood Educator 1197. Hanna Christina da Silva Marques dos Santos/ SEDUC Paty do Alferes e PUC-Rio 1198. Eglê Betânia Portela Wanzeler- Universidade do Estado do Amazonas 1199. Susana Margarida Gonçalves Caires Fernandes University of Minho 1200. Ifba 1201. Francisléia Giacobbo / IFC 1202. Luci Melo Martins 1203. Tiago Ribeiro, Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos (INES), Brasil 1204. Saul Jonhatan Machuca Vargas Universidad Católica de Cuenca 1205. Tatiana Chaves/ Universidade de Fortaleza 1206. Sara Côrtes Vieira de Souza /Universidade Federal de Goiás- Brasil 1207. Eliete Marostica 1208. Dulce Maria Arraes de Carvalho 1209. Cláudia Santos da Rocha/ Secretária Municipal de Educação 1210. Dra. Maria Aparecida Alves da Silva – Blog Educar Sem Violência e Bloco Não é Não 1211. Cambria Ferguson, College of Charleston, SC 1212. Jack Hicks, University of Saskatchewan 1213. Muller, Maria. Brasil, RG/RS 1214. Liliana acero federal university of Rio de janeiro.ufrj 1215. Joana Novaes 1216. Waldeck Carneiro/ Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) 1217. Fabiana Aparecida dos Reis-Universidade São Francisco 1218. Solar Mazzoccante Morgado 1219. Maria Elvira Vieira de Mello 1220. Christine Schmidt, LCSW Racial Literacy Groups 1221. Roberta T. Di Rosa University of Palermo 1222. Ana de Hollanda 1223. Inajara Erthal Amaral Psicanalista Brasil 1224. Bruna Teixeira Porto – Associação Mulheres na Comunicação 1225. Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei 1226. Iman Azzi, UCL 1227. Eva Leal, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) 1228. Madalena Klein Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil) 1229. Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, Niterói, RJ, Brazil 1230. Elzenir Batista de Lucena Campos/Sociedade civil 1231. Jocie Osika; Wayne State University; Detroit, MI 1232. Sebastião Benício da Costa Neto/Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás/Brazil 1233. Deivison Freire, Núcleo de Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento 1234. Karina Ávila Pereira/ University Federal of Pelotas 1235. Patrícia Azaña Rezende Pereira/Universidade Federal Fluminense 1236. Iza Rodrigues da Luz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil 1237. Célia Regina Rangel Nascimento Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil. 1238. Monalisa Muniz/Universidade Federal de São Carlos 1239. Marisa G. Franco, University of Maryland 1240. Ana Cláudia Balieiro Lodi – Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil 1241. Universidade Salgado de Oliveira 1242. Fábio Henrique Borges, Universidade de Brasília – Brasil 1243. Andréa Righi Viana 1244. Gilberta Acselrad Uerj Rio de Janeiro 1245. Isabela Pereira Lopes – COLUNI UFF 1246. Tovar Nogueira Fonseca -Faculdade do Ipê Brasil 1247. Jane Farrell- retired – University of Oregon 1248. Alessandra Maletzki Ramasine, Centro de defesa dos direitos da crianca e do adolescente RJ 1249. James A. Murray 1250. Bushra Ahmed, Paediatrician, London. 1251. Kaif Ali – University of Delhi 1252. Maria de Fátima Siliansky de Andreazzi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos. 1253. Eliana Silvestre/ IBDCRIA 1254. Rosangela Comunale- Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, RJ, Brasil 1255. Andréa Azevedo Gomes da Silva 1256. Filipe Lima, Universidade do Minho 1257. Karen Seeley, Columbia University 1258. Icléia Thiesen – UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1259. Ana Sol Kosiniuk Martins, UFMG 1260. Liliane Vilete – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1261. Helenice Gil Coury – UFSCar aposentada 1262. Mariel Karolinski/ UBA Argentina 1263. Joviana Avanci/ Oswaldo Cruz Foundation 1264. Georgete Medleg Rodrigues 1265. Simone Ginçalves de Assis/ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 1266. Jenny Pridmore 1267. MARLANA REGO MONTEIRO DOS SANTOS – Educação Popular 1268. Angela Wittich UNIRIO 1269. Ângela da Costa Maia / Universidade do Minho 1270. Rebecca Suzuki, University of Denver 1271. Zeena Sakka 1272. Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres/Universidade de São Paulo 1273. Cláudia Vianna de Melo – Universidade Federal Fluminense 1274. Silvia Branco Vidal Bustamante -UNIFASE. Petropolus. RJ. 1275. Enirtes Caetano/ Oswaldo Cruz Foundation 1276. City University of New York CUNY 1277. Patrícia Gomes Pereira- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1278. Baltasara Villajos Carralero. Retired 1279. Edson Zangiacomi Martinez – Universidade de São Paulo 1280. Lúcia Ozório-Lipis/ Puc-RJ; L’Amap/França 1281. Paula Musumeci Soares/ Escola Alfa, Macaé, RJ 1282. Faculdade de Medicina da UFRJ 1283. Eloa Silva de Moraes 1284. Izabel Cristina 1285. Djalma Filho piranga movimento Indígena urbano 1286. Maria Guiomar da Cunha Frota UFMG 1287. Gabriela Estevam / Universidade Federal do Paraná 1288. Raysa Carvalho 1289. Pamela A. Hays 1290. Maribel Illescas Taboada Universidad Complutense 1291. Otavio A G Molleri 1292. Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University 1293. Jorge de Campos Valadares / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 1294. Denize Sepulveda /Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1295. Miles Smith Plymouth Marjon University 1296. Surayyah Christina Berkau Germany 1297. Rafael dos Santos Vieira/Universidade do Estado do Amazonas 1298. Carmen Loureiro Rey, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1299. Georgia Albuquerque de Toledo Pinto / Universidade Federal do Ceará 1300. Usp 1301. Ryan Febrianto / PUSKAPA University of Indonesia 1302. Plataforma PAJE – Apoio a Jovens (Ex)acolhidos 1303. Jamerson Bezerra Lucena/Universidade Federal da Paraíba 1304. Adriana Álamo Muñoz/ University of La Laguna 1305. Edinilsa Ramos de Souza/ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 1306. Bernadete Porto/GEPED/UFC 1307. Mirta Fernandes 1308. Ana Carolina Perrusi Brandão – UFPE/ Brazil 1309. Leandro Pacheco / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1310. Ligia Regina de Oliveira / UFMT, Brasil 1311. Monica Atalla Pietroluongo/ UFRJ 1312. Eliza Kelly Grosman Amorim / FEIZM 1313. Ana Clara de Castro Ferreira Araujo Alves / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) 1314. Lieke van Lieshout Fontys University of Applied Sciences 1315. Wendy Alabaster 1316. Ryan Schooley, University of Miami 1317. Maria Bernadete de Carvalho – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Brasil 1318. Monique Delhoume-Sanciaud 1319. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 1320. Jacqueline Peres Vieira 1321. Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University 1322. Karla Cunha Padua / UEMG 1323. Chandra Kala Clemente, Autonomous University of Barcelona 1324. Poliana Cortez Marcelino/UNIVERSO Brasil 1325. Yolanda Guerra- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1326. Francesca Moscatelli- Vieques, PR 1327. Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela Uerj 1328. Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela – UERJ 1329. Grazielle Figueredo University of Massachusetts Amherst 1330. Regina Camargo, Preschool Special Education Teacher 1331. Shadma, University of Bristol 1332. CRISTINA REIS DE SOUSA PRATA – BRASIL 1333. Simran Varma, Thompson & Shankar Impact 1334. Maria do Carmo Guimaraes Caccia Bava – Universidade de Sao Paulo – Brasil 1335. Dylan Baun, University of Alabama in Huntsville 1336. Sónia Caridade (Uiversity of Minho 1337. Eliani Ragonha, Coletivo A vez e a voz das crianças 1338. Mauro Luís Viera – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 1339. Maja Brzozowska -Brywczyńska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 1340. Orozimbo Henriques Campos Neto – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 1341. Maria Inês Crnkovic Octaviani, UFSCar 1342. Loriane Trombini Frick, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil 1343. Diana Slim UHBW UK 1344. Hallam Cooper, University of Oxford 1345. Rafael Douglas Cavalheiro/ UFPR 1346. Heloisa Bettiol, University of São Paulo, Brazil 1347. Maria da Conceição Pereira Saraiva 1348. Leda Tfouni universidade de São Paulo- USP 1349. Lucia Thomaz 1350. Dr Syed Ali Naqvi 1351. Jasmine Gibson 1352. Sajida Hassan- Karachi Pakistan 1353. Maria Carmen Euler Torres 1354. Querem Hapuque de Souza USP 1355. Luciana d’Ávila (School of Public Health of Minas Gerais, Brazil) 1356. Shams Fattom, psychotherapist, schools, USA 1357. Cathy Kilburn, University of Hull 1358. Ana Maria Carpenter Genescá – Instituto Superior de Educação Pró-Saber- Rio de Janeiro – Brasil 1359. Fernando Resende Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil 1360. Maria do Carmo Couto Teixeira 1361. Vera Figueiredo 1362. Maria da Graça Gonçalves de Canha 1363. Tânia Maria de Araújo 1364. Maraiza Alves Freitas/ USP Brazil 1365. Juliana A. de O. Camilo – UFBA 1366. Dr Antonia Canosa, Southern Cross University 1367. Maria Laura da Costa Louzada – University Of Sao Paulo 1368. Rosrane Freitas Nicolau / universidade Federal do Pará 1369. Unesp- São Paulo State University 1370. Anísia Silva/ Escola de Saúde Pública do Estado de Minas Gerais 1371. Maria José Clapis/ UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO 1372. Full Professor Maria Cristina Pereira Lima, Botucatu Medical School, Unesp 1373. Carla Daiane Costa Dutra/ Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto/USP 1374. Águeda Beatriz Pires Rizzato 1375. Alexandre de Abreu Marcelino Universidade Estácio de Sá 1376. Graciela Pagliaro/Brasil 1377. Leti Volpp, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley 1378. Áine Hutchinson IPMHN 1379. Jorgina da Silva Chaves / SME/RJ 1380. Maria Alfredo Moreira, Universidade do Minho 1381. Patricia Lorena Quiterio/ UERJ 1382. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ 1383. Priscilla Read (individual) 1384. ESTÊVÃO COUTO TEIXEIRA Conservatório de Música de Juiz de Fora – MG BRASIL 1385. Fernanda Milanez, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1386. Fernanda Milanez, UERJ – Brasil 1387. Fernanda de Azevedo Milanez- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1388. Vasuki Nesiah 1389. Fernanda de Azevedo Milanez- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1390. Inês Sílvia Vitorino Sampaio 1391. Inês Sílvia Vitorino Sampaio, Federal University of Ceará 1392. Dr Ligia López University of Melbourne 1393. Anne Blumenthal, The University of Chicago 1394. Doris Fernandes – Psicóloga 1395. Maria Lúcia Medeiros – Brasil 1396. Sorbonne 1397. Félix Jesus Neves – CIDACS/FIOCRUZ 1398. Pam Alldred, Nottingham Trent University, UK 1399. Jesús Javier Escartín. Doctorando T.social. URV 1400. Cheryl Qamar, LCSWR, NY 1401. Kriti Budhiraja 1402. Mariana Teixeira Branco / Universidade do Minho 1403. Adriana Andreia da Silva Stanciola – Universidade Federal de Viçosa -Brasil 1404. Tânia Maria Lago Falcão/ Universidade de Pernambuco Brasil 1405. Cássia Maria Buchalla- Universidade de São Paulo – USP 1406. Ana Brito, Aggeu Magalhães Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IAM/Fiocruz), Pernambuco, Brasil 1407. Laura Oliveras Puig, Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona 1408. João André Tavares Álvares Silva 1409. Clara Siagian, Center on Child Protection and Wellbeing, Universitas Indonesia 1410. Kate van Doore, Griffith University 1411. Suely Arruda Vidal Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira 1412. Patrícia Vieira Trópia/ Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil 1413. Lia Giraldo da Silva Augusto/Abrasco 1414. Jessica Ball 1415. Paola Amendoeira SPBsb/FEBRAPSI 1416. Dr Hana Alhadad, Independent Researcher 1417. Maria Júlia Gonçalves de Mello /Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira 1418. Maria Regina Alves Cardoso – University of São Paulo 1419. Elis Candido de Vasconcelos, Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil. 1420. CIESS/ UFRGS 1421. Tereza Cristina Teixeira da Fonsêca/ IMIP-PE 1422. Elaine Sampaio Araújo – Universidade de São Paulo/Brasil 1423. Dr. Tahira Yousaf Empowering Minds 1424. Fabiana Pedreira Gelard / Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1425. Abel Rubén Hernández Ulloa/Universidad de Guanajuato, México 1426. Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell 1427. Thais Helena Barreira/Fundacentro/Brasil 1428. Karen Malone Swinburne University of Technology Australia 1429. Monica Eileen Patterson – Carleton University 1430. Catarina Cavalcanti Universidade de Pernambuco, Brasil 1431. Botucatu School of Medicine UNESP 1432. Cairo Arafat/ Bir Zeit University 1433. Mariana Carvalho Gouveia 1434. Laurel Donison Brock University 1435. Linda G Richard Retired Teacher’s Assistant 1436. Bernardo Nóbrega de Oliveira / University Federal of Rio de Janeiro 1437. Adelaide C Nardocci 1438. Nisha Thapliyal University of Newcastle 1439. Jeanette Lopez-Urbina 1440. Yoshie Shiraishi, Aichishukutoku University 1441. Dr. Alexandra Arraiz Matute, Carleton University 1442. Marly Augusto Cardoso/ Universidade de São Paulo 1443. Deivson Damascena / Universidade de Brasília (UnB) 1444. Sakiko Sagawa, Kyoto University of Education 1445. Stephanie H. Yu 1446. Theiss Fabricio 1447. Tia Albia 1448. Shikha Sen 1449. Retire UCR profesor, Costa Rica 1450. Dr. Fran Roznowski – Chelsea Uniting Against the War 1451. Juliana C S Czarny – Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR 1452. Isadora Browne Ribeiro 1453. Zabair Hussain 1454. Kate Macfarlane Charles Darwin University 1455. TOMOMI NISHIMURA 1456. Maiju Paananen, Tampere University 1457. Chandni Basu, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, India 1458. Dena Arya 1459. Dr Usha Mudiganti Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi 1460. Fabíola Mônica da Silva Gonçalves 1461. Martijn Hofman – Parnassia Groep 1462. Annie O’Brien, University of Manchester 1463. Paola Leone, University of Salento 1464. Cath Larkin’s, University of Central Lancashire 1465. Shona Macleod, University of Nottingham 1466. Myung Hwa Baldini – Linköping University 1467. Dr. Sreemoyee Dasgupta, American University of Beirut 1468. Johanna Annerbäck, Linköping University, Sweden 1469. Sophia Georgescu, University of Stirling 1470. Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano, Universidad Pablo de Olavide 1471. Carol Archer Independent Consultant in Early Education 1472. Irene Caselli, The First 1,000 Days 1473. Beth Goodyear 1474. Urânia Flores da Cruz Freitas/Universidade de Brasília. Brasília/Brasil 1475. Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk, Institute of Sociology, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland 1476. Evani Araujo 1477. Denise Kingston Oxford university 1478. Rashmi Rangarajan, Haute Ecole Pédagogique du canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland 1479. Rukmini Sen Delhi 1480. Mona Nicolaysen, University of South-Eastern Norway 1481. Anzhela Popyk, University SWPS, Poland 1482. Ann Phoenix UCL 1483. Dr. Angela Molloy Murphy – The University of Melbourne 1484. Araceli Lázaro Aparicio España 1485. Meri Häärä, Tampere University 1486. Jason Pearce 1487. Ignacio Campoy Cervera / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1488. Sonia Páez de la Torre. Universidad Pompeu Fabra 1489. Kiran Flynn, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 1490. Hattie Campbell University of East London 1491. Amy Wang, Santa Clara University, California 1492. Rebecca Blake The University of East London 1493. Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University 1494. Vicenre Cabedo Mallol. Cátedra de Infancia y Adolescencia de la Universitat Politècnica de València España 1495. EJ Renold, Cardiff University 1496. Dr. Mahmoud Emira, Bath Spa University 1497. Alison Baker, University of East London, UK 1498. Patrícia Izar / Universidade de São Paulo 1499. Yvonne Griffiths, University of Leeds 1500. Cristina Santos 1501. Katie Wright, University of East London 1502. Rachel Fontes Baptista 1503. Laura Rodrigues, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, emeritus 1504. Asociación Solidaridad y Acción 1505. Jonathan Ofir 1506. Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes UFPA 1507. Rebecca Crutchley University of Chester 1508. Marilene Barros de Melo 1509. Maria Almela Gambin, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1510. Angie Bamgbose (Individual) 1511. Rina Mustafa / University of Warwick 1512. Ås Wahlström Smith, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1513. Dr Austin Griffiths UCL 1514. María José Jara Leiva, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile 1515. Laís Caroline Andrade Bitencourt/UFMG Brasil 1516. Estella Carpi, University College London 1517. Sheila Alvim/ Universidade Federal da Bahia 1518. Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho – UFMG – Brasil 1519. Fatima Seedat, Psychological Soceity of South Africa 1520. Rogerio Santos/Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1521. Veridiana Canezin Guimarães/SBPBsb 1522. Alisha O’Neill Leeds Beckett University 1523. José Luis Vianna da Cruz Universidade Federal Fluminense 1524. Kati Penttinen, Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1525. Henna-Julia Mikama / Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) 1526. Lauri Harkin, Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1527. Marit Ursin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1528. Elli Alatupa, TAMK 1529. Aada Dahlman, TAMK 1530. Akseli Haimilahti, Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1531. Tiia Fyrqvist, Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1532. Dr. Yesim Deveci, University of East London 1533. hugo ka canham, University of South Africa 1534. Oona Huhtaniemi / Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1535. Justyna Sarnowska, SWPS University, Poland 1536. Judite Ie/ University of Valladolid 1537. Beatriz Corsino Pérez, Universidade Federal Fluminense- Brasil 1538. Laila K, UCL 1539. Juliana Thimóteo Nazareno Mendes/ Universidade Federal Fluminense(Brasil) 1540. Deniza Ahmethanova / Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1541. Sarah Earle, Bath Spa University 1542. Universidade Federal Fluminense 1543. Grupo de Estudos em Juventudes e Políticas Públicas/ GEJUP da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/ UFRGS 1544. Crisóstomo Lima / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1545. Paulo Santos Freitas Junior – SEDUCT/SEMED 1546. Maria Cecília R. Góes/UNICAMP, Brasil 1547. Giuseppe Burgio, Kore University of Enna (IT) 1548. Kati Penttinen / Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1549. Malin Arnesen Nilsen (QMUC) 1550. Daniela porta Guimarães 1551. Marco Aurelio Cardoso Henrique 1552. Hingridy Fassarella Caliari – Observatório Capixaba de Juventude 1553. Universidade Federal Fluminense/ESR- Serviço Social de Campos 1554. Turkan Firinci Orman, PhD / Aalto University, Finland 1555. Daisy Guilem Ampara Cuiabá 1556. Anna karolyne Resende Vilar Araujo/PUC-RIO 1557. Arathi Sriprakash, University of Oxford 1558. 1503. Jose Maurício dos Santos Souza 1559. Retired 1560. Lauri Myllymäki / Tampere University of Applied Sciences 1561. Neusely Gomes da Silva( UFF ) Campos dos Goytacazes 1562. Wendy Harkin 1563. Ida Engan Farstad, NTNU 1564. Mozart.Bezerra Alves Filho 1565. Camile de Souza Henrique Nunes da Cruz, 1566. Nina Odegard, University of SouthEast Norway 1567. María Soledad DAwson – Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires Argentina 1568. Rodrigo Lima / NUDISS Universidade Federal Fluminense 1569. Jessica Ringrose University College London 1570. Yuri Sousa / Universidade Federal da Bahia 1571. Gisele A. Gouvea Estácio / Universidade Federal Fluminense-UFF /Departamento de Psicologia 1572. Sang kil /San José state university 1573. Gisele A. Gouvea Estácio / Universidade Federal Fluminense-UFF 1574. Jorge Eduardo da Silva Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) 1575. Jonathan Blagbrough, Children Unite 1576. Inés Botto, UW-Madison 1577. Subini Annamma, Stanford University 1578. Carolina Alves de Oliveira universidade federal do rio de janeiro 1579. Hunter Knight, Brock University 1580. Youngmin Yi, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1581. Steffi Schenzle/ UiT – The Arctic University of Norway 1582. Maria da Graça Brasil Rocha – UFSCar 1583. Amahl Bishara, Tufts University 1584. Luvel Garcia Leyva/ Universidade de São Paulo 1585. Roxana Waterson, retired 1586. Marja Kivirauma child psychotherapist Finland 1587. Bruna Pinto Martins Brito / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1588. Julie C. Garlen, Carleton University 1589. Lauren Ray, Indiana University 1590. Isabella Bergo Crosta/Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil 1591. Erick Conde / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1592. Amy North, UCL 1593. Narda Nelson, Western University, Canada/UVic Child Care Services 1594. Paulo R S Romanelli – Pediatric and Adult Rheumatologist – São Paulo – Brazil 1595. Janelle Brady, Toronto Metropolitan University 1596. Dr Christina MacRae, Manchester Metropolitan University 1597. Bianca da Silva dos Santos Silva/ Atitus Educação 1598. Kathleen Kummen Centre for Childhood Studies Capilano University 1599. Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA 1600. Halle Singh, Rutgers University 1601. Graziano Pellegrino/ University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1602. Ieva Salkauskiene, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1603. Horacio Botti, Universidad de la República, UY. 1604. Rahmet Akpolat, University of Missouri 1605. Ceren Tosun / Istanbul University – Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty 1606. Roisin Harkin/ Stockholm University 1607. Elsa Auerbach, University of Massachusetts Boston 1608. Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF Campos dos Goytacazes 1609. Hiba Abou-Taouk, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1610. Sheila Patterson 1611. Renato Meira/ Universidade Federal Fluminense 1612. Ney Roitman 1613. Maria Reis da Rocha 1614. Pedro R. Santos de Oliveira/ Universidade Federal Fluminense 1615. Guilherme Souza Magalhaes Aposentado 1616. Narda Nelson, Western University & the University of Victoria Child Care Services 1617. IRENE GRETHER 1618. Maria Theresa da Costa Barros / Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro 1619. Angela Capelo, Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Br 1620. Beyza Nur Karal. Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 1621. UFF 1622. Fernanda Ahumada / University College London 1623. Kim Ainsworth, University of Victoria 1624. Sherene H. Razack, UCLA 1625. Gabriela Teixeira – PSIMIGRA/Brasil 1626. Laura Black 1627. Rustam Nabiullin, Russian psychologist 1628. Amal khamis 1629. Ricardo Cesar Caraffa – UNICAMP 1630. Carmen L A Paiva UNIRIO 1631. Jane Merewether / Murdoch University Australia 1632. Karina Ruiz, University of California Santa Cruz 1633. Suely Ferreira Deslandes/Fiocruz 1634. Leticia Scheidt / University of Limerick, Ireland 1635. Dr Gladys Todd, NYC 1636. Marjorie Adis 1637. Ronnie C. lesser, Ph.D., Private Practice 1638. Artemis7, bipocanalysis 1639. Fatin Asnan 1640. Dr. Fatin Asnan, PhD in Human Development & Family Science/UX Researcher 1641. Claudia Leite de Moraes/Instituto de Medicina Social/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1642. 1503. Aitziber Pascual Jimeno. University of the Basque Country 1643. Alpana Choudhury, New York City, USA 1644. Itziar Etxebarria / University of tha Basque Country 1645. Peter Zook, MSW, LCSW 1646. Alexandra Woods, Students for Justice 1647. Dina Al-Kassim/ California Scholars for Academic Freedom 1648. Karen Raney, University East London 1649. Rashmi Kumari 1650. Hider Shaaban / Philadelphia Center for Psychotherapy 1651. Claudia Raimundo Reyes / Universidade Federal de São Carlos 1652. J. Mullany 1653. MONICA CORNEJO / CSUN 1654. Jackie Rudin / Youth Arts New York 1655. Pamela Chambers/Auburn University 1656. Hélène Volat 1657. Dr. Edison Hurtado, FLACSO-Ecuador 1658. John Tyrrell, Socialist Labour Party 1659. Lisa Rofel, University of California, Jewish Voice for Peace 1660. Gumersinda Alonso, UPV/EHU 1661. Shannon Snapp/California State University, Monterey Bay 1662. Rahma Hida, PhD 1663. Pradyumna Behera, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 1664. Sumeyye Sancak 1665. Celine Hume, University of Victoria 1666. Tatiana Fonseca/Sms RJ e INTO 1667. Michelle Salazar Perez 1668. Dr. Cindy Sousa 1669. Sawsan Abdulrahim, American University of Beirut 1670. Sylvia Kind, Capilano University 1671. Keith Eric Benson, Camden Education Association (Camden, NJ) 1672. Dr. Nancy Arvold, Psychologists for Social Responsibility 1673. Bernadette Congdon Retired RPN/SRN. Psychotherapist 1674. Maria Claudia Badan Ribeiro 1675. Dr. Angela Waldegg theatre pedagogue 1676. Jormailin Valdés Pareras / Pennsylvania State University 1677. Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Utah State University USA 1678. Leonora Corsini / Psicóloga e pesquisadora independente São Paulo, Brasil 1679. Rev. Joe Roos 1680. G. Diver University of East London 1681. Giovanna Botini Zortea / Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 1682. Ken Corbett, New York University 1683. Avgi Saketopoulou, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NY, USA 1684. Dr. Emad Fathi 1685. Zsuzsanna Kaldy, University of Massachusetts Boston 1686. Dr. Annabella Cant/Capilano University 1687. Nancy Alexander, PsyD, Private Practice 1688. Bo Sun Kim, Capilano University, Canada 1689. luis zorraquino 1690. Leonardo Aranda Brito, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México 1691. Laura Wright, University of Edinburgh 1692. Pulmonology, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Disorders 1693. Fabiane Alves Pereira / Psychoanalyst / Brazil 1694. Atina Manelian, Santa Clara University 1695. EMILIA FREITAS DE LIMA – UFSCAR 1696. Clea McNeely, University of Tennessee 1697. Corinne Masur, Psy.D. 1698. Carolina de Cássia)/ coletivo 1699. Dr. Susan Terrio Georgetown University 1700. Stuart Aitken, San Diego State University 1701. Angie Simpson The University of Victoria Childcare Services 1702. Maria Tereza A. Silva / Porta da Lembrança 1703. Colectivo Trenza & ANID Researcher, Chile 1704. Judith Deutsch Toronto Psychoanalytic Institutete 1705. Alex Berry, Capilano University 1706. Emily Schlesinger, LCSW Contemporary Freudian Society 1707. Rafaella Sale, Virginia Commonwealth University 1708. Monica Rabello de Castro/ UERJ 1709. Virginia maria Gonçalves 1710. Christine El Ouardani / California State University Long Beach 1711. Sônia M.Pellegrini de Azeredo 1712. Lauren Berntsen / Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH) 1713. Mara Lago/ universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/IEGa 1714. Stephanie Marando-Blanck 1715. Tomás Martín Rodríguez. Magistrate. Court 1716. Mackenzie Woodburn, University of Pennsylvania 1717. Mary Tucker-Pettersen 1718. Prof Aoife Daly, University College Cork 1719. Hatim Kanaaneh. The Galilee Society For Health Research and Services, Israel 1720. Isadora Scher Miranda, Universidade Federal Fluminense 1721. Hyun Su Cho, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1722. Rebekah Willett, University of Wisconsin 1723. Petra Vackova, The Open University 1724. Fernando de Sousa, PhD / Universidade Porto 1725. Tarciane dos Santos Guedes / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1726. Marina Crelier Chagas dos Santos- Universidade Federal Fluminense 1727. Rhyzia Lopes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil 1728. Elsa Weber, Emerita, Purdue University Calumet 1729. Kathleen Copps MED Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories Territories Canada 1730. Meha Thakore 1731. Isaiah Bartlett, LCSW 1732. Karen Chan / California Institute for Integral Studies 1733. Sophia Thraya/University of Calgary 1734. James Deutsch University of Toronto 1735. Alayr R Pessôa Filha/ Universidade Federal Fluminense – OAB 1736. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1737. Nádia Cristina Soares Lopes de Araújo / Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1738. Danilo Serafim TLS/MES 1739. Danilo Serafim TLS/MES Brasil 1740. LUIZ CARLOS DA SILVA BRAGA/SEERJ 1741. EHWright Retired ECE teacher Nelson New Zealand 1742. elizabeth hegeman phd 1743. Maria Esperança Fernandes Carneiro 1744. Urjasi Rudra 1745. Gerald Pang 1746. Thomas Piñeros Shields, UMASS Lowell 1747. John King, New York University 1748. Cynthia Boschi-Pinto / Universidade Federal Fluminense 1749. Shazia 1750. Arthur Heiserman, Columbia University, New York, NY USA 1751. Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara 1752. Madeleine Hunter, DEFI Cambridge 1753. Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University 1754. Sheema Kermani, Tehrik-e-Niswan, Karachi, Pakistan 1755. Annakaisa Laine, Kangasala Finland 1756. Cameron Henshall, Monash University 1757. Joacim Strand, Linköping University, Sweden 1758. Ambreen Ahmad Child Psychiatrist 1759. Anna Pyszkowska, University of Silesia, Katowice 1760. Raed Naim Abd al Hafeez Amira – Coordinator of Public and International Relations PUSWP-Palestine 1761. Aline Martins, Brasil 1762. Annabelle Howard, Bath Spa University 1763. Ayse Yilmaz, Bahcesehir University 1764. Tuba Gokpinar, University of Suffolk 1765. Eugenice Pacheco, UERJ 1766. Garth Alperstein Paediatrician 1767. May Gresdahl, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1768. Azra Talat Sayeed / Roots for Equity 1769. Joiciana Hotz 1770. Shreya Kundu, Ashoka University India 1771. Zeni Rocha Silva de Figueiredo/Maricá-RJ – Brasil 1772. Jacqueline Lopez / Harvard University, Ed.M., UC Berkeley, BA 1773. Stanley Thangaraj 1774. Crain Soudien, UCT 1775. Elaine Cristina Schmitt Ragnini – Universidade Federal do Paraná/Brasil 1776. Maria Natália Ornelas Pontes Bueno Guerra. Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP 1777. Eniete Dias 1778. Telma Ferraz Leal UFPE 1779. Mary Hurley , University College Cork 1780. Farah Mahmud, Montclair State University 1781. Carla Shalaby, University of Michigan 1782. Déana Scipio/ IslandWood & University of Washington 1783. Samer Akram 1784. Laila Belhaj/Muslim Lives Matter DK 1785. Professor Judy Hutchings, Bangor Un diversity 1786. Márcia de Carvalho Martins/ Brasil 1787. Lisa Farley, York University 1788. Teresa Humphrey, York University 1789. Raffaella Sette / University of Bologna 1790. Ana Rosa Costa Picanço Moreira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil 1791. Rebecca O’Connell, University of Hertfordshire 1792. Julia Brannen ucl 1793. Havva Gorkem Altunbas /University College London – Institute of Education 1794. Busra Berber, University College London 1795. Terese Wilhelmsen / University of South-Eastern Norway 1796. Chiara Suttora, Università di Bologna 1797. Daianne Possoly, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil 1798. Karin Arts, ISS of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 1799. Lama Dajani 1800. Sara Bufferd, University of Louisville 1801. Liane Gomes Esteves / Brasil 1802. Nuria Fuentes/ Universitat Barcelona 1803. Maurizio Sali, psychoterapist 1804. Eliana A P Cunha/ Profa da Rede Estadual do RJ e SEPE-RJ 1805. Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) 1806. Mariana Marcassa 1807. Hamida Trabelsi ISSHT Tunis 1808. Hayet Moussa Universite Tunus El Manar 1809. Nesrine Haj Hamouda, faculté de médecine dentaire de Monastir, Tunisia 1810. Wendy Chu, University of South Carolina 1811. sandra clare The University of Manchester 1812. Joseph Berra, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law 1813. Paula Xavier, Polytechnic University, Viseu, Portugal 1814. Elizabeth Nelson, Rutgers University-Camden 1815. Ayesha Nehvi 1816. Tooba Rauf IOE-UCL 1817. Tâmara Biolo Soares, Instituto Cidade Segura, Brasil 1818. Shadie Burke/University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1819. Mary Isaac Cargill, Montclair State University 1820. Raoudha Elguedri / Doha Institute for Graduate studies 1821. Shaheen Motala Timol Higher Education Consultant, Mauritius 1822. University of São Paulo 1823. Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 1824. Siraj Eddine Thabet, Faculty of Dental Medecine of Monastir, Tunisia 1825. Dental faculty of monastir , tunisia 1826. Hadil Hassine, faculty of dental medicine of Monastir, Tunisa 1827. Erica Viana – FTD Educação 1828. Maria Lucia Dias Gaspar Garcia/Associacao de Pesquisadores e Formadores da area da Crianca e do Adolescente-NECA 1829. Matthew Abraham, University of Arizona 1830. Anca Minescu, University of Limerick 1831. Anastasiia Zubareva, University of Limerick 1832. Tracy Sidesinger, PsyD 1833. Cara Blaisdell, Queen Margaret University 1834. kasia a. oberc, University College London 1835. Fernando Lacerda Jr – Federal University of Goiás, Brazil 1836. Hana Ouaz INP Tunis 1837. Berna Sena Civan / University College London 1838. Umaira Khan, MSW/ PhD student at University of Houston 1839. Viviane Martins de Souza/ IFPR Brasil 1840. Alyaa AlMaadeed, MSW/ Social Work Howard University 1841. Jiyeon Kim, Capilano University 1842. SEPE RJ 1843. Zeineb Fradi , hochschule Koblenz , Germany 1844. HELTON Marcio dos Santos Rodrigues 1845. Breny Mendoza, California State University, Northridge 1846. Daniela Marçal/ UFRRJ/EBBS 1847. Jacqueline Teixeira Puc-Rio 1848. Wilma Lúcia Rodrigues Pessôa – Universidade Federal Fluminense 1849. Sharanya Rao, George Washington University 1850. Irene Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University 1851. Preeti Sethi/ University of East London 1852. Sara Sutherland Capilano University Children’s Centre 1853. Emina Zoletic/Universal of Warsaw 1854. Solange cantanhede Espać Brasileiro de Psicanalise 1855. Theodore Khoury / Portland State University 1856. Marielena Legey 1857. Marcelo Roberto Garcia Mazzoli/ Retired Education Officer 1858. Erica Thomas, Chair of Political Action, Portland State University Faculty Association 1859. Grace Kyungwon Hong, UCLA 1860. Nayereh Tohidi, California State University, Northridge, USA 1861. Sabina Tanovic / Delft University of Technology 1862. Shehzeen Ahmad, Wellesley College 1863. Rekha Wazir, International Child Development Initiatives, The Netherlands 1864. Shantha Sinha, former Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Govt. Of India 1865. Enakshi Ganguly. / child rights activist – india 1866. Andrew Dawes University of Cape Town 1867. Alessandra Frigerio / Sigmund Freud University 1868. Linda Richter, University of the Witwatersrand 1869. Wahbie Long, University of Cape Town 1870. Dr. Mahasin Saleh 1871. Ashraf Kagee, Stellenbosch University 1872. Raija-Leena Punamäki-Gitai / Tampere University, Finland 1873. Ela Sümeyye SEÇİM/ Amasya University 1874. Bronwyne Coetzee, Stellenbosch University 1875. Marize Vieira de Oliveira/Associação Indígena Aldeia Maracanã. 1876. John Pinkerton, Queens University Belfast 1877. Leah Lipton/ Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy 1878. Anne Michelle Dysman Gomes/Universidade Federal Fluminense 1879. Gabriele Mack / University of Bologna, Italy 1880. Comissão Quilombola do Sapê do Norte 1881. Dr. Dara Fisher / psychotherapist 1882. Roberto Beneduce, University of Turin, Dept. of Culture Politics and Society 1883. Laian Abussaud / University College London 1884. Inês Sá/Colégio Pedro II, Brasil 1885. Tytti Solantaus 1886. Rafael Soares 1887. Zulakha Asif 1888. Havva Nur Çelik/Çukurambar Psikoloji 1889. Martin KNAPP / Université Paris Nanterre, France 1890. tavis d. jules, Loyola University Chicago 1891. Elena Cucco, PhD 1892. Sahar Al-Najjar, Adler University 1893. Joanna Bielecka-Prus, Maria Curie University, Lublin, Poland 1894. Ivone Evangelista Cabral, PhD, RN, Brazil 1895. Teresa Ropert, CIPCI / UAI Chile 1896. Büşra Özbilgin/ Psychological Counselor, Turkey 1897. Leigh Potvin, Lakehead University 1898. Prachi Srivastava, former UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations 1899. Clarissa França Higgins / Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) 1900. Merve Gölcük, Antalya Bilim University 1901. NYU 1902. Sonia Firmino Fiúza University College London 1903. Selen Dede 1904. Kate Schwartz, New York University 1905. Karima Gacem/Université Paris Nanterre 1906. Valerio della Sala, Phd, University of Bologna 1907. Grace Howard, San Jose State University 1908. Sedanur Caydı/Social Science University of Ankara 1909. José Peixoto/ Universidade do Minho 1910. Betul Tekin, PhD 1911. Sonja Giese DataDrive2030 1912. Halime Şeyda Horasanlı/ Ankara University 1913. Dennis Hilgendorf, MPH New York University 1914. Meryem Miyasoğlu/ İstanbul Arel Univercity 1915. Beatriz Judith Lima Scoz/Profissional liberal 1916. Sarah Peden- Capilano University 1917. Nadia Ahmed, Toronto Metropolitan University 1918. Lamar khatib/ Toronto Metropolitan University 1919. Lamar Alkhatib 1920. Rabab El-Mahdi, The American University in Cairo 1921. Anette Wickström Linköping University 1922. Liz Stott Clinical Psychologist University of Exeter UK 1923. Priyamvada Tiwari, New York University 1924. Dr Iain Ferguson, Social Work Action Network 1925. Dr Nicky Hardy, Clinical Psychologist 1926. Ayşegül Tellioğlu Karadağ/therapist 1927. John Ebel, Private psychotherapeutic practice 1928. John Ebel, Private Psychotherapetic Practice, Melbourne, Australia 1929. Jenny Heinz 1930. Jane foulkes 1931. Caroline Hiott, New York University Global TIES for Children 1932. Elaine McCullough 1933. SME Rio 1934. Paula M. Salvio, Ph.D. University of New Hampshire USA 1935. Miah Theresse Sabas / University of Massachusetts Boston 1936. Deborah Hellerstein PhD 1937. Valentina YD Utari, University of Western Australia & The SMERU Research Institute 1938. Phyllis Shulman, Ph.D., MFT 1939. Paula Domínguez Alarcón, Universidad de Sevilla 1940. Naciye Gül 1941. Fatmanur Petek Keser/ Ankara- Nutrition and Dietetic 1942. Ana Rodrigues (Education Specialist – Edukanvas) 1943. Şule Kara/MD.İstanbul 1944. Stefania Peca, University of Bologne, Department of Sociology and Business Law 1945. Elena Giacomelli, University of Bologna 1946. Georgina Christou/ Panteion University 1947. Chiara Davino / University of Bologna 1948. Hannah Carrim, University of Cape Town 1949. Mike Stein, University of York, England 1950. Jacqui O’Riordan University College Cork 1951. Colegio Oficial de Trabajo Social de Granada 1952. Loreto Corona Garcia 1953. Valerie O’ Callaghan, Old Youghal Road Childcare Project 1954. Cristina Moreno Núñez/Trabajadora Social 1955. Helena O Sullivan 1956. M. Rosa Fdez Mateos. Trabajadora social. Ugr 1957. Helen Woolley, Newcastle University 1958. Ursula Wirtz 1959. Regina Ais Castillo 1960. Gema. España 1961. Zülal İşcanoğlu 1962. Beatriz Martínez Guirado 1963. Alicia Ávila Delgado 1964. Sena Atalar 1965. Laura Peñalver Caro Asociación AFIM21 (Atención a Familia, Infancia y Mayores) 1966. Shirley Martin, UCC 1967. Ann Kutek British Psychotherapy Foundation 1968. Lluna Lorenzo Ramos 1969. Iris Andriessen 1970. María Jesús Rapela Pérez / Inserta Andalucía, España 1971. Ana María Matilla Oliva. Trabajadora social en Andalucía (España) 1972. Emily Franchett, NYU 1973. Atlas Abeer shah, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro 1974. Nafia memon, iskills 1975. Adela Maria Calvo Montoya CPIF Aynadamar 1976. Adina Vanesa Bocioroaga / UAL 1977. BSc Anesa Bytyqi 1978. Ayub/ SAUC 1979. Florence Noonan-Lepaon University College Cork 1980. Kaathima Ebrahim, CEO Mikhulu Trust 1981. Andrew D. Coppens, University of New Hampshire USA 1982. Eliana Elias City College of San Francisco CA Ans Early Learning Anew 1983. Alailta, National College of Arts, Pakistan 1984. Saah sarwat, dow university 1985. Elizabeth Wehbe, Rutgers University-Camden 1986. Francesco Vacchiano, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice 1987. Mehtap Biçer /Psikolojik Danışman EMDR Türkiye 1988. Ana Belén Gallardo Romero / Colegio Oficial Trabajo Social Granada 1989. Aisha Abrahams, University of the Free State 1990. María del Socorro Ortega Muros, Universidad de Granada 1991. Ana Guirado, Asociación Ad hoc 1992. Adriana Serrano Lara 1993. Axel Baptista Dornelles 1994. Charlie Owen, UCL 1995. Iris Berger/UBC 1996. Kushya Sugarman, CUNY Graduate Center 1997. Laura Sánchez Guijarro – Junta de Andalucía 1998. Fatma Enise Aslan 1999. Miguel Farah Neto – Unirio 2000. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University 2001. Montserrat Abad Castelos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain 2002. Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Universidade de Vigo (Spain) 2003. Brian Cabral, Stanford University 2004. Alexandros Orphanides, Stanford University 2005. Peter Cooper, University of Reading 2006. Caroline B Pacheco / Capilano University – Canada 2007. Dempsey Garcia 2008. Vincent De Stefano Assange Defense 2009. Alif Ahmed, NYU Silver 2010. Sneha Bolisetty, New York University 2011. Kathy Aanestad 2012. fahad Al fahad lebanon 2013. Dr. Lauren Pinkston, Kindred Exchange 2014. Elaine Kinsella, University of Limerick 2015. Harper Keenan, University of British Columbia 2016. Maria B 2017. Swati Shelar, IIT Gandhinagar 2018. Hazel McCorrisken Argyll, Scotland 2019. Daniela Felletti / DEI Practitioner & Lecturer 2020. Gary Overby 2021. Daniela Meneghini Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 2022. Patricia Darbyshire – Staffs,England 2023. Alex Schenkels, Tilburg University 2024. Leyla Keser Istanbul Bilgi University 2025. DD Dorvillier, La Corvette, France 2026. Alice Christy 2027. Sharon Kim, New York University 2028. N.L 2029. Dilana Schaafsma/Fontys University of Applied Sciences 2030. Frej Fenniche (Mr), Former UN Senior Human Rights Officer-Geneva 2031. Hatem KOTRANE, Professor Emeritus of Law- University of Tunis 2032. Isidora Sáez-Rosenkranz, University of Barcelona 2033. Ábel Bereményi / University of Barcelona 2034. University of Barcelona 2035. Celia Premat UPF 2036. Alejandro Egea Vivancos – Universidad de Murcia 2037. Lima Mennonite Church spiritual council president 2038. Robert Moyer 2039. Lin D. 2040. Mariem, university of Brescia (Italy) 2041. Judy Neunuebel/Jewish Voice for Peace 2042. Anne Verzijl/ Palestinakomitee Rotterdam 2043. Valérie P Costanzo, Ottawa University 2044. Marilyn Siddiqi 2045. Evelyn Hye Kyung Jeong/ University of Trento (Italy) 2046. Herman C. Waetjen – San Francisco Theological Seminary 2047. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, University of Illinois Chicago 2048. M. Mosese, FS, RSA 2049. Maren Rytter, University of Copenhagen 2050. Raquel Guzzo/ Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas/ Brasil 2051. Lirene Finkler – UFSM Brasil 2052. Arushi Gupta, Pause 2053. Andi Rezqi Safitri 2054. Antonia M. Jiménez Iglesias. Universidad de Sevilla 2055. Aurore Roussel 2056. Ariana Davis, Fordham University 2057. Xiaochen Liang/Capilano University 2058. University of Trento 2059. Colin Apap 2060. Jackie Nicolosi 2061. Francisca Urbaneja Millán 2062. Nadya Selma Karamy / Institute of Social Studies EUR 2063. Iveta Silova, Arizona State University 2064. susnata, Azim Premji Foundation 2065. Ryan Parigoris, University of Massachusetts Boston 2066. Chloe Humphreys Ph.D. Capilano University 2067. Aishwarya Nair – Designskolen Kolding 2068. Elinor Adie 2069. Daliana Medeiros Cavalcanti / Universidade de Brasília 2070. Claudia Garcia 2071. Egla Martinez S., Social Justice and Human Rights, IIS, Carleton University, Canada 2072. Barbara Holifie;d 2073. Gladys Quinlan / William James College 2074. Manipur University 2075. Hanna Sjögren, Malmö University 2076. Dr Dyuti Chakravarty, University College Cork 2077. Mary Laheen, University College Dublin 2078. Audrey Bryan, Dublin City University 2079. Barry Percy-Smith 2080. Hanne Warming 2081. Kate Smith, University of Huddersfield UK 2082. Ana Nunes Almeida, Universidade Lisboa 2083. Yannis Pechtelidis / University of Thessaly 2084. Alba Lanau, UPF 2085. CNRS France 2086. Debbie Humphry 2087. Deborah Crook, University of Central Lancashire 2088. Svetlana Erpyleva / Public Sociology Laboratory; University of Bremen 2089. Domiziana Turcatti, University of Reading 2090. Martha Montero, Amsterdam University College 2091. Grainne McMahon, University of Huddersfield/ RAPAR 2092. Leila Angod, Carleton University 2093. Roseann Liu, Swarthmore College 2094. Goretti Horgan, Ulster University 2095. Wenna Price, University of Manchester 2096. Kyle Halle-Erby / UCLA 2097. Zainab Gaffoor, University of Cape Town 2098. Keira O’Donovan, Suffolk University 2099. Rosa Mas Giralt, University of Leeds 2100. Abigail Aparecida de Paiva Franco pesquisadora convidada doNCA-SGD/PPGSS-PUC -SP 2101. Lina Medaglia 2102. Caroline Burke UCC 2103. Pedro Álvarez Sifontes. Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociologicas, la Habana 2104. N.C.Gordon, University of Toronto 2105. Megan Johnson/ Capilano University 2106. Jennifer Bradley/Swarthmore College 2107. Linda Herrera/ University of Illnios 2108. Yesica Chavez, Vrije University 2109. Anne Mavrommatis/ Bath Spa University 2110. Mark Tomlinson Stellenbosch University 2111. Jenny Santoyo Angulo/ Convivencia Productiva-Colombia 2112. Alisha Nalbo, University of New South Wales (UNSW) 2113. Pro. Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University 2114. Unnati, Delhi University 2115. Shaddai Tembo, Bath Spa University 2116. Jane Cervi- MA Early childhood studies candidate – Toronto Metropolitan University 2117. Patricia A. Maulden, George Mason University 2118. Sheryl Morris, Independent student of holistic education 2119. TK Hannah, Toronto Metropolitan University 2120. Abigail Hackett, Sheffield Hallam University 2121. Tiago Alexandre Fernandes Almeida || School of Education – Lisbon Polytechnic University 2122. Abi Mcdonald/Brock University 2123. Toronto metropolitan university 2124. Laura Trafí-Prats, Manchester Metropolitan University 2125. Shazana Virani / Toronto Metropolitan University 2126. Tristan Peterson, Toronto Metropolitan University 2127. Veronica Xavier 2128. Abdul-Kadar (AK) Rahim, New York University 2129. Alexandrea Mcdonald 2130. Ann Merete Otterstad, OsloMet University, Norway 2131. Mathias Urban, Dublin City University 2132. Usama Darwish / Manchester Metropolitan University 2133. Vishnu Nair, University of Reading 2134. Ana Lucia Kassouf/ University of Sao Paulo 2135. Jill Pluquailec, Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2136. Rhetta Moran, RAPAR 2137. JoAnna Rickard 2138. David Ben Shannon, Manchester Metropolitan University 2139. Professor Judy Hutchings, Clinical Child Psychologist, Bangor University 2140. Jennifer Boyd, University of Auckland 2141. Barbara Cavanagh 2142. Khadeejah Lambat 2143. Terri Ginsberg / City University of New York 2144. Angela Molloy Murphy/The University of Melbourne 2145. Paula Isabel Porter, ECCE student at Capilano University, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2146. Nikki Fairchild/University of Portsmouth 2147. Dr Louise Lambert Knapp Knapp 2148. Elin Førde / Volda University College 2149. The Open University UK 2150. alice christy 2151. Janice Kroeger, Kent State University 2152. Meral Özbek 2153. Hana Alhadi 2154. Claudia Triana Ipinza, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2155. Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds) 2156. Khadija Hussain Lancaster University 2157. Luz Marina Hoyos Vivas. Cali- Colombia 2158. Kassahun Weldemariam-Gothenburg University 2159. Joanne Lehrer, Université du Québec en Outaouais 2160. Amanda Quance / Cegep de Saint Felicien 2161. Catherine Hartung, Swinburne University of Technology 2162. Shakir Ahmad Naikoo, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh India 2163. Zahoor Ahmad University of Kashmir 2164. Muzfer Ahamd, Islamic University Aligarh 2165. Fayaz Ahmad, Islamic University Kashmir 2166. Barbara Potter, Open University 2167. Lorraine Blatt / University of Pittsburgh 2168. Jacob Gregory, Capilano University 2169. Mohammed Bahey-El-Din, University College Cork 2170. Sarah Jeffery/Beverley High School 2171. Sara Williams 2172. Jarosław Jendza, University of Gdańsk, Poland 2173. Nina Odegard/University SouthEast Norway 2174. Christina Abu-Helil retired lecturer 2175. Leena Robertson, Middlesex University 2176. Palmira Cerrillos. Junta de Andalucía 2177. Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow 2178. Narda de Jonge, King Nascholing Amsterdam 2179. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University of Glasgow 2180. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw 2181. Yazid Ben Hounet, CNRS, France 2182. Naomi Lott, University of Oxford 2183. Elizabeth L. Nelson, University of Glasgow 2184. Meena Sugandha 2185. LUZ NEYLA VANEGAS JARAMILLO 2186. Rahul Sridharan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 2187. Monish Bhatia/University of York 2188. Loreto Aliaga Salas / University of Leeds 2189. Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen/Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2190. Karen Wilkes 2191. Jim SERMETH, Université Paris Nanterre 2192. Dr Red Ruby Scarlet 2193. Ahmed Abu Fayyad, Long Island University 2194. Radwa Soliman, University of Buffalo 2195. Muhammmed Hashir Shafi, Long Island University Brooklyn 2196. Ahmed Abu Fayyad/Fekra Therapeutics 2197. Danielle Kleinerman, University College London 2198. Susan Driver York University 2199. Polly Jarman, University of Northampton 2200. Mohammad Alshaer, University of Florida 2201. Somuya Amer, Long Island University 2202. Eric Kimathi 2203. Ahmed Elraaey , LIU 2204. Jehan Suleiman Consultant Child Neurologist Australia 2205. University of Leeds 2206. Merve Ozturk, Durham University 2207. Madline Gabra/ LIU 2208. Khadija Elkholy/National Research Center 2209. Sheryhan Ahmed, University of Kansas 2210. Ra’ed Khashan/Long Island University 2211. Samrawit Getaneh 2212. Sarosh Sawani / Toronto Metropolitan University 2213. Lauren Bird 2214. Safra Najeemudeen, York University 2215. Jess Tomas, RECE, VP CUPE 2484 2216. Jelisa Joncas of Toronto Metropolitan University 2217. Sofia Vlachou PhD candidate Panteion University of Social and political Sciences, Athens. 2218. Christine Marmé Thompson, Penn State University 2219. Rachel Neville, student at Toronto Metropolitan University 2220. Aline Diniz, psicóloga, RJ/BR 2221. European University Institute 2222. Lisa Johnston York University 2223. Iffah Humaira E.T, University of Edinburgh 2224. Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario 2225. Sumaiya Rifat 2226. Dr. Casey Y. Myers/Watershed Community School 2227. Kathy Gelding /Western Sydney University 2228. Dr. Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown, Victoria University of Wellington 2229. Susana Sosenski 2230. Emily Ashton, University of Regina 2231. Huentz Hélène, université Paris Nanterre 2232. Cass Graham/Swinburne University student 2233. Elzbieta M. Gozdziak Adam Mickiewicz University 2234. Katarzyna Byłów, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 2235. Telli Davoodi 2236. Marianne Bloch 2237. Lacey Peters, Hunter College, CUNY 2238. Kaukab Alam Toronto Metropolitan University 2239. Lauren McAllister Australian Catholic University 2240. Em Dandridge, University of Washington 2241. Alice McLean, Early Years teacher, London 2242. Marianne (Mimi) Bloch, retired Prof , RECE 2243. Wiktoria Moritz-Leśniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 2244. Izabella Main, Centre for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University 2245. Dr Xolisa Guzula, University of Cape Town 2246. Joanne Hardman University of Cape town 2247. LATRECHE Amani EHESS 2248. Juliette Wilson-Thomas Manchester metropolitan university 2249. Angélica Franco Gamboa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2250. Brenda Renteria Cervantes, colectivo Algaraza 2251. Breena Abigeal Vermilyea 2252. Barbara Niederer cnrs France 2253. Kostas Magos, University of Thessaly, Greece 2254. Chandrabali Dutta, HMM College for Women 2255. Paula Rodríguez Aznar; Universidad de Granada 2256. Nikos Chaniotakis, University of Thessaly 2257. Ruhma Khan / LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY 2258. Jahan Foster Zabit, Birkbeck, University of London 2259. Helge Wasmuth, Mercy University 2260. Sean M. Harris, University of Michigan 2261. Paige Mendenhall, 3-6 Diploma holder from AMI 2262. Carolina Echegaray, University of Edinburgh 2263. Shauna O’Mahony, University of Limerick 2264. Evan Smith, CUNY Baruch College 2265. Mary Phan, Utah State University 2266. Claire van der Westhuizen, University of Cape Town 2267. Márcia Zampese, cityzen. 2268. Barbara Ramos / University of Sao Paulo 2269. Lucy Canzoneri Golden/ Coral Reef Montessori Academy Charter School 2270. Douha Boulares 2271. Brandon Stiver, Vanguard University of Southern California 2272. Ankit Kumar Keshri 2273. René Fleischbein 2274. Ira Sanyal

=

The Come-Back of Nazi Atrocities

09.11.23

Editorial Note

In a recent article, the British historian Dr. Simon Sebag Montefiore of the University of Buckingham, titled “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False,” discussed how Western academics and activists celebrated the atrocities by Hamas against the Israeli civilians in the South. He wrote that Western academics and activists “have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a terrorist sect that proclaims an anti-Jewish genocidal program. Some of this is happening out in the open, some behind the masks of humanitarianism and justice, and some in code, most famously ‘from the river to the sea,’ a chilling phrase that implicitly endorses the killing or deportation of the 9 million Israelis. It seems odd that one has to say: Killing civilians, old people, even babies, is always wrong.” Sebag Montefiore explains that the fashionable ideology of “decolonization,” comes from “leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin, and those aristocratic sympathizers and peace activists who excused Hitler.”

