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Anti-Israel Petitions Signed by Israeli Academics

Pro-Hamas Petition includes Israeli Academics - appears in the Neo-Nazi Counterpunch Magazine

Yehuda Shenhav, Ilan Pappe, Haim Bereeshit, Daniel Boyarin, Rachel Giora, Gabi Piterberg, Peled-Elhanan, Dorit Naaman, Moshe Machover, Ronit Lentin, Eyal Sivan, Eyal Weizman, Nira Yuval-Davis, Yosefa Loshitzky, Oren Ben-Dor, and Hagit Borer all sign their name to a petition that slanders Israel, supports terror, and promotes dis-information.

We the undersigned watch with horror yet another ruthless and criminal Israeli assault on the defenceless people of the Gaza Strip. The assassination of the Hamas' military commander, Ahmad al-Jabari, by Israel was intended to disrupt any chance for a permanent cease fire between the two sides and caused the current cycle of violence. For the last five years al-Jabari had been responsible for limiting rocket attacks on Israel.

The inaction of the Western governments is further proof of their indifference to their electorates' wish to stop Israel from perpetrating yet another massacre against the Palestinian people.

We call upon our governments, which have stood aloof and indifferent, in the face of Palestine's dispossession and colonization since 1948 to take immediate and effective action. No other people in the world has been subjected, for more than sixty years, to such relentless acts of collective punishment and military brutality as have the Palestinian people.

Among the signed:
5.      Professor Ilan Pappe (Exeter, UK)
7.      Professor Haim Bresheeth (London, UK)
8.      Professor Yehuda Shenhav (Tel Aviv, Israel)
10.    Professor Yosefa Loshitzky (London, UK)
11.    Professor Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley, US)
17.    Professor Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv, Israel)
18.    Professor Gabi Piterberg (Los Angeles, US)
23.    Professor Oren Ben-Dor (Southampton, UK)
38.    Professor Nurith Peled-Elhanan (Jerusalem, Israel)
57.    Dr Dorit Naaman (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
62.    Professor Moshe Machover (London, UK)
71.    Professor Ronit Lentin (Dublin, Ireland)
97.    Mr Eyal Sivan (Paris, France)
99.    Professor Eyal Weizman (London, UK)
109.  Professor Nira Yuval-Davis (London, UK)
133.  Professor Hagit Borer (London, UK)

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Cracks in the Leftist Ivory Hegemony over Where Protest & Free Speech End and Incitement & Treason Begin

Even leftist Stern from IDI thinks the signers are traitors. Calls petition to IDF pilots led by Chaim Gans (Tel Aviv University - Dept of Law) and others an "act of betrayal"

The online petition, effectively a call to mutiny, was organized by several academics, led by Tel Aviv University law professors Menachem Mautner, former head of the Law Department, and Chaim Gans. The letter says that an attack on Iran would be a "mistaken gamble," and that Israel would pay a heavy price for an attack that would at best delay Iran's nuclear program.

The petition says that while those signing could be jeopardizing their military service and even civilian careers, they would be "rendering an important and vital service to the State of Israel and all who live here" by showing Israelis that they do not have to "blindly obey" the government's apparent intention to embark on a highly questionable mission. It does not raise the issue of a democratically elected government's right to make decisions that law-abiding citizens obey and the lawful methods to fight decisions with which a citizen disagrees

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Leftist Israeli Academics despair another Masada; Sign Declaration of Capitulation and Subjugation

“Recognition of the Palestinian State – and then negotiations – rather than another Masada. In front of our very eyes, an insane drama is being acted out. The Prime Minister of Israel is leading his citizens to Masada. Human morality, Jewish history and the interests of Israel – all clearly show the way to being the first state in the world to recognize, in the United Nations, our neighbor state and them to enter into negations, based on equality, regarding territorial exchanges and security arrangements. After all, the Palestinian State recognizes the State of Israel in the "67 borders. The Jewish People arose in the Land of Israel, there they developed their identity. The Palestinian People arose in Palestine, there they developed their identity. Therefore, we sincerely welcome the expected declaration of independence by the Palestinian State, Israel's neighbor, and within the borders at the time of our independence which were determined at the end of the War of Independence in 1949; the borders more commonly known as the '67 borders. This is the natural right of both the Jewish and the Palestinian people – as written in Israel's Declaration of Independence "to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State". The independence of both peoples strengthens one and the other, it is both a moral and basic necessity at one and, the same time, it is the foundation upon which good, neighborly relations are built. We, the undersigned, call on all persons seeking peace and freedom, and upon all nations to join us in welcoming the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, to support it and to work and act together in order to encourage the citizens of both countries to live together in peace, based on the '67 borders and mutual agreement. A final and complete end to the occupation is a basic condition for the freedom of both peoples, for the realization of Israel's Declaration of Independence and a future of peaceful coexistence.”

Among the list of signatories

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Academics Supporting Bedouin Squatting and Grabbing State Lands in Unrecognized Villages

However, the Beer Sheva District Court has already rejected the Bedouin 'proof' of claims to vast stretches of Negev 'wasteland' and bashed Oren Yiftachel's shameful and inaccurate testimony in the process

All these forces with government and Jewish National Fund (JNF) bulldozers arrived at the village to uproot 300 residents, young and old, and raze their homes to the ground - all to plant a JNF forest on their land. Since then they have repeated the spectacle some twenty times, in recent days and weeks with vicious beatings and shooting of Bedouin children, women and men, causing some to be hospitalized.

Even if it is true that they came with legally signed orders, it is no less true that the Bedouin residents and the Israeli government are locked in a dispute over ownership of the land. This is not the way to settle a dispute that is still under deliberation in the courts. The Bedouin residents have documents and proof of their traditional rights to the land and of their residence there for hundreds of years, from the time of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate, prior to the establishment of the state of Israel.
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This policy violates the basic rights to shelter, to life, and to well-being, rights which the state ensures for the Jewish population in Israel, but ignores with regard to the Arab population. The right to housing is anchored in international law, particularly in treaties on social, economic and cultural rights that Israel has signed and ratified.

Among the Signatories

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Academics Ariel Rubinstein (TAU, Dept of Economics) and Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew U, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) express support for Academic Boycott of Ariel College

"The petition's objective is to undermine the normalization in the relationship between Israel and the occupied territories," Rubinstein said. "We are dealing with a catastrophe whose implication is a failure to partition the land; this may threaten the State's existence as a Jewish entity."

Rubinstein added that he does not dismiss the possibility of imposing an academic boycott similar to the one imposed against South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Another signatory to the boycott petition is Professor Amiram Goldblum, a chemistry lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"By signing, we declare that we shall refuse invitations for lectures or seminars in the territories," he said. "We will not appear at the Ariel College or at its branches, because we believe that any appearance or academic discussion there violates the law and international conventions, which Israel should adhere to like all other nations."

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Matar and Algazi support the boycott of Israel in Letter of 500 against the prohibition of the conference "Israel: an apartheid state?"

We would hereby like to express our dismay at your decision to withdraw permission you had previously given to the symposium "New approaches sociological, historical and legal to call for an international boycott Israel: an apartheid state? ", to be held on 27 and 28 February next at your institution.

This decision seems particularly serious because it threatens free speech and academic freedom. The reasons that you call, including the risk of "disturbing public order", we do not seem very convincing in terms of the implications of your decision.

Among the signatories
Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University),
Gadi Algazi (Historian, Tel Aviv)

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Hundreds of Tenured Leftists Trying to Sabotage Ariel University because they do not Like its Geographic Location

The college in Ariel was established as part of a vision whereby Israel continues indefinitely its occupation of these territories. This policy rules out the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and inevitably leads to the violent repression of the Palestinian population. The Palestinians living in the region of Ariel are barred from entry into the settlement and the college. An academic institution that is not serving the population around it, and in fact ignores and alienates the local population, can not be part of a free academia in a democratic state.

The Israeli academia has flourished so far due to it being a part of a free, democratic society, with close ties to the academic communities of democracies around the world. Mixing the Israeli academia with the ideology of occupation and settlements undermines these ties, and compromises its functioning.