Sebag Montefiore argues that those “Hamas apologists and atrocity-deniers, with their robotic denunciations of ‘settler-colonialism,’ belong to the same tradition but worse: They have abundant evidence of the slaughter of old people, teenagers, and children, but unlike those fools of the 1930s, who slowly came around to the truth, they have not changed their views an iota. The lack of decency and respect for human life is astonishing: Almost instantly after the Hamas attack, a legion of people emerged who downplayed the slaughter, or denied actual atrocities had even happened, as if Hamas had just carried out a traditional military operation against soldiers. October 7 deniers, like Holocaust deniers, exist in an especially dark place. The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity. It holds that Israel is an ‘imperialist-colonialist’ force, that Israelis are ‘settler-colonialists,’ and that Palestinians have a right to eliminate their oppressors.”

Presenting Israel as a Fascist or Nazi-like state is not new, but the Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists recruited those who pushed this narrative. In particular, Israeli Jewish academics have helped to cement the demonization of Israel.

Verso Books is a popular platform for academic activists who support the Palestinian false narrative. It recently published an article by Dr. Alberto Toscano, the co-director of the Center for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, titled “The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate,” he claims that “Western critics of Israel’s apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country’s descent into fascism for years.” Toscano argues that “fascism is embedded in the logic of Israel’s colonial project.” 

For Toscano, Israel’s retaliation against Hamas’s Al Aqsa Flood October 7 attack shows Israel’s “genocidal intent.” To prove his point, he claimed “prominent intellectuals like the renowned historian of the far Right Ze’ev Sternhell, who wrote of ‘growing fascism and a racism akin to early Nazism’ in contemporary Israel… The likes of Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein signed a letter to the New York Times in the wake of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 decrying Herut (the predecessor to Netanyahu’s Likud party) as ‘akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.”

He then quoted a recent interview with Israeli Holocaust historian Daniel Blatman of the Hebrew Univsrsity who “observed” the biggest threat to the continued existence of the State of Israel. “As a historian whose field is the Holocaust and Nazism, it’s hard for me to say this, but there are neo-Nazi ministers in the government today. You don’t see that anywhere else – not in Hungary, not in Poland – ministers who, ideologically, are pure racists.”

The extent of antisemitism on campus is skyrocketing. In Canada, Laura Barkel, a student at the Toronto Metropolitan University, encountered a cover-faced student who told her: “Hitler didn’t finish the job… You wouldn’t be here.” Barkel is a StandWithUs Canada Fellow and the vice president of the TMU Hillel executive committee. Another student, Zach Rusonik, also a StandWithUs Fellow, said “I had one person say to me, ‘Take your Kippah off, you are not Jewish, you are Zionist.’” He told a story of a time when 50 pro-Palestinian supporters surrounded four Jewish students. One of the protesters followed him and his friends, saying, “I wanted to kill you.” 

In Sydney, Australia, large posters appeared, showing a doctored image of Hitler behind a masked photo of Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Antisemitic, pro-Hamas expressions are not limited to students. Some academics, including Israeli ones, joined in: Dr. Matan Kaminer, an anthropologist at the Buber Institute, Hebrew University, expressed his thoughts on Twitter, “I, an Israeli Jew, would very much like to live in a Palestine that is free from the river to the sea.” He wrote on November 4, 2023. Surely, Kaminer does not realize that the slogan means cleansing Palestine of Jews.

On another front, for several decades, Dr. Alon Liel of Tel Aviv University has been comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa. His influence is undeniable. Earlier this week, the South African Cabinet decided to recall all diplomats from Tel Aviv for consultation. Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said, “The genocidal airstrikes by the government of Israel on the people of Palestine continue… The disparaging remarks of [Israeli] Ambassador Belotsercovsky are contrasted by the statements of two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa (Illan Baruch and Dr. Alon Liel), who have been consistent in describing the actions of their government against Palestinians as apartheid. The disparaging remarks against those speaking up against the atrocities and the country’s leaders make Ambassador Belotsercovsky’s position more and more untenable.“ 

The Israeli Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, Professor of Film Studies at SOAS, University of London, took the demonization of Israel even further. In his article “Genocidal Israel: J’Accuse…’I accuse’ !” he stated that “The terrifying bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital and the murder of over 500 people sheltering there, is but the latest war crime in an incredibly long list; Israel’s lies about this terrifying crime were soon disproved. Israel is out of control in its brutal attempt to exact retribution for the humiliating defeat that the IDF was dealt by Hamas on 7 October. After the atrocities committed by some of the attackers against Israeli civilians in border communities, far greater atrocities have been committed by the IDF bombing and targeting 2.3 million helpless, and half of them now homeless, Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” 

For Bresheeth-Zabner, Israel, just like “other colonial regimes,” is mainly “invested in separating the indigenous population from its land, and such projects are essentially militarized real estate operations, as seen in North and South America, Ireland, Nazi Germany, South Africa, Algeria and many other places. Indigenous populations have no choice; it is fight or die in most situations, clearly so in Palestine. Colonial projects do not define their boundaries, but, on the contrary, surpass and extend their control, avoiding clearly drawn and accepted borders. So it is with Zionism; as its population grows, Israel advances to grab more land, in the fashion and rationale described by Adolf Hitler as Lebensraum, ‘the territory which a group, state, or nation believes is needed for its natural development.’ (OED) The national ‘living space’ achieved by violent military means, linked to expulsion, ethnic cleansing or genocide. Most people would assume that such violent enterprises were all abandoned after 1945 and the defeat of Nazism. The facts prove otherwise: Israel may be an untypical colonial project, which started during the early 1900s, but its ethnic cleansing stage got going in 1947.” Since then, according to Bresheeth-Zabner, Israel “has used every conceivable means to dislodge the remaining Palestinians from their land: land theft, illegal settlements, daily brutalities, mass arrests, arbitrary killings, mass expulsion of villages and towns, holding thousands of Palestinians without charge under ‘administrative detention’, extra-judicial executions, and a cruel apartheid state controlling the whole of Palestine and using the Palestine Authority as its indigenous police force to subjugate the Palestinians.” 

Bresheeth-Zabner spoke in a Zoom meeting on October 27, 2023, titled “Stop the Genocide – Stop the ethnic cleansing. Israel’s Food & Water Blockade of Gaza is a Nazi Tactic.” 

The events on the Black Sabbath of October 7, 2023, serve as a reminder of the Nazi-era atrocities against the Jewish population. Supporters of Hamas understand it very well. To fight this equation, they mounted a counteroffensive to portray Israel as a Nazi evil. To this end, they flout spurious accusations of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and now, genocide.

REFERENCES:

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-jewish-student-told-hitler-didnt-finish-job-on-tmu-campus

WARMINGTON: Jewish student told ‘Hitler didn’t finish job’ on TMU campus

Joe Warmington

Published Nov 07, 2023  •  Last updated 8 hours ago

Article content

When Laura Barkel graduates from Toronto Metropolitan University next year, she will leave with some cherished memories.

Hitler didn’t finish the job,” and added, “You wouldn’t be here.”

It’s a heinous thing to say to anyone, let alone someone who’s great-grandparents were Holocaust survivors.

And since they survived the horrors inflicted by Hitler’s Nazis, Laura now lives in a free country where she is entitled to go to school without being dehumanized and terrorized. That’s not her experience right now.

While there are repercussions for someone like a conservative-leaning Don Cherry for something he did not say but is perceived to have said, there are no repercussions for statements like this on Canadian university campuses.

Many Jewish students say they do not feel safe on university campuses after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,400 Israelis – many young people like themselves – and the kidnapping of 240 others. For some students, the university experience includes being swarmed, spit on, belittled and threatened.

It’s not easy being Jewish on campus at this time. In fact, it’s terrifying. 

“It’s extremely difficult coming into that hostile environment,” said Barkel, who is a StandWithUs Canada Emerson Fellow and vice-president of the TMU Hillel executive committee. 

Second-year student Zach Rusonik, also a StandWithUs Fellow, called it intimidating. “I had one person say to me, ‘Take your Kippah off, you are not Jewish, you are Zionist,’” he said. 

He told a story of a time when four Jewish students were surrounded by 50 pro-Palestinian supporters.

One of the protesters followed him and his friends, saying, “I wanted to kill you.” But then the protester relented and said he realized that he had been fed anti-Jewish propaganda and has softened his position to one of more understanding.

It was a strange, confusing set of circumstances for kids who should just be focusing on their studies.

None of this should be happening. But it is.

While some law students were admonished for their anti-Semitic statements, more than 400 lawyers have signed a letter standing up for their right to be anti-Semitic. It has resulted in tense times – and not just on the campus, but in classrooms and lecture halls, too.

Barkel said since protesters cover their faces, she often wonders “is this a person, who wanted me dead this morning,” sitting next to her? 

It’s a fair question because the situation on many Canadian campuses is untenable, said Jesse Primerano, executive director of StandWithUs Canada and a graduate of TMU when it was still known as Ryerson University.

He loves that place. There are many great things happening, too.

In fact, it’s Holocaust Education Week with speakers and displays organized by Hillel which are unimpeded and protected. But there are troubling things as well that cannot be ignored.

He compiled a list of what Jewish students are facing at TMU: 

— Swarmings by protesters at Jewish or pro-Israel events on campus;

— Threatening messages, including “My advice for you is to stay undercover on campus”, and “your time here is almost up;” 

— Professors cancelling class or using class time to criticize Israeli “apartheid”, “colonialism”, “genocide” and more;

— Having their names and photos shared in large group chats with peers, in order to mock and criticize their support for Israel;

— Being told that their “claims about Oct. 7 are as valid as their claims about the Holocaust;”

— Being followed around campus after leaving Chabad;

— Being spat on;

— Receiving statements from school-affiliated groups, such as student unions, that amplify misinformation in a way that demonizes and isolates Jewish students on their campuses;

— Being called “Islamophobic” for speaking positively about Israel; 

— Being doxed in social media groups of their classmates for their support of Israel;

 “We are hearing about things like this at institutions right across the country,” said Primerano.  

With a homicide investigation into the death of Jewish protester at a pro-Palestinian rally in sourthern California and the firebombing of a synagogue in Montreal, any escalation of hate toward Jewish people needs to be taken seriously. 

“The hate that we are seeing on campuses started when weak-kneed administrators allowed Israel Apartheid Week to have public space,” said Toronto Councillor James Pasternak.

“This event was nothing but a hatefest lead and attended by people who spread conspiracy theories and disinformation,” he added. “The universities hid behind the Charter. Conversely, when a Jewish group would try to hold a peaceful event, the anti-Israel mob would riot and the administration would shut down the event for safety reasons.” 

For its part, Toronto Metropolitan University issued a statement saying that following “recent events on campus,” the institution hired Chief Justice J. Michael MacDonald to “assist in reviewing certain recent events to determine if any of these incidents are in breach of university policies and procedures to facilitate a fair and thoughtful process that recognizes a culture that supports diversity and understanding.”

In addition, TMU said, the university will launch a series of “supportive initiatives for all students, staff, and faculty, including education, trauma and well-being supports, and facilitation.”

Barkel and Rusonik, meanwhile, say they won’t quit, no matter how difficult anti-Semites make it for them.

==========================================

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5124db67cee06c2341d3c2f4e3888bfd

Hitler/Netanyahu composite posters in Sydney

November 5, 2023 by J-Wire Newsdesk

Large posters showing a doctored image of Hitler behind a mask bearing a photo of  Benjamin Netanyahu have appeared in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and the CBD.

Poster hanging from the footbridge spanning the Syd Einfeld Drive. Photo supplied by The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies

The Australian reports that MPs and community leaders have condemned the posters.

The newspaper

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip told The Australian: “The individuals who put up these sinister posters knew exactly what they were doing, choosing images that would inflict maximum trauma and placed them in the heart of Sydney’s Jewish community.

It is devastating to recognise that Holocaust survivors and their descendants would have this morning confronted prominent images of Hitler as they undertook their normal activities.”

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin was also interviewed by The Australian]n.

He said: “It is intended to intimidate and harass Jewish Australians, many of whom are Holocaust survivors or their descendants. But if these thugs and cretins want to know who resembles Hitler in the context of the war with Hamas, they should look to the savages who went house to house hunting Jews with sadistic pride, raping, torturing and burning alive.”

NSW Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane said: “These targeted attacks on Sydney’s Jewish community must stop and the full force of the law must be applied to those who practise or incite race hate.”

Federal Wentworth MP Allegra Spender told The Australian: “Many in our Jewish community have told me they feel scared to be openly Jewish in our streets. That is heartbreaking for us all – no matter what your faith. We must all stand for compassion and empathy, and stand up against fear and intimidation.”

NSW Police are investigating.

=========================================

https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/98601

Mon 30 Oct 2023 9:43 am – Jerusalem Time

Jewish Scholar| Genocidal Israel: J’Accuse…”I accuse” !

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

For people far from Gaza, the past fortnight remains mostly beyond comprehension. The myth of the invincibility of the Israel Defense Forces has been one of the most enduring ever spun. To see the images of Israelis running for their life; of Kibbutzim taken over and bodies on street corners; to hear of Israeli soldiers and civilians taken as hostages; and to realize that the army was missing in action, these are a further nail in the coffin of the myths about colonial Israel, with multiplying reports on IDF responsibility for killing some of the Israeli victims.

The terrifying bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital and the murder of over 500 people sheltering there, is but the latest war crime in a an incredibly long list; Israel’s lies about this terrifying crime were soon disproved. Israel is out of control in its brutal attempt to exact retribution for the humiliating defeat that the IDF was dealt by Hamas on 7 October. 

After the atrocities committed by some of the attackers against Israeli civilians in border communities, far greater atrocities have been committed by the IDF bombing and targeting 2.3 million helpless, and half of them now homeless, Palestinian civilians in Gaza. There is a distinct feeling of a step-change, as the tanks encroach and the aircraft, artillery and drones crush Gaza into rubble. What is the game-plan, apart from mass-murder? Is there one? Many of Israel’s former military leaders are warning against this latest genocidal act, which is more than one can say for the leaders of the West queuing up to cheer Israel on in its indiscriminate, illegal murder of civilians.

The truth is, as I argue in my recent book An Army Like No Other (Verso, 2020) that the Israel Defense Forces have never won a battle clearly since 1967, and never fought against another regular army since 1973. When fighting small resistance groups, like the PLO (1982, Lebanon) Hezbollah (2006, Lebanon) or Hamas (2008/9, 2012, 2014 Gaza, and numerous other battles) the IDF’s success was rather limited, proving that a small guerrilla group numbering a few thousand fighters can delay, hamper, harm or even defeat a huge modern army equipped with the latest technology. 

Such small, highly motivated and innovative organizations know the territory, while the IDF is technology-reliant, too cumbersome to negotiate successfully small theatres of war like the Shouf Mountain range in Lebanon or Gaza City, dependent on complex supply lines, and despite the great investment in personnel, armaments, communication and logistics, clearly unprepared for fighting against armed groups; this army has been turned into a huge and brutal colonial police force, and like many before has fought unarmed men, women and children for too long. It is no longer trained to fight a war, and continuously underestimates the ability of its enemies, like it did in 1973, exactly five decades ago. The attitude of its military and political masters, combining Jewish supremacism with extreme Islamophobia, certainly does cloud judgement. Ironically, the IDF proved unable to protect Israeli Jews from attack; the so-called Jewish State is the only one in which Jewish life is in mortal danger.

Then again, Israel itself is not in great shape after almost two decades of Netanyahu’s rule. At least half the population has been opposing the government and its judicial coup, accurately describing the other half as fascists, although arguably both sides share such an identity, both being devoted to what is clearly an illegal apartheid state and to the subjugation of the Palestinians. The pilots and officers who marched against Netanyahu since January are now bombing civilians in Gaza or waiting in their armored vehicles to attack and destroy the enclave. 

So, whatever divides Israelis – the judicial coup, government corruption, the disappearance of human rights, turning Israel into a religious state – they are united in their approach to Palestine and its people: settle, subjugate, confiscate (the land) and expel; get rid of as many Palestinians as possible, whenever possible. This was clear from the first moment of the Hamas attack, when the so-called Israeli Left criticized Netanyahu for being soft on Hamas, not for the brutal occupation, settlements and cruel illegal blockade. This should not surprise anyone. After all, Israel was built on colonial violence led by a left-wing army.

Like other colonial regimes, Israel is mainly invested in separating the indigenous population from its land, and such projects are essentially militarized real estate operations, as seen in North and South America, Ireland, Nazi Germany, South Africa, Algeria and many other places. Indigenous populations have no choice; it is fight or die in most situations, clearly so in Palestine. 

Colonial projects do not define their boundaries, but, on the contrary, surpass and extend their control, avoiding clearly drawn and accepted borders. So it is with Zionism; as its population grows, Israel advances to grab more land, in the fashion and rationale described by Adolf Hitler as Lebensraum, “the territory which a group, state, or nation believes is needed for its natural development.” (OED) The national “living space” achieved by violent military means, linked to expulsion, ethnic cleansing or genocide.

Most people would assume that such violent enterprises were all abandoned after 1945 and the defeat of Nazism. The facts prove otherwise: Israel may be an untypical colonial project, which started during the early 1900s, but its ethnic cleansing stage got going in 1947, just after the UN resolved to divide Palestine, offering the Zionists 55 per cent of the country, an outrageous injustice. 

Israel, though, fought to take over 78 per cent of Palestine, expelling 750,000 Palestinians in the process, and in 1967 gained control of the whole country, expelling another 250,000 Palestinians. Since then, it has used every conceivable means to dislodge the remaining Palestinians from their land: land theft, illegal settlements, daily brutalities, mass arrests, arbitrary killings, mass expulsion of villages and towns, holding thousands of Palestinians without charge under “administrative detention”, extra-judicial executions, and a cruel apartheid state controlling the whole of Palestine and using the Palestine Authority as its indigenous police force to subjugate the Palestinians.

In Gaza, this became much worse as early as 1971, but even before 1967 Israel subdued the people of the enclave by brutal military excursions throughout the 1950s and 1960s (250 Palestinians killed by the IDF in Khan Yunis in 1956, for example). Now has come the latest phase of the Zionist project, under the most extreme right-wing, brutal and Islamophobic government Israel has ever elected.

Zionism has always been incendiary – intentionally inflaming situations and using outbursts as casus belli – and this looks to have been the case on 7 October. We have heard from various corners, especially the Egyptian security services, that urgent, numerous and specific warnings were delivered to the Israeli intelligence services about Hamas intentions, but all were ignored. Netanyahu is under fire from leftist circles for this, but it is unlikely to have been an error of judgement, like in 1973. More and more voices are sharing a more sinister but likely narrative, that Netanyahu chose to ignore the warnings because he welcomed a surprise attack which could be used as casus belli for taking over the whole Gaza Strip.

The truth may be discovered after the war, as this is a live wire for many of his political opponents in Israel, but in the meantime, the Nakba 2.0 genocidal bandwagon is in full swing, with US and UK navy strike groups sent to support Israel and its increasing number of war crimes. Of the more than half a million refugees who moved to the south of the enclave under pain of death, how many will ever see their homes in Gaza City again? It is rather likely that those who survive will never be allowed back but will be pushed further south into the Sinai desert. 

This plan has been discussed openly even before January this year, and is now referenced daily by the Israeli government; there they are, without food, water, fuel, medicines, as so many Jews were during the Holocaust, and they are likely to die from bombing, starvation, illness and epidemics in the largest ever refugee camp. If Israel succeeds in this genocidal enterprise, the West Bank is likely to follow, with the extreme neo-Nazi settlers just waiting in the wings to go on a murderous rampage. As opposed to the Holocaust, this is done in the full view of everyone on earth, with the West cheering Israel forward, as Western media aids and enables the atrocities.

Western reactions are themselves a war crime – US President Joe Biden and his western colleagues are braying for Palestinian blood by cheering on Israel’s attack and invasion of Gaza, by referring to “Israel’s right to defend itself”, as if this mighty militarized power, with total support from NATO and the West, is some tiny enclave suffering a sudden and unprovoked attack by a superior military power for no apparent reason. Such dishonest narrative inversions have been used numerous times before, but never so flagrantly.

There has been much talk in the past two decades about the non-existent “Judeo-Christian civilization” or “tradition”. 

The only such relationship which is evident historically is that of anti-Semitism, historical Christian racism and hatred towards Jews. But now we are witnessing the rise of a real Judeo-Christian alliance, that of Islamophobia, focused on Palestine and the Muslim world, long being fingered for Islamic extremism and harboring terrorists. In the UK, the leaders of such Islamophobic partnership are very evident, from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, sending the Royal Navy to protect Israel, to Labour leader Kier Starmer, who forbade his MPs to partake in pro-Palestine action: they face the sack if they participate in demonstrations, the largest of which to-date was held in London last Saturday, when more than 350,000 people marched for an end to the slaughter in Gaza.

Sunak and Starmer were joined by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has rejected the description of Israel as an apartheid state, despite the leading Israeli and international human rights organizations saying that the state has passed the legal threshold for such a label to be appropriate, including B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Such deluded politicians and public figures are likely to legislate against any further demonstrations for Palestine and peace, as Germany and France have done already.

Thus, as these lines are typed, in the cold light of day, and covered by all world news networks, we are watching this massive operation of genocidal ethnic cleansing roll forward, with no political leader in the west calling for a ceasefire, let alone for stopping the carnage altogether. Most of my own family was murdered in the Nazi Death Camps in Poland, mainly in Auschwitz and Treblinka, without anyone doing much to stop it. But then, it was all done in great secrecy and where no one could intervene. 

This current exercise of genocide is public and includes all of us as hypnotized by-standers, unwilling and distressed witnesses to the criminality of the West and its stranglehold over international politics. I wish I could believe in future justice, and the prosecution of this line-up of war criminals, from Netanyahu to his Western partners, but how likely is that? Blair and Bush have never faced justice for their crimes in Iraq twenty years ago, have they? The heart cries in agony and despair over such cruelty and indifference of the so-called political leaders of humanity, as we can but stand by and watch helplessly.

Source: Middle East Monitor

Israeli Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner is a founder member of Jewish Network for Palestine (UK)

=======================================================

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-israeli-state-is-hitlers-bastard.html

From Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide There Can Be No Solution Until Zionism and the Israeli State are Eradicated From the Face of the Earth

Register Here

https://tinyurl.com/5eweb2cr

Let me clear before the Zionist howls become deafening. I want the Israeli state to disappear, just like the Nazi and Apartheid State of South Africa disappeared. The Jewish inhabitants of Israel have every right to stay, but no right to stay in a Jewish Supremacist State.

When I attended Palestine Expo in July 2019 I spoke at a workshop. For some reason the Jewish Chronicle singled out my contribution at this two day event when I said that:

Nazi Germany in a sense built the state of Israel at a crucial time and you can actually say that the state of Israel today is Hitler’s bastard offspring because the ideology that permeates Israel, Jewish racial supremacy, originated in the fascist states of Europe

===============================

Matan Kaminer 

@sokkapprok

I, an Israeli Jew, would very much like to live in a Palestine that is free from the river to the sea.

6:28 PM · Nov 4, 2023

=============================

https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-recalls-diplomats-israel-consultation

SA recalls diplomats in Israel for consultation

Monday, November 6, 2023

Cabinet has decided to recall all South African diplomats from Tel Aviv for consultation. 

“Cabinet is disappointed by the refusal of the Israeli government to respect international law and its continued undermining of the United Nations resolutions for the implementation of a ceasefire with impunity,” Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Monday.

Addressing a media briefing in Pretoria, Ntshavheni said the humanitarian corridors for the people of Palestine remain closed, with dire consequences for children, women and innocent civilians.

“The genocidal airstrikes by the government of Israel on the people of Palestine continue, with a rising death toll that includes women and children.

“In the last two days, the world has sat helplessly and watched as intensifying airstrikes on Gaza and the West Bank have destroyed schools, health facilities, ambulances and civilian infrastructure, and supposedly safe roads travelling to the South of Gaza,” the Minister said.

“For these, the Cabinet has decided to recall all South African diplomats from Tel Aviv for consultation.”

According to the latest data, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said at least 9 227 Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October.

Meanwhile, more than 1 400 Israelis, including settlers and soldiers, have been killed in Israel.

Cabinet also noted with disquiet the continuing disparaging remarks of the Israeli’s ambassador to South Africa, Eliav Belotsercovsky, against South Africans, the leadership of South Africa both in and outside government, including civil society, who are speaking against the holocaust being committed by the Israeli government against Palestinians.

“The disparaging remarks of Ambassador Belotsercovsky are contrasted by the statements of two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa (Illan Baruch and Dr. Alon Liel), who have been consistent in describing the actions of their government against Palestinians as apartheid.

“The disparaging remarks against those speaking up against the atrocities and the country’s leaders make Ambassador Belotsercovsky’s position more and more untenable.

“As such, Cabinet has directed the Department of International Relations and Cooperation to convey the South African government displeasure with the ambassador formally through diplomatic channels,” the Minister said.

Minister Ntshavheni was briefing the media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held on 1 November. – SAnews.gov.za

==================================

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-war-on-gaza-and-israel-s-fascism-debateThe War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism DebateWestern critics of Israel’s apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country’s descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano argues that fascism is embedded in the logic of Israel’s colonial project

Alberto Toscano19 October 2023

.

The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate

Green-lit by Western governments and described by myriad human rights law experts as demonstrating clear ‘genocidal intent’, the State of Israel’s retaliation against Hamas’s Al Aqsa Flood October 7 attack has also elicited talk of fascism in multiple quarters. In a collective statement, the Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees has spoken of ‘colonial fascism’ and of the ‘pornographic call to death of Arabs by settler Zionist politicians across the political lines’; in their own declaration, the Communist Party of Israel (Maki) and the left-wing coalition Hadash ‘put the full responsibility on the fascist right-wing government for the sharp and dangerous escalation’; meanwhile, Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro described the onslaught on Gaza as the ‘first experiment to deem all of us disposable’ in a ‘global 1933’ marked by climate catastrophe and capitalist entrenchment. Even quoting these lines probably falls foul of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which has served as an important instrument in efforts to curtail peaceful international solidarity activism against Israeli apartheid, especially in the guise of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. 

And yet the recognition of an incipient fascism in the latest Netanyahu government and even Israeli society at large seems, if not mainstream, certainly prominent in public discourse in Israel itself, not least in the wake of protests against the recent judicial reforms aimed at eviscerating the vaunted autonomy of Israel’s Supreme Court. Four days before the Hamas attack, the newspaper Ha’aretz published an editorial under the heading ‘Israeli Neo-Fascism Threatens Israelis and Palestinians Alike’. One month earlier 200 Israeli high school students declared their refusal to be conscripted thus: ‘We decided that we cannot, in good faith, serve a bunch of fascist settlers that are in control of the government right now.’ In May, a Ha’aretz editorial opined that the ‘sixth Netanyahu government is beginning to look like a totalitarian caricature. There is almost no move associated with totalitarianism that has not been proposed by one of its extremist members and adopted by the rest of the incompetents it comprises, in their competition to see who can be more fully full fascist,’ while one of its editorialists described an ‘Israeli fascist revolution’ ticking off all items in the checklist, from virulent racism to a contempt for weakness, from a lust for violence to anti-intellectualism. 

These recent polemics and prognoses were anticipated by prominent intellectuals like the renowned historian of the far Right Ze’ev Sternhell, who wrote of ‘growing fascism and a racism akin to early Nazism’ in contemporary Israel, or the journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery, who escaped Nazi Germany at age ten, and who, not long before his death in 2018, declared that the discrimination against the Palestinians in practically all spheres of life can be compared to the treatment of the Jews in the first phase of Nazi Germany. (The oppression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories resembles more the treatment of the Czechs in the “protectorate” after the Munich betrayal.) The rain of racist Bills in the Knesset, those already adopted and those in the works, strongly resembles the laws adopted by the Reichstag in the early days of the Nazi regime. Some rabbis call for a boycott of Arab shops. Like then. The call ‘Death to the Arabs’ (‘Judah verrecke’?) is regularly heard at soccer matches.

There is nothing new in the analogy, of course. The likes of Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein signed a letter to the New York Times in the wake of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 decrying Herut (the predecessor to  Netanyahu’s Likud party) as ‘akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties’.

Avnery also singled out the current Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, as a ‘bona fide Jewish fascist’. Smotrich, who has happily referred to himself as a ‘fascist homophobe,’ has laid out the theological bases for his own genocidal intent to ‘abort’ any Palestinian hopes for nationhood, and repeat the Nakba. In an interview, he declared: 

When Joshua ben Nun [the biblical prophet] entered the land, he sent three messages to its inhabitants: those who want to accept [our rule] will accept; those who want to leave, will leave; those who want to fight, will fight. The basis of his strategy was: We are here, we have come, this is ours. Now too, three doors will be open, there is no fourth door. Those who want to leave – and there will be those who leave – I will help them. When they have no hope and no vision, they will go. As they did in 1948. […] Those who do not go will either accept the rule of the Jewish state, in which case they can remain, and as for those who do not, we will fight them and defeat them. […] Either I will shoot him or I will jail him or I will expel him. 

Mention of the Book of Joshua is notable as it also served as an ideological reference for the secular David Ben-Gurion in the early years of the State of Israel. The Old Testament paean to destruction echoes disturbingly today: ‘So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded. And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza’ (Joshua 10:40-41). 

But the fascism ‘godfathered’ by Netanyahu cannot just be reduced to fundamentalist settlers and their stratagems of dispossession (including the deep tendrils into the state of Smotrich’s settler NGO, Regavim, and its lawfare against Palestinian land and property rights); it is also firmly anchored in the business interests and legislative maneuvers of billionaires who, in Israel as in India or the US, are happy to combine national-conservative mobilisations against decadent metropolitan ‘elites’ with the ruthless defense of profit and privilege. In a recent interview, the Israeli Holocaust historian Daniel Blatman observed

Do you know what the biggest threat is to the continued existence of the State of Israel? It’s not Likud. It’s not even the thugs who run wild in the territories. It’s the Kohelet Policy Forum [a reference to a conservative, right-wing think tank supported by wealthy U.S. donors]. […]  They are creating a broad social and political manifesto which, if adopted eventually by Israel, will turn it into a completely different country. You say “fascism” to people and they picture soldiers cruising the streets. No. It won’t look like that. Capitalism will still be extant. People will still be able to go abroad – if they are allowed into other countries. There will be good restaurants. But a person’s ability to feel that there is something protecting him, other than the regime’s good will – because it either will or not protect him, as it sees fit – will no longer be there. Israeli society was ripe to receive the present government. Not because of Likud’s victory, but because the most extreme wing pulled everyone after it. What was once extreme right is today center. Ideas that were once on the fringes have become legitimate. As a historian whose field is the Holocaust and Nazism, it’s hard for me to say this, but there are neo-Nazi ministers in the government today. You don’t see that anywhere else – not in Hungary, not in Poland – ministers who, ideologically, are pure racists.

Its insights notwithstanding, this passage also painfully demonstrates what liberal Israeli polemics against the rise of fascism bracket. Namely, Palestinians. Soldiers do cruise the streets in Israel and occupied Palestine. Millions of people ruled by Israel cannot go abroad. Or indeed return home. The ‘pure’ racism voiced without compunction by the likes of Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir is a product of the racism that structures and reproduces colonial domination, for bad faith liberals as much as for giddy fascists. 

Long traditions of Black radical and Third World anti-fascism, as well as of Indigenous resistance, have taught us that, as Bill Mullen and Christopher Vials observe: ‘For those racially cast aside outside of liberal democracy’s system of rights, the word “fascism” does not always conjure up a distant and alien social order.’ In settler-colonial and racial fascist regimes – such as South Africa, which George Padmore in the 1930s deemed ‘the world’s classic Fascist State’ – we encounter a version of that ‘dual state’ which the German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel anatomised: a ‘normative state’ for the dominant population and a ‘prerogative state’ for the dominated, exercising ‘unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees’. As Angela Y. Davis showed with reference to what state racial terror presaged for the rest of the US population in the early 1970s, the border between the normative and the prerogative state is porous. 

This is patent in Israel today, as government ministers use the pretext of war to ‘promot[e] regulations that would allow [them] to direct police to arrest civilians, remove them from their homes, or seize their property if [they] believe they have spread information that could harm national morale or served as the basis for enemy propaganda’. As the Moroccan Jewish Marxist Abraham Serfaty analysed decades ago in his prison writings on Palestinian liberation, there is a ‘fascist logic’ at the heart of the Zionist settler-colonial project of dispossession, domination and displacement. While it may be disavowed by liberals, unless its core mechanisms are dismantled for good, it cannot but re-emerge, virulently, at every crisis. As testified by its broadsides against the hypocrisy of those who claim that they want a two-state solution while never intending to bring it about, the governing Israeli far-Right is in many ways saying the quiet part very loudly. At a time when the occupation and its brutalisation of Palestinians has been normalised and treated to all intents and purposes as interminable, the fascistic settler and religious right has come to affirm and celebrate the structuring violence and dehumanisation that marks Israel as a settler-colonial project – one which liberals have thought to mitigate or minimise, but never truly to challenge. In Israel, as in too many other contexts today, the ascendance of fascism might initially appear as a break or an exception, but it is deeply rooted in and enabled by a colonial liberalism that will never countenance true liberation.

Further reading:

See all our publishing on Israel/Palestine here 

Download Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe for free here

Late Fascism

Late Fascism

by Alberto Toscano

In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs…

Paperback

Add to cartRegular price£17.99Sale price£14.39

Stone Men

Stone Men

by Andrew Ross

“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone m…

Paperback

Add to cartRegular price£12.99Sale price£10.39

The Palestine Laboratory

The Palestine Laboratory

by Antony Loewenstein

Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and…

Hardback

Add to cartRegular price£18.99Sale price£15.19

Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are the Same

02.11.23

Editorial Note

The current surge in antisemitism on campuses in the West since the Black Sabbath brutal attack on Jewish communities near the border of Gaza on October 7, showed that antisemitism and hatred of Israel, the collective embodiment of the Jewish people, are the same. 

IAM reported that efforts to adopt IHRA, the authoritative document defining modern antisemitism have met with strong resistance from many scholars. They stridently protested that the document conflates antisemitic speech with legitimate criticism of Israel. Indeed, a group of radical scholars met at Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem in 2020, to issue the so-called Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.  

Even before October 7, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad spewed venomous antisemitic propaganda based on the writings of the Muslim Brotherhood founders Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb. Both were greatly influenced by the Nazi propaganda beamed to the Middle East from Berlin during WWII. Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, traveled to Berlin to discuss with Hitler a Final Solution to the Jews of Palestine. Abdullah Azzam, the Palestinian preacher and co-founder of al Qaeda, published an antisemitic treatise that draws on the same materials. He pushed Sheik Ahmed Yassin to create Hamas, and his view that Jews are evil and need to be eliminated by a global Jihad shaped the organization’s 1988 Charter. Still, the pro-Palestinian activists considered Hamas a national liberation movement. To the extent that when its notorious antisemitism was acknowledged, it was brushed off as performative, that is, a rhetorical device to mobilize support. The massacre of innocent civilians, the burning of people alive, the raping of women, decapitating babies and adults, and taking hostages, demonstrated that for Hamas, like their Nazi role models, the goal is elimination. Few doubt that, given the opportunity, Hamas would try to exterminate all Israeli Jews. Indeed, Hamas threatens Israel with more massacres to come until it is annihilated, as reported recently on Lebanon TV.

More to the point, the war with Hamas had created a huge wave of antisemitism. The number of incidents has risen daily. In Sydney, Australia, there were chants in the streets calling to “Gas the Jews.” 

Academics and students from Ivy League Universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and others, have issued statements supporting the “Palestinian resistance” – their term for the October 7 massacre.

At Cornell University, an online student group conversation stated, “Watch out pig Jews. Jihad is coming. Nowhere is safe. your synagogues will become graveyards. Your women will be raped and your children will be beheaded. Glory to Allah.” Signed by Hamas Soldier.

Another post said, “If I see another Jew on campus…if I see a pig male Jew I will stab you and slit your throat. If I see another pig female Jew I will drag you away and rape you and throw you off a cliff. If I see another pig baby Jew I will behead you in front of your parents. If I see another synagogue another rally for the Zionist globalist genocidal apartheid dictatorial entity known as “Israel”, I will bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig Jews. Jews are human animals and deserve a pig’s death. Liberation by any means. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!”

On another campus, Drew University, SJP published a poster spreading lies against Israel. “Addressing the circulation of kidnapping posters” claimed that the flyers of the people “kidnapped by Hamas,” posted on Drew Campus and across the county, are “serving the Zionist army” and that these kidnapped people are not innocent civilians but former or current Israeli soldiers. If, according to the Israelis, the captives were wounded, murdered, beaten, and raped by Hamas, according to Drew SJP, “There is not one iota of evidence that any of these prisoners of war have endured such brutalization.” Such “false claims and tropes perpetuate the propaganda used to silence, dehumanize, and threaten the livelihood of Palestinians who have been victims of the occupation and genocide that have been taking place in their homeland for over 75 years. They delegitimize the need for Palestinian resistance.” They added their disappointment that the Office of Student Life approved the flyers.

Failing to comprehend the antisemitic nature of the Hamas attack, even in Israel, the “Statement of the Israeli Sociological Association October 2023,” published in Hebrew, this is not clear. While it begins by discussing the horrific attack on October 7, it moves to attack “Extreme right-wing organizations” that “are abusing these emotional developments for actions of persecution and silencing of those who express positions that deviate from the consensus, and in particular positions critical of the Israeli response. These right-wing organizations started working several years ago and during the war accelerated their undemocratic action.” 

It then discusses cases of “personal persecution of civilians, in particular of Palestinian citizens of Israel, against the background of statements that support violence and terrorism have nothing in common.” Surely, when a person is accused for no reason, the case is closed. 

According to the Sociologists, some events continue to occur and be reported in the media and “create an atmosphere of violent silence and McCarthyist persecution, directed mainly towards the Palestinian citizens of Israel, but also towards citizens from the entire spectrum of the population who ‘dare’ to raise their voices regarding the Palestinian suffering in Gaza, the West Bank, the Jordan Valley and East Jerusalem… in the current atmosphere, even expressions of legitimate criticism of official Israeli policy or identification with the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza are labeled – often as ‘support for terrorism’. As mentioned, there are those who take advantage of the explosive situation to incite and sow enmity and division by monitoring the statements of students, and lecturers on social media, harassing and demanding the administrations to act. Some of the institutions not only do not work to prevent the transformation of the campus into a space of supervisors, but cooperate with it and a number of lecturers, including a peace activist, have already been fired.” Furthermore, “The Israeli Sociological Association sees these developments as a danger to the Israeli academy and society as a whole. Apart from the question of whether monitoring the private activity of students on social networks is the role of the academic institutions, freedom of expression is the lifeblood of the academy and no scientific and intellectual activity worthy of its name would be possible without it. Academic institutions have an obligation to protect the freedom of expression of lecturers and students, even in times of emergency, as long as their words do not constitute an offense against the law. These revelations of persecution and silencing do not only concern freedom of expression. The academic communities are heterogeneous communities from a national, religious, ethnic and political point of view.”

This letter coincides with a Haaretz opinion piece, “The Original Sin was the Disengagement,” by Ben Gurion Sociologist Prof. Lev Grinberg, who is the president of the Israeli Sociology Association, and his colleague, Daniel De Malach, on October 30, 2023. They wrote, “The original sin that led to the current systemic collapse is the unilateral exit from Gaza, misleadingly known as ‘disengagement’. The withdrawal was planned with the aim of thwarting the establishment of a Palestinian state, knowing that following the separation from the West Bank and Israel and the blockade, serious distress would arise in Gaza, which would lead to violence against Israel. Israeli policy since then has been based on a repeated violent response to attacks from the Strip, which has been nicknamed ‘mowing the lawn’, putting up with the firing of rockets, which abandons the residents of southern Israel, and an attempt to force Egypt to ‘accept responsibility’ for the residents of Gaza.”

People need to understand that since the creation of Israel, antisemitic attacks against Jews around the world have been bolstered by an assault on the Jewish State. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are the same.

REFERENCES:

===============================

=====================================================

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12687095/amp/Watch-Jews-jihad-coming-FBI-investigate-Cornell-University-messaging-board-vile-anti-Semitic-threats-against-students.html

Watch out Jews, jihad is coming’: FBI investigate Cornell University messaging board after vile anti-Semitic threats are made against students

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com04:53 30 Oct 2023, updated 13:08 30 Oct 2023

  • Cornell President Martha E. Pollack wrote a letter to students where she announced she’s contacted the FBI about ‘a potential hate crime’ 
  • Threatening messages with the headlines ‘Eliminate Jewish living from Cornell Campus’ or ‘Israel deserved 10/7’ were made against a Jewish living center
  • The school has seen anti-Semitic graffiti on its walls and a professor forced to take a leave of absence after calling the attacks ‘exhilarating’ and ‘energizing’ 

The FBI are investigating a Cornell University messaging board after vile anti-Semitic threats were made against Jewish students.

The Ithaca, New York-based Ivy institution has already seen anti-Semitic graffiti on its walls and a professor forced to take a leave of absence after calling the attacks ‘exhilarating’ and ‘energizing.’ 

Authorities were investigating at the school’s Center for Jewish Living Sunday night after revolting anti-Jewish threats were discovered online.

Some of the abhorrent comments threatened violence – including rape – in the most grotesque terms. There was repeated use of the word ‘pig’ – an anti-Semitic slur. 

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack wrote a letter to students where she announced she’s contacted the FBI about ‘a potential hate crime.’

Cornell University, the site of many anti-Israel sentiment in the wake of the October 7 attack, is on high alert about ‘a potential hate crime ‘ toward a Jewish community center on campus Sunday nightOf the several messages left on the school’s Greekrank page – a forum meant for fraternity and sorority reviews – were messages with the headlines ‘Eliminate Jewish living from Cornell Campus’ or ‘Israel deserved 10/7’

Of the several messages left on the school’s Greekrank page – a forum meant for fraternity and sorority reviews – were messages with the headlines ‘Eliminate Jewish living from Cornell Campus’ or ‘Israel deserved 10/7.’ 

One member wrote: ‘Watch out Jews, jihad is coming.’

Another was even more revolting, writing: ‘I will bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig Jews. Jews are human animals and deserve a pigs death.’ 

The commenter, who went by username ‘hamas‘ and also made threats of sexual violence toward female students, added: ‘Liberation by any means. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’

One specific message singled out the Center for Jewish Living, which also includes the school’s Kosher dining hall. 

‘Earlier today, a series of horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence to our Jewish community and specifically naming 104 West – the home of the Center for Jewish Living – was posted on a website unaffiliated with Cornell,’ wrote President Pollack in a statement.

She added that ‘law enforcement was immediately notified.

‘Threats of violence are absolutely intolerable, and we will work to ensure that the person or people who posted them are punished to the full extent of the law. Our immediate focus is on keeping the community safe; we will continue to prioritize that,’ Pollack added.

Cornel’s Hillel organization told students to stay away from the Center for Jewish Living in a statement of their own.

‘The Cornell University administration has been made aware of this concerning language, and the Cornell University Police Department is monitoring the situation and is on site at 104West! to provide additional security as a precaution. At this time, we advise that students and staff avoid the building out of an abundance of caution.’ 

Cornell Police said that the ‘targeted locations were intentionally selected’ in a threat alert for the entire city of Ithaca Sunday night, according to the Cornell Sun

They reported parents trying to convince their students to leave campus and others attempting to find different places to stay the night to feel safe.

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack wrote a letter to students where she announced she’s contacted the FBI about ‘a potential hate crime’

Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, made a lengthy post on X Sunday slamming the attacks.

‘The disgusting & hateful posts on a message board about Jewish @Cornell students is the latest in a series of concerning incidents on college campuses. While it is unclear if these are credible threats, @nyspolice is engaged & we’ll take any steps needed to keep students safe,’ she wrote.

She notified various state universities that the state police was being called to monitor any threats, while attempting to reassert a commitment to ‘free speech’ on campus. 

New York’s Attorney General Letitia James also condemned the remarks in a post on X Sunday night.

‘These threats targeting Jewish students at Cornell are absolutely horrific. There is no space for antisemitism or violence of any kind. Campuses must remain safe spaces for our students.’

Cornell, like many liberal campuses, has been a hotbed for anti-Israel demonstrations in the wake of the state’s response to the Hamas terror attacks, which killed 1,400 Israelis on October 7. 

The school was defaced with antisemitic graffiti reading ‘f**k Israel’ just days after a professor, who had described a Hamas attack as ‘exhilarating’ and ‘energizing,’ took a leave of absence.

Spray-painted messages such as ‘Zionism equals Racism’ and ‘Israel is Fascist’ began appearing on the sidewalks of Cornell University’s upstate New York campus on Wednesday morning.

The vandalism occurred amid a heated campus controversy surrounding the Israel-Palestine dispute, following Professor Russell Rickford’s leave of absence after his comments on Hamas’ brutal attack.

The graffiti, bearing messages like ‘Israel is Fascist,’ ‘Zionism equals Racism,’ ‘Free Palestine,’ and ‘F**k Israel,’ were first noticed just before 9am but have since been cleaned up by university staff.

It’s unclear who painted the appalling messages in red and white on Campus Road which is known to have a lot of foot and vehicle traffic through the day.Spray-painted messages such as ‘Zionism equals Racism’ and ‘Israel is Fascist’ began appearing on the sidewalks of Cornell University’s upstate New York campus on WednesdayIt remains unknow who left the messagesThe graffiti was painted on one of the busiest area on campus

A Cornell professor with a history of radical left-wing views called the Hamas terror attacks in Israel ‘exhilarating’ and ‘energizing’ at a pro-Palestine rally on October 15. He apologized on October 18, but on October 20 announced he was taking a leave of absence

The aggressive graffiti comes after Rickford told an October 15 rally at Ithaca Commons, the downtown shopping district in the upstate New York city, that he was thrilled by Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,400 Israelis were killed.

His words were met by anger, and Rickford attempted to explain – and doubled down on his outrageous views, before taking a leave of absence.

He said he condemned the killing of any civilians, but said he was angered by ‘the injustice and the hypocrisy of Western support in celebration of Israeli war crimes, and the equation of any form of Palestinian resistance with terrorism.’

Rickford later apologized, saying on October 18 that he was sorry ‘for the horrible choice of words that I used’, and calling his language ‘reprehensible’.

It emerged later Rickford had pulled out of teaching his history class for the rest of the semester, and the Cornell Review confirmed that he has gone on leave.

======================================================

הצהרת האגודה הסוציולוגית הישראלית 

אוקטובר 2023

ב-7 באוקטובר ישראל חוותה את מתקפת הטרור הקשה בתולדותיה. מספר הנרצחים, הפצועים, החטופים ושורדי הטבח, גם בקרב בדואים, הוא כה גדול, עד שאין כמעט אדם בישראל שאין לו נגיעה אישית כלשהי לאירוע. מדובר במתקפה נפשעת ואכזרית הראויה לכל לשון של גינוי. מאז, רבים פונו מבתיהם, נותרו עקורים באי וודאות לגבי העתיד. הטבח והאובדן העצום שנגרם למשפחות רבות, ולצידו המאבק הקשה של משפחות החטופים ורבים למען השבת יקיריהם, קשים להתמודדות והכלה. בהקשר זה, פחד זעם וחשדנות התחזקו ביחסים בין יהודים וערבים בקמפוסים ומחוצה להם. ארגוני ימין קיצוניים מנצלים לרעה התפתחויות רגשיות אלו לפעולות של רדיפה והשתקה של מי שמבטאים עמדות החורגות מן הקונצנזוס, ובפרט עמדות ביקורתיות כלפי התגובה הישראלית. ארגוני ימין אלו החלו פועלים לפני מספר שנים ובמלחמה האיצו את פעולתם הלא-דמוקרטית. 

הרצון והצורך להוקיע את מעשי החמאס ולעמוד איתן נגד ניסיונות להצדיקם ברור ומובן, ורבים מאיתנו עוסקים במלאכה זו. יחד עם זאת, מאז ה – 7 באוקטובר נרשמו מקרים של רדיפה אישית של אזרחים ואזרחיות, בפרט של פלסטינים אזרחי ישראל על רקע התבטאויות שבינן לבין תמיכה באלימות ובטרור אין דבר וחצי דבר. דוגמא אחת היא של רופא בבית החולים הדסה שהושעה מעבודתו עקב פוסט שלכאורה הביע “תמיכה בחמאס” ועד מהרה הסתבר שמדובר בפוסט ישן עם תוכן דתי מוסלמי (הרופא הוא מוסלמי מאמין) שלא קשור בשום דרך לחמאס או למתקפת הטרור; דוגמא אחרת היא של פיטורי עובדת מערכת החינוך בחיפה ששינתה את תמונת הפרופיל שלה לרקע שחור (בלבד!) ביום של הפיצוץ בבית החולים בעזה שגבה עשרות קורבנות. אירועים דומים ממשיכים להתרחש ולהיות מדווחים בתקשורת כמעט מדי יום ומייצרים אווירה של השתקה אלימה ורדיפה מקארתיסטית, המכוונת בעיקר כלפי אזרחי ישראל הפלסטינים, אך גם כלפי אזרחים מכל קשת האוכלוסייה אשר ‘מעיזים’ להשמיע את קולם ביחס לסבל הפלסטיני בעזה, בגדה, בבקעת הירדן ובמזרח ירושלים. 

כמוסד האמון על ערכים של שוויון וכבוד האדם, מובן שהאקדמיה אינה יכולה להסכין עם ביטויים של תמיכה בטרור, אלימות, הסתה וגזענות. אלא שבאווירה הנוכחית, גם ביטויים של ביקורת לגיטימית כלפי המדיניות הישראלית הרשמית או הזדהות עם הסבל של אזרחים חפים מפשע בעזה, מסומנים – לא פעם כ”תמיכה בטרור”. כאמור, יש מי שמנצלים את המצב הנפיץ כדי להתסיס ולזרוע איבה ופירוד באמצעות מעקב אחר התבטאויות של סטודנטים וסטודנטיות, מרצים ומרצות ברשתות החברתיות, התנכלויות ודרישה מההנהלות לפעול. חלק מהמוסדות לא רק שאינם פועלים למניעת ההפיכה של הקמפוס למרחב של מפקחים ומפוקחים, אלא משתפים עמה פעולה ומספר מרצים, ביניהם פעילת שלום, כבר פוטרו.

האגודה הסוציולוגית הישראלית רואה בהתפתחויות אלה סכנה לאקדמיה הישראלית ולחברה בכללותה. מלבד השאלה, האם ניטור פעילות פרטית של סטודנטים ברשתות החברתיות הוא מתפקידם של המוסדות האקדמיים, חופש הביטוי הוא נשמת אפה של האקדמיה ולא תיתכן פעילות מדעית ואינטלקטואלית ראויה לשמה בלעדיו. למוסדות האקדמיים יש חובה להגן על חופש הביטוי של המרצים והסטודנטים, גם בעתות חירום, כל עוד דבריהם אינם בגדר עבירה על החוק. 

גילויים אלה של רדיפה והשתקה אינם נוגעים רק לחופש הביטוי. הקהילות האקדמיות הן קהילות הטרוגניות מבחינה לאומית, דתית, אתנית ופוליטית. יצירת אווירה של קבלה, אמון ופתיחות כלפי מגזרים שונים ודעות שונות היא הכרחית לשם שמירה על קהילה אקדמית חיונית ומתפקדת. הפיכת הקהילות האקדמיות לקהילות של חשד, מעקב, הלשנה והשתקה פוגעת פגיעה אנושה במרקם היחסים העדין בין קבוצות שונות בקמפוס, אשר ספק אם אפשר יהיה לשקם גם לאחר שתסתיים הלחימה. 

יתרה מכך: למרות שההנהלות של חלק מהמוסדות פרסמו הצהרות המגנות תמיכה בטרור ובאלימות מכל סוג שהוא, עד כה ננקטו הליכים כמעט אך ורק כלפי סטודנטים וחברי סגל פלסטינים. לעומת זאת, כאשר ביטויים של תמיכה באלימות ובטרור כלפי פלסטינים מגיעים מצד סטודנטים ומרצים יהודים, הם אינם זוכים לאותו טיפול. בכך יש פגיעה בערך השוויון ומסר לסטודנטים פלסטינים לפיו רק יהודים זכאים להגנה.

האקדמיה היא אחד מן המרחבים המרכזיים בישראל בהם מתנהל מפגש מתמשך בין יהודים לערבים. שמירה על המוסדות האקדמיים כמרחב בטוח של חיים משותפים היא בנפשנו. בימים אלה של שידוד מערכות כולל, על האקדמיה להוות מופת של סובלנות, שוויון, פתיחות וצדק. ראשי האוניברסיטאות סרבו לשתף פעולה עם החלטת המל”ג המחייבת אותם לדווח על אופן הטיפול בתלונות על “תמיכה בטרור” מצד סטודנטים והבליטו את מחוייבותם לשמירה על החוק. זהו צעד חשוב אולם אין להסתפק בכך. האגודה הסוציולוגית קוראת לראשי המוסדות האקדמיים – אוניברסיטאות ומכללות – לנקוט בפעולה אקטיבית כדי להבטיח שמירה על הקמפוסים כמרחב חופשי ומכבד לסטודנטים וסטודנטיות, חברות וחברי סגל מכל הקבוצות, בכל זמן ובמיוחד בשעה קשה זו. 

לצד זאת, באופן שאינו מפחית כהוא זה מהנאמר לעיל, אנו קוראים לכולם – מוסדות ופרטים כאחד – להימנע מקריאות המעודדות פגיעה בגוף, בנפש או ברכוש וכן להימנע מפרסומים ומקריאות המצדיקים פגיעות כאלה ונותנים להן לגיטימציה – לא בקרב ישראלים ולא בקרב פלסטינים.

International and Israeli Sociologists in Solidarity with Hamas

26.10.23

Editorial Note

A new petition titled “Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian People” was posted recently, with some two thousand signatures from students and staff. It includes many Arabs and some Jews, including David Feldman, Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, and two Israelis, Eliran Arazi from the Hebrew University and Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and Dr. Eliran Bar-El, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York.

The petition states, “Sociology as a discipline is rooted in a recognition of relationships of power and inequality. As sociologists and human beings, we unreservedly condemn the latest violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli regime. Over the past seven days, the government of Israel has undertaken, in its own words, a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza—the second most densely populated place on the planet, home to 2.1 million residents, of which 1.7 million are refugees.”

Since Israel “claims” its actions are justifiable responses to the Hamas violence against Israeli civilians, “it has targeted the civilian Palestinian population of Gaza, while exhibiting little regard for the loss of human life. Using racist and dehumanizing language.” It then quotes Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, who remarked, “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.” Because in just ten days, “Israel has dropped over 6,000 bombs on Gaza, hit the Rafah crossing on the border to Egypt several times, targeted hospitals and ambulances, members of the press, universities, United Nations’ schools and relief offices, and used white phosphorus, a highly flammable munition that the United Nations has banned for use in dense civilian areas. Israeli forces have also cut off water, food, electricity, and medical supplies, which has pushed hospitals to a breaking point. This is an act of collective punishment.” 

This, “in contravention of international law threatens the lives of over two million people, half of whom are children, with unimaginable violence and displacement.”

As of writing, ״over 4,385 Palestinians have been murdered, including a staggering 1,756 children, and over 13,561 injured. Israel’s military campaign has also displaced nearly half of Gaza’s population. It has unconscionably demanded that 1.1 million residents relocate from Northern to Southern Gaza in 24 hours, while simultaneously bombing caravans of those attempting to evacuate, and continuing to bomb the Southern part of Gaza. Calls for “evacuation” parallel the military offenses of 1948 and 1967, when Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and never allowed to return. The majority of people in Gaza are long-term refugees, and now again face genocide and ethnic cleansing. At the same time, Israeli settlers across the West Bank, recently armed by the Israeli government with 10,000 assault rifles, have targeted Palestinian civilians, with over 50 already murdered and two villages depopulated in the last week. We are witnessing internationally supported genocide. This latest siege comes as a continuation and escalation of the daily violence Palestinians faced for decades from Israeli colonization; an apartheid regime whose occupation is in clear violation of international law, but persists with the support of powerful governments globally. “

The petitioners are upset that the Western world sides with Israel and protest the “increased harassment of pro-Palestinian voices around the globe. We join people around the world who are raising their voices in protest of this assault on human life.”

They conclude that “As educators, it is our duty to stand by the principles of critical inquiry and learning, to hold the university as a space for conversation that foregrounds historical truths, and that contextualizes this past week’s violence in the context of 75 years of settler colonial occupation and European empire. We are also deeply troubled by the lack of concern and care for Palestinian and Muslim students at many of our universities, as well as efforts to clamp down on student organizing and free speech. We cannot sit back and witness the continuation of this genocidal war. We demand that our governments push for an immediate ceasefire. This stance follows in the tradition of the civil rights movement, anti-war and anti-apartheid protests of decades past. Aligning ourselves with these freedom struggles, we call on all of our colleagues to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and against settler colonialism, imperialism, and genocide.”

The petition is a classic example of the anti-Israeli activists in the academy. First, it decontextualizes the Israeli action from any empirical reality. Nowhere does the petition mention the brutal, ISIS-style attack of Hamas on the civilian population in the border communities. One would not know from the text that the terrorists burned people, raped women, beheaded babies, and kidnapped more than two hundred people to serve as hostages. 

Second, Hamas is also hurting the civilian population in Gaza. The organization is in complete control of the enclave and, over the years, siphoned billions of dollars of international aid to build a virtual military fortress replete with missiles, rockets, drones, and miles of tunnel. Most egregiously, many, if not most, of the installations are built in or under public buildings, mosques, schools, and hospitals. This turns the civilians into human shields, a practice strictly prohibited in International Humanitarian Law (IHL). On the other hand, Israel has always tried to comport with IHL, even warning civilians to leave the premises before a strike. 

As for the Israeli signatories, Eliran Arazi is a “PhD researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Advanced School in the Social Sciences (EHESS-Paris). He is currently also a research fellow at the Musée du quai Branly. Already in 2012, he signed a BDS petition.

Dr. Eliran Bar-El is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. In 2016, he also signed a BDS petition.

Clearly, by signing the sociologists petition, Arazi and Bar-El are signaling to Arab peers they are on their side, like many anti-Israel Israeli academics who are recruited to Western Universities.

References:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wIKLuNYWre8jdV-tqqVJjz_GyM9_WasWjVuV9HSwazs/edit

Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian People

Sociology as a discipline is rooted in a recognition of relationships of power and inequality. As sociologists and human beings, we unreservedly condemn the latest violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli regime.

Over the past seven days, the government of Israel has undertaken, in its own words, a “complete siege” of Gaza—the second most densely populated place on the planet, home to 2.1 million residents, of which 1.7 million are refugees. While claiming its actions are a justifiable response to recent Hamas violence against Israeli civilians, it has targeted the civilian Palestinian population of Gaza, while exhibiting little regard for the loss of human life. Using racist  and dehumanizing language, Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, remarked, “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.” 

In just ten days, Israel has dropped over 6,000 bombs on Gaza, hit the Rafah crossing on the border to Egypt several times, targeted hospitals and ambulancesmembers of the pressuniversitiesUnited Nations’ schools and relief offices, and used white phosphorus, a highly flammable munition that the United Nations has banned for use in dense civilian areas. Israeli forces have also cut off water, food, electricity, and medical supplies, which has pushed hospitals to a breaking point. This is an act of collective punishment, in contravention of international law, which threatens the lives of over two million people, half of whom are children, with unimaginable violence and displacement. As of writing, over 4,385 Palestinians have been murdered, including a staggering 1,756 children, and over 13,561 injured. 

Israel’s military campaign has also displaced nearly half of Gaza’s population. It has unconscionably demanded that 1.1 million residents relocate from Northern to Southern Gaza in 24 hours, while simultaneously bombing caravans of those attempting to evacuate, and continuing to bomb the Southern part of Gaza. Calls for “evacuation” parallel the military offenses of 1948 and 1967, when Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and never allowed to return. The majority of people in Gaza are long-term refugees, and now again face genocide and ethnic cleansing. At the same time, Israeli settlers across the West Bank, recently armed by the Israeli government with 10,000 assault rifles, have targeted Palestinian civilians, with over 50 already murdered and two villages depopulated in the last week

We are witnessing internationally supported genocide. This latest siege comes as a continuation and escalation of the daily violence Palestinians faced for decades from Israeli colonization; an apartheid regime whose occupation is in clear violation of international law, but persists with the support of powerful governments globally. In 2023 alone, the United States has sent $3.8 billion to prop up the Israeli military and consistently legitimized Israel’s human rights violations on a global stage. The European Union too has brazenly supported Israel’s aggression, while failing to reflect on the historical irony to “never again” commit genocide. 

Furthermore, the dehumanizing language used by heads of state, military leaders, and journalists throughout the West, has begun to increase anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim sentiment and violence. This has already led to horrible consequences, like the stabbing murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six-year old Palestinian American child, a hate crime against a Sikh teen, and increased harassment of pro-Palestinian voices around the globe.

We join people around the world who are raising their voices in protest of this assault on human life. As educators, it is our duty to stand by the principles of critical inquiry and learning, to hold the university as a space for conversation that foregrounds historical truths, and that contextualizes this past week’s violence in the context of 75 years of settler colonial occupation and European empire. We are also deeply troubled by the lack of concern and care for Palestinian and Muslim students at many of our universities, as well as efforts to clamp down on student organizing and free speech.

We cannot sit back and witness the continuation of this genocidal war. We demand that our governments push for an immediate ceasefire. This stance follows in the tradition of the civil rights movement, anti-war and anti-apartheid protests of decades past. Aligning ourselves with these freedom struggles, we call on all of our colleagues to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and against settler colonialism, imperialism, and genocide.

Click here to become a signatory.

Signatories

  1. Mary Romero, Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
  2. Aldon Morris, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Black Studies Northwestern University 
  3. Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY
  4. Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania 
  5. Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
  6. Jessica Halliday Hardie, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
  7. José Itzigsohn, Professor of Sociology, Brown University
  8. Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California Berkeley
  9. Craig Calhoun, University Professor, Arizona State University
  10. Eric Margolis, Arizona State University
  11. Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor, University of Michigan
  12. Moon-Kie Jung, Professor, University of Massachusetts
  13. David Cook-Martín, Professor, CU Boulder
  14. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
  15. Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
  16. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor of Sociology and Individualized Studies, New York University
  17. Arathi Sriprakash, Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Oxford 
  18. Howard Winant, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus
  19. Anna Guevarra, Professor and Founding Director,  Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago 
  20. Melissa Weiner, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
  21. Tianna Paschel, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  22. Mara Loveman, Professor, UC Berkeley
  23. Cedric de Leon, Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies, UMass Amherst
  24. William I Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara 
  25. Joe Feagin, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
  26. Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology at UC Merced
  27. Deborah Gould, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
  28. Ranita Ray, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
  29. Brandon Andrew Robinson, Chair and Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UCR
  30. Ruth McAreavey, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University 
  31. Rebecca Elliott, Associate Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
  32. Heba Gowayed, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University
  33. Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
  34. James M. Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Mississippi 
  35. Heather Randell, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
  36. Shay-Akil McLean
  37. Vaclav Masek, USC PhD Student
  38. Evangeline Warren, PhD Candidate, The Ohio State University
  39. Yannick Coenders, Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
  40. A Johnson
  41. Julien Larregue, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Université Laval
  42. Chen Liang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
  43. Jack Thornton, PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  44. Victoria Reyes, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
  45. Muhammad Ridha, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
  46. Gabriel Hetland, Associate Professor, SUNY Albany
  47. Ricarda Hammer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
  48. Daniel R. Morrison, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama in Huntsville 
  49. Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
  50. Cihan Tugal, Sociology, UC Berkeley
  51. Nabila Islam, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University
  52. Andrea Constant, PhD Student, The Ohio State University 
  53. Saida Grundy, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University
  54. Patricia McIsaac. Elementary Teacher
  55. Irene Pang, Assistant Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
  56. Veda Hyunjin Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology-Anthropology, Ohio Wesleyan University
  57. Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Assistant Professor, Florida State University 
  58. Zachary Levenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida International University
  59. Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University
  60. Raquel Douglas, Ph.D. student, Brown University
  61. Amaka Okechukwu, Assistant Professor, George Mason University 
  62. Jamie O’Quinn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University San Bernardino 
  63. Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, University North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  64. Semassa Boko, Graduate Candidate, University of California Irvine
  65. Danielle E. Midgyett, PhD Student, University of Delaware
  66. Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
  67. Katie Kaufman Rogers, Assistant Professor, Regis University
  68. Salma Mostafa, graduate Sociology student at Northwestern University
  69. Pilar Gonalons Pons, Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania
  70. Paloma E Villegas, Associate Professor, California State University, San Bernardino
  71. Yichen Shen, graduate student, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
  72. Cati Connell, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University
  73. Karin Yndestad, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
  74. christina ong, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
  75. Vivian Shaw, Mellon Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
  76. Santiago J. Molina, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  77. Archana Ramanujam, PhD student, Brown University
  78. Carolina Hernandez, M.A., University of Pittsburgh
  79. Spyros Sofos, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
  80. Nicole Jenkins, Assistant Professor Howard University 
  81. Madeleine Govia, MSDS
  82. Carilee Osborne, PhD Student, Brown University
  83. Xianni Zhang, PhD Student, University of Michigan
  84. Brett Kellett, PhD Student, University of Michigan
  85. Yeneca Lee, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh
  86. Cat Dang Ton, PhD Student, Department of Sociology
  87. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara
  88. Lanora Johnson, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
  89. Eyako Heh, Sociology PhD Student, Northwestern University
  90. Erika Kim, PhD Student, University of Michigan
  91. Xavier Durham, UC Berkeley
  92. Georgiann Davis, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
  93. Katie Jensen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, UW-Madison
  94. Sonia Planson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
  95. Kalyani Jayasankar, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California
  96. Laura Garbes, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
  97. Kelsey Weymouth-Little, PhD Student, UC Irvine
  98. Dr Babalwa Magoqwana- Nelson Mandela University 
  99. Mo Torres, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  100. Carmen Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  101. Charles Bradley, PhD student, University of Virginia 
  102. Edlin Veras, V.A.P., Swarthmore College
  103. Liora O’Donnell Goldensher, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
  104. Parker Martin, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
  105. Karina Santellano, Research Postdoctoral Scholar, Arizona State University
  106. Rahim Kurwa, UIC
  107. Iolanthe Brooks, Graduate Student, Northwestern University
  108. Saher Selod, Associate Professor, Simmons University
  109. Sosi Segal Lepejian, PhD student, University of Michigan
  110. Joshua Eisenstat, PhD Candidate, New York University
  111. Kayonne Christy, PhD Candidate, The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
  112. Juan D. Delgado, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
  113. Kate Averett, Associate Professor, University at Albany, SUNY
  114. Racheal Pinkham, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh
  115. Anna Palmer, PhD Student, UC Berkeley 
  116. Susila Gurusami, assistant professor, UIC CLJ
  117. Amy Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
  118. Ryan Thombs, PhD Candidate, Boston College 
  119. Andrea Beltran-Lizarazo, PhD candidate, Boston University
  120. Jessica Law, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  121. Eylem Taylan, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  122. Janna Huang, PhD Student, UC Berkeley Sociology
  123. Steven Herrera Tenorio, Ph.D. Student, University of California-Berkeley
  124. Prashasti Bhatnagar, Sociology PhD Student, UCLA
  125. Hajar Yazdiha, Assistant Professor, USC
  126. Gözde Güran, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
  127. Dialika Sall, Asst. Professor, CUNY-Lehman College
  128. prabhdeep singh kehal, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  129. Abi Ocobock, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame 
  130. katrina quisumbing king, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  131. Kirsten Vinyeta, Assistant Professor, Utah State University
  132. Stephanie L. Canizales
  133. Dori-Taylor Carter, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  134. Mishal Khan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University 
  135. Grey Rochon, PhD Student, University of California Irvine
  136. Roi Livne, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
  137. Hashem Alrefai, PhD Candidate Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh
  138. Nicholas Occhiuto, Assistant Professor, Hunter College-CUNY
  139. Wynn Strange, PhD Candidate, Portland State University 
  140. Amelia Roskin-Frazee, Sociology PhD Student, University of California, Irvine 
  141. Vera Parra, PhD Student, UC Berkeley 
  142. Kayla Thomas, Sociology PhD Candidate, Yale University 
  143. Raquel Zitani-Rios, Sociology PhD Student, UC Berkeley 
  144. Yagmur Ali Coskun, graduate student, UC Berkeley 
  145. Maura Fennelly, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University 
  146. Jared Eno, PhD student in Sociology and Public Policy, University of Michigan
  147. Carla Shedd, Associate Professor, Georgetown University 
  148. Jalia L. Joseph, Doctoral Candidate, Texas A&M University 
  149. Hoai-An Nguyen, PhD Candidate, Sociology at UCSB
  150. Simone Kolysh, PhD
  151. Musa Jalal, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois
  152. Amanda C. Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University 
  153. Pallavi Banerjee,  Associate Professor, University of Calgary
  154. Amanda Fehlbaum, Associate Professor of Sociology, Youngstown State University
  155. Deborah Little, (Retired) Assoc. Professor, Sociology, Adelphi University
  156. Miranda Ysabel Simes, PhD Student, Northwestern Sociology
  157. Sabiha Mohyuddin, PhD student, University of California, Santa Barbara
  158. Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor, Bard College
  159. Lauren Bickell, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Barbara
  160. Nandita Sharma, Professor, sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  161. Diditi Mitra, Associate Professor, Sociology
  162. Ana Sandoval, PhD candidate, Rutgers University-Newark
  163. Alicia Riley, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in Global Health, UC Santa Cruz
  164. Bastien Bosa, profesor titular, Universidad del Rosario 
  165. nadirah farah foley, Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University in St. Louis
  166. Enrique Alvear Moreno, University of Illinois at Chicago 
  167. Max Besbris, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  168. Alexandro José Gradilla, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, CSU Fullerton 
  169. Hayden Fulton, PhD Candidate, University of South Florida
  170. Tara Gonsalves, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  171. Camilo Leslie, Assistant Professor, Tulane University
  172. Idalia Robles De León, Doctoral Student, UC Santa Barbara
  173. Timothy Perez, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Barbara
  174. Michael Billeaux Martinez, Instructor, Madison Area Technical College
  175. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, the Distributed AI Research Institute
  176. Solome Haile, PhD student, Princeton University
  177. A Latina, Muslim and feminist PhD student full of grieve and rage
  178. Sujatha Fernandes, Professor, University of Sydney
  179. Youbin Kang, PhD student, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  180. Julio Salas, PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
  181. Tiffany Hamidjaja, PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley 
  182. Ana Vieytez, Graduate Student in Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
  183. Elyesa Koytak, Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University
  184. Chetna Khandelwal, Doctoral Student, University of Calgary
  185. Jay Cavanagh, Doctoral Student, University of Calgary
  186. Yasemin Bavbek, PhD Candidate, Brown University
  187. Anthony Ocampo, Professor, Cal Poly Pomona
  188. Sonia Rab Alam, PhD, MPH, Tech sector 
  189. Daniela Carreon, Graduate Student, Arizona State University
  190. Karim Safieddine, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh
  191. Autumn Mitchell, UC Berkeley sociology 
  192. Diego Ayala, PhD Student, UC Berkeley 
  193. R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy 
  194. Andrew Lee, PhD Student, UCSB
  195. Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
  196. Mathieu Desan, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado—Boulder
  197. Tara Gonsalves, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  198. Marisa Omori, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  199. Marisa Meno, PhD Student, University of California-Santa Barbara
  200. Shiv Issar, Doctoral Candidate, University of Oregon
  201. Andrea de la Barrera Montppellier, PhD Candidate
  202. Valentina Cantori, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
  203. Reeta Seetal; Sociology Graduate Student at University of Calgary
  204. Andy Clarno, Associate Professor, UIC
  205. Michael Nishimura, PhD Student, UC Santa Barbara
  206. Toya Thomas (myself)
  207. Kristina Beggen, PhD Student, University of Oregon
  208. Abigail Andrews, Associate professor, UCSD
  209. Uma Palam
  210. Mengyang Zhao, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
  211. Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara 
  212. Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences 
  213. Nazanin Shahrokni, Associate Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
  214. Vineet Gupta, PhD Student, Northwestern University
  215. Bahar B, PhD student, Toronto 
  216. Brittney Rose, PhD Student, Vanderbilt University
  217. Bernania Meja, Undergraduate Student, UofC
  218. Dr. Baljit Nagra
  219. MJ Hill, PhD candidate, UCLA
  220. Nafeesa Andrabi, PhD Candidate, UNC Chapel Hill
  221. Durgesh, Ph.D Student, Johns Hopkins University
  222. Ishan Santra, PhD Student
  223. Maryann Bylander, Associate Professor of Sociology, Lewis & Clark College 
  224. Jacob Hood, PhD Student, New York University
  225. Gyunghee Park, Westchester Community College
  226. Sanam Vaghefi (Visiting Scholar at Istanbul Ibn Haldun University)
  227. Nikkolette Lee, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  228. J Overholser, PhD Student, University of Calgary 
  229. Gabriela Flores, PhD student, and University of California, Merced
  230. Ramazan Aras
  231. Patricia Ward, Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Dresden
  232. Meaghan Mingo
  233. Shafia batool 
  234. Ayaz Ali 
  235. Azeem Brar, President University of Calgary Sociology and Law and Society Association, University of Calgary
  236. David Su, UC Berkeley
  237. Melissa Quesada, PhD Candidate, University of California, Merced
  238. Katelyn Malae, PhD candidate, UC Irvine 
  239. alithia zamantakis, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  240. Anh Nguyen Tran, PhD Student, UC Merced
  241. Claudia Johnson, Sociology, UC Merced
  242. Ariana Valle, Assistant Professor, UC Davis 
  243. Claire-Anne Lester, PhD, Stellenbosch University. Sociology 
  244. Edelina Burciaga, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
  245. Marissa Maline, PhD student, UC Merced
  246. Kimberly Garcia-Galvez, PhD Student at UC Merced 
  247. Sari Hanafi, Prof., American University of Beirut 
  248. Zhehang Zhang UC Berkeley 
  249. Jullanar Z. Williams, Ph.D. Student, University of California Merced 
  250. Jorge Ochoa, PhD Student, Northwestern University
  251. Shelby Singson, Undergrad Sociology, University of Calgary
  252. Alondra Espinoza, PhD Student, UCI
  253. Rasha Naseif, PhD student at UC Merced 
  254. Hyunsik Chun, PhD Candidate, University of Iowa
  255. David Su, PhD student, UC Berkeley Sociology
  256. Grace Vu, PhD Student, UCLA
  257. Jai Mica Vaca, PhD Student, the University of California, Merced 
  258. Anthony James Williams, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, College of the Holy Cross
  259. Kritika Pandey, Graduate Student
  260. Minwoo Jung, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
  261. Matthew Nichter, Associate Professor, Rollins College
  262. Destina Bermejo, PhD student in Sociology, UC Merced
  263. Kristen Bryant, PhD Candidate, UCSB
  264. Jess Bier, associate professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam 
  265. Kritika Pandey, Graduate Student, USC
  266. Joshua DeGuglielmo, undergraduate University of Calgary
  267. Tania Saeed, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
  268. Jeremiah Lawson, PhD Candidate at UC Irvine, UAW
  269. Jonathan Ben-Menachem, PhD candidate, Columbia University 
  270. Navneet Khan, Research Scholar, MMAJ Academy of International Studies Jamia Millia Islamia University 
  271. Barry Eidlin, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University
  272. Haiyi Cheng, undergraduate, Renmin University of China
  273. Marisa Salinas, Assistant Professor CSUSM
  274. Kyungmo Chun, PhD student, UT Austin
  275. Jordanna Matlon, Associate Professor, American University
  276. Duane Wright, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology UC Davis
  277. Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of the Arts
  278. Manuela Zechner, PhD, Jena University, Germany
  279. Dr Brenda Herbert, Goldsmiths, University of London
  280. Asma H. Malkawi
  281. Alison Phipps, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University UK
  282. Victoria Piehowski, Assistant Professor, SUNY-at Buffalo
  283. Pablo Gracia, Professor in Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
  284. Marie kortam
  285. Beth Bramich, former Sociology PhD candidate, Goldsmiths
  286. Órla Meadhbh Murray, Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University 
  287. Syeda Masood, PhD candidate, Brown University. 
  288. Paroj Banerjee, DPU, UCL
  289. Gopal Kumar Choudhary Assistant professor LNMU Darbhanga Bihar India 
  290. Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut
  291. Elisabeth Wide, PhD researcher, The University of Helsinki
  292. Luke Martell, University of Sussex
  293. Dr Bethan Harries, Newcastle University 
  294. Yen-Tung Lin, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley
  295. Dr Miranda Iossifidis, Newcastle University
  296. Tracy Shildrick, Professor of Inequalities, Newcastle University, UK 
  297. Walaa, PhD candidate, Goldsmiths university of London
  298. Dr Anna Bull, University of York
  299. Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Associate Professor of Sociology, Chico State 
  300. Dr Baris Cayli Messina, University of Lincoln, UK
  301. Angela Martinez Dy, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough Uni London
  302. Khoi Quach, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  303. Ece Örmeci, PhD student, TU Dresden.
  304. Ryan J Fisher, PhD Candidate, UCSB
  305. Ali Meghji, Associate professor, Univ Cambridge
  306. Mrs Gabriella Mwedzi
  307. Ash Layo Masing, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge 
  308. Rukiye Sahin, PhD Student, Istanbul Medeniyet University
  309. Stéphane Dufoix, Professor of Sociology, University of Paris-Nanterre
  310. Christiana Ajai-Thomas, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science 
  311. Dr Sara Camacho Felix, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science
  312. Janice McLaughlin, Professor, Newcastle University
  313. Kyran de Silva, PhD Student, University of Southampton
  314. noura nasser, PHD sociology student, the LSE
  315. Jean-Claude Lionbeat, Visiting Fellow, Sociology, CUCR
  316. Sneha Annavarapu, Yale NUS college 
  317. Professor Sally Hines
  318. Carla Rivera Blanco, MPhil/PhD Sociology, LSE
  319. Jonathan Schoots, Post Doctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch University
  320. Emily Nicholls, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York UK
  321. Mickey Keller, PhD student, Goldsmiths College
  322. Eloísa Martín, Prof. of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeir
  323. Hunter Sagaskie, PhD student, UCLA
  324. Dr Nilmini Fernando, Adjunct Fellow Griffith University
  325. Claire Decoteau, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
  326. Silvia Pasquetti, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
  327. Shalini Nair, University of Sussex
  328. Dr Erin Shannon, independent sociologist
  329. Patricia Hamilton, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
  330. MC Whitlock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Georgia
  331. Michael Follert, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, StFX University
  332. Irem Yildirim, PhD Candidate, McGill University
  333. Stephanie Lai, Sociology Student at the University of Calgary 
  334. Silyane Larcher, Research Scholar in Political Science, CNRS (France)
  335. Michela Musto, Assistant Professor, Brown University 
  336. Sigrid Corry, Ph.D Candidate, London School of Economics
  337. Peter Gardner, Senior Lecturer, University of York
  338. Anima Adjepong, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati 
  339. Stephanie Guirand, Doctoral Researcher, Goldsmiths, University of London
  340. Rima Sabban, Professor of Sociology, United Arab Emirates 
  341. Gulzar R. Charania, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
  342. Merve AKYOL, Sociologists, University of Leeds 
  343. Sarah Mayorga, Associate Professor, Brandeis University
  344. Liz Ablett, University of Newcastle, UK
  345. Professor Lyla MEhta, Institute of Development Studies, UK 
  346. Alexandra Kassir, Assistant professor of sociology, American University of Beirut
  347. Director Non Violence United Green Party Kenya
  348. Laird Gallagher, PhD Candidate, Brown University
  349. David Feldman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oberlin College
  350. Teke Wiggin, PhD candidate, Northwestern
  351. Casey Stockstill, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
  352. Sophie Marie Niang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
  353. Ms Angela Loum PhD researcher at Goldsmiths university 
  354. David Fasenfest, Editor, Critical Sociology
  355. Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. 
  356. Eric Reeves, PhD Student, New York University
  357. Rachel Rosen, Professor of Sociology, UCL Social Research Institute
  358. SunAh Laybourn,  Assistant Professor, University of Memphis 
  359. Zophia Edwards, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University 
  360. Francisca Corbalan, Postdoc, CIAE – Universidad de Chile
  361. Katie Duarte, PhD Candidate
  362. Sarah Reibstein, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University 
  363. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Associate Professor of Sociology, University College London
  364. Ilya Slavinski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology, Dominican University New York
  365. Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London 
  366. Chris Maggio, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, UIC
  367. Erika Slaymaker, PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
  368. Heidi Gottfried, professor, Wayne State University
  369. Shay O’Brien, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  370. Meghan Barnes
  371. Edemilson Paraná, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, LUT University – Finland
  372. Amanda Lewis, Professor of Black Studies & Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago
  373. Chandra Russo, Associate Professor, Colgate University
  374. Leah Reisman
  375. Abdullah Omran, PhD student, Indiana University
  376. Apollonya Porcelli, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University 
  377. Ghazah Abbasi, Postdoctoral Associate, Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University 
  378. Mariam Al Hasbani, PhD in Sociology
  379. Ananda Martin-Caughey, Assistant Professor, Brown University
  380. sneha gantla, PhD candidate, Brandeis University 
  381. Marcelle Cohen, UCSB
  382. Perdana Roswaldy, PhD Student, Northwestern University
  383. Ellen Lamont Associate Professor of Sociology Appalachian State University
  384. Taylor Alarcon, Columbia University
  385. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 
  386. Piet Bracke, Professor in Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium
  387. Inaash Islam, Assistant Professor, Saint Michael’s College
  388. Guillermina Altomonte, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, NYU
  389. Jacelyn Omusi, PhD Student, NYU
  390. Phi Hong Su, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Williams College 
  391. Gowri Vijayakumar, Associate Professor of Sociology
  392. Rocio Garcia, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University 
  393. Sarah Devos, PhD Student, Ghent University
  394. Freeden Blume Oeur, associate professor of sociology, Tufts University
  395. Esther Lermytte, PhD student, Ghent University
  396. Erin Eife, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brown University
  397. Karolina M. Dos Santos, Faculty Fellow, NYU: Gallatin Individualized School of Study
  398. Aven Peters, PhD Student, Northwestern University
  399. Ibrahim Bechrouri, Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York
  400. Jeannette Hernandez 
  401. Navdeep Kaur, Community Organizer, Jakara Movement
  402. April Fernandes, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
  403. Niall Reddy, Researcher, Wits University
  404. Camille Wets, PhD student, Ghent University
  405. Martin van Bruinessen, Professor Emeritus, Utrecht University
  406. Daniel Olmos, Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSU Northridge
  407. Watufani Poe, Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Pittsburgh
  408. Souhail Chichah, Visiting Lecturer, Williams College
  409. César Rodríguez, Associate Professor; San Francisco State University 
  410. Tina M. Park, Head of Inclusive Research & Design, Partnership on AI
  411. Chris Tinson, Chair, African American Studies, SLU
  412. Tiago Vieira, PhD candidate 
  413. Luis Flores, Post Doctoral Researcher, Harvard University 
  414. Karida L. Brown, Professor of Sociology, Emory University
  415. Jaeeun Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
  416. Jorge D Vasquez, Postdoctoral Fellow, American University
  417. Aaron Foote, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Central Michigan University
  418. Zach Lewis, PhD Student, New York University
  419. Samar Mashadi, PhD Candidate Religious Studies, McMaster University 
  420. Helen Rizzo, Associate Professor, AUC
  421. Dr. Olivia Perlow, NEIU
  422. Jacob Caponi, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
  423. Thomas J Billard, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
  424. David G. Embrick, Associate Professor and Director, UConn
  425. Kristen Schilt/University of Chicago Sociology
  426. Harleen Kaur, Assistant Teaching Professor, ASU
  427. Keenan Wilder, PhD Candidate, Brown University
  428. Ray Jureidini, Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
  429. Nahida El Assi 
  430. Loubna Ou-Salah – university of Antwerp (Belgium)
  431. Lauren Clingan, PhD Candidate, Princeton University 
  432. Jennifer Heath, co-editor Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice
  433. Hawa Patel, MPhil Student, University of Cambridge
  434. Sara Elloukmani, PhD, University of Antwerp
  435. Michael McCarthy, Sociologist, Marquette University
  436. Diana Toledo 
  437. Nazli Kibria, Boston University
  438. José Manuel Mejía V., Graduate Student, Sociology UCSB
  439. Rahsaan Mahadeo, Assistant Professor, Providence College 
  440. Steven Osuna, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach 
  441. Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University
  442. Weixiang Chen, PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
  443. Isabel Garcia Valdivia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
  444. Mark Methven, ABD Boston College
  445. Kelly Nielsen, UC San Diego
  446. Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor, Columbia University
  447. Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
  448. Sam Ghebrai, PhD Candidate, Western University
  449. Dr. Halide SalamProfesor Emerita, Radford U
  450. Jasmin Zine, Professor, Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
  451. Maria Labourt USC
  452. Elizabeth Nimmons, Ph.D. 
  453. Tiantian Liu, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
  454. Ran Fang, PhD student, Hong Kong University
  455. Clayton Covington, PhD Student, Harvard University
  456. Turi Mendoza, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  457. Dr. Wahid Omar 
  458. Maeve Higgins
  459. Diana Graizbord, University of Georgia
  460. Marco Castillo, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  461. Cristine Khan, Ph.D. Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  462. Shannon Almeida, Phd Student, CUNY Graduate Center Sociology 
  463. Dilara Yarbrough, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, San Francisco State University
  464. Noura Embabi, PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
  465. Dalia Yousef, PhD student, CUNY GC
  466. Alanna Gillis, Assistant Professor of Sociology, St Lawrence University 
  467. Yoselinda Mendoza, Sociologist and Researcher 
  468. Dr Mosa Phadi University of the Free State 
  469. Benjamin Vescovi, MS Sociology, Hunter College
  470. Jessica Breakey, PhD student at University College London 
  471. Sewheat Haile, PhD student, New York University
  472. Raphi Rechitsky, National University 
  473. Matthew Thompson, PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
  474. Robin Bartram, assistant professor, University of Chicago 
  475. Madeline Troche-Rodriguez, Associate Professor,  City Colleges of Chicago 
  476. Alannah Caisey, Ph.D
  477. Emily Paine, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Sociology (in Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences), Columbia University
  478. Michelle Rabaut, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Michigan
  479. Calvin John Smiley, PhD – Association Professor, Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY
  480. Jane Guskin, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  481. Salman Sikandar, Phd student, UMass Amherst
  482. Adam Murphree, Ph.D. (not in academia)
  483. Virgilio Urbina Lazardi, PhD Candidate, New York University
  484. Jacob Rosette, CUNY Graduate Center
  485. Sharon Elise, Professor of Sociology, California State University San Marcos
  486. Tugrul Keskin, Kapadokya University
  487. Caleb Dawson, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Merced
  488. Isha Bhallamudi, PhD Student, UC Irvine 
  489. Farha Ternikar, Professor of Sociology & director of GWS, Le Moyne College
  490. Luz Gomez, professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
  491. Isabelle Caraluzzi, PhD Student, New York University 
  492. Amina Jamal, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
  493. Yeji Lee, PhD student, NYU
  494. Miranda Grundy, GC Sociology PhD Student
  495. Alex Eleazar, PhD Candidate, University of California-Santa Barbara
  496. Kairit Kall, Lecturer of Sociology, Tallinn University
  497. Alex Fenton, Research Fellow, German Centre for Science and Higher Education Research, Berlin
  498. Subadevan, PhD student, Brown University
  499. Nallely Mejia, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
  500. Lesley Wood, Associate Professor, York University
  501. Upasana Kohuwa Goswami, Doctoral Student, UMass Amherst
  502. Kaan Agartan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University
  503. Valentina Floegel, PhD Student, University of California Los Angeles
  504. James Jones, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
  505. Prishani Naidoo
  506. Olu Demuren, PhD Student, New York University 
  507. Ieva Zumbyte, Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin
  508. Jesse Yeh, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
  509. Sunera Thobani, Professor, University of British Columbia
  510. Ashley Auger, BA Student, University of Calgary
  511. Sirma Bilge, professor, Université de Montréal
  512. Dr. Eliran Bar-El, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
  513. Bronwyn Lee, PhD candidate, Binghamton University
  514. Joyce M. Bell, Associate Professor in Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and Sociology, University of Chicago
  515. Melissa McLetchie, PhD student, York University 
  516. Dr Monish Bhatia, University of York 
  517. Dr Jennifer Chubb
  518. Sanjida Salman, PhD Candidate, York University
  519. Conely de Leon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
  520. Ailish Burns, Graduate Student, Brown University
  521. Leila Mouhib, Lecturer, ULB & UMons
  522. Andrew Malmuth, PhD Candidate, UCLA Department of Sociology
  523. Hossein Serajzadeh, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kharazmi University, Iran
  524. Brianna Garneau, PhD Candidate, York University
  525. Summer, PhD Candidate, UCLA
  526. Mieke Van Houtte, professor, Ghent University
  527. Abigail Mariam, Ph.D.
  528. John l Esposito, Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University
  529. Andrew Thompson, Visiting Professor, College of the Holy Cross
  530. Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson, Professor of Sociology
  531. Xavier Fields, PhD Student, University of Michigan
  532. Laura Halcomb, PhD candidate UCSB 
  533. Samantha Plummer, Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University
  534. Katherine Furl, PhD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
  535. Timothy Johnson, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
  536. Ron Pagnucco, Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University
  537. Awish Aslam, PhD Candidate, University of Western Ontario
  538. Tirza Ochrach-Konradi, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
  539. Kasi Woods, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
  540. Chloe Unrein, University of Michigan
  541. Soleil Smith, Sociology graduate student, University of Illinois Chicago
  542. Emily Via, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  543. Courtney, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  544. Erielle Jones, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago 
  545. Paula Winicki Brzostowski, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  546. Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Professor, California State University, Long Beach
  547. Sal Schmisek, PhD Student, University of Illinois – Chicago
  548. Sarah Shah, Assistant Professor, The University of Toronto Mississauga
  549. Jimena Perez, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Geography 
  550. Trina Vithayathil, Associate professor of global studies
  551. Julián Bilmes, Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, PhD in Social Sciences, National University of La Plata, Argentina
  552. Birgan Gokmenoglu, Lecturer in Sociology, Birmingham City University
  553. Derek Silva, Associate Professor, King’s University College 
  554. Asemeh Ghasemi, Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Iran
  555. Gwendolyn Berumen, PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
  556. Michelle Mott, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
  557. Salma Mutwafy, PhD Candidate, Brown University
  558. Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Guelph 
  559. April Herron
  560. Annika Lindberg, Researcher, University of Gothenburg
  561. Hakan Yilmaz, CUNY Graduate Center
  562. Michael Warren Murphy, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Occidental College
  563. Simon Fern, PhD Student Rice University
  564. Brittany Battle, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
  565. Solen Sanli Vasquez, Sociology Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College
  566. M. Muhannad Ayyash, Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University 
  567. Claudia Vergara, MES, York University 
  568. Nino Cricco, Graduate Student, Harvard University
  569. Lauren Harvey, Ph.D. Student, Rice University
  570. Nalya Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Scholar- Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California 
  571. Charlotte Xue Lian Wang, Columbia University 
  572. Masou Kowsari, Professor  University of Tehran
  573. Deirdre Oakley, Professor, Georgia State University 
  574. Sharan Kaur Mehta, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico 
  575. Sarah El Sebaye, postgraduate student, Cairo University
  576. Caroline Wolski, Ph.D Student Rice University
  577. Cristina Awadalla, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara
  578. Gerardo Otero, professor of sociology and international studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada 
  579. Jeffrey Mitchell, Associate Professor,Umeå university
  580. Mahruq Khan, Teaching Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  581. Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  582. Devin Kaiser, graduate student, UIC sociology
  583. Candi Cipactli Corral, Assistant Teaching Professor, NAU
  584. Madeline Smith-Johnson, PhD Candidate, Rice University
  585. Anderson Antonio da Silva 
  586. Robinson Rodríguez-Pérez, Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
  587. Angela Silva, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois, Chicago
  588. Kiana Wilkins, PhD Candidate, Rice University
  589. Egle Gusciute, Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
  590. Ren Ruso, Graduate Student, University of Illinois Chicago
  591. Jacqui Gingras, Professor, Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
  592. Silvia Maeso, Principal Researcher, Centre for Social Studies (Portugal)
  593. Ahmad jafari sociology researcher and social science teacher in Iran, Tehran 
  594. Alex Da Costa, Associate Professor, University of Alberta
  595. Haley Volpintesta, Graduate Student, Sociology Department UIC
  596. Swati Chintala, PhD Candidate NYU
  597. Lucas Savino, Associate Professor, Centre for Global Studies, Huron University College, Canada
  598. Beeta Salsabilian, Sociology PhD student 
  599. Jee Sun Lee, PhD Student, Rice University
  600. Shaikh Mohammad Kais, Professor of Sociology, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  601. Clifford Andrew Welch, Universidade Federal de São Paulo 
  602. Carla A. Pfeffer, Michigan State University
  603. Yader Lanuza, Assistant Professor, UCSB
  604. Alicia Poole, PhD Candidate, McGill University 
  605. Heather Daniels, PhD candidate, UC Merced 
  606. Sabra J Webber, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University
  607. Javadi Yeganeh, Mohammad Reza. Associate Professor of Sociology. University of Tehran
  608. Makere Stewart-Harawira, Professor, University of Alberta
  609. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera
  610. Hugo Ceron, associate professor, Lehigh university 
  611. Dia Da Costa
  612. Gerardo Rodriguez Solis, Graduate Student, University of California Santa Barbara
  613. Donna L Chollett, Professor emeritus, University of Minnesota, Morris
  614. Karina Rider, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  615. Luin Goldring, Professor, York University (Toronto)
  616. Katherine Smock, PhD Candidate, University of California Los Angeles
  617. Alejandro Hernandez, Assistant Professor LTA, Concordia University
  618. Ali Janadleh, assistant professor of Sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i University 
  619. Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Western Oregon University, Stanford Humanities Center
  620. Shamsul Arefin, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
  621. Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, (Toronto)
  622. Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva. Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores/as Negros/as
  623. Hamid Masoudi, Assistant Professor, University of Birjand, Iran
  624. Eli Friedman, Associate Professor, Cornell University 
  625. Sarah Levine, Western University 
  626. علیرضا اژدری
  627. Jack Corbett, Professor, Portland State University
  628. Pengfei Liu, PhD Student, UC Davis
  629. Christina Wilmot, PhD Student, UCLA Sociology 
  630. Ryhana/student of sociology in iran
  631. Tugba Iyigun
  632. Abed beheshtian
  633. Eric Leonard, Research Director, Franch Institute for Development Research
  634. Farzaneh.ahmad (graduated in cultural sociology)
  635. Mehmet Aysan, University of Western Ontario PhD graduate
  636. Nurullah Ardıç, Professor, ITU
  637. Zakaria Rhani, Full Professor of Anthropology, Mohammed V  University in Rabat
  638. Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, Professora , FMUSP
  639. Henry Veltmeyer, PhD Global Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University
  640. Katie Alexander, PhD Student, Rice University
  641. Christopher Powell, Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
  642. Josh Seim, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College
  643. Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
  644. Doç. Faruk Karaarslan
  645. Victoria Tran, PhD candidate, UCLA
  646. Jennie Germann Molz, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
  647. Beatrice Anane-bediakoh, York University
  648. J’Mauri Jackson, Ph.D. Student in Public Policy & Sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  649. Melissa Williams, PhD Student, York
  650. Kyanna Richard, PhD Student, University of California, Irvine
  651. María Elena Serrano Flores
  652. Bilal Yıldırım, PhD, Sakarya University
  653. Sıtkı Karadeniz, Associate Professor 
  654. Halil Yıldız, Dr., MEB
  655. Pilar Ortiz, Instituto VioDemos / Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile
  656. Sıtkı Karadeniz, Associate Professor,  Mardin Artuklu University 
  657. Asude Yağmur Durgun, Koç University
  658. Zubeyir Nisanci, Assist. Professor, Marmara University
  659. Andrea Kelley, Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University
  660. Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Gökçen Samsun University -Türkiye
  661. Bedri Gencer, professor, Yıldız Technical University
  662. Mehmet Şahin
  663. Kadri Aissa Emeritus professor of sociology University Franceniversity P8 France
  664. Joshua Makalintal, Graduate Student, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
  665. Mehmet Ali Demirdag, Mardin Artuklu University
  666. OUSSEDIK Fatma Université d’Alger
  667. Aaron Pollack, Professor/Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones y Educación Superior en Antropología Social
  668. Linda Green Professor of Anthropology University of Arizona
  669.    Rıfat Bilgin, Prof.Dr. Fırat University
  670. Hadi Yasser, Sociologist
  671. Kristin George, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Dept of Sociology 
  672. Seyedmohammad Alhosseini
  673. Louise Seamster, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
  674. Hassan E.T., PhD candidate
  675. İhsan Çapcıoğlu, Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye.
  676. Tad Skotnicki, Associate Professor, UNC Greensboro
  677. Enakshi Dua, Professor, York University
  678. Ahmed Hamila, Professor, Université de Montreal 
  679. Mahmut Kaya
  680. İbrahim Nacak – Assoc.Prof.Dr – Selcuk University
  681. ZAHİR Kızmaz
  682. Elif Çevik, Sociologist
  683. Mehmet Salih GECİT
  684. Münire Handan Kaya,  PhD Student, Istanbul University
  685. Rojda Kurt 
  686. Fiona Gladstone, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
  687. Neha Mahboob, Student, Toronto Metropolitan University
  688. Büşra Tosun Durmuş, Assistant Proffesor,Marmara University 
  689. Natalia Ribas-Mateos, UAB
  690. Assistant Professor, Ayse Polat, Istanbul Medeniyet University
  691. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Çİl, Selçuk University
  692. Jeanny Posso, PhD Antropology, Universidad del Valle
  693. Nuh Özdemir 
  694. Cintia Quesada, Lecturer, California State University, Fresno
  695. Leandro Vergara-Camus, Associate-Professor, Université de l’Ontario français
  696. Recep YILDIZ Associate Proffesor  Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University
  697. Donatto Daniel Badillo Cuevas, doctorante Programa de Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  698. Sevil Kaysı, mimar sinan fine art university sociology ma
  699. Luis Urrieta, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
  700. Cinthia J. Romo Alba; PhD student; Washington University in St. Louis
  701. Ivonne del Valle, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley
  702. Gala Rexer, Lecturer, University College London
  703. Rabi, Student, UTSC
  704. Sedef Arat-Koç, Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
  705. Zouitni khadija. Sociologist. Mohammed V University. Rabat
  706. Medine Arslanalp 
  707. Saadia Radi,   chercheure, anthropologue, Rabat
  708. Badiha Nahhass, Mohammed V University of Rabat
  709. Raminder Dubb, Undergraduate Student, California State University of Long Beach Department of Sociology
  710. Tasfia Ahmed. Undergrad Student 
  711. Jiyoun Yoo, University of Illinois
  712. Jennifer Pennington, Adjunct Professor, MNSCU
  713. Kimberly Sustaeta, Undergrad Student, Cal State University of Long Beach
  714. Mustafa Derviş Dereli, Assoc. Prof., Necmettin Erbakan University
  715. Dr. Onur Acaroğlu, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Northampton
  716. Nurefşan Hamdan, master student, Ibn Haldun University
  717. Rafif Rida Sidawi.     Sociologist 
  718. Christina Pao, PhD Student, Princeton University
  719. Dr. İbrahim Kaygusuz
  720. Maria Perez
  721. Ammar Hamdache, Sociologist, Marco 
  722. maheen, miss, student
  723. A. Bayat, Sociology, University of Illinois
  724. Ariel Ducey, Professor, University of Calgary
  725. Swati Birla,  SUNY-New Paltz
  726. Bushra.turk@stu.ihu.edu.tr 
  727. Ilham Ibrahim, MA Student, Ibn Haldun University 
  728. Zeynep Karakurt
  729. Michelle Cera, PhD Candidate, New York University
  730. Junyoung Verónica Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh 
  731. Emin Yaşar Demirci, Prof.Dr., Van Yüzüncüyıl University
  732. Cornelia Flora, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Iowa State University
  733. Nesibe Demir, Ph.D Candidate, Ibn Haldun University
  734. Reda Sadiki, Medical Doctor & Author, Morocco 
  735. Herbert Docena, Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines, Diliman
  736. Nuri TINAZ, Professor of Sociology, Marmara University, Tûrkiye
  737. Ben Snyder, Associate Professor of Sociology, Williams College
  738. Imren Turner 
  739. Fareen Parvez, Associate Professor, Umass- Amherst
  740. Mo Woods, PhD Candidate, The Ohio State University
  741. Elisabet Barrios Dugenia, PH.D Candidate, UC Irvine
  742. Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, Doctoral Student, IBN Haldun Üniversite 
  743. Rachid Benbih, faculté des Langues, des Arts et des Sciences humaines  Ait Melloul, Université Ibn Eohr
  744. Marianne Madoré, PhD Candidate CUNY
  745. Mustafa Koc, Professor, Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
  746. Viviththa Shrirajh, Year 3 Nursing Student
  747. Chantrey J. Murphy, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach
  748. Alex Kempler, Graduate Student, The Ohio State University
  749. Merve Reyhan Ekinci, PhD student, Ibn Haldun University 
  750. Bogumila Hall, PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences
  751. Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University 
  752. M’hammed Belarbi,   Professor / Public Law and  Political science Faculty of Law / University Cadi Ayyad Marrakech, Morocco
  753. Fatimah 
  754. Víctor Manuel Quintana Silveyram Doctor in Sociology. Professor-researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, MEXICO
  755. Thomas Serres, UC Santa Cruz
  756. Aharmouche Fatima Zahra, Professeure universitaire sociologue. Université Ibn Zohr. 
  757. Chantal Figueroa, Assistant professor of Sociology, Colorado College 
  758. Irene Shankar, Associate Professor, Mount Royal University 
  759. Betül Babacan Sevim, PhD student, Boğaziçi University
  760. Zeynel Hakan Aser, PhD cand.
  761. Matthew Fritzler, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
  762. Ala Sirriyeh, Lancaster University
  763. Kimberly Higuera, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal Poly, SLO
  764. Sehel fidan 
  765. Mara Viveos Vigoya, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 
  766. Caroline Martínez, Graduate Student, UC Irvine
  767. Zahra Ali, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-Newark
  768. Vanessa Nunez
  769. Jyoti Puri, Simmons University
  770. Mel Mahmoudi, Undergraduate Student 
  771. Ronit Lentin (ret) Associate Professor Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
  772. Farah Hamouda, PhD student , Vanderbilt University 
  773. Melanie E L Bush, Professor, Adelphi University
  774. Amanda Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southwestern University 
  775. Anjerrika Bean, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Howard University Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership
  776. Fernanda Rios Petrarca, PHd Sociology, professor at Universidade Federal de Sergipe
  777. Arezki Ighemat, Ph.D in economics and Master of Francophone Literature (Purdue University)
  778. Lesley Schneider, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
  779. Dip Kapoor, Professor, University of Alberta
  780. Monserat Rodríguez Rico, grad student UIC 
  781. DR.KHALID HANTOOSH
  782. Haider zwwer. Iraq
  783. Tania Élias Magno da Silva
  784. Mirebeigi Vahid
  785. Kari Marie Norgaard, Professor, University of Oregon
  786. Majid, iran
  787. Dr. Katarzyna Rukszto, Sheridan College
  788. Hye Jee Kim, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
  789. Dr. Yahya AYDIN-Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
  790. Jay Arena, Associate Professor, College of Staten Island-CUNY
  791. Cawo Abdi, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  792. Mark Thomas, Professor, Department of Sociology, York University (Toronto)
  793. Artchil B. Fernandez, sociology graduate student, University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman
  794. Isabella Irtifa, Sociology PhD student, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 
  795. FATIM ZAHRA RAFALI, Ph.D. Student, IBN ZOHR AGADIR/Morocco
  796. Kriti Budhiraja, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota Twin CIties
  797. Ms. Sherine Seoudi. B.A in Business Administration, Fresno State University
  798. Uriel Serrano, UC Irvine 
  799. Anindita Adhikari, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan
  800. Zahra Baghdari
  801. Snigdha Kumar, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota
  802. Hassan Abdel Salam, Prof., Sociology
  803. Mark Goodman, Sociology, York University
  804. Hyunjae Kwon, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
  805. Daniel Curto-Villalobos, University of Minnesota
  806. Michael Goldman, Sociology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota
  807. Marisol Zarate, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
  808. Caity Curry, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota 
  809. Mary Hovsepian,  Duke University  
  810. Shuhruh Akhand, undergraduate student at the University of Toronto
  811. Dr. Oscar Fabian Soto, postdoctoral fellow, UC Irvine
  812. Vanessa Jimenez-Read, PhD student, University of Michigan
  813. Frances Hasso, Professor, Duke University
  814. Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
  815. Fatma Zehra Hamarat, MA Student, Ibn Haldun University
  816. Maghraoui Driss Associate Professor, AlAkhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
  817. José Anazagasty, PhD
  818. GeorgePatrick J. Hutchins, MD/PhD Student, Harvard University 
  819. Shania Kuo, PhD Student, University of Minnesota
  820. Brieanna Watters, PhD Candidate, UMN
  821. Redy Wilson Lima, PhD Candidate, CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa
  822. Labiba Chowdhury, Bachelors student at Toronto Metropolitan University
  823. Deborah Brock, Associate Professor, York University
  824. Farifta Rahman, University of Toronto 
  825. Marta Maria Maldonado 
  826. Antonia Randolph, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
  827. Mary Shi, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  828. LaToya Baldwin Clark, Professor, UCLA
  829. Brandon Sward, PhD
  830. Dr Sherene Idriss, Lecturer in Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
  831. Monica J. Sanchez-Flores, Associate Professor, ECS, Thompson Rivers University
  832. Oton De Souza, Undergraduate,  UC Berkeley Sociology
  833. Dr Ben Green, Research Fellow, Griffith University
  834. Madina Tahiri 
  835. Brian Sargent, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
  836. Jacob Ginn, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  837. Hyun Ok Park, Professor of Sociology, York University
  838. Tennille Allen, Professor, Lewis University 
  839. Maura Toro-Morn, Sociology, Illinois State University 
  840. Joss Greene, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Davis
  841. Rowan Greywolf Moore, M.A.; PhD Student, Arizona State University; Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College
  842. Dr Eve Mayes, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
  843. Aziz Hlaoua, anthropologue, université Mohamed V de Rabat 
  844. Sylvie Tuder, PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill
  845. César Ayala, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  846. Emily Fox, PhD student, University of California Santa Barbara
  847. Associate Professor Joanne Bryant, UNSW
  848. Alicia Torres, PhD History, FLACSO Sede Ecuador 
  849. Yolé Tiangbe, Student, Rollins College
  850. Professor michaeline Crichlow Duke University 
  851. Erin Wright, PhD Student, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  852. Dr Adrian Farrugia, La Trobe University
  853. Courtney Allen, PhD student, University of Washington 
  854. Fatemeh Javaheri, Associate Professor of Sociology ,Kharazmi University of Iran
  855. Rose Werth, PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern
  856. Nuri Can Akin, PhD Candidate, The New School for Social Research
  857. Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, Future Fellow, Macquarie University 
  858. Dr Robbie McVeigh
  859. Sarah McGill Brown, MA. PhD student in sociology at UNC Chapel Hill
  860. Maria Antonieta Barron, Profesor de Carrera de la Facultad de Economía, UNAM, México 
  861. Blu Buchanan, Assistant Professor, UNC Asheville
  862. Chinyere Odim, Doctoral Student, Brown University
  863. Jeylan Mortimer, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
  864. Jeffrey Broadbent, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
  865. Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bard College
  866. Kimberly Kay Hoang
  867. David Pellow, Professor, UC Santa Barbara 
  868. Lara Schiffrin-Sands, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  869. Houa Vang, Assistant Professor, CSU Stanislaus
  870. Jasmine L. Harris, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio 
  871. Allahshokrhatamzadeh, Teacher
  872. Erika Busse, Associate Professor, Macalester College
  873. Salsabil kassem /suriyeliyim /türkiye
  874. Rebecca Ewert, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Sociology, Northwestern University
  875. Elizabeth Nagib, Student, Students Justice for Palestine
  876. Rosa Navarro, PhD Student, Sociology- UC Santa Cruz
  877. Prof. Concepicón Martinez-Maske
  878. Corinne Tam, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara
  879. Shania Montúfar, Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Austin
  880. Timothy Haney, Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University
  881. Gert Van Hecken, associate professor, university of Antwerp
  882. Amanda Burroughs, PhD Student, Virginia Tech
  883. Karen Crespo Triveño, PhD Student at UCSC 
  884. Annasel Dugenia, MSW, J&J
  885. Francisco Martínez Gómez Dr en Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Saltillo, Coahuila México 
  886. Summer Sullivan, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
  887. Sidra Kamran, Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College
  888. Ahmet ASLAN, PhD, Sociologist
  889. Mirian Martínez-Aranda, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine  
  890. Alejandra Navarro – independent researcher
  891. Andrew Woolford, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
  892. Blair Sackett, Brown University
  893. Amr M Mostafa,  student at Fresno State University 
  894. Mohammadali
  895. Saoud El Mawla. Professor.retired. Lebanese university, and Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
  896. Yang Vincent Liu, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University 
  897. Benjamin Klasche, PhD, Tallinn University
  898. Nida Ahmad, Independent researcher
  899. Dalal Bajes Salem
  900. Zahra
  901. AJ Likosar, Graduate Student in Sociology, Virginia Tech
  902. Elif Akçadaşoğlu 
  903. Vajihe Armanmehr, PhD Student in Economic Sociology and Development.  Research Assistant, Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center. Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  904. Rae Willis-Conger, UC Berkeley
  905. Mx. Robin Lawson, VT
  906. Samantha Agarwal, postdoc, American University 
  907. Jess Robinson, PhD Student, Columbia University
  908. Alexander Means,  Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
  909. Somayeh Tohidlou,   Assistant Professor, Department of Social Studies, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS), Iran
  910. Arous Zoubir Professor of Sociology, University of Algiers 2, Algeria
  911. Siyabulela Tonono, Coordinator of the Centre for Black Thought and African Studies
  912. Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  913. Jennifer Whitmer, Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University Stanislaus 
  914. Joonatan Nõgisto, Junior Researcher, Tallinn University
  915. Smaeil.koohkanzadeh,  resercher, FUM
  916. زهراغیاثی هستم دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد جامعه شناس 
  917. Dr Indigo Willing. Sociologist. TASA member.
  918. Jenny Chan, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  919. José Luis Alcalá Zamora Granadino 
  920. Zhour Bouzidi, sociologist, Moulay Ismail University
  921. Bryan Viray, PhD candidate at the Australian National University and Short-Term Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor
  922. Professor Dr. Munshi Israil Hossain, Department of Sociology, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  923. Mekia Nedjar, Oran 2 University Algeria
  924. Guilherme Chihaya, Associate Professor, Nord University 
  925. Sevim polat doktor
  926. Alexandra Tomaselli, Senior Researcher, Eurac Research
  927. SAFAR ZITOUN Madani, Université Alger 2, 
  928.  Jeff zayat,Network Engineer los Angeles CA 
  929. Maria Khristine Alvarez, PhD Candidate, University College London
  930. Abdullah F. Alrebh, PhD. Grand Valley State University
  931. Tukufu Zuberi, Professor University of Pennsylvania
  932. Hugo Goeury, PhD Candidate, Sociology
  933. Barbara Denuelle PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent
  934. Aaron Winter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
  935. Noureddine Bahri, PhD student, Sociology, FLSH Meknes, Morocco 
  936. Lisa Palmer, Associate Professor De Montfort University 
  937. Kim Allen, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
  938. Abdelmalek Ouard, Sociologist, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
  939. Dr Ece Kocabıçak, Lecturer in Sociology, The Open University
  940. Veronika Stoyanova, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent, UK
  941. Dr Christopher Shaw, University of Sussex
  942. Dr Deirdre Duffy, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University 
  943. Simone Varriale, Lecturer in Sociology, Loughborough University, UK
  944. Dr Kirsteen Paton, University of Glasgow 
  945. Monica Moreno Figueroa, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge
  946. Bochra Kammarti, Research fellow École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
  947. Yassine Ferfera, Professeur d’économie retraité, ENSSEA/CREAD Alger
  948. Merve Mercan, Phd candidate 
  949. Bouchaib MAJDOUL
  950. Boussaïd Khadidja, Sociological researcher, CREAD, University of Algiers 2, Algeria
  951. Sarah Armstrong, University of Glasgow
  952. منير السعيداني Mounir SAIDANI Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Research  CERES Tunisia
  953. Catherine Oliver, Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
  954. Sobia Kapadia, senior research manager, Middlesex University 
  955. Dr Fatima Rajina, Senior Research Fellow, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University
  956. Arous zoubir professor of sociogy university of algeries 2
  957. Simina Dragos, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
  958. Salem elabbassi  Moulay Ismail university
  959. Marta Mascarenhas, CES
  960. Saide Mobayed, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
  961. Aziz Hlaoua, anthropologue, université Mohamed V de Rabat 
  962. Irina Velicu, Dr. Resercher CES
  963. Walaa Ammar, Ghent University 
  964. Seyed Mohammad Karbasi, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department 
  965. Joana Sousa, Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, Univ Coimbra
  966. Kirsty Finn University of Manchester 
  967. Burhan Ghalioun, professeur de sociologie et auteur
  968. Giovanni Allegretti, PhD, Reseracher at the Centre for Social Studies of Coimbra University, Portugal
  969. Arous ZoubirProfessor of Sociology- University of Algiers 2 
  970. Dr Rebecca Gordon, Lecturer in Social Sciences University of the West of Scotland
  971. Jaouad Agudal, Professor of Sociology, University of Hassan First
  972. Ana Louback, PHD candidate, Centro de Estudos Sociais – CES
  973. Rose Barboza, Research and professor, Centre for Social Studies, Univ. Coimbra/ Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
  974. Michela Giovannini, Researcher Center for Social Studies (Coimbra, PT) and University of Trento (Italy)
  975. Rose Barboza, Researcher and professor, Centre for Social Studies, Univ. Coimbra/ Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
  976. Conor Wilson, University of the West of Scotland 
  977. Rachel Carvalho, PhD candidate, University of Coimbra/Ces
  978. Patrícia Ferreira, posdoc researcher, Centre for Social Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
  979. Rachid Jarmouni professor of sociology university Moulay Ismail Meknes Morocco
  980. Daniela Jorge, University of Coimbra
  981. Rita Silva, PhD student, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra
  982. Laura Brito (Phd candidate, CES-UC)
  983. Patrícia Branco, CES-UC
  984. Francisco Venes, PhD Candidate, Centro de Estudos Sociais
  985. Catriona Gray, University of Bath
  986. Spoorthi Gangadikar, PhD, Université Paris 8
  987. Gwendal Roblin, PHD Student, Poitiers University
  988. Diego Antolinos-Basso, research engineer, CEVIPOF / médialab, Sciences Po Paris
  989. Hestia Delibas, PhD student, CES
  990. Wiame Idrissi Alami, PhD, Grenoble Alps University
  991. María Fernanda Rodríguez, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
  992. Laure Tisseyre, Docteure, Université libre de Bruxelles
  993. Hippolyte Regnault, PhD student, Paris-Dauphine University & Aix-Marseille University
  994. Julie Castro, MD, PhD, Postdoc at HETS Geneva
  995. Paola Di Nunzio, Research Manager, Centre for Social Studies
  996. Breanna J. McDaniel, PhD
  997. YOUSEF GONSETH Flora P.h.D candidate University Paris VIII
  998. Meghna Nag Chowdhuri, Research Fellow, UCL
  999. Sérgio Barbosa, PhD candidate, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra / Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), TU Graz
  1000. Iman EL FEKI, PhD candidate, Université de Strasbourg, France
  1001. Ahmed Mousa badawi, Freelance Sociological Researcher, Egypt 
  1002. Dr Kate Herrity, Kings College
  1003. Siwar Harrabi – Researcher in Sociology /Criminology
  1004. Alec Cali, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam 
  1005. Carlotta Benvegnù, Associate professor, Université d’Evry – Paris Saclay
  1006. Dr Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London
  1007. Scott T. Grether, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Longwood University
  1008. Ceren Şengül
  1009. Sirine Al hachimi, PhD, University Abdelmalek Essaâdi
  1010. Kostani ben Mohamed 
  1011. BACHI Jasmine, étudiante à l’Ecole Normale Supérieur de Lyon
  1012. Cami Touloukian, Doctoral Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University
  1013. Saadeddine IGAMANE, professor researcher, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco 
  1014. Marie Trossat, PhD candidate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
  1015. Zouhair JEBBAR, SOCIOLOGY-PHD CANDIDATE, IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY, MOROCCO
  1016. Boutaleb kouider, professor of economy, University of Tlemcen (Algeria )
  1017. Faika Tahir Jan, Ph.D Candidate, Virginia Tech. 
  1018. Ozlem Goner, Associate Professor, City University of New York
  1019. Caterina Peroni Research associate CNR Italy 
  1020. Ahmed Jemaa, MA, University of Tunis (Central European University alumni)
  1021. Xu Liu, PhD Candidate, Goldsmiths, University of London 
  1022. Marianne Quirouette, assistant professor, Université de Montréal 
  1023. Aerin Lai, PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh
  1024. Matteo Bortolini, Università of Padova, Italy
  1025. Mouhssine AITBA 
  1026. Ronja Walther, MSc, Trinity College Dublin
  1027. Faika Tahir Jan, Ph.D Candidate, Virginia Tech
  1028. Gaetano Marco Latronico, PhD Student, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
  1029. IULIUS-CEZAR MACARIE, PhD | University College Cork 
  1030. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Associate Professor, Carleton University 
  1031. Aidan O’Sullivan, Lecturer in Criminology,  Birmingham City University 
  1032. Joana Monbaron, PhD candidate, Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra
  1033. Aneira J. Edmunds
  1034. Dr Vinod Sartape, Assistant Professor of Sociology, MIT World Peace University, Pune
  1035. Kirsty Morrin, UoL
  1036. Mohamed Saib Musette – Sociologist, Algeria
  1037. Sara Araújo, researcher, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra 
  1038. Djamila Belhouari Musette, Sociologist- Algeria
  1039. Ignasi Bernat Molina, postdoctoral scholar, University of Barcelona
  1040. Dr Emily Luise Hart, Leeds Beckett University 
  1041. Somia Bibi Independent Researcher 
  1042. Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology, Brown University
  1043. Fatema Abdulhusein, student
  1044. Samiha Salhi, Professor of sociology, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco.
  1045. Stefano Barone, Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire
  1046. Jeff Stilley, Instructor, Virginia Tech
  1047. Dr Martin Myers, University of Nottingham 
  1048. Wardah Alkatiri, Ph.D. , Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya (UNUSA), Indonesia.
  1049. Damiano De Facci, Temporary lecturer and research assistant, Paris-Dauphine University
  1050. Masoud Zamani-moghadam, PhD in Sociology, Iran
  1051. Samira Jarrar, PhD student, Aix-Marseille University
  1052. Professor Kalwant Bhopal 
  1053. Carolina Triana-Cuéllar, Doctoral researcher, University of Sussex
  1054. abdullah rezai
  1055. Christina Hughes, Assistant Professor, Macalester College
  1056. Julia Legrand, researcher at centre de recherche sociologique et politique de Paris
  1057. Elorri Harriet, Phd student, Geneva University
  1058. Adrián Groglopo, PhD in sociology and senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg 
  1059. Mahvish Ahmad, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics
  1060. Marc Mason, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster 
  1061. Sophia Woodman, senior lecturer, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
  1062. Aurora Escudero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  1063. Ana Teixeira de Melo, Researcher, Psychologist, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  1064. Sambhavi Ganesh, PhD candidate (South Asian Studies), University of Edinburgh 
  1065. hazal tural, University of Edinburgh
  1066. Professor Manali Desai, Sociology, Cambridge
  1067. Marta Kowalewska, PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
  1068. Yentl de Lange, PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam
  1069. Ruba Al-Hassani, Lancaster University 
  1070. Hanaa Mustafa
  1071. Whitney Hayes, Virginia Tech
  1072. Victoria Redclift, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, UCL
  1073. Matea Senkic, PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh
  1074. Rima EL HERFI, architect
  1075. Karen Gregory, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh
  1076. Robert D. Weide, California State University, Los Angeles 
  1077. Michael Twomey, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Univ. Michigan, Dearborn
  1078. Adel Bousnina, Professor, University of Tunis
  1079. Dmytro Kozak, CEU PhD candidate
  1080. Kubra kocabas
  1081. Anna Fox, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  1082. Sam Mousa
  1083. Inês Nascimento Rodrigues, Researcher, CES
  1084. Seyma Yetkin , PhD student at CEU 
  1085. Zerrin Bulut , Adjunct, DePaul University 
  1086. liam weikart / VA Tech sociology instructor
  1087. Dr Faye Wade, University of Edinburgh
  1088. Professor Colin Clark, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Associate Dean (Research and Innovation), University of the West of Scotland 
  1089. Dِr Ahmed Abozaid, University of Southampton 
  1090. Sue Renton, University of Edinburgh
  1091. Cara Hunter, PhD Candidate, Edinburgh University
  1092. Elif Buse Doyuran, PhD student, University of Edinburgh
  1093. Anthony Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, RIT
  1094. Youness Loukili
  1095. Dr. Lisa Howard, University of Edinburgh
  1096. Nour El Houda Bennama, Mrs, Arab (Muslim) 
  1097. Hyeyun Jeong, PhD student, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
  1098. David L. Brunsma
  1099. Roger Jeffery, Professor, University of Edinburgh
  1100. Suvi Keskinen, Professor in Ethnic Relations, University of Helsinki (Finland)
  1101. Nour El Houda, Mrs, School of Education, University of Leeds
  1102. Hana Mustafa, University of Leeds
  1103. Sidi Moussa Khaled, Mr, School of Art, University of Leicester 
  1104. Kaitlin Shartle, Associate in Research, Duke University
  1105. Hayat Kallas
  1106. Claudia Howald, PhD Student, CES-UC Portugal
  1107. Llibert Mendez de Vigo Arnau, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Edinburgh 
  1108. Ulrika Mårtensson, Professor, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  1109. Nathan Pécout–Le Bras, PhD student in Anthropology, University of Ottawa
  1110. Risa Murase, PhD student, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  1111. Michalis Lianos, Professor of Sociology, University of Rouen
  1112. Dr Merve Sancak- Loughborough University
  1113. Nematollah Nemati . Associate professor Islamic Azad University Damghan branch
  1114. Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi, Researcher, Tampere University, Finland
  1115. Elena Shih, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University
  1116. Atiya Husain, Assistant Professor, Carleton University
  1117. Sofia Laine, PhD, Research Professor
  1118. Alaa A, PhD Student, York University
  1119. Caro Carter, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  1120. Theresa O’Keefe, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland. 
  1121. Erykah Benson, Graduate Student, University of Michigan
  1122. Melodi Var Ongel, PhD student, Syracuse University
  1123. Tayler Nelson, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  1124. Janae Renten
  1125. Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  1126. Dr D J Crewe. Leeds Beckett University
  1127. Dr Eleni Dimou, Lecturer in Criminology, Open University UK
  1128. Lacey Kostishack 
  1129. Alexandra Arraiz Matute, Carleton University
  1130. Nick Thoburn, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
  1131. Priyanka K, PhD candidate, Sociology, Cambridge
  1132. Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University Belfast
  1133. Elías García Rosas. Doctor en Derecho y psicólogo. universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
  1134. Anaïs Duong-Pedica, PhD candidate, Åbo Akademi University
  1135. Forrest Lovette, PhD Student, University of Minnesota
  1136. Pyar Seth, Doctoral Candidate, Johns Hopkins University 
  1137. Simone Schneider, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
  1138. Daniel Colligan, Ph.D Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  1139. Srila Roy, Professor of Sociology, Wits University, South Africa 
  1140. John C. Antush, Student, CUNY Graduate Center, Dept. of Sociology
  1141. Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Reader, University of Manchester 
  1142. Jasmien Meeson, Undergraduate, Toronto Metropolitan University 
  1143. Peter McMylor, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
  1144. Alishya Dhir, Researcher, Durham University 
  1145. Mohsen Saboorian, Assistant Professor, University if Tehran
  1146. Egla Martinez, Social Justice and Human Rights, IIS, Carleton University, Canada
  1147. Cathy Hu, PhD student, UC Berkeley
  1148. Nicole Muffitt, PhD Student, University of Illinois Chicago
  1149. Connor Strobel, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
  1150. Simranjit Steel, Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
  1151. Marite Fregoso. City Colleges of Chicago-HWC
  1152. Dr Mark Bahnisch, University of New South Wales 
  1153. Ellen Frank Delgado- PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
  1154. Sebastien Roux, Research Director in Sociology, CNRS (France)
  1155. Heidi Nicholls, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  1156. Rachel Bergman, PhD student, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
  1157. Dr. David Scott, The Open University 
  1158. parviz Ejlali retired associate professor IMPS Tehran
  1159. Katie Rainwater, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Florida International University 
  1160. Françoise Bartiaux, Em. Prof., Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
  1161. Chiara Bertone, Associate Professore, University of Eastern Piedmont (Italy)
  1162. Khalid Lahsika, sociologue université Mohamed V de Rabat 
  1163. Richard Tardanico, Florida International University 
  1164. Dr Alke Jenss 
  1165. Farhan Qazi
  1166. Dr. Derek Morris, University of Edinburgh 
  1167. Karim Mitha, University of Glasgow
  1168. Conrad Jacober, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Johns Hopkins 
  1169. Aseel Ibrahim, MA student, York University 
  1170. Jenn Sims, Associate Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville 
  1171. Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York 
  1172. James Cummings, Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
  1173. Selene Diaz, visiting assistant professor
  1174. Sean Chabot, Professor of Sociology, Eastern Washington University
  1175. Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Dr, University of Brighton
  1176. Simin Fadaee, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester 
  1177. Can Owen, UX Researcher, UC Irvine PhD 
  1178. amin allal Researcher CNRS Lille France 
  1179. Nacira GUENIF, Professor, University Paris 8
  1180. Justen Hamilton, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
  1181. Iman Afify, Research Assistant, American University in Cairo
  1182. Jeremy F. Walton, University of Rijeka
  1183. Baker Khuder Jasem 
  1184. Lisa S. Park, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
  1185. Sulafa Nofal,  University of Brasilia (UNB)
  1186. Calvin John Smiley, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology, Hunter College-CUNY
  1187. Agnese Battista, Master Student, Crisis and Security Management
  1188. Amelia Wallace, PhD student, UNC-Chapel Hill
  1189. Grayson Bodenheimer, Graduate Student, Indiana University
  1190. Sinda Garziz, Master student at the school of social innovation – Ottawa 
  1191. Dr Kristina Saunders, University of Glasgow 
  1192. Julian Mezarina, sociólogo, independiente
  1193. Kawtar Lebdaoui, Professor of sociology, Morocco
  1194. Glenda Babe, Western University 
  1195. Mia Smith, PhD student, UNC
  1196. Pavithra Sarma, SGSSS ESRC-funded PhD student (Education and rooted in trans-disciplinary work), Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh
  1197. AbdullMajeed salah dawood, university of anbar 
  1198. Dr James Beirne, Maynooth University, Ireland
  1199. Niamh Moore, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh
  1200. Abi O’Connor, PhD candidate, University of Liverpool
  1201. Marta Araújo, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra
  1202. Sajjad Moghayyad, Sociology MA student, University of Tarbiat modares, Tehran
  1203. Sagynzhan Abduakhap, BSc Public Administration, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
  1204. Alice Corble, Leverhulme EC Research Fellow, University of Sussex
  1205. Ryan Moore, Lecturer Faculty, San Francisco State University
  1206. Alireza Ghadimi
  1207. Tania Tosta, Sociology professor, Federal University of Goias
  1208. Eyyup YILMAZ – Loyola University Chicago
  1209. Begum Zareefa Islam, PhD student, Virginia Tech
  1210. Stefanie Doebler, lecturer, Lancaster University
  1211. Associate Professor Caroline Lenette, University of New South Wales 
  1212. Alexia Palomino-Cortez, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
  1213. Alf Nilsen, Director, Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria 
  1214. Kerry Woodward, Professor, California State University, Long Beach
  1215. Su-ming Khoo, Associate Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Galway, Ireland
  1216. Maryam AlHajri, University of Edinburgh
  1217. Siri Neerchal, PhD Student, Harvard University
  1218. Baptiste Brossard, University of York
  1219. Katy Sian, Dr, University of York 
  1220. Dr Julius Elster, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth, London Metropolitan University
  1221. Ankit, PhD Candidate, Sociology dept, UC Santa Cruz
  1222. Robin Gabriel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Santa Cruz 
  1223. Ja Bulsombut, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
  1224. Tim Gill
  1225. Allen Magaña, PhD student, Sociology Department, UC Santa Cruz
  1226. Erin Arikan
  1227. Emma Grove, University of Edinburgh
  1228. Hafedh Abderrahim ISAM, université de Gabes
  1229. Dr Viji Kuppan, Centre For Hate Studies, University of Leicester
  1230. Claudia M. Prado-Meza, PhD. Assistant professor, University of Colima, Mexico
  1231. Zahra Bei, PhD Candidate, University College London/IoE 
  1232. Hossein Mirzaei,Associate Professor of Sociology,University of Tehran,Iran.
  1233. Dr Debra Ferreday, Lancaster University, UK
  1234. Tyler McDaniel, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
  1235. Mohammad Ali Dadgostarnia, PhD student of Political Sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i university
  1236. Sofia Butnaru, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  1237. Nikoleta Sremac, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota Sociology
  1238. Fatima Sajjad, associate Professor , UMT Lahore
  1239. Jennifer J. Casolo, Pluriversidad Maya Ch’orti’
  1240. James Karabin, PhD Student, University of California Santa Cruz
  1241. Shaira Vadasaria, Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh
  1242. Veronica Lerma, Assistant Professor, UC Davis
  1243. Mai Awad, PhD student in Sociology at University of California Santa Cruz 
  1244. Mohamed Jahah. Sociologue 
  1245. Michelle Gomez Parra, PhD Candidate, The University of California, Santa Cruz
  1246. Hannah Pullen-Blasnik, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
  1247. Jonas Van Vossole, Post-doc, Center for Social Studies, Coimbra University
  1248. Charles Post, Professor, City University of New York
  1249. Katy H, Columbia University
  1250. Marie-Claude Haince, Visiting Researcher, Université de Montréal 
  1251. Jessie Miller, University of Illinois Chicago
  1252. Jayati Lal, College of Holy Cross
  1253. Peggy Watson,  University of Cambridge
  1254. Cierra Raine Sorin, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara 
  1255. Mahdi.hasanzadeh
  1256. Eva Jewell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
  1257. Giulia Selmi, assistant professor, university of Parma (IT)
  1258. Catherine Stinton, PhD Student, University of York
  1259. Idir SMAIL, docteur en sociologie, université de bejaia
  1260. Professor Jo Littler, Goldsmiths 
  1261. Luisa Farah Schwartzman , University of Toronto 
  1262. Steven Roberts, Professor of Education and Social Justice, Monash University 
  1263. Tawfik Sultan, Center for Educational Research and Development – Yemen
  1264. Aïsha Lehmann, PhD Student, University of Illinois Chicago
  1265. Amanda Lu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
  1266. Dr Cath Lambert, University of Warwick
  1267. Coco, graduate student, UCSB
  1268. Juan Duchesne Winter, Emeritus Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  1269. Carrie Hamilton, PhD Student, University of California Santa Cruz
  1270. Ahmet Zahit Ekren, Graduate Student, Sabancı University-Cultural Studies
  1271. SABAHETA, Assoc. Professor, Luke FINLAND 
  1272. Daniela Cherubini, assistant professor, university of Parma, italy
  1273. Aziz Iraki professeur à l institut national d aménagement et d urbanisme de Rabat, Maroc 
  1274. Savannah Salato, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  1275. Radhika Mongia, Associate Professor, Sociology, York University
  1276. Kelly Jones, PhD Student, UC San Diego
  1277. Dr. R. Hoyng, Lancaster University
  1278. Hanna Goldberg, Graduate Assistant, CUNY Graduate Center
  1279. Amin bozorgiyan, Phd candidate at department of anthropology in university of Nice (Côte d’azur) France
  1280. Daanika Gordon, Assistant Professor, Tufts University
  1281. Rose Porter, Doctoral Student and Adjunct Instructor, Sociology 
  1282. Joseph Kaplan, PhD Student, UCLA
  1283. Naina Bawri, PhD candidate, University of Sussex 
  1284. Naomi Smith, Lecturer, Sociology, University of the Sunshine Coast
  1285. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (affiliation for identification only)
  1286. Iam Chong Ip, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  1287. Steph O. Landeros–Ph.D. student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  1288. Jean Halley, Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York
  1289. Christopher Santiago, Doctoral Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
  1290. Ryan DeCarsky, PhD Student, University of Washington
  1291. Claire Sieffert, PhD Candidate, New York University
  1292. Jacob Conley, Grad Student, UNC-CH
  1293. Katharina Klaunig, PhD Student, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  1294. Meredith Riley, Grad Student UNC-CH
  1295. Jorge Mancilla, Graduate Student, UNC Chapel-Hill
  1296. Anna Gardner, Graduate Student, UNC Chapel Hill
  1297. Yunlin Li, Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
  1298. Raphael Porteilla, Profess, University of Bourgogne, France
  1299. Claudia Prestel, Professor, University of Leicester and Monash University
  1300. Imad, Teaching Assistant, UNC
  1301. Roland Prefferkorn, Professor Emeritus, Université de Strasbourg
  1302. H. Jacob Carlson, Assistant Professor, Kean University
  1303. Dr Shah, University of London
  1304. Priyanjali Mitra, PhD student, UChicago 
  1305. Katie Beekman, PhD student, Vanderbilt University
  1306. Nantina Vgontzas, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, City University of New York
  1307. Jarvis Benson, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  1308. Alexandra Ro, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  1309. Zakia Salime Rutgers
  1310. Annisa P. Rochadiat, Assistant Professor of Communication, California State University Stanislaus
  1311. Shre Kapoor 
  1312. Derek Sayer, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta
  1313. Meeta Rani Jha, Lecturer, UC, Berkeley 
  1314. Michael Quiboloy, UC Berkeley
  1315. Johanna Quinn, Assistant Professor, Fordham University
  1316. Jessica Lopez Espino, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
  1317. Mehmet Soyer, Assistant Professor, Utah State University  
  1318. Robert D. Weide, Associate Professor, Cal State LA
  1319. Dr. Sajjad Ali 
  1320. Nicholas Vargas
  1321. Joshua Kalemba, Dr Western Sydney University 
  1322. Dr Andrew Whelan, University of Wollongong
  1323. Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez, ABI Freiburg 
  1324. Abdullah Çiftçi, Akdeniz University, Turkey
  1325. George Kalivis, PhD Candidate in Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
  1326. Vina Adriany, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
  1327. Atty. Emmanuel S. Caliwan, Sociology Graduate student, University of the Philippines Los Baños 
  1328. Dr. Alfian Helmi, IPB University Indonesia
  1329. Sara Goldrick-Rab 
  1330. Jason Contino, PhD Student, UCLA
  1331. Mohammad Hossein Bahrani PhD . 
  1332. Asyanadiva Fazrary, Sociology, University of Edinburgh
  1333. Yusuf Şahin
  1334. Dr. Şeyma Ayyıldız, Manisa Celal Bayar University
  1335. Sara Bragg, Associate Professor sociology of education, IoE, University College London
  1336. Mohammed Ababou, Laboratoire de Sociologie et Psychologie. USMBA, FÈS
  1337. Raviteja Rambarki, PhD Student, University of Hyderabad 
  1338. Joowon Yuk, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kyungpook National University
  1339. Inseo Son, National Research Foundation of Korea Academic Research Professor, Korea University
  1340. Roh, Joongkee  professor  Hanshin University
  1341. Gabriella Paolucci Associate professor of Sociology University of Florence, Italy
  1342. Kim-taeyoung, Master, Kyungpook National University
  1343. Dr. Gunmin Yi, Research Fellow, Institute for Political & Economic Alternatives
  1344. Qonita, M.Pd, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
  1345. Chin Yong Chong, Ph.D candidate, Gyeongsang National University Dept. of Political Economy, South Korea
  1346. Fatemeh Sajjdi
  1347. Dr Marcus Maloney, Coventry University
  1348. Melissa Nolas, Reader – Goldsmiths, University of London
  1349. HEO KYEUNGJIN
  1350. May Geelani
  1351. Dr Aileen O’Carroll
  1352. Teresa Cunha Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
  1353. Rosalba Altopiedi ricercatrice
  1354. Umut Erel, Open University
  1355. Muh. Khaerul Watoni A., M. Pd
  1356. Mufti Fauzi
  1357. Inhwa Kang, BK Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
  1358. Dr Eva Cabrejas/ Spanish and Latin American Studies/ Zapatista indigenous women/
  1359. sina aminizadeh, Assistant Processor of  Social Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman. iran
  1360. Merve Reyhan Baygeldi 
  1361. Brenda Mondragon (University College Cork)
  1362. Dana L Givan Early Years Practitioner CEC
  1363. Asma alipor
  1364. نرجس فرحبخش 
  1365. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Professor emerita Paris
  1366. Reza Mansour Khanaki, Master of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Iran
  1367. Reza alipour, phd student, the university of Ferdowsi, Iran
  1368. B Camminga
  1369. Dr Lucy Bryant, Open University
  1370. Thuraya AL-NASERI, Master student. Ibn Haldun University.
  1371. Young Hee Lee, Professor, The Catholic University of Korea
  1372. Mr. Damianos Tzoupis, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh
  1373. Weeam Hammoudeh, Assistant Professor, Birzeit University
  1374. Dr Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh, University of Sheffield
  1375. Dr Leah Gilman, University of Sheffield
  1376. Dr Matthew Hanchard, signed in a personal capacity and not representative of any stance taken by my employing institution.
  1377. Dr Laura Connelly, Lecturer, University of Sheffield
  1378. Forouhar Farzaneh, Professor, Sharif University of Technology
  1379. Ebru YILMAZ
  1380. Diana Prasatya 
  1381. Osama Seyhali, PhD student at sociology department, Ibn Haldun University 
  1382. Astrid Brodén, Alumni of University of Cambridge
  1383. Heba Attallah, master student in sociology department, Ibn Haldun University 
  1384. Schmitt Lalia, PhD student, EPHE-PSL, France
  1385. Catrinel Toncu, MA student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University
  1386. Hye Min Oh, Lecturer at Korea National University of Arts
  1387. Luciane Lucas dos Santos, researcher, Centre for Social Studies
  1388. Katalin Halasz, Brunel University London
  1389. Faida Nur Rachmawati, Student at Gadjah Mada University
  1390. Hwansuk Kim, Professor, Kookmin University, South Korea
  1391. Ouasmani Fatima ,professor-researcher
  1392. Lesley Hustinx, Associate Professor Sociology, Ghent University
  1393. Hwanhee Kim, Dr, Inmuyeon
  1394. Jennifer Bouek, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware
  1395. Francesca Romana Ammaturo, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
  1396. Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University 
  1397. Ginevra Floridi, Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods, University of Edinburgh
  1398. Laura Sochas, University of Edinburgh
  1399. Jessica Gagnon, University of Manchester 
  1400. Mark Doidge, Loughborough University 
  1401. Il-hwan Kim
  1402. Seo Dongjin, Professor, Kaywon University of Art and Design
  1403. Aziz Hlaoua, anthropologist, Mohamed V university of Rabat Morocco 
  1404. Gemma Gibson, Teaching Associate, University of Sheffield
  1405. Dr Catherine Hartung
  1406. Annalisa Frisina (University of Padova)
  1407. Chansook Hong, Dr., SNU
  1408. Narzanin Massoumi, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
  1409. Miray Philips, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
  1410. Aline Courtois, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath
  1411. HyangKoo Shon, Professor, Dongguk University
  1412. Kwang-Yeong Shin, Fellow, Chung-Yeong University
  1413. Dr Claire Dorrity, University College Cork
  1414. Tara Dourian, PhD candidate in sociology, France/Canada
  1415. Jarron Bowman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kalamazoo College
  1416. Barbara Santibanez, PhD, University of Bordeaux
  1417. Dr Rachele Salvatelli, Research Fellow, Northumbria University 
  1418. Fatemeh yazdani
  1419. Mahdi tavazoni 
  1420. Professor Maggie O’Neill, University College Cork 
  1421. Hanane Essaydi, African Studies, Marrakesh university 
  1422. Mahla Takallou 
  1423. Seyede kowsar hashemizadeh
  1424. Yao Xu, PhD Student, Stanford Sociology
  1425. Dan Kitson, PhD student, Brown University 
  1426. Esther Moraes
  1427. Caoimhe McDonald 
  1428. A. Jaidery
  1429. Pooya jamali, sociology student in atu
  1430. Abdessabour lagramate. Professor of Sociology. University ibn tofail.
  1431. Matin sharifi culture and communication studies researcher, allameh tabatabaei univ.
  1432. Ali Askari
  1433. Hyukkyoo, CHOI
  1434. Madeleine Straubel, PhD Candidate, UNC Chapel Hill
  1435. Hocine LABDELAOUI/Université Alger 2
  1436. Karis Campion, City, University of London
  1437. Lars Hulgaard, Professor PhD
  1438. Chun Wonkeun, Assistant Professor, Jeju University
  1439. Vincenza Pellegrino, University of Parma, Italy
  1440. Ana Margarida Esteves,  Integrated Researcher, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute 
  1441. Jasper Cattell, PhD Student, Brown University
  1442. Professor Yasmin Gunaratnam, Kings College (London)
  1443. Jenny Thatcher 
  1444. Braxton Brewington, Phd Student, UNC-CH
  1445. Andrew Keefe, JD/PhD Student, Harvard University
  1446. Jesse Wozniak, Associate Professor, West Virginia University
  1447. Jasmine Gani, University of St Andrews
  1448. Asriani Noer Afifah PCA
  1449. Gwendolyn Zugarek, Lecturer, Appalachian State University
  1450. Sohoon Yi, Assistant Professor, College of International Studies, Korea University 
  1451. Alf Nilsen, Director, Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria
  1452. Rogier van Reekum, Erasmus University 
  1453. Ayşe Çandır sociologist, Phd Candidate Kadir Has University 
  1454. Johnnie Lotesta, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Appalachian State University
  1455. Samira kooshki 
  1456. Felicia Arriaga, Assistant professor, Baruch College
  1457. Annavittoria Sarli, Dr, University of Parma
  1458. Eli Melby, PhD candidate, University of Bergen
  1459. فاطمه شیخ زاده 
  1460. Muhammad Fahmi Nurcahyo, S.Sosio / Student at Magister Media and Cultural Studies Gadjah Mada University
  1461. Muhammad Zahid Lecturer in Sociology at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Pakistan 
  1462. Karen Hammond, Lecturer in Criminal justice and criminology, University of the West of Scotland 
  1463. Zaid, Asstt Prof, Sociology AWKUM
  1464. Evan Cui, PhD Student, UCLA 
  1465. Scarlet Harris, University of Cambridge 
  1466. Mohammad reza ghaemi nik. Associate professor of sociology of razavi university in mashhad iran
  1467. Asif Mushtaq, PhD Candidate, IIT Bombay 
  1468. Tom Boland, University College Cork
  1469. Jai, PhD scholar at IIT-Bombay
  1470. Tia Dafnos, Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick
  1471. Daryl Martin, University of York
  1472. Ebru Yılmaz, PhD Student at Ankara Social Sciences University, Women and family studies 
  1473. Simab Khan
  1474. Shaikh maseera Abu sufiyan 
  1475. Olivia Jin, PhD Student, Stanford University
  1476. Kasey Henricks
  1477. Sarah Ellis, Senior Lecturer
  1478. Anindya Kundu, professor, FIU
  1479. Dr Kavita Maya, Research Fellow, Gender Institute, Royal Holloway University of London
  1480. Swan Ye Htut, PhD Student, Stanford University
  1481. Sarah Philipson Isaac, PhD student, Dept. of sociology, Gothenburg university
  1482. ShakournematiSociology doctoral student
  1483. Senior Professor Diana Mulinari.  Lunds University. Sweden 
  1484. Pedro Hespanha, PhD in Sociology, Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidsde de Coimbra
  1485. Benlarbi Driss professeur de sociologie université Moulay Ismail Meknes Maroc 
  1486. Suchisree Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 
  1487. Andrew J. Shapiro, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
  1488. Hannes Lagerlöf, PhD in Sociology, University of Gothenburg
  1489. Md Saquib Firdosi 
  1490. Büşra Işık, Msc Student, Yildiz Technical University
  1491. Nargis khan
  1492. Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Associate Professor, Roskilde University 
  1493. Mauricio Rogat, PhD, REMESO
  1494. Dr N Kennedy
  1495. Shaikh Mobasshir 
  1496. Khan Ayesha Mobasshir 
  1497. Katy Fox, PhD – Mycelium Design
  1498. Iznallah, Student, IIT Bombay
  1499. Davood Taleghani, Phd candidate of Social Knowledge of Muslims, University of Tehran
  1500. Mohammad soltanieh
  1501. Michael Marten, University of Aberdeen
  1502. Emina Zoletic, PhD student, University of Warsaw, Fulbright fellow Syracuse University
  1503. Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, CPT, former board member of CONTEXTS
  1504. Emily Ernst, Sociology PhD Student at University of California, Merced
  1505. Christian Maddox, PhD Student, Washington University in St. Louis
  1506. Dana Kornberg, Assistant Professor, UC-Santa Barbara
  1507. Armin Sauermann, PhD Student, Washington University in St. Louis
  1508. Rene Iwo, PhD Student, UNC Chapel Hill
  1509. Iteoluwakiishi (Rebecca) Arigbabu, Ph.D. Student, Washington University in St. Louis
  1510. Abhiti Gupta
  1511. Lynne Turner, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  1512. Dr Ashli Mullen, University of Glasgow 
  1513. Alejandra Ledesma, UC Berkley former student
  1514. Siddartha Aradhya, PhD, Stockholm University 
  1515. Dr. Darcy Tetreault, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
  1516. Alejandro Abisambra, Northwestern University
  1517. Dr Kathryn Daley, RMIT University
  1518. Carl Cassegard, Professor, University of Gothenburg
  1519. Julia Willén, assistant lecturer, REMESO, Linköping university
  1520. Joseph van der Naald, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center 
  1521. Karin Skill, Assistant professor, Linköping university, Sweden
  1522. Anders Neergaard, Professor, Linköping University 
  1523. Lisa Karlsson Blom, PhD candidate, Linköping university 
  1524. Mythili Rajiva, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
  1525. Susmit, Grad Student, IIT Bombay 
  1526. Amir NodehFarahani, Sociologist, Allame tabatabai University 
  1527. Joti Sekhon, retired
  1528. Mahsa Saadati, university student, French language and literature 
  1529. Victoria Brockett, Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
  1530. Sam Neylon, PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
  1531. Han Koehle, MSW, Washington University in St. Louis
  1532. Tom Haseloff, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
  1533. Brian Connor, Senior Lecturer of sociology, University of Maryland 
  1534. Esmaeil Khalili; Freelance researcher in Sociology of Knowledge; Former researcher in ISCS; Member of Iranian Sociological Association
  1535. Patrik Zapata, professor in Public administration, University of Gothenburg 
  1536. Susanna Lundberg, senior lecturer of sociology/social work/labour science, Malmö University Sweden
  1537. Greg Wolfman, independent researcher
  1538. Lydia Dana, PhD Student in Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago
  1539. Saadia Toor, City University of New York
  1540. Priyanka Das, IIT Bombay
  1541. Nid. S – Student – UofT
  1542. Efşan Çelikçi 
  1543. Fatemeh Motalleb 
  1544. Sam Maron, Lecturer of Sociology, Emmanuel College
  1545. Serena Coppolino Perfumi, PhD student, Stockholm University 
  1546. Asha Larson-Baldwin, PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis
  1547. Marilia Verissimo Veronese
  1548. Anthony Palafox, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  1549. Blythe George, Assistant Professor, UC Merced
  1550. KIM Myeongsoo, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
  1551. Roderick A. Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of WGSS and American Studies
  1552. Kallan Larsen, Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill
  1553. Baranmogharabian 
  1554. Jose B. Castiblanco, PhD Student, The New School for Social Research
  1555. Yoke Sum Wong, Associate Professor, Alberta University of the Arts
  1556. Dr Nisha Biswas, Scientist, CSIR
  1557. Ellen Berrey, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
  1558. Sanjana, student, Ashoka University
  1559. Mohd Shaban Khan
  1560. Swatija Manorama FAOW member activists
  1561. Dr. Mehmet Baris Kuymulu, Assistant Prof., Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Sociology 
  1562. Anuradha Kapoor, Feminist Activist
  1563. Mohammad Hossein Saei, Assistant Professor, in Journalism and news Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of Islamic Republic of Iran Radio and Television Broadcasting University (IRIBU) – Tehran, Iran
  1564. Fauziah Rahmat 
  1565. Mohammadsadegh Karbalaeizadeh, Phd candidate of Sociology, University of Tehran
  1566. Abdus Salam Sociologist
  1567. Rajni Palriwala, Professor (retd.) University of Delhi
  1568. Papori Bora, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University 
  1569. Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi 
  1570. Ambika Tandon, University of Cambridge
  1571. Maitrayee Chaudhuri . Retired Professor. Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi
  1572. Sujata Patel
  1573. Said Moidfar Tehran University
  1574. Amrita, University of Cape  Town 
  1575. Satish Deshpande, Professor (Retired), University of Delhi
  1576. Waldo Campos Undergraduate Student at UC Berkeley 
  1577. Ferdose Idris PhD Candidate Princeton University 
  1578. Suranjan Sinha, independent researcher, formerly University of Delhi, Sociology faculty.
  1579. Ruchi Chaturvedi Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
  1580. Asanda Benya, University of Cape Town 
  1581. Fatemeh mohammad beigi, Economics student of Allameh Tabatabai University of Iran
  1582. Giselle EL RAHEB, Chargée d’enseignement pédagogie & andragogie, collectif SOS Palestine La Rochelle
  1583. Alexandra D’Urso, PhD, independent scholar
  1584. Francesca Esposito, Border Criminologies
  1585. SJ Cooper-Knock, University of Sheffield
  1586. AbdelMadjid Ben Habib, Associate professor in the department of psychology in the faculty of human and social sciences in university of Tlemcen in Algeria
  1587. Rushikesh, PhD student in Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 
  1588. Sadie Pendaz-Foster, Inver Hills Community College
  1589. Faisal Garba, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town
  1590. Dilar Dirik, PhD, independent researcher 
  1591. Abhijit Dasgupta, Professor of Sociology (Retd)
  1592. Kenna Sim, PhD student, Linköping University
  1593. Kennouche Tayeb sociologue Alger Algerie
  1594. Maaz Shaikh, Doctor, Dentist
  1595. Zahra Kheirkhah 
  1596. Areesh Ahmad, Ramjas College, DU
  1597. Almas Saeed, Research scholar, University of Delhi
  1598. Angela M. Toffanin, researcher, Italy
  1599. Karen Engle, Professor, University of Windsor 
  1600. Marcello Maneri, Professor of Sociology, Università di Milano-Bicocca 
  1601. Madhusree Dutta, MS, Filmmaker
  1602. Walaa, PhD candidate, GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF london
  1603. Raka Sen, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania 
  1604. Michaela Benson, Professor in Public Sociology, Lancaster University
  1605. Jungyoon Park, graduate student, kyungpook national university
  1606. Mohammad Sohrab, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India 
  1607. Sheeba Naaz, research scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, India 
  1608. Dr Mary Robson
  1609. Paran Amitava, Alumni of School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 
  1610. Daniel Breslau, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech
  1611. Sheena Sood, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Delaware Valley University
  1612. Mustajab Khatir, Assistant Professor, MANUU
  1613. Asia jan, Post Graduate Student at Aligarh Muslim University 
  1614. MSc. Sociology. Yasmin
  1615. Samina Hossain, PhD student, University of Wisconsin 
  1616. Mouldi Guessoumi, Professor of Sociology, University of Tunis.
  1617. Asadolah  Naghdi.  Professor of Sociology .basu.ac.ir
  1618. Stephen Wulff, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  1619. Nicolás Torres-Echeverry, Ph.D. Candidate, Univrsity of Chicago
  1620. Nadia Ahmad, PG student 
  1621. Changez khan
  1622. Jasmine Hill, Assistant Professor, UCLA
  1623. Paige DePasquale, PhD Student, Northeastern University
  1624. Olivia Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  1625. Taisto Witt, PhD Student, McGill University
  1626. Charlotte Gaudreau, PhD candidate, McGill University
  1627. Yi-Cheng Hsieh, PhD Student, McGill University
  1628. Hannah Zawahri, Jordanian/Palestinian- American 
  1629. Tokarieva Marharyta, MA student in Sociology and Social Anthropology
  1630. Christopher Thorén, PhD student, department of sociology and work science, Gothenburg university 
  1631. Gisell Sarinana, Undergraduate, UC Berkeley Sociology
  1632. André Kaysel Velasco e Cruz, assistent professor, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) and visiting scholar, UC Berkeley.
  1633. Ann-Marie, PhD Candidate, McGill University 
  1634. Seunghan Paek, Assistant Professor, Pusan National University
  1635. Shannon Bucci, Graduate Student, CU Denver 
  1636. Dr Ali kassem, National University of Singapore
  1637. Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor, Vassar College
  1638. Sumaira Sociologist 
  1639. Areeg Faisal
  1640. Chan-Jong Park, Assistant Professor, Chung-Nam National University
  1641. Reiko Ogawa, Professor, Chiba University
  1642. Patricia Uberoi, Professor of Sociology (Rtd), Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
  1643. Chulhee Chung Professor Chonbuk National Universityniversity
  1644. Sevdulje Ramadani, MA graduate in sociology and social anthropology (CEU)
  1645. David Sanchez Garcia, MPhil University of Cambridge, MA The New School
  1646. Amy Verdun, PhD in Political and Social Sciences
  1647. Veronica Grönlund, phd student, Gothenburg university 
  1648. Helena Håkansson, University of Gothenburg
  1649. Sofya Aptekar, Associate professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
  1650. Mabrouka Ben M’Barek, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  1651. José David López Blanco , PhD Student, Universidad Carlos III
  1652. Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor, Cornell University 
  1653. Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology
  1654. Erin Michaels, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNCW
  1655. Rommy Morales Olivares. University of Barcelona
  1656. Annie Hikido, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colby College
  1657. Victoria Sánchez Belando, Adjunct Prof. University of Barcelona. 
  1658. Jacklyn cock, professor emeritus, wits university, 
  1659. Bru Lain, associate professor. Universitat de Barcelona 
  1660. Amat Saeed
  1661. Abrar Alshammari, PhD student, Princeton University 
  1662. Melanie Samson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
  1663. Yomna ElSharony, PhD Student, Cornell University 
  1664. Meghan Tinsley, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
  1665. SUZAN ILCAN, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
  1666. Aoife Dare, DSocSc candidate, University College Cork, Ireland
  1667. Rania Tfaily, Associate Professor, Carleton University
  1668. Alice Corble, Research Fellow, University of Sussex
  1669. Fahmo Rage, Teacher K-12 education 
  1670. Srushti Upadhyay, PhD Candidate, University at Buffalo 
  1671. Tamara Humphrey, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria 
  1672. Abigail A. Fuller, Lecturer, University of Southern Maine
  1673. Kathryn Wiley, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
  1674. Jules, Soupault, PhD Student; University of Victoria
  1675. Arman Zakeri;  Assistant Prof.  Tarbiat Modares University(۲۰۱۹-۲۰۲۳)
  1676. Clinton Nichols, Assistant Professor, Dominican University 
  1677. Azim Hasanzadeh, M.Cs. in social research, social researcher in minority, ethnicity, gender and inequality 
  1678. Khaled aboudouh, sohag University,  egypt
  1679. Robyn Smith, Lecturer, Brunel University London 
  1680. SeyedAlireza Afshani, Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran 
  1681. Prof. Ari Sitas, University of Cape Town
  1682. Jin Ding
  1683. Taylor E. Hartson, PhD Student, University of Notre Dame
  1684. Keyhan safari, social researcher and lecturer
  1685. Katharine Rockwell 
  1686. Aarti Ratna, Associate Professor, Northumbria University
  1687. David Webber, Solent University, Southampton
  1688. P Prakash University of Toronto
  1689. Ansh Sharma, MA student, Ambedkar University Delhi 
  1690. Kenyon Cavender, Grad Student, Binghamton University Sociology
  1691. Rabab Abdulhadi, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program, San Fransisco State University
  1692. Sonia Chabane, Consultant, SC Rights Consultancy
  1693. Katie Moran, PhD Student, Princeton University
  1694. Muath Abudalu, Humboldt University in Berlin
  1695. Subini Annamma, Associate Professor, Stanford University
  1696. Sadia Habib, Lecturer, University of Manchester 
  1697. Luke Yates, University of Manchester 
  1698. Margaux Neve PhD student- EHESS
  1699. Dr Saleema Burney, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham 
  1700. Professor Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor 
  1701. Daniel Chai, UCLA Sociology PhD Student
  1702. W. Carson Byrd, University of Michigan
  1703. Giti khazaie, University of Tehran
  1704.  Christina Jackson, Associate Professor of Sociology
  1705. Waqas Tufail, Reader, Leeds Beckett University
  1706. Dr Fauzia Ahmad, Goldsmiths 
  1707. Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of the Arts 
  1708. Kiran Grewal, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 
  1709. Samia Rahman, PhD Student, Goldsmith’s University of London 
  1710. Kasia Paprocki, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
  1711. Brandon Saucedo Pita, PhD Student, University of Southern California
  1712. zohre soroushfar, PHD Candidate, Alzahra university
  1713. Dr. Evelyn Callahan, UCL
  1714. Mohamed Shedeed, PhD Candidate, Political Science, Ohio State University
  1715. Carmela Muzio Dormani, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mercy University
  1716. Loubna BELAID
  1717. Ben Frymer, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University
  1718. Letisha Brown, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati 
  1719. RA Saxton, PhD Candidate, George Mason University 
  1720. Ji-Eun Ahn, University of Edinburgh
  1721. Sadia Saeed, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco 
  1722. Jeffrey Parker, Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans
  1723. Maxwell Roberts, Graduate Student, UCI
  1724. Preethi Krishnan, Associate Professor, O.P.Jindal Global University, India 
  1725. Karida Brown, Professor, Emory University 
  1726. Tim Winzler, Tutor, University of Glasgow 
  1727. Shahrokni, Shirin, Associate Professor, York University
  1728. Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Associate Professor of Religion & Society, Boston University
  1729. Ali Kadivar, Assistant professor of sociology and international studies, Boston College 
  1730. Mackenzie Niness, Graduate Student, University of Delaware
  1731. Dalton Lackey, Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland
  1732. Jonah Stuart Brundage, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  1733. Jon Blum, PhD Candidate, Boston College 
  1734. LaTrina Johnson-Brown, EdD Student, American University 
  1735. Ning Hsieh, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
  1736. Kourtney Nham, PhD Student, UC San Francisco
  1737. Özgün Aksakal, PhD Candidate, LSE
  1738. Crystal Eddins, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  1739. Dylan Farrell-Bryan, PhD, Yale University 
  1740. Atef Said, Associate Professor , University of Illinois at Chicago 
  1741. Sophie Webb, PhD Candidate, UCSD
  1742. Vicky Walters, Lecturer, Massey University
  1743. Soibam Haripriya 
  1744. Dr Shaida Nabi  Independent 
  1745. Ehab Asfari
  1746. Anthony Alvarez, assoc prof, csuf
  1747. Samara Merhi, Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary 
  1748. Nima Shojaei, PhD in Political Sociology, Iran.
  1749. Siphelo Ngcwangu, Prof, University of Johannesburg Sociology Department 
  1750. John O’Brien, Associate Professor, Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi
  1751. Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor, Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.
  1752. Kezia Lewins, Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  1753. Irfan Ahmad, Professor Dr, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey
  1754. Niknejat , Phd candidate
  1755. Diane Pranzo, Assistant Professor IHU, Istanbul
  1756. Luisa Gandolfo, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
  1757. Nthabiseng Motsemme, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
  1758. Emilia Howker, Senior Tutor, University of Manchester 
  1759. Michael Kwet, Dr, University of Johannesburg
  1760. Sophina Choudry, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester 
  1761. Mina Jafarisabet, PhD Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin & the University of Helsinki
  1762. Professor Jimi Adesina – University of South Africa (South Africa)
  1763. Laura Lucia Parolin
  1764. Ozge Ozduzen, Lecturer, University of Sheffield 
  1765. Dr Carol Stephenson
  1766. Karina Vabson, PhD student, Estonian Academy of Arts
  1767. Zainab Gaffoor, University of Cape Town
  1768. Sara Farris, Reader, Goldsmiths University of London
  1769. Dr Svenja Bromberg, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
  1770. Vikki Bell, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
  1771. Dr Jacqui O’Riordan, University College Cork
  1772. Virinder Kalra 
  1773. Anastasia Yang, Dr, University of Edinburgh 
  1774. Atiyeh. Gaza. Graduated in sociology from Iran
  1775. Zuhan Azad, Lecturer, F.C College Lahore
  1776. Martin Savransky, Reader,  Goldsmiths, University of London
  1777. Anas Askar, PhD, Bowie State University 
  1778. Rashida Bibi, Research Associate, Faculty of Social Science
  1779. Marie Larsson, PhD student Lund University
  1780. Zeynep üner, İbn Haldun Sosyoloji öğrencisi
  1781. Diane Reay University of Cambridge 
  1782. پرویز بگ رضایی دکترای جامعه شناسی ، ایران ، ایلام 
  1783. Jingyu Mao, Edinburgh University
  1784. Angeliki Sifaki, MSCA Fellow, CES, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  1785. Gayatri Nair, Asst Prof Sociology
  1786. Gabreella Friday, Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University 
  1787. Ms Ragi Bashonga, University of Johannesburg
  1788. Diana Cordoba, Assistant professor, Queen’s University, Canada
  1789. Julian Hartman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
  1790. Heather Schoenfeld, Associate Professor, Boston University
  1791. Dr Amy Cortvriend, lecturer in criminology, Loughborough University 
  1792. Matthew Jerome Schneider, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
  1793. zeinab ahmadi, M. A. in women’s studies
  1794. Amin Asfari, Regis University 
  1795. Luqman Muraina, PhD candidate, University of York
  1796. Dr Uttara Shahani, University of Oxford
  1797. Aminath Rooshan Zuhury, Graduate, Monash University 
  1798. Kamilia Al-Eriani, University of Melbourne
  1799. zohre ahmadloo sociology student
  1800. Martin Preston, PhD Researcher, University of Bristol
  1801. Dominic Walker, PhD Candidate, Columbia University 
  1802. Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick 
  1803. Kate Cairns, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University-Camden
  1804. Cécile Jouhanneau, Associate Professor, Political Science, University Paul Valéry Montpellier (France)
  1805. Rodrigo C. Bulamah, Professor of Anthropology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 
  1806. Dr Hil Aked, author ‘Friends of Israel: the backlash against Palestine Solidarity
  1807. Megan Linton, Carleton PhD student
  1808. Aaron Doyle, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
  1809. Tonya Davidson, Carleton University
  1810. Xiaobei Chen, Professor of Sociology, Carleton University, Canada
  1811. Cihan Erdal, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
  1812. Yukiko Tanaka, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Scarborough
  1813. Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Course Instructor, Carleton University
  1814. Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly, Professor, Sociology, Carleton University
  1815. Mariya Khan, University Illinois Chicago 
  1816. Alexandra P. Gelbard, Ph.D., Florida International University 
  1817. Afaf NAIMI, Graduate Student, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul 
  1818. Hala Abdelgawad, Doctoral Tutor, University of Sussex
  1819. Lecho Kibinimat, University of Surrey
  1820. Erin Madden, assistant professor, Wayne state University 
  1821. Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui, Sheridan College
  1822. Carlos Sedano, Sociologo, Mexico 
  1823. Professor Kate Hardy, Professor of Global Labour, University of Leeds, UK
  1824. Maria Siddiqui, PhD student at Virginia Tech 
  1825. Professor Beverley Skeggs, Lancaster University 
  1826. Dina Ali, Graduate Student, Carleton University
  1827. Amy Argenal, Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Santa Cruz
  1828. Hanna Uddbäck, PhD, Malmö university 
  1829. Fozia Mir
  1830. Laura Bullon-Cassis, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute
  1831. Mrs Michelle Graffagnino
  1832. Karen Ashikeh . EarthNeighborhood.com
  1833. Walner Osna, sociologue, University of Ottawa 
  1834. Angharad Morgan, University of Lancaster, PhD candidate in Education and Social Justice
  1835. My Nguyen, Sociology PhD student, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
  1836. Shaista Chishty, PhD student, Cardiff university 
  1837. Richelle Swan, Professor, CSUSM
  1838. Adeola Young
  1839. Ahmad Amir Zulhafiz atudent UniSHAMS
  1840. V. Kantzara, Panteion University
  1841. Alessia Dalceggio, PhD student, London Metropolitan Universit
  1842. Dr. Masha Kardashevskaya, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba
  1843. Po-Han Lee, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University
  1844. Keely Grossman, PhD Student, Carleton University
  1845. Alison Wiggins, UCL
  1846. Benjamin Foley, PhD, The Q StudioLab, Middle School Teacher
  1847. Bhumika M, PhD Candidate, The New School
  1848. Dr. Joy Meyer
  1849. Melanie Bush, Professor, Adelphi University, MFMT, USSEN
  1850. Kayla Genereux, Graduate Student in Sociology, Carleton University
  1851. Sajedeh Allameh, Social Researcher
  1852. Saurabh Arora, University of Sussex
  1853. Jan Nespor, Professor, The Ohio State University
  1854. Roxanna Villalobos, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
  1855. Dr. Vahid Shalchi Associate Professor of Sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i University 
  1856. Christina Chica, Doctoral Candidate, UCLA
  1857. Shaila Wadhwani (PhD Candidate), Marquette University
  1858. Jess Rubin, MycoEvolve, Roots and Trails
  1859. Simeon J. Newman, postdoc, Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg
  1860. Eliran Arazi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
  1861. Dr Sharon Walker, University of Bristol
  1862. Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Department of Sociology, University of Essex 
  1863. Dr Ana Tomičić, ARETE Institute for sustainable prosperity 
  1864. Calla Brugmans, Graduate Student, McGill University
  1865. Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
  1866. Sneha Singh, Doctoral Candidate, University of Auckland 
  1867. Monisha Jackson, PhD Student, Georgia State University
  1868. CC Cannon, PhD Student, Georgia State University
  1869. Kayland Arrington, PhD Student, Georgia State University
  1870. Angela-Faith Thomas, PhD Student, Georgia State University
  1871. Matthew Harmon, MA Student, Georgia State University
  1872. Amanda Porter
  1873. Laila Reshad, Sociologist, UC Berkeley
  1874. Iris Pissaride, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
  1875. Saeedeh Amini, associate professor of sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i university
  1876. sharmila, academic, IIT Bombay
  1877. Nadia Fotouhi
  1878. Judith Jordà Frias, PhD candidate, University of Coimbra
  1879. Samine Joudat, PhD candidate, Claremont Colleges
  1880. Syed Arabi Idid, IIUM, Malaysia
  1881. Klara Pölzl, PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh
  1882. Alison Chiadzwa
  1883. Professor Carole Elliott, University of Sheffield
  1884. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Sociology, University of Barcelona
  1885. Samer Alatout, Buttel-Sewell Professor, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  1886. Harshad Keval, Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University
  1887. Dr April-Louise Pennant
  1888. Wayej Kuruni, MA Student, Ibn Haldun University, Turkiye.
  1889. Azam Ravadrad, Professor, University of Tehran
  1890. Dr Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal, Senior Lecturer, Brunel University London
  1891. Dr Amani Hassani, Brunel University
  1892. Shirin Assa
  1893. Linda Lapina, Roskilde University
  1894. Oscar Dirlewagner, Associate Professor, Northwestern University of New Mexico
  1895. Dr Esther Muddiman, Lecturer in Sociology of Education, Cardiff University (UK)
  1896. Diana E. Lopez, Gender Advisor, KIT 
  1897. Dr Giulia Champion, The University of Southampton
  1898. Dominic Dinh, PhD-Student, University of Cologne
  1899. Yasmiyn Irizarry, Associate Professor, UT Austin
  1900. Antonio Álvarez-Benavides, Ph. D, National University of Distance Education (UNED) – Spain
  1901. Andrea Grippo, Ph.D., Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien.
  1902. Mahvish Ahmad, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics
  1903. Dr Farah Ahmed, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge 
  1904. Paul O’Connor, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Society, United Arab Emirates University
  1905. Adele Phillips, PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University 
  1906. Kim hye-ok, Kyungpook National University
  1907. Simone, Lecturer, university of Sussex
  1908. Miguel Chavez, PhD Student, Department of Sociology at Northwestern University
  1909. Phillip Primeau, Carleton University
  1910. Karlia Brown, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Chicago 
  1911. Dr. Katerina Manevska, Radboud University, The Netherlands
  1912. Demar Lewis IV, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
  1913. Miranda Dotson, PhD Student Northeastern
  1914. Meghan Daniel, University of Illinois at Chicago
  1915. Catherine Atkinson, Lecturer, University of Manchester
  1916. Blanka Koffer, Dr., historian and anthropologist, Berlin
  1917. Alessandro Giuseppe Drago, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University
  1918. Dr. Erin O’Callaghan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
  1919. Angelique Golding PhD Candidate QMUL
  1920. Addison Malone, Ph.D. Student, Sociology of Technology and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
  1921. Fabio de Nardis, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Salento
  1922. Giulio Pitroso, PhD Candidate, Griffith University

University of Haifa Students Suspended for Supporting Hamas

19.10.23

Editorial Note

Last week, the University of Haifa Rector, Prof. Gur Elroey, suspended six students due to expressions of support for Hamas on social media. The students are members of Hadash, the Israeli Communist Party. Elroey sent a letter of “suspension from studying,” to these students which stated, “In light of your statements on social media and your support for the terrorist attack on the Jewish communities surrounding Gaza and the murder of innocents, you are suspended from your studies at the University of Haifa until the issue is investigated.” 

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.” 

This letter was signed by Prof. Zohar Eviatar, Prof. Dafna Birenboim-Carmeli, Prof. David Blank, Prof. Ayelet Ben-Yishay, Prof. Asad Ghanem, Prof. Avner Gilady, Dr. Dalia Sachs, Prof. Meir Hemmo, Prof. Yuval Yonay, Prof Meir Yaish, Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli, Prof. Tamar Katriel, Dr. Lior Levy, Dr. Aran Livio, Prof. Micah Leshem, Dr. Ilan Saban, Dr. Uri Simonson, Dr. Amid Saabneh, Prof. Amalia Saar, Prof. Avraham Oz, Prof. Kobi Peter (Peterzil), Prof. Sandy Kedar, Dr. Ram Reshef, Prof. Zohar Segev, and Dr. Ido Shachar.

Elroey responded harshly to the lecturers: “Women and men, young and old, IDF soldiers and minor girls were raped, kidnapped and murdered,” Prof. Elroey answered, “Young people were shot in the back and the fate of the women, the victims of the festival, was the same as that of the female soldiers and girls. Heads were chopped off. Bodies were dismembered and mutilated. Humans were burned alive. Children were taken captive without their parents. Entire families were wiped out. Wiped out! 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.”

The storm surrounding the twenty-five professors has not abated. Over ten thousand students from the University of Haifa signed a petition demanding the dismissal of the twenty-five lecturers. Soon after, the same lecturers addressed another letter to the Reactor. 

In the new letter, the professors sought to clarify their position. They claimed: “We are shocked by the dance of demons that developed around the previous letter we sent you demanding to cancel the suspension of the students who allegedly expressed identification with Hamas. The uproar against the letter resulted from an effort, not by you, but by others, to blacken it and paint it as a defense of the right to support terrorism in the name of the right to freedom of expression. Our only argument in the letter: the defense of a fair procedure. Our letter to you did not touch on questions of freedom of expression or freedom of opinion at all. All we believed was that before taking harsh measures such as suspension and removal from the dormitories, a transparent and fair procedure should be held, in accordance with university regulations. On the contrary, we thought that precisely in such a difficult and tragic reality, where the danger of deterioration into incitement, persecution and violence is huge, it is of particular importance to adhere to a proper, transparent and fair procedure. In the end, or rather in the beginning, we are all human beings. The signatories of the letter, the rector, the president and the entire university community, we were all filled with grief and astonishment, and we all acted in a sub-optimal way. It might have been more appropriate to contact you directly before sending the letter, to express and hear your position. We are sorry for that. We hope that together we will find a way to return a proper balanced discourse to our university community.”

Not surprisingly, according to the Arab anti-Israel media outlet in London, The New Arab, “Israel’s Haifa University expels five Palestinian students over social media posts.” The New Arab did not report that the students were suspended until further inquiry, but stated they were “expelled.” According to the New Arab, the students say they did nothing wrong, they only posted “pro-Palestinian content.” One of the students claimed she was “expelled” after “sharing a video interview of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, decades old, centered on the Palestinian cause and was not directly related to the current escalation of violence in Gaza.” Another “expelled” student said, “On Saturday, I posted a story on Instagram featuring a tank image.” The second student said, “It’s becoming evident that the last remaining freedom of expression for Arab students is only permissible if it favors the Israeli perspective.”  

Academia for Equality (A4E), a group of radical-leftist activist academics IAM has covered before, jumped into the fray. It offers support to the suspended students.

The brutal attack on Israelis along the border with Gaza is crunch time for those who would like to turn praising Hamas into a free speech issue. Hamas is a terror group and has been considered as such in the West. Accordingly, supporting the group and those accused of inciting terror is illegal. But there is a larger moral issue involved here. Those who support Hamas have failed to make a moral distinction between national terrorism and the ISIS-type brutality of the terrorists who buttered innocent civilians and kidnapped others to serve as human shields. There was no support in the West for ISIS; the same should be applied to Hamas. 

Universities in the West should pay attention to supporters of Hamas on their campuses.

IAM will report on this issue in due course.

References:

===============================================

===========================================

=======================================================

https://www.colbonews.co.il/academy/158265/
10,000 כבר חתמו: עצומה לפיטורי המרציםבעצומה נכתב: “אנחנו, סטודנטים באוניברסיטת חיפה, דורשים לפטר לאלתר את 25 המרצים החתומים על המכתב שלפיו אין להשעות סטודנטים שהביעו תמיכה במעשי הטבח. אנחנו לא מוכנים לשבת בהרצאות של אותם מרצים, שמשתמשים בתירוץ של ‘חופש הביטוי’ כהצדקה לתמיכה בטרור רצחני”

פורסם בתאריך: 14.10.23 08:25

מאת: שושן מנולהיותר מ-10,000 אנשים חתמו על עצומה שפרסמו סטודנטים באוניברסיטת חיפה אשר דורשים לפטר לאלתר 25 מרצים במוסד האקדמי. כפי שפורסם לראשונה ב”כלבו – חיפה והקריות”, בתחילת השבוע השעתה האוניברסיטה ארבעה סטודנטים בגלל פוסטים שפרסמו ברשתות החברתיות, ובהם תמיכה במתקפת הטרור של חמאס על ישראל וברצח ישראלים. במכתב ששלח הרקטור פרופ’ גור אלרואי לסטודנטים אלה נכתב: “לאור התבטאותך ברשתות החברתיות ותמיכתך במתקפת הטרור על יושבי עוטף עזה ורצח חפים מפשע, הנך מושעה מלימודיך באוניברסיטת חיפה עד לבדיקת הנושא”. בתגובה, בעיצומם של הקרבות המשתוללים בדרום ובעוד ישראל כולה מתאבלת על מתיה, חתמו 25 מרצים בכירים באוניברסיטה על מכתב שמכנה את ההשעיה “לא חוקית”. במכתב שנשלח לאלרועי נטען כי “אין לך סמכות להשעות סטודנטים. החלטה כזו מפרה את התקנונים של האוניברסיטה ופוגעת בזכויות אזרח ובזכויות סטודנטים המוקנות להם הן על פי משפט המדינה והן על פי תקנון משמעת האוניברסיטה”.

כעת, לאחר שסטודנטים בחוג למזרח תיכון פנו לאוניברסיטה בדרישה לפטר את המרצים ולבטל את הרשמתם לסמינריונים ולשיעורים המתקדמים שמלמדים שלושה מרצים בחוג אשר חתמו על המכתב, מגיעה גם העצומה.

“אנחנו, סטודנטים הלומדים באוניברסיטת חיפה, דורשים לפטר לאלתר ולצמיתות את 25 המרצים תומכי הטרור החתומים על המכתב שטוען כי אין להשעות סטודנטים אשר הביעו תמיכה במעשי הטבח המזעזעים המתרחשים בימים אלו”, נכתב בעצומה שפורסמה באתר “עצומה”, “אנחנו לא מוכנים לשבת בהרצאות של אותם מרצים, ולא ייתכן שהאוניברסיטה שממומנת על ידינו, הסטודנטים, תיתן יד להמשך ההעסקה של אותם המרצים שמשתמשים בתירוץ של ‘חופש הביטוי’ כהצדקה לתמיכה בטרור רצחני, שנחשבת בחוק לעבירה פלילית”.

מהאוניברסיטה נכתב בתגובה: “עמדת האוניברסיטה למכתב המרצים היתה ברורה, אך חשוב להדגיש שהמכתב עסק אך ורק בנהלים פנימיים של האוניברסיטה ובשום אופן לא בעמדת הסטודנטים שהושעו. האוניברסיטה, כמו כל החברה הישראלית, עוסקת כעת בהירתמות מלאה לטובת סיוע לתושבי העוטף, לצה”ל ולכוחות הביטחון, וזה הנושא היחיד שמעסיק אותנו כעת”.

======================================================

המרצים מאוניברסיטת חיפה שהתנגדו להשעיית סטודנטים תומכי חמאס: “פעלנו באופן לא מיטבי”

25 המרצים באוניברסיטת חיפה שכינו את השעייתם של סטודנטים שהביעו תמיכה בחמאס וברצח ישראלים “בלתי חוקית”, נדהמו מעוצמת התגובה של האוניברסיטה ושל הציבור ומיהרו לשלוח מכתב הבהרה שבו הם אומרים: “אנו המומים ממחול השדים”

דורון גולןפורסם ב: 15/10/23 , 12:39

הסערה סביב 25 המרצים באוניברסיטת חיפה שהתנגדו להשעיית סטודנטים  שהביעו תמיכה בחמאס, ממשיכה להכות גלים. אותם מרצים פנו במכתב לרקטור האוניברסיטה פרופ’ גור אלרואי, וביקשו לתרץ את מעשיהם בכל ש:”כולנו היינו שרויים באבל ותדהמה, וכולנו פעלנו באופן לא מיטבי”

בשבוע שעבר השעה פרופ’ אלרואי מלימודים באוניברסיטת חיפה שישה סטודנטים שהביעו תמיכה במעשי הרצח של ארגון החמאס. מיד לאחר מכן פנו 25 מרצים בכירים באוניברסיטה נגד החלטת הרקטור להשעות את הסטודנטים בטענה שההשעיה “לא חוקית”.

מכתב רקטור אוניברסיטת חיפה, פרופ’ גור אלרואי

פרופ’ אלרואי ענה להם בחריפות: ” נשים וגברים, צעירים וזקנים, חיילות צה”ל וילדות קטינות נאנסו, נחטפו ונרצחו” ענה פרופ’ אלרואי לאותם מרצים. צעירים נורו בגבם וגורל הנשים, קורבנות המסיבה, היה זהה לזה של החיילות והילדות. ראשים נערפו. גופות בותרו וחוללו. בני אדם נשרפו בחיים. ילדים נלקחו בשבי ללא הוריהם. משפחות שלמות נמחקו. נמחקו! מאות משפחות חרדות לגורל נעדריהן ואתם עסוקים בסוגיה האם חרגתי מתפקידי ופעלתי בניגוד לתקנון לאחר שהשעיתי שישה סטודנטים מלימודים עד לבירור שאנחנו פועלים לקיים בהתאם לתקנון יחד עם הממונה על המשמעת”.

התגובה החריפה של האוניברסיטה והכעס הציבורי שהתעורר, הביאו את אותם 25 מרצים לשלוח אמש (שבת) מכתב הבהרה לפרופ’ אלרואי שבו הם טוענים כי פעלו באופן לא מיטבי. “אנו המומים ממחול השדים שהתפתח סביב המכתב הקודם ששלחנו לך בדרישה לבטל את השעיית הסטודנטים שהביעו לכאורה הזדהות עם החמאס. הסערה כנגד המכתב נבעה ממאמץ, לא שלך, אך של אחרים, להשחירו ולציירו ככתב הגנה על הזכות לתמוך בטרור בשם הזכות לחופש ביטוי. בכך נמחק הטיעון היחיד במכתב: הגנה על הליך הוגן”.

מכתב ההבהרה של המרצים מאוניברסיטת חיפה

מכתבנו אליך לא נגע בשאלות של חופש ביטוי או מרחב הדעה כלל. כל שסברנו הוא שבטרם נוקטים צעדים קשים כמו השעיה והרחקה מהמעונות, יש לקיים הליך שקוף והוגן, בהתאם לתקנון אוניברסיטה. אדרבה, חשבנו כי דווקא במציאות קשה וטראגית כל כך, שבה הסכנה להידרדרות להסתה, לרדיפה ולאלימות גדולה, יש חשיבות מיוחדת לדבוק בהליך תקין, שקוף והוגן. בסופו של דבר , או ליתר דיוק בתחילתו של דבר, אנחנו בני אדם. חותמי המכתב, הרקטור, הנשיא וכל קהילת האוניברסיטה, כולנו היינו שרויים באבל ותדהמה, וכולנו פעלנו באופן לא מיטבי. ייתכן שהיה ראוי לפנות ישירות אליך קודם לשליחת המכתב, להשמיע ולשמוע את עמדתך. על כך אנו מצרים. אנחנו מקווים שנמצא יחד את הדרך להחזיר שיח שקול ראוי לקהילת האוניברסיטה שלנו”.

=============================================

https://www.newarab.com/news/haifa-university-expels-palestinians-over-social-media-postsIsrael’s Haifa University expels five Palestinian students over social media posts

The New Arab Staff
10 October, 2023Palestinian students at Haifa University in Israel say they were suspended from the institution after posting pro-Palestinian content to social media and messaging platforms.

Israel’s Haifa University expelled five Palestinian students on Sunday over their social media posts on the Gaza war.

Speaking to The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed about her experience, one of the students said she was expelled after sharing a video interview of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani through messaging service WhatsApp’s Story feature.

The interview, now decades old, centred on the Palestinian cause and was not directly related to the current escalation of violence in Gaza.

“Someone took a screenshot of my post and sent it to the university,” the student said. “I haven’t done anything wrong. I’m only expressing my opinion.”

Another expelled student said: “I was notified last evening about my removal and suspension from the university due to my expressed solidarity with Gaza. On Saturday, I posted a story on Instagram featuring a tank image. However, just hours later, I removed it upon hearing of potential monitoring and the risks associated with such expressions.”

“It’s becoming evident that the last remaining freedom of expression for Arab students is only permissible if it favours the Israeli perspective,” the second student said.

Adalah, a legal organisation for Palestinian rights in Israel, released a statement Monday addressing the concerns of several students from Haifa University who had received notices of expulsion or suspension from the university’s administration.

The centre, represented by attorney Adi Mansour, communicated with the university on behalf of the affected students. They emphasised that the dismissals are potentially unlawful, and that the students were not summoned or heard before such decisions were made.

Referring to the university’s internal guidelines, Adalah said the students’ rights cannot be violated without a process in which they can address allegations against them and defend their position.

About 800 Palestinians and 900 Israelis have been killed since Saturday, when fighters from the Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale attack on Israeli territory. Israel has been bombarding Gaza since, killing mostly civilians. Hamas has continued to fire rockets into Israel.

================================================

מרצים דורשים לבטל השעיית סטודנטים פלסטינים באוניברסיטת חיפה; קו סיוע לסטודנטים ערבים

הסטודנטים הושעו לאור פוסטים שלהם לכאורה ברשתות, זאת מבלי שנעשה הליך בירור כנדרש בתקנון האוניברברסיטה

מערכת “זו הדרך”

10.10.2023

עודכן: 12.10.2023 

קבוצה של מרצים פנתה אתמול (שני) אל פרופ’ גור אלרואי, רקטור אוניברסיטת חיפה, בעקבות השעייתם של סטודנטים פעילי חד”ש ללא הליך משמעתי תקין. הם דורשים לבטל מיידית את הצעד המשמעתי. במכתבם המרצים כתבו “שמענו שמספר סטודנטים וסטודנטיות קיבלו ממך הודעה שהם מושעים מהאוניברסיטה, וחלקם אף נדרש לפנות את חדרם במעונות, בשל פרסומים שלהם לכאורה ברשתות החברתיות. אנו סבורים שאין לך סמכות להשעות סטודנטים, ושהחלטה כזו מפרה את התקנונים של האוניברסיטה ופוגעת בזכויות אזרח ובזכויות סטודנטים המוקנות להם הן על פי משפט המדינה והן על פי תקנון משמעת האוניברסיטה”.

לדבריהם, “לא ברור כלל אלו סעיפים אתה סבור שהסטודנטים המושעים הפרו, ואיזה הליך של בירור עובדות הספקת להפעיל בזמן הקצר עד לנקיטה בפעולה החריפה של השעיה וגירוש מהמעונות, כאשר ככל הידוע לנו, הסטודנטים שהושעו לא קיבלו אפילו זכות להשמיע את גרסתם”.

כאמור, המרצים קראו לבטל מידית את ההשעיה ואת הגירוש של סטודנטים מהמעונות. “בכל מקרה בו מתעורר חשש להפרת תקנון המשמעת יש לפעול על פי החוק ותקנוני האוניברסיטה באופן שוויוני ותוך מתן משקל ראוי לשיקולים של חופש ביטוי וזכויות אדם ואזרח. בשעה שהחברה הישראלית נאבקת על שמירת שלטון חוק והפרדת הרשויות, אנו מקווים שתדע לשמור על עליונות החוק גם באוניברסיטת חיפה”, הדגישו. בין הפונים אל הרקטור הפרופסורים זהר אביתר, איילת בן-ישי, אסעד גאנם, אבנר גלעדי, מאיר חמו, יובל יונאי, תמר כתריאל, מיכה לשם, עמליה סער, אברהם עוז, קובי פתר (פטרזיל), סנדי קדר וזהר שגב.

גם אקדמיה לשוויון, ארגון של כ-800 מרצים יהודים וערבים המחויבים לשוויון, זכויות וסולידריות בכל המוסדות להשכלה גבוהה שיגר מכתב לפרופ’ אלרואי. במכתב נאמר “על פי איזו סמכות הושעתה הסטודנטית באופן מיידי כאשר טרם הואשמה בעבירת משמעת וטרם נשמע עניינה בפני ועדת משמעת? האם נבחנה האפשרות לאפשר לסטודנטית להציג את טענותיה בטרם ההשעיה? מהי ההתבטאות שבה מדובר, ועל איזו עבירה בתקנון האוניברסיטה מתבססות הטענות כנגד הסטודנטית? לא מצאנו בתקנון עבירה רלוונטית. מהיכן קיבלה האוניברסיטה את המידע על הפרסום ברשתות החברתיות ולכמה סטודנטים נשלחו הודעות דומות?”.

“בתקופות מתיחות קודמות למדנו כי סטודנטים ערבים הפכו מטרה להסתה ולהאשמות שבמקרים רבים התבררו כחסרות בסיס עם שוך הסערה. נדגיש כי גם אם ועדת משמעת שתכונס בעתיד תמצא שלא נפל פגם בהתנהגותה של הסטודנטית, או שהתנהגות זו לא הצדיקה השעיה מלימודים, השעיה מיידית כזו גורמת נזק שלא יירפא לסטודנטית, לסביבת הלימודים באוניברסיטה, ולזכויות המוגנות במשטר דמוקרטי”, הדגישו.

יצוין שפעילי אקדמיה לשוויון הקימו מערך תמיכה לסטודנטים ערבים-פלסטינים בכל האוניברסיטאות והמכללות בכל היבט הקשור למצב הנוכחי, החל מעניינים הקשורים לביטחון האישי ועד לפניות אקדמיות.

ניתן לפנות בעברית או ערבית למערך התמיכה של אקדמיה לשווין באמצעות הטלפון:

079-6106559

============================================

https://maki.org.il/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%98%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99-%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95/

המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית

מרצים דורשים לבטל השעיית פעילי חד”ש באוניברסיטת חיפה; קו סיוע לסטודנטים ערבים

פורסם לפני 6 ימים

קבוצה של מרצים פנתה אתמול (שני) אל פרופ’ גור אלרואי, רקטור אוניברסיטת חיפה, בעקבות השעייתם של סטודנטים פעילי חד”ש ללא הליך משמעתי תקין. הם דורשים לבטל מיידית את הצעד המשמעתי. במכתבם המרצים כתבו “שמענו שמספר סטודנטים וסטודנטיות קיבלו ממך הודעה שהם מושעים מהאוניברסיטה, וחלקם אף נדרש לפנות את חדרם במעונות, בשל פרסומים שלהם לכאורה ברשתות החברתיות. אנו סבורים שאין לך סמכות להשעות סטודנטים, ושהחלטה כזו מפרה את התקנונים של האוניברסיטה ופוגעת בזכויות אזרח ובזכויות סטודנטים המוקנות להם הן על פי משפט המדינה והן על פי תקנון משמעת האוניברסיטה”.

לדבריהם, “לא ברור כלל אלו סעיפים אתה סבור שהסטודנטים המושעים הפרו, ואיזה הליך של בירור עובדות הספקת להפעיל בזמן הקצר עד לנקיטה בפעולה החריפה של השעיה וגירוש מהמעונות, כאשר ככל הידוע לנו, הסטודנטים שהושעו לא קיבלו אפילו זכות להשמיע את גרסתם”.

כאמור, המרצים קראו לבטל מידית את ההשעיה ואת הגירוש של סטודנטים מהמעונות. “בכל מקרה בו מתעורר חשש להפרת תקנון המשמעת יש לפעול על פי החוק ותקנוני האוניברסיטה באופן שוויוני ותוך מתן משקל ראוי לשיקולים של חופש ביטוי וזכויות אדם ואזרח. בשעה שהחברה הישראלית נאבקת על שמירת שלטון חוק והפרדת הרשויות, אנו מקווים שתדע לשמור על עליונות החוק גם באוניברסיטת חיפה”, הדגישו. בין הפונים אל הרקטור הפרופסורים זהר אביתר, איילת בן-ישי, אסעד גאנם, אבנר גלעדי, מאיר חמו, יובל יונאי, תמר כתריאל, מיכה לשם, עמליה סער, אברהם עוז, קובי פתר (פטרזיל), סנדי קדר וזהר שגב.

גם אקדמיה לשוויון, ארגון של כ-800 מרצים יהודים וערבים המחויבים לשוויון, זכויות וסולידריות בכל המוסדות להשכלה גבוהה שיגר מכתב לפרופ’ אלרואי. במכתב נאמר “על פי איזו סמכות הושעתה הסטודנטית באופן מיידי כאשר טרם הואשמה בעבירת משמעת וטרם נשמע עניינה בפני ועדת משמעת? האם נבחנה האפשרות לאפשר לסטודנטית להציג את טענותיה בטרם ההשעיה? מהי ההתבטאות שבה מדובר, ועל איזו עבירה בתקנון האוניברסיטה מתבססות הטענות כנגד הסטודנטית? לא מצאנו בתקנון עבירה רלוונטית. מהיכן קיבלה האוניברסיטה את המידע על הפרסום ברשתות החברתיות ולכמה סטודנטים נשלחו הודעות דומות?”.

“בתקופות מתיחות קודמות למדנו כי סטודנטים ערבים הפכו מטרה להסתה ולהאשמות שבמקרים רבים התבררו כחסרות בסיס עם שוך הסערה. נדגיש כי גם אם ועדת משמעת שתכונס בעתיד תמצא שלא נפל פגם בהתנהגותה של הסטודנטית, או שהתנהגות זו לא הצדיקה השעיה מלימודים, השעיה מיידית כזו גורמת נזק שלא יירפא לסטודנטית, לסביבת הלימודים באוניברסיטה, ולזכויות המוגנות במשטר דמוקרטי”, הדגישו.

יצוין שפעילי אקדמיה לשוויון הקימו מערך תמיכה לסטודנטים ערבים-פלסטינים בכל האוניברסיטאות והמכללות בכל היבט הקשור למצב הנוכחי, החל מעניינים הקשורים לביטחון האישי ועד לפניות אקדמיות.

ניתן לפנות בעברית או ערבית למערך התמיכה של אקדמיה לשווין באמצעות הטלפון:

079-6106559

10 באוקטובר 2023 ב-דמוקרטיה.

==================================

https://www.colbonews.co.il/academy/158083
25 מרצים נגד השעיית תומכי הטרור: “לא חוקית”

במכתב ששלחו 25 מרצים בכירים באוניברסיטת חיפה לנשיא אוניברסיטת חיפה ולרקטור בעקבות השעייתם של שישה סטודנטים שהביעו תמיכה בחמאס, הם כתבו: “אין לך סמכות להשעות סטודנטים. החלטה כזו מפרה את התקנונים של האוניברסיטה ופוגעת בזכויות אזרח” 

פורסם בתאריך: 11.10.23 15:37 מאת: שושן מנולה

25 מרצים בכירים באוניברסיטת חיפה יוצאים נגד החלטת הרקטור פרופ’ גור אלרואי להשעות מהלימודים שישה סטודנטים, לנוכח פרסומים שלהם ברשתות החברתיות שבהם הם הביעו תמיכה בחמאס וברצח ישראלים, ומכנים את ההשעיה “לא חוקית”.

כפי שפורסם ביום שני ב”כלבו – חיפה והקריות”, ביום ראשון השעתה האוניברסיטה ארבעה סטודנטים ערבים בגלל פוסטים שפרסמו ברשתות החברתיות ובהם תמיכה במתקפת הטרור של חמאס על ישראל. במכתב ששלח אלרואי לארבעה נכתב: “לאור התבטאותך ברשתות החברתיות ותמיכתך במתקפת הטרור על יושבי עוטף עזה ורצח חפים מפשע, הנך מושעה מלימודיך באוניברסיטת חיפה עד לבדיקת הנושא”. מאז נשלחו מכתבים דומים לשני סטודנטים נוספים.

במכתב ששלחו לרקטור כתבו המרצים: “שמענו שמספר סטודנטים קיבלו ממך הודעה שהם מושעים מהאוניברסיטה, וחלקם אף נדרש לפנות את חדרם במעונות, בשל פרסומים שלהם לכאורה ברשתות החברתיות. אנו סבורים שאין לך סמכות להשעות סטודנטים, ושהחלטה כזו מפרה את התקנונים של האוניברסיטה ופוגעת בזכויות אזרח ובזכויות סטודנטים המוקנות להם הן על פי משפט המדינה והן על פי תקנון משמעת האוניברסיטה”.

עוד כתבו המרצים: “לא ברור כלל אלו סעיפים אתה סבור שהסטודנטים המושעים הפרו, ואיזה הליך של בירור עובדות הספקת להפעיל בזמן הקצר עד לנקיטת הפעולה החריפה של השעיה וגירוש מהמעונות, כאשר ככל הידוע לנו, הסטודנטים שהושעו לא קיבלו אפילו זכות להשמיע את גרסתם. אנו קוראים לך לבטל מידית את ההשעיה ואת הגירוש של סטודנטים מהמעונות. בכל מקרה שבו מתעורר חשש להפרת תקנון המשמעת יש לפעול על פי החוק ותקנוני האוניברסיטה באופן שוויוני ותוך מתן משקל ראוי לשיקולים של חופש ביטוי וזכויות אדם ואזרח. בשעה שהחברה הישראלית נאבקת על שמירת שלטון חוק והפרדת הרשויות, אנו מקווים שתדע לשמור על עליונות החוק גם באוניברסיטת חיפה”.

אלרואי השיב למרצים במכתב זועם שבו הוא כתב: “קראתי בהשתאות ובאי אמון את מכתבכם המנותק מכל מציאות. החברה הישראלית (או כמסתבר, חלקים גדולים ממנה) עוברת תקופה קשה שלא נודעה כמותה. טרוריסטים רצחניים חצו את הגבול ורצחו כ־1,200 (או יותר) בני אדם. האירוע המתגלגל שאנו עדים לו מאז שבת השחורה הוא בגדר פשע נגד האנושות ואחד ממעשי הטבח הקשים של המאה ה-21. נשים וגברים, צעירים וזקנים, חיילות צה”ל וילדות קטינות נאנסו, נחטפו ונרצחו. צעירים נורו בגבם, וגורל הנשים קורבנות המסיבה היה זהה לזה של החיילות והילדות. ראשים נערפו, גופות בותרו וחוללו, בני אדם נשרפו חיים, ילדים נלקחו בשבי ללא הוריהם, מאות משפחות חרדות לגורל נעדריהן, משפחות שלמות נמחקו – נמחקו! – ואתם עסוקים בסוגיה אם חרגתי מתפקידי ופעלתי בניגוד לתקנון לאחר שהשעתי שישה סטודנטים מלימודים עד לבירור שאנחנו פועלים לקיים בהתאם לתקנון ביחד עם הממונה על המשמעת”.

עוד כתב הרקטור כי “הסטודנטים הושעו בגלל שפרסמו פוסטים שביטאו תמיכה ברורה בטרור החמאס וברצח חפים מפשע. מכתבי ההשעיה יצאו לסטודנטים תומכי חמאס, תומכי אויב בזמן מלחמה. עמדה בפניי אפשרות אחרת, והיא להגיש נגדם תלונה במשטרה. בחרתי באפשרות הראשונה – השעיה. באוניברסיטת חיפה לומדים סטודנטים יהודים, נוצרים, דרוזים וגם מוסלמים, שנתקלו בפרסומים ברשתות החברתיות של חלק מחבריהם ללימודים והם מתקשים לחזור לאוניברסיטה לאחר שצפו בגילויי השמחה. אותם סטודנטים שחלקו איתם את אותו ספסל לימודים עד לפני שבוע. זה פשוט לא נתפש. מחובתנו, כפי שכתב גם נשיא האוניברסיטה, להגן על קהיליית אוניברסיטת חיפה כולה – סטודנטים, סגל אקדמי וסגל מינהלי, וסטודנטים נפגעי המלחמה זקוקים להגנתנו ולתמיכתנו כעת, יותר מכולם”.

גם נשיא האוניברסיטה פרופ’ רון רובין שלח מכתב תשובה למרצים וכתב: “תקנון האוניברסיטה הוא מורה דרך שלנו לטיפול בחיים השגרתיים של המוסד והוא משרת אותנו נאמנה. התקנון לא עונה על מצבים שהם מעבר לדמיון, לא כל שכן אותו שבר חסר תקדים שחווינו. אף מסמך – גם לא התקנון שלנו – לא יכול להכיל את אשר עברנו באותו יום נורא של טבח חסר אבחנה וחסר תקדים. כמנהיגי הקהילה הנבחרים מוטלת עלינו החובה להגן על הקהילה שלנו בעתות משבר ולנקוט צעדים שאמורים לשמור על המרקם השברירי של היום שאחרי. על כן, גילויי שמחה ותמיכה באותם שונאים שביצעו מעשי רצח המונים, שחשבנו שהם נחלת העבר, יזכו לתגובה מיידית שלנו. על כך לא נתפשר. מתינו מוטלים לפנינו, ויש לנו חובה ערכית לכבד אותם. לסטודנטים שמורה זכות הערעור, ואנחנו מוכנים גם להגן על החלטותינו בכל פורום – משפטי וציבורי”.

פרופ’ יובל יונאי מחותמי המכתב: “נראה לי שאנחנו נסחפים מהר מאוד בכיוונים לא רצויים, ותוך כדי כך עושים דמוניזציה של סטודנטים ערבים ופוגעים במו ידינו בשמה הטוב של האוניברסיטה. יורשה לי להעלות ספקולציה שאני לא יכול להוכיח אבל נראית לי אמינה וסבירה – אין אף סטודנט שהתבטא בעד הטבח הנורא ואין אף סטודנט שרקד על הדם. ההשעיה של הסטודנטים יוצרת תחושה שזה המצב, אבל אף אחד מאיתנו, לבד מהרקטור, לא ראה מה נכתב והופץ על ידי הסטודנטים המושעים. סיבה אחת לביטחון היחסי שלי בטענה הזו היא שאף אחד לא ידע בשבת על הטבח הנורא. ידענו שהיתה חדירה של אנשי חמאס אבל מימדיה לא היו ברורים, ובטח לא הפרטים המזוויעים שהחלו להיחשף רק ביום שני, אחרי שהתלמידים כבר הושעו. סיבה נוספת היא שאני מכיר את הסטודנטים באוניברסיטה. אני לא מכיר כל אחד באופן אישי, אבל אני שומע ועוקב אחרי דעותיהם באופן ישיר ועקיף, וקשה לי להאמין שמישהו מהם יתמוך במעשים הברבריים שנעשו”.

לדבריו, “סטודנטית אחת שהושעתה מוכרת לי מקורס שלימדתי. אני לא יודע מה דעותיה הפוליטיות, אבל אני מכיר את אישיותה ואת מזגה, וברור לי שהיא לא היתה מעלה על דעתה לתמוך בטבח אזרחים. במקרה אחר, ראיתי שני פוסטים שבעטיים כנראה הושעתה סטודנטית אחרת. בשני המקרים מדובר בפוסטים שמסתובבים זמן רב ברשת ולא בדברים שהופצו ביום הטבח. באחד מהם יש ריאיון עם ע’סאן כנאפני, שכזכור חוסל על ידי ישראל לפני כ-50 שנה. אפשר לשאול למה היא עשתה שיתוף לפוסט הזה ביום שבת הנורא, אבל מכאן ועד להגיד שהיא ‘רקדה על הדם’ הדרך ארוכה. כמובן, הכל ספקולציות. אני לא יכול להיות בטוח, אבל איך אפשר להגיע למסקנות אם אפילו לא שאלו אותה, וההחלטה התקבלה בחופזה ביום ראשון שבו כולנו עוד היינו בהלם, והרקטור מן הסתם היה טרוד באלף ואחת בעיות דוחקות? אף אחד מהמושעים לא קיבל הזדמנות להגן על עצמו. למיטב ידיעתי הם שמעו לראשונה על כך שהם חשודים בדבר נורא עם קבלת מכתב ההשעיה”.

יונאי הוסיף כי “אין שום הצדקה לפגוע בזכויות של סטודנט בלי לתת לו אפשרות להתגונן. ברור גם שלרקטור אין סמכות להשעות סטודנטים. יש תקנון מחייב שנותן תשובה למקרים של צורך בהרחקה בשל נזק מיידי. פוסט שמישהו כותב זה לא ‘פצצה מתקתקת’. סטודנטים יהודים כותבים דברים נוראיים על ערבים וקוראים להרוג את כל תושבי עזה, וחלקם גם מאיימים על פלסטינים אזרחי ישראל. אם נתחיל לפשפש בעמוד האישי של כל סטודנט נגלה הרבה דברים לא נעימים, ולפי קנה המידה של הרקטור נצטרך להשעות רבע או שליש מהסטודנטים שלנו. אנו צריכים לחנך אותם, לא להשעות אותם. הטענה שזה לא נורא כי זה משהו זמני ולא נגרם נזק בלתי הפיך היא פשוט לא נכונה. השעיה כזו יכולה להרוס את עתידה של סטודנטית שהגיעה מהרבדים החלשים ביותר של החברה הישראלית, שגם כך קשה לה להתמודד בסביבה זרה ועוינת, וגם השעיה יכולה להשפיע על ההליך המשמעתי שיבוא אחריו, כי כבר ידוע שהרקטור חרץ את דינה. העצמאות של שופטים ושל דיינים במקרה המשמעתי היא דבר קדוש, ואסור לבעלי סמכויות ביצועיות להתערב בתהליך. הרקטור שגה שגיאה רצינית. האוניברסיטה מתפארת בכך שלא רק אוניברסיטת חיפה נקטה את זה. לצערי, זו לא הוכחה, ונראה שעוד כמה מוסדות נסחפו בכיוון לא טוב. אלפי הלייקים שהחלטת האוניברסיטה קיבלה ברשתות החברתיות היא לדעתי סימן שלילי ולא משהו להתגאות בו. אנו צריכים לחנך לסובלנות ולשמירת החוק, לא למצוא תירוצים במצב הקשה להפקעת זכויות אזרח בסיסיות. אני רוצה להאמין שהאוניברסיטה היא אי של שפיות, אבל השעיית הסטודנטים וחריצת גורלם גם בחילופי הדברים כאן מעידה על אובדן שפיות. זמנית אני מקווה”.

פרופ’ אסעד ע’נאם, מרצה נוסף שחתם על המכתב: “לא קראתי את הפוסטים שכתבו הסטודנטים אבל המכתב שלנו מכוון לתגובה הפזיזה והלא אחראית של רקטור האוניברסיטה, שאמור להיות אמון על חופש הביטוי ועל זכותם של הסטודנטים שלו לקבל הליך הוגן. הרקטור, ברגל גסה, מתנהג כמו סופרמן או טרזן שיכול להוציא סטודנטים לחופשה או להפסיק את לימודיהם בגלל שהוא סבור שלמשפט כזה או אחר יש משמעות של תמיכה בטרור. לדברים הנוראיים שקרו בעוטף עזה ועכשיו קורים בעזה יש משמעויות רחבות גם של טרור. גם בצד הפלסטיני כל צעד ישראלי נתפש כפשע מלחמה או טרור. כל משפט של גינוי לתקיפות ישראליות בעזה נתפש בצד הישראלי כתמיכה בטרור. כמובן שאי אפשר לקבל את מה שנעשה על ידי אנשי חמאס, אבל העניין של לשתף או לא לשתף – אני לא יודע עד כמה זו אכן עבירה. נניח שזה עבירה ונניח שנכתבו דברים קשים, חובתו של הרקטור לפנות לערכאה האחראית, שזו ועדת המשמעת, ולזמן את הסטודנטים לבירור, לתת להם להשמיע את דבריהם ואחר כך לקבל החלטה”.

לדבריו, ההשעיה המיידית של הסטודנטים לא נעשתה במקרה: “לדעתי, כל העניין הזה קורה בגלל שהאוניברסיטה כבר הרבה שנים רוצה להראות שהיא לא אוניברסיטה ערבית ולא שלוחה של אוניברסיטת ביר זית, אז הרקטור משתמש בהזדמנות הזאת כדי לתקוף כל גילוי של דברים שאולי הוא לא מסכים איתם. יכול להיות שאני גם לא מסכים להם, אבל לתקוף כל דבר על מנת להראות שהוא נאמן ואיש ימין זה לא מקובל. אנחנו אומרים גם לסטודנטים שלנו ביום יום – תבדקו מהו מקור הידע שלכם, תהיו בטוחים שזה הכוונה של הטקסט. כמובן שזה גם רלוונטי לרקטור כאדם שאמון על מערכת סטודנטיאלית. אין לי ספק שהסטודנטים יחזרו ללימודים ובית המשפט יבטל את ההשעיה. ככה לא נוהגים. זו עדות לכך שיש פה הנהלה שלא מתייחסת לסטודנטים הערבים. כאשר היו תקיפות על פלסטינים בחווארה לא ראיתי שהאוניברסיטה עשתה בירור אם היו סטודנטים יהודים שלה השתתפו בזה. זה אומר שכאשר מדובר באוכלוסייה חלשה שהרקטור יכול לרמוס את הזכויות שלה ברגל גסה, הוא עושה זאת בלא להניד עפעף”.

=============================

https://maki.org.il/%d7%9e%d7%a8%d7%a6%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%93%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%9c%d7%94%d7%a9%d7%9b%d7%9c%d7%94-%d7%92%d7%91%d7%95%d7%94%d7%94-%d7%99%d7%99%d7%a4%d7%92%d7%a9%d7%95-%d7%91%d7%a2%d7%a7/

מרצים במוסדות להשכלה גבוהה ייפגשו בעקבות ההסתה נגד הסטודנטים הערבים

פורסם לפני 20 שעות

אקדמיה לשוויון תקיים הערב (ראשון) מפגש מקוון של אנשי סגל במוסדות להשכלה גבוהה בעקבות אווירת ההסתה המופנית כלפי הסטודנטים הערבים-הפלסטינים בימים האחרונים ואיומים בהשעיה מהלימודים במספר אוניברסיטאות ומכללות.

“אקדמיה לשוויון מתנגדת לפגיעה בכל צורה בחופש הביטוי ובחופש האקדמי והפוליטי של הסטודנטיות והסטודנטים הערבים ומטרת המפגש לשמוע, להפגין סולידיות ולדון בדרכי הפעולה ובצעדים העתידיים המבטיחים חופש ביטוי וחופש האקדמי לכל”, נמסר.

המפגש יתקיים הערב בשעה 19:30בהשתתפות ד”ר אריז’ סבאע’-ח’ורי, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים; עו”ד עדי מנסור, עדאלה – המרכז המשפטי לזכויות המיעוט הערבי בישראל; עו”ד סוסאן זהר היועצת המשפטית של קואליציית הארגונים למצב חירום בחברה הערבית; וטן מאדי-סטודנטית וחברה תא חד”ש באוניברסיטת בן גוריון וד”ר תמר ברגר, האקדמיה לאמנות בצלאל.

באקדמיה לשוויון פעילים מאות מרצים יהודים וערבים המחויבים לשוויון, זכויות וסולידריות והארגון הקים מערך תמיכה לסטודנטים ערבים בכל האוניברסיטאות והמכללות “בכל היבט הקשור למצב הנוכחי, החל מעניינים הקשורים לביטחון ועד לפניות אקדמיות. אל תהססו לפנות אלינו, בעברית או בערבית”.

פניות למערך התמיכה של אקדמיה לשוויון: באמצעות הטלפון 079-6106559.

עוד בנושא: https://zoha.org.il/124576

15 באוקטובר 2023 ב-דמוקרטיה.

=================================

Academia for Equality

Hebrew and English follows:

 الطلاب والطالبات الأعزاء، منظمة أكادميون من أجل المساواة هي منظمة مكونة من محاضرين يهود وعرب الملتزمين.ات بالمساواة، بالحقوق، والتضامن. أقمنا شبكة دعم للطلاب.ات العرب في كل الجامعات والكليات ونحن هنا لخدمتكم.ن، بكل توجه يتعلق بالوضع الحالي، بدءًا بالامور المتعلقة بأمنكم.ن الشخصي وحتى الاستفسارات الأكاديمية. لا تتردد.ي في التوجه الينا، بالعبرية أو العربية، عبر الهاتف في الرقم 079-6106559 أو ال “واتس-اب” على الرابط 

סטודנטים וסטודנטיות יקרים, אקדמיה לשוויון הוא ארגון המורכב ממרצים יהודים וערבים המחויבים לשוויון, זכויות וסולידריות. הקמנו מערך תמיכה לסטודנטים ערבים בכל האוניברסיטאות והמכללות ואנו כאן לרשותכם, בכל היבט הקשור למצב הנוכחי, החל מעניינים הקשורים לביטחון האישי שלכם ועד לפניות אקדמיות. אל תהססו לפנות אלינו, בעברית או ערבית, בטלפון 079-6106559 או בוואטסאפ בקישור Dear Students, Academia for Equality is an organization of Jewish and Arab lecturers deeply committed to the principles of equality, rights, and solidarity. We are united in our mission to support students during these challenging times. To that end, we’ve established an emergency support line specifically for Arab students and colleagues across all universities and colleges. Our aim is to assist you with any concerns related to the current political situation, whether they pertain to personal safety or academic inquiries. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us in either Hebrew or Arabic. You can contact us via phone at 079-6106559 or connect with us on WhatsApp using the following link:

================================================

https://www.colbonews.co.il/academy/157776/
בגלל תמיכה בחמאס: האוניברסיטה השעתה ארבעה סטודנטיםארבעה סטודנטים ערבים קיבלו מכתב מרקטור אוניברסיטת חיפה פרופ’ גור אלרואי שבו נכתב: “לאור התבטאותך ברשתות החברתיות ותמיכתך במתקפת הטרור על יושבי עוטף עזה ורצח חפים מפשע, הנך מושעה מלימודיך עד לבדיקת הנושא”. האוניברסיטה: “מגלים אפס סובלנות”

פורסם בתאריך: 9.10.23 09:23

מאת: שושן מנולה

אוניברסיטת חיפה השעתה אתמול (ראשון) מהלימודים ארבעה סטודנטים בגלל פוסטים שפרסמו ברשתות החברתיות ובהם תמיכה במתקפת הטרור של חמאס על ישראל.

במכתב ששלח הרקטור פרופ’ גור אלרואי לארבעת הסטודנטים נכתב: “לאור התבטאותך ברשתות החברתיות ותמיכתך במתקפת הטרור על יושבי עוטף עזה ורצח חפים מפשע, הנך מושעה מלימודיך באוניברסיטת חיפה עד לבדיקת הנושא”.

ל”כלבו – חיפה והקריות” נודע כי ארבעת הסטודנטים שהושעו הם ערבים. השעייתם תהיה בתוקף עד לבירור הנושא על ידי האוניברסיטה. כפי שפורסם אתמול, פתיחת שנת הלימודים באוניברסיטאות נדחתה בשבוע ליום ראשון, 22 באוקטובר.

מאוניברסיטת חיפה נמסר בתגובה: “האוניברסיטה מגלה אפס סובלנות לסטודנטים שמביעים תמיכה בהתקפת הטרור על יישובי עוטף עזה וברצח אזרחים ישראלים חפים מפשע. מכתבי השעיה כבר יצאו לקומץ סטודנטים שאינו מייצג את הכלל”.

מכתב ההשעיה שנשלח לסטודנטים

מכתב ההשעיה שנשלח לסטודנטים

Showing Solidarity with the Palestinians

12.10.23

Editorial Note

Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups published a statement on the conflict in the Gaza Strip soon after the massacre of some 1300 Israeli citizens in communities surrounding the Palestinian enclave. It stated, “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence. The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden. Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.” 

The groups supporting this statement include: African American Resistance Organization; Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College; Harvard Act on a Dream; Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Association; Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association; Harvard Chan Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine; Harvard College Pakistan Student Association; Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association; Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association; Harvard Graduate School of Education Islamic Society; Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine; Harvard Islamic Society; Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine; Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine; Harvard Jews for Liberation; Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women’s Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus; Harvard Muslim Law School Association; Harvard Pakistan Forum; Harvard Prison Divest Coalition; Harvard South Asian Law Students Association; Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research; Harvard TPS Coalition; Harvard Undergraduate Arab Women’s Collective; Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo; Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women’s Medical Alliance; Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association; Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee; Middle East and North African Graduate School of Design; Student Society Neighbor Program; Cambridge Sikhs and Companions of Harvard; Undergraduates Society of Arab Students.

The Harvard groups were not the only ones. Columbia University students put out a statement in which Hamas’ brutality was not even acknowledged. The head of the New York University Law School Student Bar Association stated, “I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.” Other academics who made a career of bashing Israel lined up to condemn Israel as well. 

The moral callousness and intellectual obtuseness of students and faculty that mobilized to support “Palestinian resistance” in the form of a wholesale butchery of innocent civilians should not surprise anyone familiar with Western universities’ trends. The critical, neo-Marxist paradigm, which became dominant in all social sciences, sees Israel as a colonial, apartheid state and the Palestinians as the quintessential victims. In this ideologically driven paradigm, facts of history do not matter, and if they collide with the sanctioned narrative, they are either disregarded or twisted. Since its inception in 2004, IAM has brought countless examples of academic writings that demonized Israel and sanitized the “Palestinian resistance” of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. IAM has also pointed numerous times to the Palestinians who had the opportunities, on several occasions, including the 1993 Oslo agreement, to receive statehood. The latter was sabotaged by a campaign of suicide bombers from Hamas and PIJ orchestrated by the Islamist regime in Iran. Between 2000 and the end of the Second Intifada in 2005, over one thousand Israeli civilians died, and over eight thousand were wounded. Peace between Israel and the Palestinians threatened the Iranian mullahs on two levels. It threatened to take away their legitimacy as a self-appointed protector of the Palestinians and, more importantly, impeded the liberation of Jerusalem, which, according to Shiite theology, was a precondition to the return of the twelve Imam, the Mahdi. 

Be this as it may, the willful blindness of the academic cohorts exceeded all boundaries of decency and morality, not to mention intellectual integrity, this time around. In massacring the more than a thousand civilians in the Gaza adjacent communities, the Hamas and PIJ adopted the ISIS playbook, killing babies by decapitating them, killing parents in front of their children, raping women, burning people in their own homes, and massacring young people who attended a music festival. Women, children, and older people were torn from their families and taken to Gaza to serve as hostages. As President Biden said, “Women raped and paraded like trophies.” Rear Admiral John Kirby, who serves as White House spokesman, broke down and cried during a press conference when he talked about women bloodied by multiple rapes were paraded. The President and many others noted that not since the Holocaust were so many Jews murdered in such a brutal way in one day. 

And there is one more important thing to remember. IAM repeatedly emphasized that the pro-Palestinian advocates are not doing any favors to Palestinians. As many Palestinian critics observed, Hamas has ruled with an iron hand over the two million people, giving them no choice in how they are governed and no opportunity to live a decent life. The billions of dollars in foreign aid given to Gaza ended up in the hands of Hamas and were used for building an extensive military apparatus. The rest was spent on extravagant houses and other perks of power. The neighborhood of Al-Rimal, where the bigwigs of Hamas and PIJ live, was described as the “Beverly Hill of Gaza.” 

It has been said that those who do not speak out against evil are complicit in evil. The Harvard groups and other advocates raise a new question: What should we call those who distort reality to support evil by describing it as “virtuous resistance”?  

References:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfMvVpey18ArAnVHtp8UlqT_8V5zaR9sFE5ohC4Ls7U/edit

Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine

We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. 

Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence. 

The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden. 

Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.

African American Resistance Organization 

Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College

Harvard Act on a Dream

Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Association

Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association 

Harvard Chan Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine

Harvard College Pakistan Student Association

Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association

Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association

Harvard Graduate School of Education Islamic Society

Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine

Harvard Islamic Society 

Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine

Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine

Harvard Jews for Liberation

Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus

Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Caucus

Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women’s Caucus 

Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus

Harvard Muslim Law School Association

Harvard Pakistan Forum

Harvard Prison Divest Coalition

Harvard South Asian Law Students Association

Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research

Harvard TPS Coalition

Harvard Undergraduate Arab Women’s Collective

Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo

Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women’s Medical Alliance

Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association

Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee

Middle East and North African Graduate School of Design Student Society

Neighbor Program Cambridge

Sikhs and Companions of Harvard Undergraduates 

Society of Arab Students

==================================

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/10/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-terrorist-attacks-in-israel-2/

OCTOBER 10, 2023Remarks by President Biden on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel

State Dining Room

2:24 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.

You know, there are moments in this life — and I mean this literally — when the pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.

The people of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend.  The bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas — a group whose stated purpose for being is to kill Jews.

This was an act of sheer evil.

More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered — not just killed, slaughtered — in Israel.  Among them, at least 14 American citizens killed.

Parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children.

Stomach-turning reports of being — babies being killed.

Entire families slain.

Young people massacred while attending a musical festival to celebrate peace — to celebrate peace.

Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.

Families hid their fear for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet to avoid drawing attention.

And thousands of wounded, alive but carrying with them the bullet holes and the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured.

You all know these traumas never go away.

There are still so many families desperately waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones, not knowing if they’re alive or dead or hostages.

Infants in their mothers’ arms, grandparents in wheelchairs, Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage — hostages whom Hamas has now threatened to execute in violation of every code of human morality.

It’s abhorrent.

The brutality of Hamas — this bloodthirstiness — brings to mind the worst — the worst rampages of ISIS.

This is terrorism.

But sadly, for the Jewish people, it’s not new.

This attack has brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people.

So, in this moment, we must be crystal clear: We stand with Israel.  We stand with Israel.  And we will make sure Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.

There is no justification for terrorism.  There is no excuse.

Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination.  Its stated purpose is the annihilation of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people.

They use Palestinian civilians as human shields.

Hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed with no regard to who pays the price.

The loss of innocent life is heartbreaking.

Like every nation in the world, Israel has the right to respond — indeed has a duty to respond — to these vicious attacks.

I just got off the phone with — the third call with Prime Minister Netanyahu.  And I told him if the United States experienced what Israel is experiencing, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming.

We also discussed how democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law.

Terrorists purpo- — purposefully target civilians, kill them.  We uphold the laws of war — the law of war.  It matters.  There’s a difference.

Today, Americans across the country are praying for all those families that have been ripped apart.  A lot of us know how it feels.  It leaves a black hole in your chest when you lose family, feeling like you’re being sucked in.  The anger, the pain, the sense of hopelessness.

This is what they mean by a “human tragedy” — an atrocity on an appalling scale.

But we’re going to s- — continue to stand united, supporting the people of Israel who are suffering unspeakable losses and opposing the hatred and violence of terrorism.

My team has been in near constant communication with our Israeli partners and partners all across the region and the world from the moment this crisis began.

We’re surging additional military assistance, including ammunition and interceptors to replenish Iron Dome.

We’re going to make sure that Israel does not run out of these critical assets to defend its cities and its citizens.

My administration has consulted closely with Congress throughout this crisis.  And when Congress returns, we’re going to ask them to take urgent action to fund the national security requirements of our critical partners.

This is not about party or politics.  This is about the security of our world, the security of the United States of America.

We now know that American citizens are among those being held by Hamas.

I’ve directed my team to share intelligence and deploy additional experts from across the United States government to consult with and advise the Israeli counterparts on hostage recover- — recovery efforts, because as president I have no higher priority than the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world.

The United States has also enhanced our military force posture in the region to strengthen our deterrence.

The Department of Defense has moved the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Eastern Mediterranean and bolstered our fighter aircraft presence.  And we stand ready to move in additional assets as needed.

Let me say again — to any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation, I have one word: Don’t.  Don’t.

Our hearts may be broken, but our resolve is clear.

Yesterday, I also spoke with the leaders of
France, Germany, Italy, and the UK to discuss the latest developments with our European allies and coordinate our united response.

This comes on top of days of steady engagement with partners across the region.

We’re also taking steps at home.  In cities across the United States of America, police departments have stepped up security around centers for — of Jewish life.

And the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are working closely with state and local law enforcement and Jewish community partners to identify and disrupt any domestic threat that could emerge in connection with these horrific attacks.

This is a moment for the United States to come together, to grieve with those who are mourning.

Let’s be real clear: There is no place for hate in America — not against Jews, not against Muslims, not against anybody.  We reject — we reject — what we reject is terrorism.  We condemn the indiscriminate evil, just as we’ve always done.

That’s what America stands for.

You know, just over 50 years ago — I was thinking about it this morning, talking with the Secretary of State, the Vice President in my office and — over 50 years ago, as a young senator, I visited Israel for the first time, as a newly elected senator.

And I had a long, long trip — or meeting with Golda Meir in her office just before the Yom Kippur War.  And I guess she could see the consternation on my face as she described what was being faced — they were facing.

We walked outside in that — that sort of hallway outside her office to have some photos.  She looked at me and w- — all of a sudden and said, “Would you like to have a photograph?”  And so, I got up and followed her out.

We were standing there silent, looking at the press.  She could tell, I guess, I was concerned.  She leaned over and whispered to me — she said, “Don’t worry, Senator Biden.  We have a secret weapon here in Israel” — my word this is what she said — “We have no place else to go.”  “We have no place else to go.”

For 75 years, Israel has stood as the ultimate guarantor of security of Jewish people around the world so that the atrocities of the past could never happen again.

And let there be no doubt: The United States has Israel’s back.

We will make sure the Jewish and democratic State of Israel can defend itself today, tomorrow, as we always have.  It’s as simple as that.

These atrocities have been sickening.

We’re — we’re with Israel.  Let’s make no mistake.

Thank you.

2:34 P.M. EDT

The Haifa Mada al-Carmel Research Center is Hostile to Israel

05.10.23

Editorial Note

On previous occasions, IAM mentioned Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research founded in Haifa in 2000. According to its website, Mada “works to further the human, civil and political rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel through applied social research and policy analysis. Mada amplifies Palestinian perspectives in Israeli civil and political discourse, aiming to stimulate alternatives to state policies that privilege one national group over another.”

Recently, Mada al-Carmel published an edited volume in Arabic titled “Zionism and Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Approaches,” portraying Israel negatively and as a settler-colonial entity. The volume is edited by Nadim Rouhana, former Director of Mada al-Carmel and professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies at Tufs University, and Areen Hawari, the Director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel. This book results from academic workshops by Mada al-Carmel, Palestinian scholars, and graduate students in Palestine. The workshops focused on the “study of Zionism as a settler-colonial project, examined its practices, and studied its foundational assumptions and its intellectual, religious, and political worldviews.” According to Mada, the workshops addressed “Zionism’s settler colonial underpinnings, also addressed the transformations that the Zionist project has undergone, as a result of its continued failure to subjugate the ongoing Palestinian resistance.” 

Mada explains that the book “contributes to the debate about the position of the settler-colonial studies in understanding the nature of the Israeli State and in developing Palestinian strategies for liberation in light of this understanding. Thus, the book is a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization in the context of Palestine studies. The contributors to this volume come from different disciplines, live in different geographical areas with different political and legal status within Palestine and work in and study in diverse academic contexts. Some of the writers approached Zionism and its colonial project from a historical perspective, others focused on both its historical and current practices, and some chapters investigated the resistance to the project.” 

As Mada describes it, the volume also includes chapters that analyze the “colonial structure itself, and the overlap between Zionism’s settler-colonial dimension with the religious and national ones. In addition, the volume addressed the knowledge production around the question of Zionism as a settler colonialism by Israeli academic institutions and by Zionism’s opponents.” 

Worth noting that many of the authors are employees in Israeli academic institutions. Moreover, Mada’s negation of Jews to their rights to self-determination in their ancestral homeland is nothing but antisemitic.

Mada al Carmel is also active abroad. The Arab Center Washington DC, a research organization dedicated to furthering the political, economic, and social understanding of the Arab world in the United States and addresses fundamental aspects of US-Arab relations, has recently published an article titled “Political Persecution of Palestinians Using the Education System and Israeli Universities” written by Mada al-Carmel. It claims that the current government in Israel is deepening “the country’s structurally racist policies toward Palestinian citizens of Israel,” and “poses more of a threat than previous governments… it will directly and openly reduce the space for democracy in Israel while directing ever stronger doses of racism at Palestinian society.” 

To prove its case, Mada al-Carmel charged Israel with “growing police hostility and repression toward Palestinian citizens, further restrictions on public and individual freedoms, moves to rein in the judiciary, deeper “Zionization” of academic curricula and the education system in general, and restrictions on the political activity and struggle of Palestinians within the country.” The government, according to Mada al-Carmel, “advanced policies and laws that have grave impacts for the Palestinian education system and the political activities of Palestinian students at Israeli universities.” Such measures have been “proposed or passed” without serious opposition.

The Knesset approved two such bills in preliminary readings: The first, the Supervision of Schools Bill (Amendment—Prohibition on Employment of Terrorist Convicts and Supporters and Supervision of Study Content for Prevention of Incitement) aims to support the firing of teachers supporting “terrorist organizations.” The second bill is the Student Rights Bill (Amendment – Removal of Students Who Support Terror From Educational Institutions and the Dismantling of Terror-Supporting Cells).

For Mada, the bills “clearly target the Palestinian education system in general and Palestinian teachers in particular.” Because they “bolster security supervision at education facilities and give the domestic security apparatus the power to investigate the political backgrounds of teachers before they are appointed, and would also make it easier to dismiss them.” 

Mada claims that the bills’ reference to “solidarity with a terrorist organization” is “a vague term that is clearly intended to target teachers who express support for Palestinian patriotic causes, or for any other political cause, and even to target those who mark national occasions. In Israeli eyes, such acts are seen as tantamount to support for terrorism.” 

According to Mada, “Palestinian students have been brought before university disciplinary committees and Palestinian staff have been fired over posts on social media.” And that “Israel’s clampdown on Palestinian students, teachers, and education staff predates these proposed legal changes.” 

For Mada, “There has been a marked increase in surveillance and monitoring of Palestinians’ statements, writings, and activities since the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in 2014. Palestinian students have been brought before university disciplinary committees and Palestinian staff have been fired over posts on social media.” The proposed amendments would “give legal cover to these practices targeting the Palestinian education system, its staff, and its students.”  

Mada claims that the draft law would punish Palestinian students at Israeli universities for raising the Palestinian flag. The bill was titled the Student Rights Bill (Amendment – Removal of Students Who Support Terror from Educational Institutions and the Dismantling of Terror-Supporting Cells). For Mada, the draft law targets student union activity and the national student movement active at Israeli universities. It punishes Palestinian students, activists, and student organizations on the grounds of “terrorism,” up to and including expulsion.  

Mada al-Carmel concluded that the Israeli legislation “targets the Palestinian education system and Palestinian students from primary school to university.” The Israeli government is also “working to stamp out any political or national expression by students of all ages, as well as by Palestinian teachers.” Adding, “the current administration aims to implement in order to control and politically harass Palestinians, restricting their struggle, their protests, and their ability to express their political opinions and their national identity… through the intimidation of teachers and the securitization of Palestinian education.” 

Contrarily, when reading the proposed law on the Knesset website, the bill proposes “that the guidelines of the Israeli curriculum, according to circulars issued by the Ministry of Education Director General, be binding for all schools that operate by law in Israel and are subject to the ministry’s supervision. It is further proposed to restrict the employment of an education worker who is linked to terrorist activity, including the following: Making the issuance of an employment permit conditional upon the lack of a security record with such linkage; suspension of the permit if the worker is indicted for a terrorist offense or if the Director General is convinced that the worker has displayed identification with a terrorist organization or with an act of terrorism; revoking the permit if the worker has been convicted of a terrorist offense.”  The explanatory notes to the bill state: “Two children, aged 13–14, have recently participated in murderous acts of terrorism. These acts did not arise in a vacuum, but rather grew on the fertile soil of unbridled incitement taking place in schools in which the Palestinian curriculum is studied in east Jerusalem. This curriculum includes delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish people and the State of Israel, and glorification of terrorists and acts of terrorism against [the Jewish people and the State of Israel]. When this content is part of the education system from a young age, it has a destructive and long-term effect. “Today, supervision of the Palestinian study content is deficient, and the arrangement according to which teaching personnel can be suspended or dismissed is largely to be found in circulars of the Ministry of Education Director General. According to the existing arrangement, the possibility of suspending or dismissing teaching personnel is complicated, limited and liable to take years.”

Mada’s dismissal of “terrorism” should raise an alarm. 

It must be said that there is a steady increase of Arab students at Israeli universities, most of whom come to study, not to cause trouble.  

REFERENCES:

Political Persecution of Palestinians Using the Education System and Israeli Universities

Sep 21, 2023 

Mada al-Carmel

Since the formation of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s sixth government December 29, 2022, it has become clear—as outlined in previous papers from Mada al-Carmel—that this administration will deepen the country’s structurally racist policies toward Palestinian citizens of Israel, that it poses more of a threat than previous governments, and that it will directly and openly reduce the space for democracy in Israel while directing ever stronger doses of racism at Palestinian society.1

Examples of this trend include growing police hostility and repression toward Palestinian citizens, further restrictions on public and individual freedoms, moves to rein in the judiciary, deeper “Zionization” of academic curricula and the education system in general, and restrictions on the political activity and struggle of Palestinians within the country. In recent months, the government has advanced policies and laws that have grave impacts for the Palestinian education system and the political activities of Palestinian students at Israeli universities. These measures have been proposed or passed with no serious opposition from within the Israeli political and party systems, or in the public sphere, and have only stirred modest responses from Palestinians themselves.

Clamping Down on the Palestinian Education System

The Knesset has recently approved two such bills in preliminary readings. The first, the Supervision of Schools Bill (Amendment—Prohibition on Employment of Terrorist Convicts and Supporters and Supervision of Study Content for Prevention of Incitement) aims to facilitate the firing of teachers who express support for “terrorist organizations.”2 The second, the Student Rights Bill (Amendment – Removal of Students Who Support Terror From Educational Institutions and the Dismantling of Terror-Supporting Cells), stipulates that a representative of the Shin Bet domestic security service should once again be deployed at the Ministry of Education, a post that was previously scrapped, officially at least, in 2005.3 The first bill was approved on its preliminary reading on May 31, by 45 votes against 25.

The second bill was tabled by Jewish Power MK Zvika Fogel, who gained notoriety a few months ago when he suggested that he wanted to see the West Bank Palestinian village of Huwwara “closed” and “burnt,” and that violence carried out there by Israeli settlers against Palestinians was legitimate as it helped to deter Palestinian attacks. His bill was approved on its preliminary reading on July 19 by 52 votes to 30, and would create a committee at the Education Ministry made up of five members, including a representative of Shin Bet, to oversee appointments within the education system.

The two bills were tabled following approval by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, and clearly target the Palestinian education system in general and Palestinian teachers in particular. They would bolster security supervision at education facilities and give the domestic security apparatus the power to investigate the political backgrounds of teachers before they are appointed, and would also make it easier to dismiss them. The bills’ reference to “solidarity with a terrorist organization” is a vague term that is clearly intended to target teachers who express support for Palestinian patriotic causes, or for any other political cause, and even to target those who mark national occasions. In Israeli eyes, such acts are seen as tantamount to support for terrorism.

Palestinian students have been brought before university disciplinary committees and Palestinian staff have been fired over posts on social media.

Israel’s clampdown on Palestinian students, teachers, and education staff predates these proposed legal changes. There has been a marked increase in surveillance and monitoring of Palestinians’ statements, writings, and activities since the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in 2014. Palestinian students have been brought before university disciplinary committees and Palestinian staff have been fired over posts on social media. Government-funded primary and preparatory schools have been banned from marking national occasions or observing strikes called for by the High Follow-up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel (HFC). The proposed amendments would help give legal cover to these practices targeting the Palestinian education system, its staff, and its students.

In response to the proposed amendment to the Supervision of Schools Bill, human rights organization Adalah and the regional Follow-up Committee on Educational Affairs issued a joint statement saying, “The law is another attempt to deepen the regime of control over the Palestinian education system and to return us to the period of military rule that was imposed on Palestinians in Israel from 1948 to 1966.” The statement added that, “The proposed law is unconstitutional, as it allows for surveillance of education system staff on the assumption that they pose a security threat simply on the grounds of being Arab, and treats Palestinian Arab citizens as enemies.” It also warned that even the act of making such proposals is damaging, as it sows fear among staff. The statement called for increased awareness, and for efforts to counter the stir caused by the proposals by raising education employees’ awareness of their legal rights when dealing with such issues in a professional and principled way, and with a sense of ownership. “Teachers are caregivers whose role is not limited to delivering set curricula,” the statement read, urging Palestinian teachers to organize.4

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), meanwhile, said the main aim of the proposed laws is to impose surveillance and securitization on the Palestinian education system and to prepare for the return of a Shin Bet representative to the ministry, as well as to allow for non-education personnel to seize control of the education system. It said that the proposals represent implicit incitement against an entire community on the grounds that it supports “terrorism.” In ACRI’s view, the vague text of the law adds to the atmosphere of persecution, fear, and repression facing Palestinian education staff, part of a trend of censorship and a silencing of critics within the education system as a whole.5

Attempts to Repress Palestinian Students’ National Identity at Israeli Universities

In mid-July, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the tabling of a draft law that would see Palestinian students at Israeli universities punished for raising the Palestinian flag. The bill was titled the Student Rights Bill (Amendment – Removal of Students Who Support Terror from Educational Institutions and the Dismantling of Terror-Supporting Cells). On July 19, the Knesset approved it on its preliminary reading, by 50 votes in favor to 32 against.6

The draft law targets student union activity and the national student movement that is active at Israeli universities, and would provide for punishments against Palestinian students, activists, and student organizations on the grounds of “terrorism,” up to and including expulsion. It would also punish students caught raising the Palestinian flag. According to ACRI, the law would oblige academic institutions to halt the education of students found guilty of making statements deemed to be supportive of “terrorism” and to permanently expel them. In addition, any academic degree they had gained outside the country would not be recognized.7

The Student Coalition (al-Tajammu al-Tullabi) released a statement condemning the bill, which reads, “This law intensifies the political persecution that Palestinians inside Israel and national activism in general have faced since the Nakba.” It goes on to say, “What 75 years of persecution, harassment, and attempts at erasure and ‘Israelization’ have failed to achieve will not succeed against a generation that is proud of its identity, its belonging to its people, and the justness of its cause, and that refuses to submit in any way.”8

The Student Front said in its own statement that, “The bill that would ban raising the Palestinian flag at universities and expel students who do so reflects utter hysteria over the student movement, its popularity, and the way students have gathered under the Palestinian flag, as well as Arab-Jewish partnership and struggle in recent years.”9 Aside from these statements, Palestinian political parties, the HFC, and rights groups have not responded in any serious way to these proposed laws, which represent a fundamental shift in the tools of repression and political persecution against the Palestinian community in Israel.

Conclusion

The legislation described above targets the Palestinian education system and Palestinian students from primary school to university. It aims to wipe out their national identity and remove their national affiliation and political stances from the education sphere. The Israeli political right is making efforts to bring Jewish identity and Zionist values into the Jewish education system, with the blessing of the current government. A minister has even been appointed in the prime minister’s office to work on this issue. The government is also working to stamp out any political or national expression by students of all ages, as well as by Palestinian teachers.

The Israeli political right is making efforts to bring Jewish identity and Zionist values into the Jewish education system.

The bills outlined above fit within a broader legislative program that aims to impose government control and censorship over Palestinians in Israel. They add to a string of laws and measures that the current administration aims to implement in order to control and politically harass Palestinians, restricting their struggle, their protests, and their ability to express their political opinions and their national identity. These bills are also a direct extension of the government’s move to make Zionism the “guiding principle of the government’s activities,” which would “make Zionist values a guiding and decisive principle in all the activities of government ministries,” in the spirit of both the 2018 Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People and the agreement on which the current coalition government was formed.

Moreover, these laws revive Israeli policies from the era of military government, which sought to remake Palestinian identity through the education system, and through the intimidation of teachers and the securitization of Palestinian education. Mada al-Carmel believes that these proposals reflect the general outlook of this government, are an interpretation of the coalition agreement, and represent the government’s efforts to turn the 2018 basic law into government policy, transforming it from a declarative law into a legal reality. Furthermore, the Palestinian community’s reaction to these laws and policies has not been commensurate with their seriousness and the political threat that they represent.

The views expressed in this publication are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Arab Center Washington DC, its staff, or its Board of Directors.

This position paper was first published in Arabic by Mada al-Carmel, Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa, Israel.

******

1 “Projections of the Sixth Netanyahu Government’s Treatment of Arab Citizens” (in Arabic), Mada al-Carmel, December 2022, https://tinyurl.com/3svhxzv4.; “The Justice Minister’s Plan:  Harming the Rights of Palestinians in Israel” (in Arabic), Mada al-Carmel, January 2023, https://tinyurl.com/47tu5vr4.

2 “Approved in Preliminary Reading: Restricting Employment of Education Worker Who Is Linked to Terrorist Activity,” Israeli Knesset, June 1, 2023, https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/news/pressreleases/pages/press1623w.aspx.
3 “Approved in Preliminary Reading: Bill to Remove Students Who Support Terrorism from Universities,” Israeli Knesset, July 20, 2023, https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/news/pressreleases/pages/press20723q.aspx.
4 “Adalah and the Follow-Up Committee on Educational Affairs Comment on the Supervision of Schools Bill: Racist Proposals That We Will Challenge Publicly, Legally and Internationally” (in Arabic), Adalah (the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights In Israel), June 1, 2023, https://www.adalah.org/ar/content/view/10832.
5 “Position Paper regarding the School Inspection Bill” (in Hebrew), ACRI, May 26, 2023, https://01368b10-57e4-4138-acc3-01373134d221.usrfiles.com/ugd/01368b_a2a2196260fa416dab47dfbc2436c175.pdf.
6 “Approved in Preliminary Reading: Bill Targeting Arab Political Activity at Universities on Grounds of ‘Supporting Terrorism’” (in Arabic), Arab48, July 19, 2023, https://tinyurl.com/ye2av462.
7 ACRI, “Position Paper regarding the School Inspection Bill.”
8 Arab48, “Approved in Preliminary Reading.”
9 “Student Front: We Will Continue to Raise the Palestinian Flag at Universities, and Our Students Will Stomp on the Flag-Raising Law” (in Arabic), Alittihad, May 25, 2023, https://tinyurl.com/yff2tuzm.

=======================================================

https://mada-research.org/post/15904/Zionism-and-Settler-Colonialism:-Palestinian-approaches-New-book-published-by-Mada-al-Carmel.

By Mada Admin | 20 July 2023

Zionism and Settler Colonialism: Palestinian approaches New book published by Mada al-Carmel.

Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research published an edited volume in Arabic titled “Zionism and Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Approaches”. The volume is edited by Nadim Rouhana, the former Director of Mada al-Carmel and professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufs University, and Areen Hawari the Director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel.  

This book is the result of an academic workshop at which Mada al-Carmel brought together a group of Palestinian scholars and graduate students in Palestine for four two-day workshops over a year and a half.  The workshops focused on the study of Zionism as a settler-colonial project, examined its practices, and studied its foundational assumptions and its intellectual, religious, and political worldviews. The workshops, while addressing Zionism’s settler colonial underpinnings, also addressed the transformations that the Zionist project has undergone, as a result of its continued failure to subjugate the ongoing Palestinian resistance.

The book contributes to the debate about the position of the settler-colonial studies in understanding the nature of the Israeli State and in developing Palestinian strategies for liberation in light of this understanding. Thus, the book is a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization in the context of Palestine studies.

The contributors to this volume come from different disciplines, live in different geographical areas with different political and legal status within Palestine and work in and study in diverse academic contexts. Some of the writers approached Zionism and its colonial project from a historical perspective, others focused on both its historical and current practices, and some chapters investigated the resistance to the project. The volume also includes chapters that analyzed the colonial structure itself, and the overlap between Zionism’s settler-colonial dimension with the religious and national ones. In addition, the volume addressed the knowledge production around the question of Zionism as a settler colonialism by Israeli academic institutions and by Zionism’s opponents.

Contributors and chapters as they appear in the volume are:

Introduction

Nadim Rouhana and Areen Hawari

The first section: Settler Colonialism:  Theoretical approaches

  • The Palestinian Resistance and the Dilemma of Legitimacy of Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Zionism Responds with Religious Narratives.                                                                         

Nadim Rouhana

  • The Dialectic of the Colonial and Exploitative Dimension in the Structure of Israeli Colonialism: The Colonized Lands of 1967 as an Example.

Ahmad Iz Addin Asaad

  • A Comparative Reading between the Colonial Cases in Palestine and Algeria.

Abaher al-Sakka

Settler Colonialism in the Israeli-Palestinian Context, Decolonization, and the Sociology of Knowledge Production in Israel

Areej Sabbagh Khoury

  • Benjamin Netanyahu and the Reproduction of the Zionist Project within the Paradigm of the Clash of Civilizations.

 Mohannad Mustafa

The second section: The Settler-Colonial Policies of the Zionist Project

  • The Political Economy Under the Colonial Regime and the Outbreak of the 1936 Revolution.

Mahmoud Yazbek

  • In Search for the Biblical Golan: Jewish Imaginaries and Settlement in the 19th-Century 

Aamer Ibraheem

  • The Unchilding Politics: Tracing the Israeli Colonialism.

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

  • The Biopolitics of Palestinian Class Elimination in the Colonial Labor Market.

Sarab Abu Rabia

The third section: On the Agency of the Colonized

  • Ms. Keren Kayemet: The Formation of Palestinian Masculine Identities Under Military Regime.

Areen Hawari

  • The Normalization within the Structure of Settler Colonialism in Palestine: The Duality of Rejection and Acceptance.

Mai Al-Bazour

  • The Concept of Normalization within the Structure of Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Between the Duality of Rejection and Acceptance

Heba Yazbak

  • Liberating the Past from the Captivity of a Colonized Present: The Memory as a Site of Resistance.

Amira Silmi

  • The presence of the Settler Project in the political folk Songs: A Reading in the Palestinian Revolutionary oral text

Qasam Al-Haj

J7 Task Force Against Antisemitism Targeted by Antisemitism

28.09.23

Editorial Note

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently formed the J7 Global Task Force Against Antisemitism, responding to increasing numbers of antisemitic incidents worldwide. The Task Force will include the following countries and organizations: The United States – ADL and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; The United Kingdom – Board of Deputies of British Jews; France – Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF); Germany- Central Council of Jews in Germany; Canada – Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA); Argentina – Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA); Australia- Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ). According to the ADL, in addition to top-level consultations, the J7 will organize a number of working groups comprised of experts from each community and develop strategies and action plans such as policy and advocacy, tech policy, security, extremism, and education against antisemitism. “The formation of the J7 Global Task Force comes at a time when data from around the world indicates a rise in antisemitic incidents and attitudes, and growing concern within our Jewish communities who are confronting this rise,” the ADL stated.

Some Arab and Iranian media responded with antisemitic rants. These sources accuse the Jews of using the label of antisemitism to silence the legitimate voices of the Palestinians and scuttle their struggle against the “Jewish colonialists.” One example is Al-Mayadeen, a Beirut-based Arab language satellite news channel associated with Iran and Hezbollah.     

Al Mayadeen stated that the Global Task Force, formed by several leading “pro-Israeli, Zionist organizations,” is an alliance “pedaling pro-Israeli sentiment under the guise of fighting antisemitism.” These organizations are “staunch supporters of the Israeli occupation… it is well-known that the organizations would spin the narrative and make the whole thing revolve around defending the Israeli occupation and attacking occupied Palestine.”

According to the Al Mayadeen, the list of members raises questions about the “so-called fight against anti-Semitism,” as it includes “the notorious Anti-Defamation League, a notorious organization known for its Zionist ideals, support for the Israeli occupation, and vilification of Pro-Palestine activists.”  Al Mayadeen reached this conclusion because the ADL holds Zionism as “the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.” For Al Mayadeen, it means, “intentionally ignoring its roots that stem from European colonialism and the pursuit of expansion at the expense of third countries.”

Furthermore, for Al Mayadeen, the claim that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism is “a sort of umbrella phrase that seeks to demonize anyone who opposes the Israeli occupation and the crime it commits against the Palestinian people and Arabs.” 

For Al Mayadeen, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, another prominent J7 member, is “another Zionist organization that supports the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The board also asserts that Zionism is ‘the belief that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland.’ The board also in May 2018 criticized the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas for its response to Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, without acknowledging that the Israeli occupation forces killed scores of Palestinians and used disproportionate force against them.” 

That Al-Mayadeen is a mouthpiece for Hezbollah and Iran is hardly debatable. The outlet trumpets its dedication to the “Palestinian resistance movement,” echoing Hezbollah’s 1985 foundational charter that mentions the goal of fighting “the Zionist enemy.” The Jewish Chronicle accused Al Mayadeen of antisemitism because of articles like “The Holocaust — that great deception”; “Why do the Jews rejoice at the burning of Notre Dame in Paris?”; “Jews and Freemasons in the Arabs’ revolutions”; and “The Jews of ‘Israel’ — this is why their end is certain.”

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO), the anti-Israel Arab media outlet based in London, is also a case in point. Widely distributed in the Middle East, it is considered a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood. MEMO published an article presenting the battle against antisemitism negatively, stating that ADL’s “Greenblatt is one of the key proponents of the idea that anti-Zionism and legitimate criticism of the state of Israel equate to anti-Semitism. He is spearheading the initiative.” According to MEMO, “The collaboration comes as Israel faces sharp criticism for its political shift to the far-right. Internally the occupation state is facing the prospect of a ‘civil war’, according to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert; internationally, a consensus is emerging about Israel’s practice of apartheid. With the highly controversial IHRA definition of anti-Semitism conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish racism, the increased focus and concern over Israeli policy has reinforced the false narrative with every condemnation of the occupation state and every voice in support of Palestine.” 

Traditional discourse on antisemitism has been largely limited to the West – where both right-wing and left-wing varieties of the phenomenon are to be found. The tremendous growth of antisemitic propaganda of the Islamist regime of Iran propagated through its myriad outlets in the Middle East and Asia, such as Al Mayadeen, should be examined. Iran’s antisemitic propaganda has also taken root in Latin and South America, where Hezbollah is embedded in the large Lebanese diaspora. The modern versions of Arab and Palestinian antisemitism, which peaked during the Nazi era, also need to be scrutinized. 

IAM would report on the progress of the J7 Global Task Force. 

References:

https://www.adl.org/j7-large-communities-task-force-against-antisemitism
J7 – The Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism

In response to increasing rates of antisemitism around the world, major Jewish organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Argentina and Australia formed the J7, the Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism.


The task force will consist of the following member organizations and nations represented:

  • The United States: ADL and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
  • The United Kingdom: Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • France: Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF)
  • Germany: Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • Canada: Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)
  • Argentina: Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA)
  • Australia: Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ)

In addition to top-level consultations, the J7 will organize a number of working groups comprised of subject matter experts from each community to develop strategies and action plans within areas such as policy and advocacy, tech policy, security, extremism and education against antisemitism.

The formation of the J7 Global Task Force comes at a time when data from around the world indicates a rise in antisemitic incidents and attitudes, and growing concern within our Jewish communities who are confronting this rise.

============================================

https://www.adl.org/j7-large-communities-task-force-against-antisemitism

Published: 07.24.2023

New initiative will bring together leaders of seven large Diaspora Jewish communities to discuss common challenges, develop coordinated strategies and share best practices

New York, NY, July 25, 2023 … In response to increasing rates of antisemitism around the world, major Jewish organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Argentina and Australia announced today the formation of the J7, the Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism. 

The task force will consist of the following member organizations and nations represented: 

  • The United States: ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations 
  • The United Kingdom: Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • France: Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF)
  • Germany: Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • Canada: Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)
  • Argentina: Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA)
  • Australia: Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ)

In addition to top-level consultations, the J7 will organize a number of working groups comprised of subject matter experts from each community to develop strategies and action plans within areas such as policy and advocacy, tech policy, security, extremism, and education against antisemitism.

The formation of the J7 Global Task Force comes at a time when data from around the world indicates a rise in antisemitic incidents and attitudes, and growing concern within our Jewish communities who are confronting this rise.

Leaders of these seven communities shared their perspectives of the importance of this collaboration:

Argentina – Jorge Knoblovits, President, DAIA: “To be part of J7, represents for the DAIA a great responsibility as one of the world’s largest Jewish communities and the only one in Latin America. J7 will allow us to have a greater understanding of the challenges faced by world Jewry in the areas of antisemitism, Holocaust remembrance and other hate-related topics. To be part of J7, led by ADL, ensures that the perspective of Latin American Jews will have a global reach.”   

Australia – Peter Wertheim, Co-CEO, Executive Council of Australian Jewry: “Antisemitism is a disease of the human spirit that eats away at the foundations of civilisation everywhere. It is not limited by geographical borders, ideology or creed.  It is a global phenomenon that requires a global response.  As the elected peak representative body of the Australian Jewish community, we are pleased to join our colleagues from organisations representing other major Jewish communities in the diaspora to co-ordinate our efforts to combat antisemitism and maximise our impact.”

Canada – Shimon Fogel, President and CEO, CIJA: “What starts with the Jews, never ends with the Jews. There is a global imperative to confront antisemitism and drawing on the expertise and strength of the J7 coalition is an important catalyst for universal action.”

France – Robert J. Ejnes, Executive Director, CRIF: “If antisemitism exists everywhere in the world, it is in Europe that it has been brought to its climax. Together with the J7 task force, we will look at the resurgence of antisemitism in all its forms, whether Islamist, conspiratorial, hatred of Israel or Holocaust denial, from wherever it originates. Together, we will monitor the expressions of hate and fight for a better tomorrow.”

Germany – Dr. Josef Schuster, President, Central Council of Jews in Germany: “The internet, as a means of fast and easy communication, increasingly blurs national borders. Similarly, antisemitic networks, tactics and developments don’t stop at national borders either. We endorse this additional opportunity for exchange in the J7 format, which will facilitate interaction between representatives of Jewish communities at this level. Together we will approach globally operating institutions or companies and unite our efforts in combatting antisemitism.”

UK – Marie van der Zyl OBE, President, Board of Deputies of British Jews: “Antisemitism knows no geographic boundaries.  The Board of Deputies looks forward to being part of this international coalition of leading Jewish organisations, each at the forefront of the fight against the challenges posed by the rise of this global hatred. By working together, we strengthen our ability to tackle antisemitism wherever it emerges.”

U.S. – William C. Daroff, CEO, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: “Antisemitism, which is the world’s oldest hatred, no longer looks or spreads the way it did in the past. The vitriol once felt for individual Jews or Jewish practice, has metastasized into blaming the Jewish people and the Jewish state for the ills of the world. Social media enables antisemitic hate to cross borders, where it spreads faster than ever before. It is therefore imperative for the largest diaspora Jewish communities to engage in regular conversation to develop strategies to combat the pernicious spread of antisemitism. Including our Conference of Presidents member organizations that are engaged in combatting antisemitism will bring great synergies to this effort. What impacts one community, impacts us all. ”

U.S. — Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO: “Antisemitism is rising around the world, especially in countries where there are large Jewish populations. And threats to our communities are not contained by continents and borders. We needed to meet these challenges through coordinated action. This new coalition of major organizations representing seven large Jewish Diaspora communities in liberal democracies will provide a formal framework for coordination, consultation and formulating global responses to antisemitic threats against the Jewish people.”

The J7 leadership will meet periodically virtually and in-person, including at ADL’s 2024 Never is Now Summit on March 4-7, 2024.

================================https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/notorious-zionist-group-adl-forms-task-force-to-address-anti

Notorious Zionist group ADL forms task force to ‘address antisemitism’

By Al Mayadeen English Source: Agencies 25 Jul 2023 14:09 

Several leading pro-Israeli, Zionist organizations have taken to form an alliance of their own in a bid to “address antisemitism” while pedaling pro-Israeli sentiment.

Organizations from seven nations, most of whom are staunch supporters of the Israeli occupation, have come together to form a “global task force” that would try and tackle “anti-Semitism”, though not much was specified regarding this topic, as it is well-known that the organizations would spin the narrative and make the whole thing revolve around defending the Israeli occupation and attacking occupied Palestine.

The initiative will “unite leaders from the world’s most significant Jewish communities to devise coordinated strategies, discuss mutual challenges, and share best practices,” a statement published Tuesday by the J7 Global Task Force Against Antisemitism said.

However, the list of the task force’s members raises many questions about this so-called fight against anti-Semitism, as it includes the notorious Anti-Defamation League, a notorious organization known for its Zionist ideals, support for the Israeli occupation, and vilification of Pro-Palestine activists.

The ADL proclaims Zionism to be “the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel”, intentionally ignoring its roots that stem from European colonialism and the pursuit of expansion at the expense of third countries.

Moreover, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt claimed in May that anti-Zionism was anti-Semitism, a sort of umbrella phrase that seeks to demonize anyone who opposes the Israeli occupation and the crime it commits against the Palestinian people and Arabs.

Another member is the Board of Deputies of British Jews, another Zionist organization that supports the Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

The board also asserts that Zionism is “the belief that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland.”

The board also in May 2018 criticized the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas for its response to Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, without acknowledging that the Israeli occupation forces killed scores of Palestinians and used disproportionate force against them.

===================================

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230726-zionist-groups-set-up-taskforce-to-defend-israel-under-guise-of-combatting-anti-semitism/
Zionist groups set up ‘taskforce’ to defend Israel under guise of combatting anti-Semitism

July 26, 2023 at 12:31 pm

Eight major pro-Israel Jewish organisations from seven different countries have united to create a new task force to defend Israel under the guides of combatting anti-Semitism. The groups in the Task Force Against Anti-Semitism have all embraced the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism and placed defending Israel from criticism at the centre of their work.

Calling themselves J7, the anti-Palestinian taskforce comprises prominent Jewish organisations from the US, the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Argentina and Australia: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organisations; the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF); the Central Council of Jews in Germany; the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA); Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA); and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).

“Anti-Semitism is rising around the world, especially in countries where there are large Jewish populations. We needed to meet these challenges through coordinated action,” ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt told Haaretz. “This new coalition of major organisations representing seven large Jewish Diaspora communities in liberal democracies will provide a formal framework for coordination, consultation and formulating global responses to anti-Semitic threats against the Jewish people.”

Greenblatt is one of the key proponents of the idea that anti-Zionism and legitimate criticism of the state of Israel equate to anti-Semitism. He is spearheading the initiative. “The idea for the J7 came out of conversations I had with partners in France over our shared challenges and concerns. When we reached out to these seven communities, there was instant enthusiasm about the importance of the seven of us consulting, and what we might achieve working together.”

The collaboration comes as Israel faces sharp criticism for its political shift to the far-right. Internally the occupation state is facing the prospect of a “civil war”, according to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert; internationally, a consensus is emerging about Israel’s practice of apartheid. With the highly controversial IHRA definition of anti-Semitism conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish racism, the increased focus and concern over Israeli policy has reinforced the false narrative with every condemnation of the occupation state and every voice in support of Palestine.

In a recent interview, legal expert Giovanni Fassina spoke to MEMO about the IHRA definition’s chilling repercussions. Fassina uncovered shocking examples of its weaponisation against critics of Israel and the suppression of free speech under the guise of combatting anti-Semitism.

The J7 group says that it will monitor and address expressions of hate from all origins. The leadership of J7 will meet regularly, both virtually and in person, with a significant event scheduled for ADL’s Never is Now Summit in March 2024.

==================================

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-07-25/ty-article/.premium/international-jewish-establishment-groups-form-landmark-task-force-to-combat-antisemitism/00000189-8c2c-d430-a59b-ad2df3970000International Jewish Establishment Groups Form Landmark Task Force to Combat Antisemitism

The initiative joins UN and White House initiatives to address a worldwide rise in antisemitic incidents

Ben Samuels, Washington
Jul 25, 2023

WASHINGTON — Major Jewish establishment organizations in seven countries announced on Tuesday the formation of a landmark task force to combat rising antisemitism at nearly unprecedented levels, both within their respective countries and on a global level.

Known as the J7, the Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, the first-of-its-kind alliance will bring together Jewish organizations from the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Canada, Argentina and Australia to develop strategies and actions plans within areas such as policy and advocacy, tech policy, security, extremism and education.

“Antisemitism is rising around the world, especially in countries where there are large Jewish populations. We needed to meet these challenges through coordinated action,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told Haaretz.

“This new coalition of major organizations representing seven large Jewish Diaspora communities in liberal democracies will provide a formal framework for coordination, consultation and formulating global responses to antisemitic threats against the Jewish people,” he noted.

The member groups, alongside the ADL, include the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA) and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).

“The idea for the J7 came out of conversations I had with partners in France over our shared challenges and concerns,” Greenblatt said.

“When we reached out to these seven communities — Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. — there was instant enthusiasm about the importance of the seven of us consulting, and what we might achieve working together,” he continued.

“These large Jewish Diaspora communities around the world are all experiencing rising antisemitic incidents, and in many cases, attitudes — on the streets and online. We are confronted with the normalization of antisemitism and anti-Zionism on the left and right,” he added.

Greenblatt’s comments reflect a widely shared position amongst Jewish establishment figures around the world concerning the role of anti-Israel sentiment in fomenting anti-Jewish hatred.

The Biden administration recently unveiled a landmark plan to combat antisemitism, widely hailed despite deep internal infighting about how to properly define antisemitism in relation to criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

After the Biden administration managed to land the plane and please both sides of the debate, the United Nations is similarly deep in working toward creating its own action plan while wrestling with the same issues and external pressures.

The J7 organizations, it bears mentioning, have all passionately embraced and subsequently advocated for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which progressives caution too easily conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

CRIF Executive Director Robert J. Ejnes, meanwhile, flagged anti-Israel sentiment as one of many forms of anti-Jewish hatred the alliance plans to combat.

“If antisemitism exists everywhere in the world, it is in Europe that it has been brought to its climax. Together with the J7 task force, we will look at the resurgence of antisemitism in all its forms, whether Islamist, conspiratorial, hatred of Israel or Holocaust denial, from wherever it originates. Together, we will monitor the expressions of hate and fight for a better tomorrow,” he said.

The J7 leadership will meet periodically virtually and in-person, including at ADL’s 2024 Never is Now Summit on March 4-7, 2024.

Palestinian and pro-Palestinian Groups Urge to Rescind the Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in the UK

21.09.23

Editorial Note

A new report was published by the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) together with the Palestinian group, the European Legal Support Center (ELSC). BRISMES and ELSC have rejected the adoption of The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism. In their words, “UK higher education institutions should rescind the adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism.”

BRISMES is holding a conference to promote the report’s findings, on September 28, 2023.

The report is based on an analysis of 40 cases recorded between 2017 and 2022, where university staff and students were accused of antisemitism, based on the IHRA Working Definition. Except in two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism have all been rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. According to the authors, “The findings demonstrate that the IHRA definition is undermining academic freedom and freedom of expression in relation to discussions of Israel and Palestine and risks being used in a way that discriminates against Palestinians and others on campuses who wish to teach, research, study, discuss, or speak out against the oppression of Palestinians.”

 In a common technique to camouflage their antisemitic agenda and legitimize their findings, the two organizations recruited an anti-Israel Israeli academic to lead the campaign, Prof. Neve Gordon. The journal Times Higher Education published his interview.  Gordon is the chair of BRISMES’ committee on academic freedom and a professor of international human rights and humanitarian law at Queen Mary University of London. Formerly of Ben Gurion University’s Department of Politics and Government who called for the boycott of Israel in 2009. Gordon claims that “BRISMES and the European Legal Support Centre received many requests of support from staff and students who have been accused of antisemitism because they criticized the policies of the Israeli government or just ‘liked’ some tweets about Israel or about the Labor Party… We began noticing a pattern of what appeared to be spurious accusations which are causing considerable stress and reputational damage to individuals in academia and decided to investigate the matter.” Gordon added: “As a Jewish parent, whose children have experienced antisemitism in a London school, it is clear to me that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is diverting our attention from real manifestations of antisemitism in UK higher education and society more generally. Instead of combating antisemitism, the IHRA definition has become a political tool to undermine and punish protected speech voiced by Palestinian and other students and staff who criticize Israeli policies.” 

Gordon also stated: “What has been framed as a tool to classify and assess a particular form of discriminatory violations of protected characteristics, has instead been used as a tool to undermine and punish protected speech and to punish those in academia who voice criticism of the Israeli state’s policies.” 

Contrary to Gordon’s claim, the IHRA Definition states clearly, “However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.”

The report delves primarily into incidents relating to anti-Zionism, the boycott movement, Israeli Apartheid Week, or comments on former leaders in the Labor Party accused of antisemitism, which many universities are unsure how to handle as these are sometimes considered borderline cases of antisemitism. Clearly, negating the Jewish right to self-determination in the ancestral homeland is antisemitic. 

In January, the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism, published a report, “Campus Antisemitism in Britain 2020-2022,” that showed a 22% increase in university-related antisemitic hate incidents reported to CST over the past two academic years.

Ironically, the attack on IHRA occurred during a dramatic increase in antisemitism in the West. The Palestinian Authority has contributed its fair share to the denigration of Jews. As widely reported, Mahmoud Abbas, the PA head with a long history of Holocaust distortion and denial, stated that Hitler killed the Jews because of their ‘social functions’ related to money. ” Abbas said, “They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. No. It was clearly explained that they fought them because of their social role and not their religion.” Abbas later clarified that he was referring to “usury, money and so on.”

The official Palestinian news agency recently published an antisemitic item negating Jews’s rights to their religion, stating, “On what is called ‘Yom Kippur,’ the settlers seek to simulate the sacrifice and set a record number of people storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and the day after it… The so-called ‘Feast of the Throne’ begins on September 30 and extends until October 17. It is one of the biblical pilgrimage holidays associated with the ‘alleged Temple,’ during which the settlers attempt to bring plant sacrifices into Al-Aqsa Mosque and raise the number of intruders to more than 1,500 intruders over successive days. Jerusalemite warnings continue about the danger of settlement rituals in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Jerusalem, during the Jewish holidays, and calls for the necessity of traveling to Al-Aqsa to thwart the settlers’ plans and the ongoing Judaization efforts against the Blessed Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem.” 

WAFA, the official PA news agency, published the following statement on July 27, 2023, “The Islamic organizations in Jerusalem… called on every Palestinian and Muslim who can carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) in the alleys, houses of worship, benches, and plazas of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / the Noble Jerusalem Sanctuary, with its entire territory that stands at 144 dunams, so that it will remain pure of the infidels’ defilement and precious and pure for the Muslims only, as Allah granted them in the holy Quran.” 

In another report, the PA Minister of Religious Affairs, Hatem Al-Bakri, was recorded on PA Television on September 15, 2023, saying, “Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque from the defilement of the criminal infidels, O Master of the Universe.”

The British Foreign Secretary who spoke at the International Counter-Terrorism Conference in Israel on September 12, 2023, said, “when I meet with the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, and I will make it clear that rather than spreading disgusting, anti-Semitic tropes, and outrageous distortions of history, they should be clear in their denouncement of violence. They should be clear that there is no acceptance for brutality and terrorists. And they should be clear there is no excuse to target Israelis, particularly Israeli civilians.” 

The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism is an essential tool for fighting the growing antisemitic movement. Many countries and institutions have voluntarily accepted the document. The anti-IHRA advocates are fighting a rearguard battle, which hopefully they cannot win. 

References:

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/ihra-report-launch

The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023

Time: 16:00-17:30 (BST)

Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)

Register to Attend

About the Event

As the controversial IHRA Definition of Antisemitism that conflates criticisms of Israel with antisemitism has been adopted by UK universities, a new report conducted by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the largest academic association in Europe focused on the study of the Middle East and North Africa, and the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), examines its consequences for academics and students. The report demonstrates that the definition is not fit for purpose and is infringing on academic freedom and freedom of speech, while also harming the mental health, reputation and career prospects of students and staff.

Download the Report

Panellists

The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Akram Salhab is a PhD student in politics at Queen Mary University of London, focusing on Palestinian history, sovereignty and anticolonialism. He is a longstanding organiser for democratic rights in Palestine, and for freedom of speech on Palestine at UK universities, including working to counter the impact of the Prevent legislation and the IHRA. He presented and helped produce a news item for Channel 4 News on these topics, and the wider Palestinian experience of colonialism: https://www.channel4.com/news/activist-akram-salhab-on-the-palestinian-experience-of-british-colonialism


The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Gabriel Frankel is the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) Legal Officer in the UK. He provides legal assistance to individuals and groups – including academics and students – facing restrictions on their fundamental freedoms due to their speech or activities related to Palestine.


The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Hagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2014), and of the British Academy (2018). Originally from Israel, she has lectured extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to community and academic audiences in the US and in the UK. In 2021 she became active in the campaign against the adoption of the IHRA definition of Antisemitism by British HE, and in that context, published an article against that definition in Times of Higher Education.


The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Ben Jamal has been Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the largest organisation in the UK campaigning for the rights of the Palestinian people, since 2016. He is a British Palestinian and a member of the British Palestinian Committe. 


Chair

The Effects of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism on Academic Freedom

Paola Rivetti is Associate Professor in Politics in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. She is author of Political participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement (2020) and an Associate Editor of the journals Iranian Studies and Partecipazione e Conflitto. She is a member of the Brismes Council and the newly-formed Committee for Academic Freedom of the Italian Society for Middle East Studies SeSaMO.

Brismes elsc

===========================================

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/press-release-new-report-highlights-major-free-speech-issues-in-uk-universities

Press Release | New Report Highlights Major Free Speech Issues in UK Universities

  • Posted: 13/09/2023

Report published today reveals breaches of fundamental rights in UK Higher Education through the use of the ‘IHRA definition of antisemitism’

London, 13 September 2023

A controversial definition of antisemitism that conflates criticisms of Israel with antisemitism has been used on campuses, leading to restrictions on the freedom of speech of staff and students, the new report reveals. This is the first study to expose the harmful implications of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism following its adoption in UK universities. It was conducted by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the largest academic association in Europe focused on the study of the Middle East and North Africa, and the European Legal Support Center (ELSC). The report demonstrates that the definition is not fit for purpose and is infringing on academic freedom and freedom of speech, while also harming the mental health, reputation and career prospects of students and staff.


The report is based on an analysis of 40 cases, recorded between 2017 and 2022, in which university staff and students were accused of antisemitism based on the IHRA definition. In all instances, except in two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism have been rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. 

The findings demonstrate that the IHRA definition is undermining academic freedom and freedom of expression in relation to discussions of Israel and Palestine and risks being used in a way that discriminates against Palestinians and others on campuses who wish to teach, research, study, discuss, or speak out against the oppression of Palestinians.

The accusations have, in some cases, led to the cancellation of events that discuss the situation in Palestine and/or take a critical stance on Zionism, or the imposition of unreasonable conditions on the format of events. A common feature across several cases is the occurrence of significant and sustained levels of monitoring and surveillance by complainants including recording student speeches and staff lectures; monitoring student or staff social media posts; and reviewing academic publications, course syllabi and reading lists.

Staff and students who were subject to investigations and, in some cases, disciplinary hearings registered varying levels of stress and anxiety caused by these processes, despite being exonerated.

The reflections of one academic who went on leave due to stress are illustrative:

When you are in the process, you don’t understand how stressed you are. My nerves made me hyper vigilant for two years. The impact of the cases, continual media coverage, and constant communication to deal with the case resulted in chronic stress. 

Another targeted academic expressed concerns about their reputation and career:

I feel like I’m on this emotional roller-coaster. I feel like I won’t get a job anywhere else. If I apply for another job, they might not hire me. Not that they would think that I’m antisemitic but because they would want to avoid controversy. That’s the reality for me now. It’s different for the people whose investigations didn’t go public. Reputation is everything for academics. 

One student explained how the accusations interfered with their studies and threatened their future education:

It was really difficult to hear that you might be kicked out of university. It was very hard for me to focus on my studies. I had to do re-sits in the summer, so I didn’t graduate until recently. I nearly didn’t get into Oxford. I missed the deadline by two months. If it wasn’t for Oxford being really flexible, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now.

These cases are creating a chilling effect among staff and students, deterring individuals from speaking about or organising events that discuss Palestine out of fear that they will be subject to complaints, or else will face considerable bureaucratic hurdles and even costly legal action. Academics employed on temporary contracts and students are particularly susceptible to self-censorship out of fear that any sort of accusations, even if not upheld, could jeopardise their future ability to obtain permanent employment or impact their mental health.

The authors of the report recommend that UK higher education institutions should rescind the adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism.

Neve Gordon, the Chair of BRISMES’s Committee on Academic Freedom and a professor of human rights law in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London said: 

What has been framed as a tool to classify and assess a particular form of discriminatory violations of protected characteristics, has instead been used as a tool to undermine and punish protected speech and to punish those in academia who voice criticism of the Israeli state’s policies.

Giovanni Fassina, Director of the ELSC added: 

Not only does the documented pattern call into question the compliance of UK universities with their legal obligation to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression, but it is leading universities away from their core mission of nurturing critical thought, facilitating unhindered research, and encouraging wide-ranging debate.

Background

In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted a working definition of antisemitism (‘the IHRA definition’), to which was appended a list of examples of antisemitism, several of which mention Israel, thereby conflating criticisms of the State of Israel, its policies, practices and political ideology with antisemitism. In practice, these examples have been used in UK higher education institutions to delegitimise points of view critical of Israel by making false accusations of antisemitism. 

As pointed out by one of the main drafters of the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern, writing in The Guardian in 2019, “It was never intended to be a campus hate speech code”. 

While antisemitism exists within UK society and incidents of anti-Jewish prejudice occur in higher education institutions, just as in other institutional contexts, the findings of this new report provide concrete evidence that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is not fit for purpose. The history and instrumentalisation of the IHRA definition of antisemitism should be understood in a wider context of attacks on advocates for Palestinian rights, as explained in a previous report published by the ELSC. Additional resources produced in the USA and Canada demonstrate similar harmful consequences for the rights of advocates for Palestine, while several human rights organisations, like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have asked the UN to reject the IHRA definition because its use and implementation “chill and sometimes suppress non-violent protest, activism and speech”. Such misuse has also been criticised by the former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism E. Tendayi Achiume.

In the UK, other efforts are being deployed at the institutional level to try and undermine advocacy for Palestine. In June 2023, the government tabled a bill aimed at preventing public bodies from making investment decisions that align with their human rights responsibilities and obligations. The bill was designed to target, in particular, boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israel and, therefore, the Palestinian-led BDS movement. In response, a coalition of more than 70 civil society organisations in the UK declared that this bill represents a further attack on freedom of expression. Human Rights Watch called the bill “the latest in a growing list of measures which fundamentally undermine free speech and democratic rights in the country.”

The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) is the largest academic association in Europe focused on the study of the Middle East and North Africa. Through its Committee on Academic Freedom, it is committed to supporting academic freedom and freedom of expression, both within the region and in connection with the study of the region, both in the UK and globally.

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) is the only organisation providing free legal support to individuals, groups and organisations advocating for Palestinian rights in Europe, including the UK. ELSC also documents incidents of repression and analyses and challenges the restrictive policies that result in shrinking space.

===========================================https://www.brismes.ac.uk/files/documents/Freedom%20of%20Speech%20and%20Academic%20Freedom%20in%20UK%20Higher%20Education-BRISMES-ELSC.pdf

 SEPTEMBER 2023 

European Legal Support Center 

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 

Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in UK Higher Education: The Adverse Impact of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism 

The European Legal Support Center is the first organisation of movement lawyers mandated to defend and empower the Palestine solidarity movement in mainland Europe and the UK. ELSC provides free legal advice and assistance to associations, human rights organisations, groups, individuals, students and academics advocating for Palestinian rights. Founded in 1973, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies is a forum for educators and researchers working to promote Middle Eastern studies, and to raise awareness of the region and its interconnection with the world, and with the UK. It is the publisher of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. It advocates on behalf of its members, supporting research and education, disseminating knowledge, deepening public understanding, and defending academic freedom. 

ELSC BRISMES 

https://elsc.support

https://www.brismes.ac.uk

2 Contents 

Executive summary 04 Introduction 07 Section 1: Legal Perspectives on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitsm 10 1.1 Legal Opinions 1.2 Universities’ Duties to Protect Freedom of Speech Section 2: Unfounded Allegations: Targeting Staff, Students, and Events 16 2.1 The Cases 2.2 Consequences for Individual Staff and Students 2.3 The Chilling Effect Section 3: University and Staff Responses 34 Section 4: Conclusions and Recommendations 37 4.1 Summary of Findings 4.2 Recommendations Appendices 42 3 

Executive summary 

We are committed to the struggle against antisemitism and all forms of racism. Antisemitism exists within UK society and incidents of anti-Jewish prejudice occur in higher education institutions, just as in other institutional contexts. Antisemitism must be addressed, and institutions should seek to prevent it. However, universities must do so in a way that does not discriminate directly or indirectly against others or undermine academic freedom and freedom of speech. This report demonstrates that accusations of antisemitism levelled against students and staff in UK universities are often based on a definition of antisemitism that is not fit for purpose and, in practice, is undercutting academic freedom and the rights to lawful speech of students and staff, and causing harm to the reputations and careers of those accused. This report was produced by the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), Europe’s leading scholarly association concerned with the study of the Middle East and North Africa. The report is based on an analysis of 40 cases that were reported to the ELSC and in which UK university staff and/or students were accused of antisemitism on the basis of the ‘IHRA working definition of antisemitism’ (‘IHRA definition’), between 2017 and 2022. In all instances, except for two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism were rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. On the basis of these findings, this report recommends against the adoption and use of the IHRA definition in a higher education setting. However it is beyond the remit of the report to suggest alternative definitions while the Human Rights Act of 1998 and the 2010 Equality Act provide the necessary legal tools to combat antisemitism and hate speech more generally. In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted a ‘working definition of antisemitism’, to which was appended a list of illustrative examples. Several of the examples conflate criticisms of Israel, its illegal policies, practices and the political ideology on which the state was founded, with antisemitism. These examples contradict the IHRA definition itself and reflect positions advanced by advocates of Israeli policies towards Palestinians.1 4 The definition and illustrative examples have been invoked in many contexts in the UK. This report shows that since its adoption by UK higher education institutions, the IHRA definition has been used in ways that delegitimise points of view critical of Israel and/or in support of Palestinian rights, in violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. It is noteworthy that the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, has warned against the use of the definition ‘owing to its susceptibility to being politically instrumentalised and the harm done to human rights resulting from such instrumentalization.’ 2 There is widespread agreement among scholars and legal experts (including the lead drafter of the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern)3 that the IHRA definition is not appropriate for university settings where critical thought and free debate are paramount. Nevertheless, in 2020, the then Secretary of State for Education threatened university leaders with punitive financial consequences if their institutions did not adopt the IHRA definition.4 As a result, 119 universities (almost 75% of UK universities) have adopted some version of the definition as a basis for campus policies.5 Contrary to what many institutions seem to believe, it is simply not possible to use the IHRA definition to determine whether or not an individual incident or statement is antisemitic, whilst simultaneously protecting freedom of speech and academic freedom and preventing discrimination. To attempt to do so inevitably leads to damaging and iniquitous consequences for staff and students. 5 This report highlights four major consequences of the IHRA definition’s adoption: Key findings 1. Advocates of Palestinian human rights, critics of the Israeli state and its policies and those researching and teaching about the history of and current situation in Israel-Palestine have been targeted with false accusations of antisemitism. 2. University staff and students are being subjected to unreasonable investigations and disciplinary proceedings based on the IHRA definition. These proceedings have harmed the wellbeing of the staff and students subjected to false allegations of antisemitism. Those falsely accused have felt their reputations to have been sullied, and they are anxious about possible damage caused to their education and careers. 3. The complaints have had an adverse effect on academic freedom and freedom of speech on campuses, leading, in some cases, to the cancellation of events or the imposition of spurious conditions on the format of events. 4. From testimonies received, it is clear that these cases are creating a chilling effect among staff and students, deterring individuals from speaking about or organising events that discuss Palestinian human rights and Palestinian self-determination out of fear that they will be subject to complaints, or else will face considerable bureaucratic hurdles and even costly legal action in order to allow events to take place. Academics employed on temporary contracts (who constitute a significant proportion of university teaching staff), as well as students, are particularly susceptible to self-censorship out of fear that any sort of accusations, even if not upheld, could jeopardise their future ability to obtain permanent employment. Hence, overall, we conclude that the adoption and deployment of the IHRA definition in UK universities has already dealt a blow to academic freedom and freedom of speech. This not only threatens the ability of higher education institutions to meet their legal obligations in this regard, but is also preventing students from engaging in nuanced discussions about the Middle East, global politics, and the question of Palestine, which are also necessary as part of efforts to combat antisemitism. 6 Introduction The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an intergovernmental body whose stated purpose is ‘to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education, research and remembrance’. The IHRA definition is intended by its authors to be a practical educational tool that help ‘raise awareness of key issues’. It defines antisemitism as: a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.6 Advocates of the definition argue that its adoption is necessary to combat antisemitism in UK universities and assert that the definition ensures the safety and security of Jewish students and staff.7 Further, they argue that as it is framed as ‘nonlegally binding’ it will not impinge on freedom of speech, academic freedom or anti-discrimination law. Yet, there are repeated concerns raised by academics, activists and legal experts that the IHRA definition is suppressing lawful speech on Palestinian human rights and criticisms of the Israeli state. There are seven references to Israel in the illustrative examples accompanying the definition. Several of these examples effectively conflate criticism of Israel and Zionism with racism and discrimination directed at Jews, for example, ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor’. This example not only erroneously essentialises Jewish self-determination as indistinguishable from the State of Israel (a historically-contingent position particular to Zionist ideology) but also delegitimises Palestinian claims to self-determination and opposition to Israel’s discriminatory policies against Palestinians as antisemitism. Most worryingly, it suppresses documented evidence of Israeli crimes against Palestinians. The promotion of the IHRA definition in UK universities and its use in complaints against staff and students is part of a wider context and history of false accusations of antisemitism being levelled against those concerned with Israel’s human rights violations. In 2022, after publishing its report entitled Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity, Amnesty International was accused of deploying ‘antisemitic tropes’.8 In 2019, Tower Hamlets council refused permission for the Big Ride for Palestine, a charity event in aid of Palestinian 7 children, because of fears that it could breach the IHRA definition.9 As such, this reconceptualisation of antisemitism serves to erase Palestinian existence and narratives and shield the rights-abusive policies of the State of Israel – and the structural basis for these actions – from criticism. It further prevents Palestinians from speaking about their oppression and silencing support for Palestinian rights.10 According to a recent report produced by the Taskforce on Antisemitism in Higher Education (established by the UK Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism, Lord Mann), that questioned 56 universities across the UK about their experience of using the IHRA definition: None knew of or could provide a single example in which the IHRA definition had in any ways restricted freedom of speech or academic research, or where its adoption had chilled academic freedom, research or freedom of expression. All these 56 institutions were using the definition and were seen to be listening to the Jewish community about how it experiences antisemitism. 11 Yet, the 40 incidents examined in this study contradict the above claims and raise serious questions about the findings of the Taskforce on Antisemitism in Higher Education. This report confirms the views of recognised experts on antisemitism, Jewish history and related subjects that the IHRA definition is unsuitable for universities.12 Scholars have expressed concern that research and teaching on Israel and Palestine has become increasingly difficult because of the IHRA definition’s widespread adoption.13 The case studies analysed in this report demonstrate that the imposition of the IHRA definition, in its varied forms in UK higher education institutions (regardless of the caveats included in some universities’ policies), stifles free speech within the law in relation to teaching, research and discussion of Israeli government policies, the nature of the formation of the Israeli state, and the nature of Zionism as an ideology and movement. It has served to unfairly damage the reputation and careers of staff and students who speak about the violations of Palestinian human rights and crimes committed by Israel. Most egregiously, it erases the experiences of the Palestinian people, hides from public view documented evidence of the crimes committed against them and thereby prevents universities, staff and students from contributing to informed public debate on the matter. 8 Methodology This report draws on the work of the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), which has advised and represented people in UK higher education who have been affected by the adoption of the IHRA definition. The report has been produced together with experts from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), Europe’s leading scholarly association concerned with the Middle East. Since 2019, BRISMES has been monitoring the impact of the IHRA definition through its Committee on Academic Freedom.14 The analysis in this report is based on 40 cases involving the use of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. These cases occurred in 14 universities, of which 11 are part of the Russell Group. Of these 40 cases, 24 involved members of university staff, nine involved university students and seven involved student societies/unions. In all instances, except for two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism have been rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. The cases represent all the incidents recorded by the ELSC occurring between January 2017 and May 2022 and in which university staff and/or students were accused of antisemitism on the basis of the IHRA definition. In some cases, individuals and groups impacted by complaints reached out to the ELSC for support or to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which then referred them to ELSC.15 In other cases, the ELSC reached out to individuals and groups after becoming aware of the incident either via the media, including social media, and after assessing the relevance of the case to the ELSC mandate. All data related to the incidents were collected by means of Incident Report Forms, which were filled out by affected individuals or groups. Information was fact checked and completed by means of interviews and/or desk research carried out by ELSC staff. The evidence analysed in this report reveals that the adoption of the IHRA definition by UK universities has led to complaints of antisemitism being levelled on the assumption or assertion that criticisms of Israel and/or of Zionism are forms of antisemitism. Our findings demonstrate that the IHRA definition is undermining academic freedom and freedom of expression in relation to discussions of Israel and Palestine and risks being used in a way that discriminates against Palestinians and others on campuses who wish to speak out against the oppression of Palestinians. Section 1 explains why the IHRA definition is inadequate for challenging antisemitism. Section 2 analyses the cases supported by the ELSC. It details the nature of the accusations made against staff and students, the outcome of investigations and disciplinary hearings, and how they have affected the people accused. Section 3 summarises the responses to the IHRA definition by universities and university staff. Section 4 summarises the findings of this research and provides recommendations for the UK government, university leadership and other relevant constituencies. 9 Section 1: Legal Perspectives on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism 10 1.1 Legal Opinions Lawyers and legal scholars have argued that the IHRA definition, including some of its illustrative examples, threatens legally guaranteed rights of freedom of expression and assembly by conflating anti-Zionism (a political standpoint) with antisemitism (a form of racism against Jews). The legal opinion of Hugh Tomlinson KC stresses that the definition has no legal standing in the UK; that public bodies have statutory duties to respect and ensure the right of freedom of expression and assembly; and that reliance on this definition to ban or restrict events which are accused of being ‘anti-Israel’ but  which express no hatred of Jews would be unlawful.16 Tomlinson concluded that a public authority which sought to apply the definition to prohibit or sanction ‘activities such as describing Israel as a state enacting policies of apartheid, as practising settler colonialism or calling for policies of boycott, divestment or sanctions against Israel… [which cannot] properly be characterised as antisemitic … would be acting unlawfully’.17 11 Similarly, in a letter published in January 2021, distinguished lawyers in the UK, including Sir Stephen Sedley and Sir Anthony Hooper, two retired Lord Justices of Appeal, stated: The legally entrenched right to free expression is being undermined by [the IHRA definition]. Its promotion by public bodies is leading to the curtailment of debate. Universities and others who reject the instruction of the [former] secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, to adopt it should be supported in so doing.18 The letter’s authors urged the Government to withdraw its pressure on universities to adopt the IHRA definition. Moreover, some have questioned the effectiveness of the definition itself. The legal opinion of Geoffrey Robertson KC points to the definition’s inadequacy as a mechanism to protect Jews from antisemitism, arguing that ‘The definition does not cover the most insidious forms of hostility to Jewish people and the looseness of the definition is liable to chill legitimate criticisms of the State of Israel and coverage of human rights abuses against Palestinians’.19 Even the principal drafter of the text that became the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern, has deplored the misuse of the definition as a tool to target or chill speech on college campuses. He called it not just misuse, but abuse.20 Stern is a US attorney and the Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. For 25 years he was a national staff member of the American Jewish Committee, acting as its antisemitism expert. As chief author of the definition, he is on record as criticising the vague wording of the core definition drafted by someone else, noting that it ‘doesn’t really say much’.21 It is also noteworthy that the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, has stated that: Notwithstanding the political endorsement of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition across Europe and in North America, it has become highly controversial and divisive owing to its susceptibility to being politically instrumentalized and the harm done to human rights resulting from such instrumentalization. As a result, the Special Rapporteur cautions against reliance on the working definition as a guiding instrument for and at the United Nations and its constituent entities.22 12 1.2 Universities’ Duties to Protect Freedom of Speech Freedom of speech and expression is generally protected by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to which the UK is a party. Article 10(1) of the ECHR provides that: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority.23 13 Interference with the rights contained in Article 10(1) are only permitted in the strictly defined circumstances set out under Article 10(2) and must be ‘established convincingly’.24 The protections under the ECHR on the right to freedom of expression and assembly are incorporated into domestic law by the Human Rights Act of 1998, which states that UK courts must interpret primary and secondary legislation in a manner that is compatible with Convention rights (including case law of the European Court of Human Rights) insofar as possible. The Human Rights Act requires that public authorities, including universities, act in compliance with the ECHR. Therefore, generally speaking, universities must refrain from interfering with the right to freedom of expression granted to individuals.25 Moreover, they have duties to actively uphold these rights. Specifically, Section 43(1) of the Education (No.2) Act 1986 places an obligation on universities in England and Wales to ‘take such steps as are reasonably practicable to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secured for members, students and employees of the establishment and for visiting speakers’.26 On 11 May 2023, the UK Parliament enacted the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, which further requires higher education institutions to ‘take the steps that, having particular regard to the importance of freedom of speech, are reasonably practicable’ to achieve freedom of speech for staff, students and visiting speakers.27 Academic freedom is a specific and reinforced protection of the more general freedom of expression applicable to universities. Specifically, academic staff have freedom within the law ‘(i) to question and test received wisdom, and (ii) to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions, without placing themselves in jeopardy of losing their jobs or privileges 14 they may have at the providers.’28 Political speech also benefits from heightened legal protection under Article 10 of the ECHR given that Article 10(2) has limited application to speech which can be categorised as political or pertaining to matters of public interest.29 The UK High Court has stressed that the right to freedom of expression ‘includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence’ as ‘[f]reedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having’.30 In light of the above, Israel’s history and politics, like the history and politics of any state, are legitimate matters for discussion and debate in universities. No institution has the right to limit or forbid lawful criticism of Israel or anti-Zionist views. Similarly, the history and politics of Palestine, and the conditions of life of Palestinians, are also matters of institutional, national, and international public interest. They are all legitimate matters of public discussion and debate, just as discussions of human rights, international law, and related matters in other contexts. However, as this report demonstrates, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and in particular its illustrative examples that conflate statements critical of the State of Israel with antisemitism, have been deployed in ways that undermine academic freedom and freedom of speech and expression in UK universities. 15 Section 2: Unfounded Allegations: Targeting Staff, Students, and Events 16 In this section, we present an overview of the 40 cases that the ELSC recorded between 2017 and 2022, which demonstrate how the definition has been used as a basis for claiming that lectures, research, speeches, social media posts and campus activism amount to antisemitism for simply being critical of Israel and/or Zionism. The deployment of the IHRA definition in these ways confirms Geoffrey Robertson KC’s 2018 prediction: it is likely in practice to chill free speech, by raising expectations of pro-Israeli groups that they can successfully object to legitimate criticism of Israel and correspondingly arouse fears in NGOs and student bodies that they will have events banned, or else will have to incur considerable expense to protect them by taking legal action. 31 Accusations of antisemitism that depend upon the IHRA definition have been largely targeted at staff teaching and researching the Middle East, and at Palestinian students and others concerned with advocating Palestinian human rights. In many of the cases, the complainants make reference to the IHRA definition to produce poor faith interpretations or misinterpretations of statements, often taking particular phrases or terms out of context. Another common feature across several cases is the occurrence of significant levels of monitoring and surveillance of any publicly expressed analysis or opinion about Israel or Palestine. This includes recording student speeches, staff lectures, and other presentations; monitoring student or staff social media posts (including the collection of social media posts several years after they were written); reviewing academic publications; and reviewing course syllabi and reading lists. Those responsible for disciplinary processes at universities often do not possess the necessary tools or background to assess independently the merits of such allegations. In most cases, members of staff co-opted into judging whether a student, society or colleague have made statements that are antisemitic have extremely little, or no understanding of the IsraelPalestine question. 17 2.1 The Cases For all 40 cases analysed, except two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism have been rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. Attempts to restrict academic freedom and freedom of expression on campuses by means of the IHRA definition of antisemitism have directly affected 24 staff members, nine students and seven student groups. The cases occurred in fourteen universities, of which eleven are part of the Russell Group. There were various outcomes for the individuals or groups affected: two have faced threats of legal action; 27 have faced investigations including, for many, long disciplinary processes; in four cases, events have been prevented from taking place on campus and, in seven cases, there was institutional interference in the respective events and/or scholarship.32 There were various outcomes for the individuals or groups affected: two have faced threats of legal action; 27 have faced investigations including, for many, long disciplinary processes; in four cases, events have been prevented from taking place on campus and, in seven cases, there was institutional interference in the respective events and/or scholarship.32 18 MAIN OUTCOMES OF THE INCIDENTS MAIN OUTCOMES OF THE INCIDENTS 19 WHAT DO THE ALLEGATIONS TARGET When looking at the objects of the allegations: in 24 cases, individuals were targeted mainly based on their online political commentary; in nine cases, allegations were made against an individual’s respective scholarship; and in seven cases, the targets were Israeli Apartheid Week events33 or other Palestine-related student activism. 20 Of the nine accusations made against individual students, seven cases were investigated through university inquiries or hearings, and the students were found to have no case to answer or were cleared of allegations. In one case, no investigation or disciplinary process was launched. One case is still ongoing. Of those cases in which investigations or disciplinary hearings occurred, they took several months, resulting in prolonged student stress and anxiety, thereby undermining universities’ duty of care to the students. In seven cases, student societies and student unions were accused of antisemitism and/ or experienced disruptions of events or initiatives in support of Palestinian rights. One of the cases is ongoing, and a complaint has been filed with the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, following substantial procedural errors in a lengthy year-long complaints procedure. The underlying allegation of antisemitism has yet to be substantiated. Student Cases 21 In June 2021, a university received an anonymous complaint and opened an investigation into alleged antisemitism against a student who had posted on their social media a Human Rights Watch infographic about Israel’s system of apartheid in the West Bank. They referred to the latter as ‘ethnic cleansing’ and that it was ‘reminiscent of South African apartheid’. According to the complainant, the post was antisemitic because it was in breach of examples of the IHRA definition. Following legal support, the university found that there was no case to answer but it took two months before it decided to drop the investigation. how the IHRA definition is used to misrepresent criticisms of Israel An illustrative case: 22 Of the 24 cases against university staff, 18 led to an investigation or to a formal disciplinary hearing. In the case of investigations, all resulted in findings of ‘no case to answer’. In the case of formal hearings, all staff were ‘exonerated of all charges’. In other words, every allegation of antisemitism was found to be false. In six cases, either a formal complaint was never lodged, the university decided not to open an investigation or the complaint was dismissed. STAFF CASES 23 In December 2020, an academic staff member teaching on the Middle East received a notification from their university management that a recent graduate, whom the academic had never taught, had submitted complaints for antisemitism against them and that an investigation had been opened. The complaints concerned more than 20 social media posts, some of which were posted by the academic, whilst others were merely shared or liked, dating from 2016 to 2020. The posts consisted of criticism of Zionism as a political ideology; a media article about the Nakba, and comments about the allegations of antisemitism made against members of the Labour Party. The complainant argued that the posts breached the IHRA definition. The academic was cleared of all allegations but not before being subjected to a lengthy disciplinary process. This caused a considerable amount of stress and represented a significant burden on the academic, who had to request legal advice. The university referred to the IHRA definition as part of their policies to include in the disciplinary proceedings. An illustrative case: how an anonymous complainant screened an academic’s social media activity from 2016 to place them under a 6-month-long investigation for alleged antisemitism 24 Obstruction and Prevention of Events Among the case studies, 10 events between 2017 and 2022 were targeted with demands for their cancellation. The interference with and curtailment of meetings and events took many forms. Four of these cases involved the actual cancellation of events by universities, including two events that went ahead outside of the university. In one case, the university imposed unreasonable vetting conditions on the speaker, including that he declare in advance his support for the IHRA definition. After he refused, the event was cancelled by the university. However, other organisations agreed to host it. In two other cases, a similar vetting was imposed on academics, who also refused to endorse the IHRA definition. The events still went ahead after an exchange between the respective academics and the universities. In one case, the university asked lecturers to attend several events organised by a Palestine student society to make sure the content would not contravene the IHRA definition, creating a chilling effect on the students and speakers. In two cases, the event was allowed to go ahead but subject to many conditions, which included changing the title of the event, recording it, refusing access to the public and imposing security staff and checks. In another case, the event still went ahead, but speakers and organisers were subjected to smears, causing fear and leading the student society that had organised the event to lose members. 25 Dr. Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor at Roskilde University, was invited to deliver a lecture on his book Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020) at the University of Glasgow. Following the announcement of the lecture in autumn 2021, the university received a complaint from the university’s Jewish student society, claiming that the lecture’s topic was antisemitic and expressing concerns that the event might lead to negative repercussions for Jewish students. In response, the university asked Dr. Sen to provide information about the talk’s content in advance of the event and to confirm that he would not say anything during the presentation that would contravene the IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism. Since the university’s requests were discriminatory and undermined academic freedom, Dr. Sen decided to pull out and the event was cancelled. how a spurious complaint filed by the University of Glasgow Jewish Student Society led to potentially illegal university reaction and the cancellation of an academic event An illustrative case: 26 Five of the cases involved the defamation of external speakers, including, Omar Barghouti, a scholar and founder of the Palestinian campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions; Marika Sherwood, a Jewish historian and Holocaust survivor; Dr. Somdeep Sen, an academic from Roskilde University; and a Local Government Councillor and Liverpool Hope University Professor, Michael Lavalette. One case involved intense smears against a students’ union for promoting Israeli Apartheid Week events on campus. Two other cases involved smears by pro-Israel media or watchdog groups against Palestine student society events that were due to happen during Israeli Apartheid Week but that were cancelled by the universities, citing the IHRA definition. In all these cases, allegations of antisemitism were found to be spurious. They were made by complainants who disagreed with the objectives and/or content of the event or the politics of one or more of the event’s participants or organisers. The IHRA definition, which was explicitly referenced in all of these cases, undermined academic freedom and freedom of expression on UK campuses and in some instances had damaging repercussions for student organisers, student societies and invited speakers. 27 2.2 Consequences for Individual Staff and Students Stress, Anxiety and Personal Distress All of the staff and students who were subject to disciplinary investigations followed by disciplinary hearings, registered varying levels of stress and anxiety caused by these processes. Many of those targeted specifically identified the protracted nature of the investigations or disciplinary processes as an exacerbating factor. Lack of regular communication from those conducting the investigations and lack of support from their respective institutions contributed to their distress. When you are in the process, you don’t understand how stressed you are. My nerves made me hyper vigilant for two years. The impact of the cases, continual media coverage, and constant communication to deal with the case resulted in chronic stress. The reflection of one academic staff who went on leave due to stress is illustrative: 28 While the case was going on, it was really terrible. It was on my mind all the time. Really stressful. I was very angry and anxious. I never really thought I’d lose my job, but I couldn’t rule it out. I felt betrayed by the university. As a tactic of intimidation, these accusations are effective because the university did put me through the [disciplinary] process. It will remain a big problem until the university is willing to put more measures in place to protect us from these accusations. During the first investigation with the media smears, I felt really helpless and powerless at that point as the university was looking out for its own interests. They kept telling me not to say anything to the media. At that point I just kept quiet. I felt really alone. It was just me. Another member of staff explained their loss of confidence in her university as an employer: An academic staff member described their sense of isolation and anxiety about their future career: Of the 16 staff whose cases involved investigations or investigations leading to hearings, a majority cited adverse consequences for their teaching preparation and research. 29 It affected me mentally, it took a lot of time and mental effort. It caused a lot of stress. It served as a distraction from other important things in my life. Still another student reported: A targeted student described the negative effects of accusations on their studies: For many of the students and staff whose cases are analysed here, allegations of antisemitism are experienced as a personal assault on their identity, given that they have been engaged with anti-racist activism over a number of years. In some cases, the scholarship of accused staff focuses on antiracism. Being targeted in this way has had damaging psychological and sometimes physical effects. They make you waste time, sap your energy and make you exhausted. They make you not perform to your ability because you have other things to think about… You learn that [the University] is not there for you. Different interests trump your rights. All of the students whose cases were analysed noted the adverse effects on their studies. Some became concerned about the consequences for their education, academic progress and career plans. One student explained how the accusations interfered with their studies and threatened their further education: It was really difficult to hear that you might be kicked out of university. It was very hard for me to focus on my studies. I had to do resits in the summer, so I didn’t graduate until recently. I nearly didn’t get into my Masters programme. I missed the deadline by two months. If it wasn’t for Oxford University being really flexible, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now. 30 I feel like I’m on this emotional roller-coaster. I feel like I won’t get a job anywhere else. If I apply for another job, they might not hire me. Not that they would think that I’m antisemitic but because they would want to avoid controversy. That’s the reality for me now. It’s different for the people whose investigations didn’t go public. Reputation is everything for academics. It was very stressful. [It required] a lot of time out from my parental leave to go to meetings, look at documents, collect evidence. It was very disruptive [and] contributed to pushing me away from academia. There was also the context of government attacks on higher education, that was another reason, but this on top made me think the university sector is not the best place to stay. It is not possible to assess the precise long-term damage to the reputations and careers of students and staff who have been falsely accused of antisemitism, given the short timeframe of the incidents. What is demonstrable, however, is that those falsely accused of antisemitism are very concerned that the accusations will have an adverse effect on their standing in their universities and communities. This fear is exacerbated when the accusations begin to circulate on social media and the internet. Of the cases in which individuals were represented or advised by the ELSC from 2017 to 2022, over half of those accused expressed concern about their reputations. Slightly fewer than half were equally concerned about their careers. One targeted academic expressed this concern poignantly: Damage to Reputation and Career Another found that the accusations and the subsequent university process deterred them from continuing their academic career: 31 2.3 The ‘Chilling Effect’ The spate of allegations of antisemitism is damaging academic freedom, curtailing freedom of debate and discussion on campuses, leading to self-censorship among those who research and study IsraelPalestine, and, in some cases, harming personal and professional lives and livelihoods. In addition to these harms, it is likely that the IHRA definition and its use has a much wider chilling effect, causing others to avoid discussing issues related to Palestine, thereby acting as a form of self-censorship. The difficulty for academic teaching staff is clear. Academic staff who lecture and write about Palestinian and Israeli history, society and politics believe that the IHRA definition, and specifically the examples that reference Israel, constrain what they can teach and write about to such a degree that it results in self-censorship. One member of staff asks pointedly: Similarly, an academic staff member described the cloud of potential threats that hang over their scholarship: How should I discuss the 1948 colonial, ethnic cleansing that led to the creation of the State of Israel? Wasn’t that—to use the words of one of the examples of ‘antisemitism’ included in the definition—an ‘endeavour’ to create a state based on a racist deployment of violence? And how should I approach the persistence of these practices of violence along racial lines carried out by the State of Israel? How should I discuss the endeavour of Israel’s state courts to expel Palestinians from their homes? Can I raise the question with my students, or with guest speakers, or in my research? Am I even allowed to talk about these things? I rewrote the title of a chapter and the abstract so it is not that easy to find it online. This is the chilling effect, and it is an unacceptable restriction on academic freedom. My book will be online for free … easily accessible, and I’m particularly nervous. … I already thought about arguments in case I’m 32 I do know now that I have support behind me, but the effect of the litigation is that it has had a chilling effect—not wanting to be overly visible, doubting statements, and things like that. What’s also chilling is that it’s all very secret. You have a sense that it’s also happening elsewhere in other universities, but that you cannot say anything. I would still advocate but maybe not on such a big platform [namely, Facebook or Twitter]. Another academic provided details of how the chilling effect silenced them: An external speaker who was pressured by a university to endorse the IHRA also noted a sharp decline of invitations to speak at Palestinerelated events in universities. The chilling effect also serves to intimidate those who may wish to advocate for Palestinian rights. One targeted student described how they have limited their public support for Palestinian rights: After incidents targeting their events, one Palestine student society lost almost the entirety of its membership (from 30 to 2 members) because, as a member testified, ‘everyone was scared’. attacked, and I wrote the book thinking about how I could be attacked. It is an unreasonable situation. I do not even work directly on the Middle East. So, I cannot imagine what it must be like for people who work on Israel-Palestine. It’s a horrible environment to have to try to think how your academic work could be … misused. 33 Section 3: University and Staff Responses to the IHRA definition 34 There is widespread assessment among scholars and legal experts that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is not appropriate for university settings—where critical thought and free debate are paramount and must be safeguarded. Nevertheless, in 2020, the then Secretary of State for Education threatened university leaders with punitive financial consequences if their institutions did not adopt the IHRA definition,34 resulting in 119 universities (almost 75% of UK universities) adopting the definition as a basis for their campus policies.35 Adoption of the IHRA definition has typically been imposed by Senior Management, Council, or another governing body, most often without meaningful staff, student or trade union consultation, despite the disciplinary and other contractual implications of adoption, and contrary to objections raised by university staff, students and other stakeholders. These decisions have also been taken without consultation with academic experts in the relevant fields of law, Jewish and Palestinian studies and Middle East studies in their own institutions, nor with all students who may be affected, specifically, Palestinian students and advocates of Palestinian rights. There has been a failure to conduct risk assessments regarding the impact on Palestinian staff and students as well as on staff and students who study and carry out research on Israel-Palestine. Whilst in many universities, management has consulted with Jewish student societies when considering adoption of the IHRA definition, they have failed to consult with Palestinian student societies or other societies that might be affected by the adoption of the definition (for example, anti-racism societies or societies concerned with decolonising the university). University leaders’ failure to confer with their own academic experts as well as with the vast majority of relevant stakeholders runs contrary to obligations to create an inclusive environment and is anathema to academic freedom and democratic practice. 35 Staff at some universities have demanded that the IHRA definition be withdrawn from university policy, and in some cases, prevented the definition’s adoption. As part of their opposition, in addition to raising concerns about academic freedom and freedom of expression, staff have highlighted the need to address all forms of racism equally in university policy and procedure, and that universities should educate staff and students about racism in its various forms, including antisemitism. Some universities have attempted to safeguard against potential negative impacts of the IHRA definition by introducing caveats to protect academic freedom, such as the clarifications made by the UK Home Affairs Select Committee.36 Some universities have adopted the IHRA definition alongside the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, despite the fact that the latter contradicts some aspects of the IHRA definition.37 Significantly, the authors of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism developed this document to provide clearer guidance ‘to identify and fight antisemitism while protecting free expression’.38 Such caveats and other attempts to mitigate the negative effects of the IHRA definition have not prevented it from being used to target students and staff for their criticisms of Israel, nor prevented it from being used to suppress Palestine-related events. 36 Section 4: Conclusions and recommendations 37 4.1 Summary of Findings Overall, this report finds that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is undermining academic freedom and freedom of expression on campuses through its use in complaints processes against protected speech in relation to Israel-Palestine. In all cases recorded by the ELSC, except for two ongoing cases, the accusations of antisemitism with reference to the IHRA definition have been rejected. The final two have yet to be substantiated. University leaders may conclude that their disciplinary procedures are working properly. Yet, the pursuit of lengthy investigations and disciplinary processes against staff and students is creating a chilling effect, leading to self-censorship when teaching, researching, studying and discussing the question of Israel-Palestine. Moreover, these investigations have negative impacts on the wellbeing of staff and students, whilst unfounded allegations also have the potential to damage the reputations and careers of those who have been wrongfully accused of antisemitism. It is particularly concerning that certain groups of staff and students, who are under-represented and marginalised within UK academia, are targeted with complaints that rely on the IHRA definition. Specifically, Palestinian students and staff who express their respective experiences of oppression and discrimination, and who talk about the history of the oppression of their people are among those targeted, alongside other students and staff–who are frequently Black and Minority Ethnic–who express solidarity with the plight of Palestinians. University management and its leadership bodies have a duty of care to these students and staff as they do to all others. These constituencies, no less than any others, have the right to protections afforded by university non-discrimination and equality policies. 

38 4.2 Recommendations 

To the UK government: We recommend that the UK government should retract its instruction to universities to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, as it is inappropriate for higher education institutions, which have legal obligations to secure academic freedom and freedom of speech. To university management: We recommend that the IHRA definition should not be adopted, implemented or promoted by any higher education institution. Where it has been adopted, the decision should be rescinded. If it is not rescinded, we recommend that it not be applied, formally or informally, in any disciplinary proceedings, due to its vagueness affnd its potential to be used to stigmatise lawful speech and undermine academic freedom concerning Israel and its policies, in violation of legal obligations to ensure academic freedom and freedom of speech. We also call on universities to be mindful of their obligations to uphold academic freedom and freedom of expression when considering whether to take forward complaints related to political speech or academic expression. Finally, we remind universities that they have a duty of care to their staff and students, which includes not subjecting them to unnecessary disciplinary processes due to the negative impact they have on an individual’s wellbeing. 39 To student unions and societies: We recommend to student unions not to adopt or endorse the IHRA definition, nor to use it to assess antisemitism in relation to complaints raised. Where it has been adopted, the decision should be rescinded. We recommend that student unions and societies lobby university management to protect the academic freedom and freedom of expression of all members of their campus community. We recommend that academic boards and senates call on university managers to rescind the IHRA definition and to ensure protection of academic freedom and freedom of expression for the entire university community. We also recommend that academic boards and senates consider developing detailed guidance and procedures for the protection of academic freedom and freedom of expression. To academic boards and senates: 40 To the National Union of Students (NUS): We recommend that the NUS should retract its adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and not use the definition as a tool to assess antisemitism in complaints raised. To the Office for Students (OfS): The IHRA definition is not a useful tool for interpreting and tackling antisemitism on campuses and, therefore, we call on the OfS to stop recommending the use of the definition by UK universities. 

APPENDICES 

41 1. A table of all the cases informing this report can be found here: https://bit.ly/evidenceihra 2. A list of all open letters written by the BRISMES Committeeon Academic Freedom since 2019 that raise concerns about academic freedom and freedom of expression in relation to Israel-Palestine in UK universities can be found here: LETTER TO PROFESSOR SIR CHRIS HUSBANDS Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University regarding the investigation of Shahd Abusalama and cancellation of the class she was scheduled to teach 25 January 2022 

LETTER TO PROFESSOR SIR ANTON MUSCATELLI Principal of University of Glasgow, expressing deep concern regarding the university’s treatment of Ms. Jane Jackman 1 November 2022 LETTER TO PROFESSOR DAME NANCY ROTHWELL President and ViceChancellor of University of Manchester, to express our concerns about the University’s treatment of Alistair Hudson, Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery (WAG) 8 March 2022 https://www.brismes.ac.uk/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom Specifically (in reverse chronological order): 42 LETTER TO PROFESSOR HUGH BRADY Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University, regarding the University’s decision to fire Professor David Miller following an investigation into comments that he made that were critical of Israeli government policy, Zionism and pro-Israel groups 12 October 2021 LETTER TO UCL PROVOST Regarding the UCL Academic Board Vote on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism 30 March 2021 LETTER TO PROFESSOR DAME JANET BEER on the IHRA definition of antisemitism 24 January 2019 LETTER TO PROFESSOR SIR ANTON MUSCATELLI Principal of University of Glasgow, regarding the University’s ‘Protocol for Managing Speakers and Events’ and the University’s decision to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and their implications for Middle East Studies and academic freedom 19 October 2021 LETTER TO UK MINISTER OF STATE FOR UNIVERSITIES regarding the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the autonomy of universities 26 May 2021 43 1 Lerman A. (2022). Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’. Pluto Press; also see European Legal Support Center, ‘Suppressing Palestinian Rights Advocacy through the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism’, June 2023, online at https://res.cloudinary. com/elsc/images/v1685978238/The-Practice-of-Suppressing-Palestinian-Rights-Advocacy-FINAL-PP/ThePractice-of-Suppressing-Palestinian-Rights-Advocacy-FINAL-PP.pdf?_i=AA 2 The report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, submitted to the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, 7 October 2022, p. 14, available at: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematicreports/a77549-report-special-rapporteur-contemporary-forms-racism-racial 3 Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, Executive Director, Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on The Judiciary, November 7, 2017 Hearing on Examining Anti-Semitism on College Campuses, online at https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20171107/106610/HHRG-115-JU00-Wstate-SternK-20171107.pdf 4 Eleanor Busby, ‘Universities may face cuts if they reject definition of antisemitism, says education minister’, The Independent, 9 October, 2020, online at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/ education-news/antisemitism-universities-gavin-williamson-funding-cuts-b911500.html 5 UJS, ‘IHRA Campaign’, No Date, online at https://www.ujs.org.uk/ihra_campaign; see also Office for Students, ‘OfS reports significant increase in universities signing up to IHRA definition of antisemitism’, 10 November, 2021, online at https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/ press-and-media/ofs-reports-significant-increase-in-universities-signing-up-to-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism 6 For the definition and the list of examples, see The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, ‘What is antisemitism?’, No Date, online at https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definitionantisemitism 7 Campaign Against Antisemitism, ‘UCL Jewish Society, Backed By CAA And Others, Sends Letter To UCL Council Urging Rejection of Alternative Definitions Of Antisemitism’, 23 March 2023, online at https://Antisemitism.Org/Ucl-Jewish-Society-Backed-By-Caa-And-Others-Sends-Letter-To-Ucl-CouncilUrging-Rejection-Of-Alternative-Definitions-Of-Antisemitism/ 8 The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, ‘ISGAP Fellows Reject Antisemitic Tropes in Amnesty Report’, 23 April 2022, online at https://isgap.org/post/2022/04/isgap-rejectsamnestys-report-on-israel 9 Damien Gayle, ‘UK Council Refused to Host Palestinian Event over Antisemitism Fears’, The Guardian, 3 August 2019, online at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/03/uk-councilrefused-to-host-palestinian-event-over-antisemitism-fears 10 Amongst others, see: Letters, ‘Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism’, The Guardian, 29 November 2020, online at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/nov/29/palestinianrights-and-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism 11 Parliamentary Taskforce on Antisemitism in Higher Education, ‘Understanding Jewish Experience in Higher Education’, May 2023, pp. 11-12, online at https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2023/05/Understanding-Jewish-Experience-in-Higher-Education.pdf 12 For example, Peter Ullrich, Brian Klug and Amos Goldberg, “Expert submission in the context of a NOTES 44 public consultation launched by the European Commission for its upcoming ‘Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life in the EU’”, 5 July 2021, online at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/ better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13068-Strategy-oncombating-antisemitism-and-fostering-Jewishlife-in-the-EU/F2661357_en; and Taner Akçam and others, “Call by scholars on global leaders at Malmö Forum on Combating Antisemitism”, 11 October 2021, online at https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ euobs-media/b7602129dc4791bd47267b593f517caa.pdf 13 For example, see written evidence by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (FOE0145), submitted on 29 January 2021 to the Human Rights (Joint Committee)’s inquiry, Freedom of Expression, available at: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/778/freedom-of-expression/publications/ written-evidence/?page=1 14 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, ‘BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom’, No Date, online at https://www.brismes.ac.uk/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom 15 We would like to thank PSC for their inputs and for playing a key role in passing concerns to ELSC for legal analysis and support. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is the largest organisation in the UK advocating for the rights of Palestinians with over 8000 members and affiliations from 15 national Trade Unions. Many of its members are students or academics. 16 Hugh Tomlinson, ‘In the Matter of the Adoption and Potential Application of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition Of Anti-Semitism’, No Date, online at https:// freespeechonisrael.org.uk/ihra-opinion/#sthash.WDNEXkul.dpbs 17 Ibid. 18 Letters, ‘Antisemitism definition is undermining free speech’, The Guardian, 7 January, 2021, online at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/07/antisemitism-definition-is-undermining-freespeech 19 Geoffrey Robertson, ‘IHRA definition of antisemitism is not fit for purpose’, 13 August 2018, online at https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/ihra-definition-antisemitism-not-fit-purpose 20 Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern, Executive Director, Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on The Judiciary, November 7, 2017 Hearing on Examining Anti-Semitism on College Campuses, online at https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ JU/JU00/20171107/106610/HHRG-115-JU00-Wstate-SternK-20171107.pdf 21 Ibid. 22 The report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, submitted to the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, 7 October 2022, p. 14, online at https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ a77549-report-special-rapporteur-contemporary-forms-racism-racial 23 European Convention on Human Rights, online at https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/convention_eng. pdf 24 Gaunt v United Kingdom (2016) 63 EHRR SE15, §§43-44. 25 According to Article 10 (2) of the ECHR, the right to freedom of expression does not legally extend to speech that is unlawful, or, in other words, that incites violence, hatred or hostility towards a racial or religious group. 26 Education (No. 2) Act 1986, Article 43, ‘Freedom of speech in universities, polytechnics and 45 colleges’, online at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/section/43 27 Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, online at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ ukpga/2023/16/enacted 28 Section 2(8)(c) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, online at https://www.legislationgov.uk/ukpga/2017/29/section/2/enacted?view=plain 29 Wingrove v The United Kingdom (1997) 24 EHRR 1, para 58; Vajnai v Hungary (2010) 50 EHRR 44, para 47; Ceylan v Turkey (1999) ECHR 44, para 34. 30 Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions (1999) EWHC Admin 733, §20, online at https:// www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/1999/733.html 31 Geoffrey Robertson, ‘Anti-Semitism: The IHRA Definition and its Consequences for Freedom of Expression’, 31 August 2018, online at https://prc.org.uk/en/post/3992 32 A table of all the cases informing this report can be found online at https://bit.ly/evidenceihra 33 Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual series of events organised globally to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid regime and to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. It is often the opportunity for student movements to demonstrate intersectionality and connect with other struggles for justice in the UK and beyond. 34 Richard Adams, ‘Williamson accuses English universities of ignoring antisemitism’, The Guardian, 9 October 2020, online at https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/09/williamson-accuses-englishuniversities-of-ignoring-antisemitism; Fiona McIntyre, ‘Universities threatened with defunding over antisemitism’, Research Professional News, online at https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-hegovernment-education-2020-10-universities-threatened-with-defunding-over-antisemitism/ 35 UJS, ‘IHRA Campaign’, No Date, online at https://www.ujs.org.uk/ihra_campaign; see also Office for Students, ‘OfS reports significant increase in universities signing up to IHRA definition of antisemitism’, 10 November 2021 online at https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/ press-and-media/ofs-reports-significant-increase-in-universities-signing-up-to-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism 36 UK Parliament, ‘Defining antisemitism’, Point no. 24, online at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ cm201617/cmselect/cmhaff/136/13605.htm 37 The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, March 2021, online at https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ 38 At UCL, the Academic Board Working Group on Racism and Prejudice found that despite the addition of two caveats in ‘parliamentary riders’, the IHRA definition had led to violations of academic freedom and freedom of expression at the university (December 2020, online at https://www.uclac.uk/ucu/sites/ucu/files/wg-racism-and-prejudice-report.pdf). Warwick University’s Assembly expressed concerns about the definition’s adoption and an Assembly Working Group has been reviewing antisemitism definitions. The University of Brighton’s Race and Faith Commission considered the IHRA and recommend that no definition of any one form of racism should be adopted (2021, online at https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/11/IHRA-road-MAP-of-OPPOSITION.pdf). The University of Kent and the Open University adopted the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism alongside the IHRA definition to highlight the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The University of Aberdeen Council decided that the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism should be adopted instead of the IHRA definition. Sheffield Hallam University’s announcement that it has adopted the IHRA definition clarifies that it ‘will not limit legitimate criticism and debate’ and the University will ‘uphold and protect the rights of students and staff to hold legitimate debates on issues related to Israel, Palestine and the Middle East’ (February 2021, online at https://www.shu.ac.uk/ news/all-articles/latest-news/university-statement-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism. 46 Designed by Giacomo Fausti https://www.giacomofausti.com/  

========================================================

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJ7NNKxkRJYnNbpqSNYut_K5haLWA2wo/edit#gid=625201812

Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech in UK Higher Education: The Adverse Impact of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
APPENDIX 1 – TABLE OF EVIDENCE

This table lists all cases recorded by the ELSC in which UK university staff and students were accused of antisemitism on the basis of the IHRA definition, between 2017 and 2022.
In all cases, freedom of expression and/or academic freedom of students and staff was restricted.

DateType of individual or entity affectedType and description of incidentOutcomeIncident code
Staff
Dec 2021-Oct 2022StaffComplaints of alleged antisemitism and a smear campaign following a social media post commenting on a student’s banner and the expression of anti-Zionist views to an online news outlet.The university dropped the first investigation and rejected the second complaint.21AS1
Oct-21Academic (external from the university in which the incident occurred)Complaint of alleged antisemitism based on a book’s title and topic of a book launch; vetting and attempt to disrupt or cancel the event.The university did not investigate but sought to vet the speaker’s speech; the speaker withdrew and the event was cancelled and hosted by another organisation.21AS2
May-July 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism because the staff signed an open letter in 2016 in support of a former elected student union official who faced allegations of antisemitism for their criticisms of Israel and Zionism.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS3
May-June 2021StaffSeveral complaints of alleged antisemitism for: signing an open letter in 2016 in support of a former elected student union official who faced allegations of antisemitism for their criticisms of Israel/Zionism; liking social media posts by well-known Palestinian rights advocates; liking a social media post from former leader of the Labour Party; liking social media posts commenting on the Labour Party.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS4
May-June 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking a social media post in support of former leader of the Labour Party.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS5
May-July 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting and liking social media posts commenting on the Labour Party.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS6
May-July 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for signing a letter opposing unfounded allegations against a former elected student union official.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS7
May-June 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting a social media post in support of former leader of the Labour Party.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS8
Feb-21StaffTwo complaints of alleged antisemitism for participating in Palestinian rights protests and expressing antizionist political positions, and smear campaign by a British NGO combating antisemitism.The disciplinary process led to a rejection of allegations of antisemitism.21AS9
Jan-July 2021StaffComplaints of alleged antisemitism for: liking and sharing social media posts commenting on the Labour Party or former leader of the Party; commenting on social media about allegations of antisemitism made against a British filmmaker; sharing a social media post referring to Israel’s training of the US police.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS10
Jan-June 2021StaffComplaints of alleged antisemitism for the content of a book published by the staff member more than 15 years ago; and because the staff member signed an open letter in 2016 in support of a former elected student union official who faced allegations of antisemitism for their criticisms of Israel/Zionism.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS11
Jan-May 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking a social media post commenting on Donald Trump and antisemitism.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS12
Jan-May 2021StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking a social media post commenting on UK politics and the Labour Party.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS13
Jan-21StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for criticising Zionism and settler colonialism. The Jewish student society called on the university to sanction the academic for breaching the IHRA definition of antisemitism. A British NGO combating antisemitism wrote to the university calling for the same. The staff member also faced smears in various media, including on social media.The investigation led to no case to answer; no disciplinary hearing was held.21AS14
Nov-20StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting and liking social media posts published over the previous four years including: commenting on the Labour Party; criticising Zionism; sharing an article about the Nakba; expressing solidarity with a Labour Party member who was expelled for ‘bringing the party into disrepute’.The disciplinary process led to a rejection of allegations of antisemitism.20AS1
Nov-20StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting and liking social media posts commenting on the Labour Party, criticising Zionism and describing pro-Israel actors as a ‘Zionist lobby’.The disciplinary process led to a rejection of allegations of antisemitism.20AS2
Nov-20StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking social media posts commenting on the Labour Party, on pro-Zionist organisations or criticising Zionism; for signing a petition in support of Palestinian rights and criticising Israeli policies.The disciplinary process led to a rejection of allegations of antisemitism.20AS3
Nov-20StaffComplaint for alleged antisemitism for: liking, sharing and posting social media posts denouncing unfounded allegations of antisemitism (including against Labour Party members); criticising Israeli policies; and for describing increased cooperation between the governments of India and Israel as the collaboration of two extremist governments.The disciplinary process led to a rejection of allegations of antisemitism.20AS4
Jan-20Academic (external from the university in which the incident occurred)Attempt to disrupt and cancel an event; complaint of alleged antisemitism for being featured as a speaker in an upcoming event entitled ‘Building a United Anti-racism Front’. Calls to cancel the event and allegations of antisemitism were published in media. A former member of the body that complained claimed that the political position of the academic (‘calling for a one-state solution’) was antisemitic according to the IHRA definition.The university did not open any investigation.
The event was heavily monitored, security staff were hired just for the event and the attendees’ identities were checked multiple times.
20AS5
Nov-19StaffComplaint for alleged antisemitism for parts of a lecture on Israel-Palestine that included comments on the Labour Party. The complainant sent recordings of the lecture to pro-Israel platforms, where a smear campaign was conducted against the academic, defaming them as antisemitic and supportive of terrorism.The academic was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation.19AS1
Mar-17Academic (external from the university in which the incident occurred)Attempt to disrupt and cancel event. The day before a lecture on Israel-Palestine, the university informed the academic that their talk would be vetted. They also faced questioning by the university, which included questions about whether they supported the IHRA definition.The academic submitted an outline of their talk but did not express support for the IHRA definition. After a lengthy discussion between the academic and the university and only two hours before the event’s start, it was authorised.17A1
Mar-17Academic (external from the university in which the incident occurred)Attempt to disrupt and cancel event. After an Israeli embassy official in the UK alerted the university about the title of a lecture to be given by the academic, the university censored the title.The event went ahead with another title, and the university imposed conditions: requiring that it be recorded, that the chairs be replaced, and that it be open only to students.17A2
Feb/March 2017Academic (external from the university in which the incident occurred)Attempt to disrupt and cancel event. The afternoon before the academic was due to speak at the university, they were told that the event would go ahead only if they agreed to complete a ‘risk assessment’, which included their written acceptance of the IHRA definition.The academic refused to confirm their acceptance of the IHRA definition; after an exchange of emails with the university explaining their views, the event went ahead.17A3
Feb-17StaffComplaint of alleged antisemitism for publishing an article about antisemitism in a left-leaning on-line political magazine. A British NGO focused on antisemitism threatened the university and demanded that they take action; national media published smears against the academic, repeating the allegations of antisemitism.The university declared that it would not discipline the academic because the article was not found to be antisemitic. Nevertheless, the university convened a panel that reviewed the article with reference to examples in the IHRA definition and found areas of concern. A university manager later strongly suggested to the academic that they take down their article and advised them not to write about Palestine in an online format.17AS4
Students
Jun-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for comments on a social media post that compared the actions of the State of Israel and Nazism.The investigating officer found no case to answer.21S1
Jun-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting on social media a Human Rights Watch infographic about Israel’s system of apartheid in the West Bank, with comments referring to ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘reminiscent of South African apartheid’.The investigating officer found no case to answer.21S2
May-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for posting and liking social media posts criticising Zionism or Israeli policies.The student was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation and disciplinary hearing.21S3
May-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking social media posts criticising Zionism or commenting on the Labour Party.The student was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation and disciplinary hearing.21S4
Apr-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking a social media post containing a satirical comment about the alliance between Washington DC and Israel.The student was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation and disciplinary hearing.21S5
Apr-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for liking a social media post from a Jewish cartoonist and activist, and liking social media posts criticising Zionism or commenting on the Labour Party.The student was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation and disciplinary hearing.21S6
Feb-21StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism and smear campaign for attending a Black Lives Matter protest, reposting literature by a prominent Palestinian poet and publishing social media posts critical of the Israeli army.The student was cleared of allegations of antisemitism after an investigation and disciplinary hearing.21S7
Dec 2020-Aug 2022StudentA peer-reviewed article about pro-Israel advocacy in the UK, and its affect on pro-Palestinian sympathy, led to accusations of antisemitism against the author. Complaints about the article followed smears published in a blog.The university opened an investigation in response to complaints about the article which included the commission of an anonymously authored ‘expert report’. This report was not shown to the author but formed the basis of the preface of the article, which apologised for offending people and insinuated that the article was antisemitic without providing evidence for these claims. Despite receiving a number of complaints about the preface, the university has not removed it.20S1
Sep-18StudentComplaint of alleged antisemitism for sharing a social media post mentioning that ’the establishment of Israel was a racist endeavour’.The university did not investigate the case.18S1
Student groups
Dec-21Palestine Student SocietyComplaint of alleged antisemitism sent to the student union for a statement—’End the Palestinian Holocaust’—made during a Palestine Student Society event.The case is ongoing. The decision was not upheld, but a adequate remedy was not provided and a complaint has been filed with the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.21SOC1
Nov-20Two members of the Students’ UnionThreat of legal action from a pro-Israel lawfare group against student union trustees for a motion on divestment that referred to Israel as an apartheid state.The case was left unresolved after the complainant’s barrister did not respond to proposals for a settlement.20SU1
Feb-19Palestine Student SocietyDisruption and vetting of event; complaint of alleged antisemitism; and smear campaign.
During an educational panel about the difference between antizionism and antisemitism, some students recorded the panel and disrupted it through verbal and physical violence and making allegations of antisemitism referring to the IHRA definition. After the event, the complainants cyber-harrassed the organisers and asked the university to take action.
After a meeting with the students, the university did not open an investigation, but the student society lost almost all of its members because this incident intimidated them. Lecturers attended several subsequent events organised by the student society to ensure that content would not breach the IHRA definition.19SOC1
Feb-18Student UnionAttempt to disrupt and cancel event with threat of legal action and smear campaign.
After a student union promoted Israeli Apartheid Week on campus, the Israel Student Society threatened the union with legal action, claiming that the event was discriminatory and that its slogan was in breach of the IHRA definition. A pro-Israel watchdog amplified the allegations on their platform.
The events went ahead without any investigation opened nor any legal action taken.18SU1
Feb-17Palestine Student SocietyAttempt to cancel event planned during Israeli Apartheid Week and smear campaigns. The event included a mock Israeli checkpoint to raise awareness about the Israeli occupation.The university cancelled the event, despite several appeals made by the student society.17SOC1
Feb-17Palestine Student SocietyAttempt to cancel event with complaint of alleged antisemitism for raising awareness about Israeli occupation during Israeli Apartheid Week.The university cancelled the event.17SOC2
Feb-17Palestine Student SocietyAttempt to cancel event planned during Israeli Apartheid Week.The university cancelled the event, but it took place off campus.17SOC3

==============================================================

https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism

The working definition of antisemitism

In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: “With humanity still scarred by …antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism. 

On 26 May 2016, the Plenary in Bucharest decided to:

Adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries).

Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews.

Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

=================================================

https://palinfo.com/news/2023/09/21/851082/Jerusalem.. Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa and the occupation storms Al-Eizariya Girls School

Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 11:10 am

Occupied Jerusalem – Palestinian Information Center
Dozens of settlers stormed, Thursday morning, the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy protection from the occupation forces.

Groups of settlers carried out provocative tours of the mosque’s courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals in its courtyards, after storming it from the Mughariba Gate side.

Coinciding with the settlers’ incursions into the mosque, the occupation forces pursued and harassed the stationed men and women, as the Jerusalem station arrested Nafisa Khwais from Omar Bin Al-Khattab Square and took her to the investigation center.

Extremist Temple groups continue to mobilize settlers to carry out more incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, during three Jewish holidays that began several days ago and extend until mid-October.

Temple groups take advantage of Jewish holidays to practice their Talmudic and Torah rituals in Al-Aqsa Mosque, most notably prayers, supplications, fasting, slaughtering sacrifices, blowing the trumpet, and others, in efforts to Judaize it, impose a new reality in it, and divide it in time and space.

The “Jewish New Year” is followed by the so-called “Days of Repentance,” in which the settlers violate Al-Aqsa wearing biblical white clothing, leading to the second Jewish holiday during this period, which is called the biblical “Feast of Atonement” on September 25.

On what is called “Yom Kippur,” the settlers seek to simulate the sacrifice and set a record number of people storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and the day after it, as well as attempting to blow the trumpet at the “Tanqaziyya” school.

The so-called “Feast of the Throne” begins on September 30 and extends until October 17. It is one of the biblical pilgrimage holidays associated with the “alleged Temple,” during which the settlers attempt to bring plant sacrifices into Al-Aqsa Mosque and raise the number of intruders to more than 1,500 intruders over successive days.

Jerusalemite warnings continue about the danger of settlement rituals in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Jerusalem, during the Jewish holidays, and calls for the necessity of traveling to Al-Aqsa to thwart the settlers’ plans and the ongoing Judaization efforts against the Blessed Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem.

In another context, the occupation forces stormed Al-Eizariya Girls Basic School in occupied Jerusalem after blowing up its doors, searched it, seized its surveillance camera recordings, destroyed part of its contents, and caused major material damage.

===============================================

https://palwatch.org/page/34584

PA minister: Jews are “criminal infidels” who “defile” Muslim holy sites

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik  | Sep 20, 2023

  • PA Minister of Religious Affairs asks Allah to “purify” Muslim holy sites “from the defilement of the criminal infidels” – on eve of Jewish New Year
  • PA: Jews at the Temple Mount are “infidels” who invade the Al-Aqsa Mosque
  • Abbas’ spokesman: The Western Wall and the Temple Mount are “a pure right of the Muslims only”
  • PA minister repeats libel: Israel wants to “eliminate the Al-Aqsa Mosque”
  • Fatah: Jews are openly planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque

In anticipation of the large number of Jews who would visit the Western Wall to celebrate the Jewish New Year this past weekend, the Palestinian Authority attacked Jews as “infidels” who would “defile” the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In a televised sermon on the eve of the Jewish New Year, PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri preached that “criminal” Jewish “infidels” would “defile” the Muslim holy sites and prayed that Allah would purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Cave of the Patriarchs: 

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri: Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., Cave of the Patriarchs) from the defilement of the criminal infidels, O Master of the Universe.”

[Official PA TV, Sept. 15 2023]

A Fatah’s spokesperson stated that the Jews have always “secretly plotted” to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque and warned that they are now planning to destroy it:

“Fatah Spokesperson in Jerusalem Muhammad Rabia: [In the past the Jews] secretly plotted and prepared projects and plans, which targeted the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Today this is being carried out openly by bringing the red heifers that they [the Jews] will slaughter and scatter their ashes… to purify themselves and allow them to break into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. They are dividing [the mosque] according to time and area, and now they are planning to destroy the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Sept. 4, 2023]

PA minister Al-Bakri repeated this recently:
 

PA Minister of Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri: “There is a plan by the occupation that has targeted this site [the Al-Aqsa Mosque]. This plan was prepared 50 years before the establishment of the State of Israel [in 1948]. They prepared these plans, and they are carrying them out every day. They are attempting to reach the final point, which iseliminating the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the acts of harm are continuing against all the Christian and Muslim holy sites.”

[Official PA TV News, Aug. 21, 2023]

The Islamic religious leadership in Jerusalem has also exhorted Palestinians to take actions to prevent Jews from “defiling” the Muslim sites, completely ignoring the fact that the Temple Mount is one of Judaism’s holy sites:

“The Islamic organizations in Jerusalem… called on every Palestinian and Muslim who can to carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) in the alleys, houses of worship, benches, and plazas of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / the Noble Jerusalem Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), with its entire territory that stands at 144 dunams (144,000 sq. meters), so that it will remain pure of the infidels’ defilement and precious and pure for the Muslims only, as Allah granted them in the holy Quran.”

[WAFA, official PA news agency, July 27, 2023]

Spokesperson for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeina, has likewise denied Jews any right to pray at the Western Wall or visit the Temple Mount, categorizing the sites as “a pure right of the Muslims only”:

“Official Spokesperson for the [PA] Presidential Office Nabil Abu Rudeina… emphasized that the Israeli attempts to change the historical status quo in Jerusalem are unacceptable and fated to fail. He also emphasized that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque isa pure right of the Muslims only.”

[WAFA, official PA news agency, July 27, 2023]

Similarly, Abbas’ Fatah condemned Jews at the Western Wall who were part of an anti-judicial reform group, as “invading settlers”:

Posted text: “Settlers invade the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) and hold Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) prayers this morning in occupied Jerusalem.”

[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture,
Facebook page, July 23, 2023]

Palestinian Media Watch has shown that the PA intentionally mislabels Judaism’s holiest site – the entire Temple Mount and the Western Wall – as “the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” and defines all Jews who visit or come to pray as “invading settlers” who “break in” and “defile” the mosque.

Additionally, it should be noted that Jews who visit the Temple Mount are restricted to specific sections of the open areas and are barred from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock. Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount is prohibited because of threats of terrorism by Palestinians.

To combat the “defilement” of “extremist settlers,” the Palestinian National Council – the legislative body of the PLO – called for violence and terror, using the PA euphemism “resistance,” vowing that “Palestine” will be liberated.

The following are longer excerpts of the statements cited above:

Headline: “The Islamic organizations in Jerusalem condemned the invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by the occupation and its settlers”

“The Islamic organizations in Jerusalem… emphasized their insistence on opposing the unfair Israeli measures against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, its visitors, its guards, and the worshippers. The organizations called on every Palestinian and Muslim who can to carry out Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) in the alleys, houses of worship, benches, and plazas of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / the Noble Jerusalem Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), with its entire territory that stands at 144 dunams (144,000 sq. meters -Ed.), so that it will remain pure of the infidels’ defilement and precious and pure for the Muslims only, as Allah granted them in the holy Quran.

[WAFA, official PA news agency, July 27, 2023]

The Islamic organizations in Jerusalem are:

The Islamic Waqf Council (Jordanian)

The PA’s Supreme Muslim Council

The Palestinian Dar Al-Ifta (i.e., the official PA body for issuing religious rulings headed PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein)

The Office of the PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge

The PA’s Islamic Waqf and blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department


The PA and its leaders misrepresent all of the Temple Mount as an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Therefore, they vilify any presence of Jews on the mount as an “invasion.” It should be noted that Jews who visit the Temple Mount only enter some sections of the open areas, and do not enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock. Israeli police ban Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount because of threats of violence by Palestinians.

“Official Spokesperson for the [PA] Presidential Office Nabil Abu Rudeina… emphasized that the Israeli attempts to change the historical status quo in Jerusalem are unacceptable and fated to fail. He also emphasized that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure right of the Muslims only, and Jerusalem and the holy sites are a red line that cannot be allowed to be crossed under any circumstances.”

[WAFA, official PA news agency, July 27, 2023]

Nabil Abu Rudeina also serves as PA Deputy Prime Minister, PA Minister of Information, Fatah Commissioner of Information, Culture, and Ideology, and Fatah Central Committee member.

The PA and its leaders misrepresent all of the Temple Mount as an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Therefore, they vilify any presence of Jews on the mount as a “break-in.” It should be noted that Jews who visit the Temple Mount only enter some sections of the open areas, and do not enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock. Israeli police ban Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount because of threats of violence by Palestinians.

“Division according to areas and times” refers to a submission of a “private bill” by Israeli MP Uri Ariel in March 2003. The bill suggested ensuring freedom of religious worship by allowing both Jews and Muslims to pray on the Temple Mount – what the Palestinians call the Al-Aqsa Mosque plaza. The bill sought to designate separate prayer times and areas of the site for Muslims and Jews. The bill never progressed past the initial legislatory stage. While there was additional discussion on the subject in 2012, no legislation was ever passed.

In response to the incessant PA claims that the “division according to areas and times” of the Temple Mount is an operative Israeli plan, former Israeli PM Netanyahu stated on many occasions that the Israeli government has no intention of ‎changing the so-called status quo on the Temple Mount, which de facto is interpreted to mean Jews are only allowed to enter the Temple Mount, but not to conduct individual or communal prayers there.

In July 2021, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett said Muslims and Jews have freedom of worship at the Temple Mount, which was understood by many as a hint to changing the status quo at the site, but the following day his office backtracked and said he misspoke and did not mean Jews would have freedom of worship, but rather would have freedom to visit. “There is no change in the status quo,” a statement from PM Bennett’s office confirmed.

====================================

https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2023/01/19/cst-report-shows-22-increase-in-campus-antisemitism

CST REPORT SHOWS 22% INCREASE IN CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM

19 January 2023

Today CST publishes a new report, Campus Antisemitism in Britain 2020-2022, that shows a 22% increase in university-related antisemitic hate incidents reported to CST over the past two academic years. This is the second investigation of its kind by CST looking exclusively at the experiences of Jewish students, as well as staff and campus organisations around the country.

CST’s new report reveals 150 university related antisemitic incidents were reported to CST in the last two academic years across 30 towns and cities in the UK.

Jewish life on campus is vibrant and there are a wealth of opportunities available that contribute to the overwhelmingly positive experiences of Jewish students at university. Most Jewish students will not encounter any antisemitism during their studies, but anti-Jewish hatred can still present a significant challenge for Jewish staff and students.

In 2020/2021, CST recorded 95 university related antisemitic incidents; the highest total recorded for a single academic year. Fifty-five of these incidents took place in a single month, May 2021, when there was a significant escalation of conflict in Israel and Gaza. This was a period when national levels of anti-Jewish hate crimes increased, and university campuses were disproportionally affected. For Jewish staff and students, online spaces were especially hostile during this time with three quarters of the incidents reported in May 2021 occurring on social media platforms or messaging apps. In times of heightened tensions such as this, universities are urged to consider the impact on Jewish staff and students and show an increased level of support.

The 150 incidents reported to CST during the past two academic years included seven threats, three of which were death threats sent to Jewish students, and three physical assaults. The remaining 140 incidents were in the category of Abusive Behaviour, which includes verbal abuse, antisemitic graffiti on non-Jewish property, and online or offline written abuse. Eighty-two incidents took place online, 47 incidents occurred on campus, and 21 took place off campus.

This report shows the challenges faced by students when universities, who have a duty of care to protect all students at university, do not always provide robust support to Jewish students or staff. This is sometimes seen in how some academic institutions handle complaints of antisemitism. In some cases, CST found that  investigations into complaints of antisemitism have been marred by slow responses, a breakdown in communication, a lack of impartiality or objectivity from investigating officers, and a failure to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism in an appropriate way.

CST’s recommendations for universities:

  • Maintain a fair, independent and impartial complaints process that consults external advisors with specialist expertise in the type of discrimination or bigotry being alleged
  • Offer a timely response to students and update them on any progress made, delays that may be inavoidable and when they can expect an outcome to the investigation
  • Allow for anonymity for students in the reporting of a hate crime and the involvement of third party representation
  • Ensure that adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism is accompanied by training for staff who will be investigating the complaint so that they know how to use the definition, and have a wider understanding of the nature, language and impact of antisemitism on British campuses

CST works alongside the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and other campus-based organisations to support students, academics and others who experience antisemitism in a higher education setting. CST’s campus team gives advice to Jewish students and Jewish societies on campus regarding how to organise events safely. CST also works with different organisations to teach students about topics relating to antisemitism and extremism on campus. It is hoped, as with all CST’s work, that this will contribute to the building of a safer and more inclusive environment for Jewish students and staff. 

In response to CST’s new report, CST Chief Executive Mark Gardner said:

“Antisemitism at our universities has been a running sore for decades and these new findings show that far too many Jewish students suffer hatred and bias. This study also reinforces last week’s National Union of Students’ own report into antisemitism, including the link between anti-Israel hatred and racist treatment of British Jews. Students’ Unions and university authorities need to better support their Jewish students, taking concerns seriously and acting against antisemitism, whether it comes from students or academics.”

HM Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism, Lord Mann, said:

“Antisemitism on campus has long been a concern for parents and students, and the reported rise in university-related antisemitic incidents over the past few years is both worrying and unacceptable. It is imperative that more is done to protect Jewish students and staff from the scourge of antisemitism and both the Community Security Trust and the Union of Jewish Students are at the forefront of this work.   Together with the leadership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism, I have recently set up a Taskforce to hold hearings and focus groups at a wide and diverse number of universities across the UK, to meet with student unions’ representatives, Jewish students and staff. The taskforce will examine the Jewish experience at Higher Education institutions and provide recommendations about what measures could be implemented to help tackle antisemitism and support the Jewish community within the sector. All Jewish students have a right to be themselves on campus without any negative impact on their university experience.”

Union of Jewish Students President Joel Rosen said:

“Jewish students living away from home for the first time have the right to be who they are and to feel safe where they live and study. These incidents have a detrimental impact on the community, leading some to hide their identity and disengage from parts of university life. Jewish students are resilient and won’t let themselves be defined by the prejudice of others. In spite of the odds, Jewish life on campus continues. Our answer to those who would uproot our thriving student communities is to ensure that they continue to grow and flourish.”

Read the full report on Campus Antisemitism in Britain 2020-2022.

Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Conference “Battling the IHRA definition: Theory & Activism”

14.09.23

Editorial Note

The newly-founded Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) is planning a conference in October 2023. It aims to battle “the IHRA definition of antisemitism” and to show how it “amplifies and hides repressive power and state violence.” The meeting invites those researching and confronting the “repressive” use of the IHRA definition, to “foreclose critical discussion and scholarship on Zionism.” The conference is looking for ways to “support resistance” to the IHRA campaign by “mapping the ways IHRA is making incursions internationally.” 

The ICSZ, “aims to support the delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies, and to reclaim academia and public discourse for the study of Zionism as a political, ideological, and racial and gendered knowledge project, intersecting with Palestine and decolonial studies, critical terrorism studies, settler colonial studies, and related scholarship and activism. The Institute approaches Zionism as a broad set of colonial and repressive work and solidarities, efforts to curate knowledge and identities, and to dismantle movements that resist it. In other words, Zionism’s project extends beyond the borders of Palestine. Many scholars and activists are working to illuminate such ‘other work’ of Zionist institutions and discourses, historically and in the present, to shape the material conditions of life, the movement of capital, the construction of racial identity, and more.”

According to the invitation, the meeting will take place in the intellectual space of UC Santa Cruz (Oct. 13) and NYU (Oct. 14). However, NYU Law and UC Santa Cruz already announced their refusal to host this conference. UC Santa Cruz published a “Statement on conference organized by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism” on September 05, 2023. It stated that “UC Santa Cruz does not endorse the upcoming conference organized by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and no events of the conference are scheduled to take place on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The reference to the ‘intellectual space of UC Santa Cruz,’ and the listing of select individual UC Santa Cruz academic departments and centers purportedly as sponsors, is not, and should not be interpreted as, a university endorsement. At no point in time has UC Santa Cruz endorsed the upcoming conference.” Likewise, New York University (NYU) School of Law has told the Jewish Journal that they will not be hosting the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s (ICSZ) upcoming conference on campus.

In a radio program, Arab Talk with Jess and Jamal, Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi from the Department of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, the founder of ICSZ, discussed a recent article she posted on Mondoweiss entitled “Why we created the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.” Abdulhadi, a leading Palestinian activist, explained (5:30) that they are “part of a founding Collective of the institute for the critical study of Zionism and this was our responsibility to write this article. One of the reasons why we thought that it was really important is because historically, the “legitimate” academic study of Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Israel studies, housed in Departments of Jewish studies, Israeli studies, and at the Israeli Academy, so “anybody who cares about human rights and justice for all who speaks about this, is labeled as antisemitic and there is the attempt by the pro-Israeli lobby industry to label anyone who criticizes Israel, who criticizes Zionism and considers it a settler colonial project as antisemitic, in order to dismantle us, to remove us, erase our presence and delegitimize what we’re doing and label us as a politics of hate.” (6:40). 

For Abdulhadi, the Zionist project, “is a settler colonial project that was built in Palestine, created, realized in Palestine, although there were other options the Zionist movement received from the British colonial powers in Palestine, for example, Argentina or parts of Africa, but the Zionist movement rejected that, they created it in Palestine and the project itself was built on the erasure of the Palestinian people from their land and erasing their very presence as a people, including their embodiment as humans, as well as their culture, their language, their food, the music, that includes everything else, because you need for Zionism to exist and legitimize itself as a legitimate movement, it needed to erase, exactly like the U.S and our other settler colonial states did to indigenous people, you have to eliminate the presence of the indigenous people, in order to justify why is it that there was a land without people for a people without the land which we know is a Zionist myth.” (8:09)

According to Abdulhadi, the conference is “going to focus on battling the IHRA, which is the definition of antisemitism as created by the Holocaust group within Europe. That is very problematic because one of the ways in which it identifies anti-Semitism is by criticizing Israel and criticizing Zionism, and actually, you can understand that one of the people who created this definition himself says this is problematic. He regretted it, unfortunately, at the time when they decided that he didn’t pass it, and it has been legitimate in multiple central European and Western spaces. However, there is a very strong tide against that, that challenges this kind of equation and actually says that criticizing Israel, first of all, Israel is like any other state, then there is no such thing as singling out Israel. You’re actually treating Israel as any state that should be subject to accountability to human rights conventions, to behavior like any other state, so there is no singling out Israel. Secondly, criticizing Zionism as a settler colonial movement and ideology is totally legitimate and actually has preceded the creation of Israel as such that colonial project has been propagated by many Jewish scholars themselves and thinkers and so on, and today there are many and there is also more and more and more broadening spaces within Jewish communities across, including younger generations, who do not want Israel to speak in their name, who do not accept this definition of anti-Semitism.” (13:18)

Abdulhadi stated, “I should say that we are 100 percent committed to the struggle against antisemitism. We are 100 percent committed to speaking about the Holocaust as a huge tragedy of human life. We are very much committed to standing for justice for all and freedom for all and all forms of anti-racism, and we want to make sure that we are not exceptionalizing Zionism and saying that Israel is above the law and Israel is exceptional to any other state.” (13:46)

For Abdulhadi, the purpose of Zionism is to erase the Palestinians. She said, “there has been a Palestinian village and a community that has been erased so we know at least 530 Palestinian communities have been erased in 1948 before and after actually the creation of the state of Israel which argues against the Israeli and Zionist claim that it was needed in order to be able to save themselves from Arab attacks and Palestinians and that it continued to erase Palestinians to realize the Zionist project… one of the main targets and actually objectives of the Zionist movement, realized through the Jewish National Fund, was to erase, uproot trees that are indigenous to the environment and put in their places, plant trees that come from Europe and elsewhere, which is also explains why there are constantly fires that take place because the trees that they planted are foreign, they’re not indigenous to the land and they are meant to hide the presence of Palestinian agriculture, so we are putting this to challenge the Zionist narrative that makes certain claims that are not really based in reality they are not factual and also to uplift [sic] the Palestinian persons in Palestine and Palestinian indigenous relationship to the land, to the environment to the culture around them.” (15:54)

Abdulhadi revealed her antisemitic views by declaring that Zionism aims to erase the Palestinians’ embodiment and that the JNF aims to erase Palestinian agriculture. Both claims are baseless, malicious, and used to demonize the Jews. The name “Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism” is a clue. As IAM has emphasized, the term “critical” is part of the neo-Marxist, critical approach in social sciences, which rejects the positivist, empirical paradigm based on facts. In the eyes of “critical scholars,” facts and statistical data are suspect because they are generated by the “dominant, colonial or imperialist powers.” However, the Ottoman Empire’s colonialism was legitimate for them.

Abdulhadi is not alone. In the past three decades, many American scholars of Arab and Palestinian descent have turned their scholarships into a platform of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and anti-Zionist propaganda. For example, The Middle East Scholars Association (MESA) passed a BDS resolution last year.   

Mixing ideology and scholarship discredits the field of Middle East studies. Worse, it negates the original goal of the federal government to create objective Middle East programs in various universities. Evidently, the government, which supports many of these programs through Title VI grants, is not getting its money’s worth. 

References:

Battling the ‘IHRA definition’: Theory & Activism

***NOW OPEN!***
Use this form to sign up, and read about registering below.

We are thrilled to announce the first convening of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism in October 2023! This inaugural gathering will bring together ICSZ’s community of scholars and activists to build and share knowledge about how “the IHRA definition of antisemitism” both amplifies and hides repressive power and state violence.

As detailed below, this is a working meeting for scholars and activists of ICSZ’s community, particularly those engaged in researching and confronting the repressive use of “the IHRA definition” to foreclose critical discussion and scholarship on Zionism. A selection of papers and videos of presentations will, however, be published after the event.

We will update this page as details about the convening are finalized. The program will be linked here as soon as it is published.

What it’s about: Sessions will explore the political, historical, and cultural conditions that enable IHRA campaigns, and share theoretical insights and organizing tools to support resistance. This event focuses on North American academia, government, and institutions while additionally mapping the ways IHRA is making incursions internationally. It will highlight victories, successful strategies, and paths of ongoing organizing.

Registering: Please use this form if you’re interested in attending. Due to limitations on attendance, filling out this form does not immediately register you for the convening. You will receive a response as quickly as possible from our volunteer team to confirm the status of your registration. Deadline: October 9.

Who should come: This is an ICSZ organizational convening for academics and activists who are battling the “IHRA definition” — including students, researchers, faculty, organizers, artists, and activists — to build knowledge and develop strategies to advance that work. ICSZ warmly welcomes allied scholars and activists to join our research community. 

Presenting research by activists and academics: The convening is structured by eight panels dedicated to theorizing, mapping, and political education. Presentations draw from the rich, wide-ranging landscape of academic, activist and community work that focuses not only on the “IHRA definition” itself, but also on the cultural, intellectual and political conditions that lend it power, its impacts, and our modes of resistance to it. 

Building our organizing: The convening will include an organizing lunch on both days for local activist groups to connect individuals and organizations, share materials, and focus on building attendees’ support networks to push back on IHRA campaigns.

Starting points: This convening is the inaugural event of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. We invite you to read the Institute’s points of unity which are the basis for the Institute’s research community. We anticipate that our discussions will be accompanied by a set of materials that share essential information, definitions, and other knowledge. The purpose is to be able to bring together attendees from a range of backgrounds, without assuming that everyone is well-versed in all areas of the work to battle IHRA. We hope these materials will allow presenters tow bring us in-depth discussion of their topics. (If your activist organization would like to co-sponsor and help curate these materials, please be in touch!)

Updates & deadlines: The call for proposals is now closed. 

Logistics: The convening will take place in the intellectual space of UC Santa Cruz (Oct. 13) and NYU (Oct. 14). Participants at each site will be invited to join the other site remotely.

Online attendance: When you register for in-person attendance in either Santa Cruz or New York, you will be invited (and strongly encouraged) to attend the other day online. The meeting is not organized as an all-remote event — we are trying to build our community and ideas in ways that work much better when we’re together! However, for comrades who are involved in this work but can’t make it, we will have limited slots for all-online attendance.

Organizational co-sponsors: The organizing collective is thrilled to be working with such an incredible, powerful, and varied set of co-sponsors. Below is a current list. If your organization is interested, please reach out at info@criticalzionismstudies.org, and see this co-sponsorship form for some initial information.

Current co-sponsors:

Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

American Friends Service Committee

Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz

Center for Racial Justice, UC Santa Cruz

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz

DSA Santa Cruz’s BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group 

Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)

Jewish Voice for Peace

National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)

NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine

ReThinking Foreign Policy

Sparkplug Foundation

Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice

UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council

U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)

2023 “Battling IHRA: Theory & Activism” Planning Collective (partial/in formation):

Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED Studies Program, San Francisco State University/Teaching Palestine

M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University

Dov Baum, PhD

Kat Cui, NYU Law

Arlo Fosberg, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Emmaia Gelman, Sarah Lawrence College

Yulia Gilich

Terri Ginsberg, USACBI

Christine Hong, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Kelly, Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Arun Kundnani

Sean L. Malloy, University of California, Merced

Jennifer Mogannam, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Sheryl Nestel, Independent Jewish Voices

Lisa Rofel, National Board, Jewish Voice for Peace; Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz

==========================

https://criticalzionismstudies.org/

The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism aims to support the delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies, and to reclaim academia and public discourse for the study of Zionism as a political, ideological, and racial and gendered knowledge project, intersecting with Palestine and decolonial studies, critical terrorism studies, settler colonial studies, and related scholarship and activism.

The Institute approaches Zionism as a broad set of colonial and repressive work and solidarities, efforts to curate knowledge and identities, and to dismantle movements that resist it. In other words, Zionism’s project extends beyond the borders of Palestine.

Many scholars and activists are working to illuminate such “other work” of Zionist institutions and discourses, historically and in the present, to shape the material conditions of life, the movement of capital, the construction of racial identity, and more.

The Institute supports this expansive work with fellowships to support academic and activist work, conferences, and publications that expand the reach of scholars’ and activists’ work into political culture.


Founding Collective (partial list)

Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED Studies Program, San Francisco State University/Teaching Palestine

Lau Barrios, No Tech for Apartheid

Dov Baum, PhD

Lisa Duggan, NYU

Emmaia Gelman, Sarah Lawrence College

Yulia Gilich

Christine Hong, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Literature, UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Kelly, Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Arun Kundnani

Sheryl Nestel, Independent Jewish Voices

Jennifer Mogannam, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston/USACBI

Advisory Board (list in formation)

Hil Aked

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature, Brown University

M. Muhannad Ayyash, Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University

Umayyah Cable, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Huma Dar, Adjunct 2 Professor, Critical Studies Program, California College of the Arts

Keith P. Feldman, UC Berkeley

Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Terri Ginsberg, USACBI

Robin D G Kelley, Professor of History, UCLA

Marisol LeBrón, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC

Donna Nevel, Jewish Voice for Peace-South Florida

Shaista Aziz Patel, UCSD, Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies

Dylan Rodriguez, Professor, Dept. of Black Study, University of California at Riverside

Andrew Ross, NYU and USACBI

Sarah Schulman

Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara

Lesley Williams, Jewish Voice for Peace

Alissa Wise, Rabbi

2023 Conference Planning Collective

See Battling the ‘IHRA definition’: Theory & Activism

Director

Emmaia Gelman

==================================

https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/09/statement-on-conference.html

Statement on conference organized by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

September 05, 2023

Updated Sept. 8, 2023

UC Santa Cruz does not endorse the upcoming conference organized by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and no events of the conference are scheduled to take place on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The reference to the “intellectual space of UC Santa Cruz,” and the listing of select individual UC Santa Cruz academic departments and centers purportedly as sponsors, is not, and should not be interpreted as, a university endorsement. At no point in time has UC Santa Cruz endorsed the upcoming conference.

We note that the conference organizers no longer require individuals to confirm their agreement with the Institute’s “points of unity” before registering. The removal of the points of unity condition is a welcome change, and the University did not and does not endorse in any way its use. Affirmation with those points of unity, as a condition to registering, were on the website and may have been operative throughout the conference registration period, and thus have had the effect of framing the conference in this context. A conference that limits participation based on political ideology is antithetical to UC Santa Cruz values as a public university and constitutes potential viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment along with potentially impinging on the academic freedom of prospective attendees.

We are vigorous proponents of free inquiry and the free exchange of ideas, and believe that more speech is the best approach to countering speech we find troubling. Both by policy and in practice, the university rigorously honors the freedom to present the widest range of viewpoints irrespective of agreement on those viewpoints. The presentation of the conference’s goals and approach is provoking disagreement as to whether the goals and approach are antisemitic or not antisemitic. This disagreement, like many other disagreements, should be discussed and debated freely and openly in a scholarly community. Amid a sharp rise in antisemitism in the United States, we urge our campus community to understand the impact of their individual views and the expressions of those views on others in the community.