The continuing occupation and settlements policies destroy the democratic foundation of the state of Israel. Democracy is the essence of the academic establishment, and we therefore see it as our duty to stop the attempt to recruit the Israeli academia in the service of the occupation effort.
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4. We call on the heads of the existing Israeli universities to refuse to accept the representative of Ariel University into the Council of University Heads.

Among the signers
67. Anat Bielski
122. Amiram Goldblum
129. Neve Gordon
134. Rachel Giora
143. Haim Ganz
187. Alon Harel
230. Hanan Hever
267. Oren Yifatchel
298. Orly Lubin
324. Idan Landau
326. Micah Leshem
344. Anat Matar
366. Judd Neeman
402. Hanah Safran
405. Avraham Oz
422. Dani Filc
430. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
447. Bill Freidman
487. Menachem Klein
497. Vered Kraus
541. Haggai Ram
567. David Shulman

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli tenured leftists among extremists demanding that Netanyahu government leave the sitting judges alone and not intervene in how they appoint judges anti-democratically all on their own

Some of the signatories to the petition include Sefi Rechelvsky, Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof. Ze'ev Shternhal who suggested that terrorists attack settlers and not other Israelis, and radical left authors Amos Oz and Yoram Kaniuk.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

The tenured Left is Demanding that Professors be Paid their Salaries when Imprisoned for Lawbreaking and Refusing to Serve in the Military

Dear Professor Carmi,
We, the undersigned, staff and faculty members of different universities, protest your mistreatment of Professor Idan Landau, a faculty member at Ben Gurion University, of which you are the president. Last May, Prof. Landau was imprisoned for a week for refusing to do army reserve service in the occupied Palestinian territories. Your institution deducted half of his weekly salary, without any legal or disciplinary procedure, on grounds of "absence of research activity", as if his imprisonment deprived him of the possibility of engaging in research.

… It is hard not to suspect that the motivation for this punishment is connected to Professor Landau's political views and has absolutely nothing to do with his research activity…

Among the Signatories:
6.      Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University
7.      Ariella Azoulay, Tel Aviv University
17.    Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
31.    Prof. Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University
47.    Dr. Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute
52.    Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
61.    Prof. Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University
62.    Dr. Eyal Gross, Tel Aviv University
69.    Prof. Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv University
79.    Prof. Alon Harel, Hebrew University
92.    Prof. Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University
95.    Prof. Hannan Hever, Hebrew University
102.  Dr. Yuval Yonai, University of Haifa
114.  Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University
126.  Prof. Micah Leshem, University of Haifa
158.  Dr. Hannah Safran, Jezreel Valley College
161.  Prof. Avraham Oz, University of Haifa
172.  Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Hebrew University, Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought
183.  Dr. Kobi Peter (Peterzil), University of Haifa
193.  Dr. Hagai Kupermintz, University of Haifa
201.  Prof. Vered Kraus, University of Haifa
217.  Prof. David Shulman, Hebrew University

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli Academics Lobbying for "recognition" for "Palestine"; What will they say when Tel Aviv is bathed with rockets fired from Recognized Palestine?

We, the undersigned, call on all persons seeking peace and freedom, and upon all nations to join us in welcoming the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, to support it and to work and act together in order to encourage the citizens of both countries to live together in peace, based on the '67 borders and mutual agreement. A final and complete end to the occupation is a basic condition for the freedom of both peoples, for the realization of Israel's Declaration of Independence and a future of peaceful coexistence.

Prof. Chaim Adler, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Joseph Agassi, Philosopher
Prof. Eva Illouz
Prof. Elie Barnavi, former Ambassador to France
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Haim Ben Shahar, former President of Tel Aviv University
Prof. Miriam Ben-Peretz, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Menachem Brinker, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Judith Buber Agassi
Prof. Yehuda Elkana, former President of the Central European University
Prof. Yaron Ezrahi, winner of the Political Science Society Award
Prof. Menachem Fish
Prof. Haim Gans
Prof. Galia Golan
Prof. Amiram Goldblum
Prof. Naomi Graetz
Prof.　Hanoch Gutfreund, former President of the Hebrew University
Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Prof. Ruth Hacohen
Prof. David Harel, Israel Prize and Emet laureate
Prof. Avnet Katz
Prof. Elihu Katz, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Avishai Margalit, Israel and Emet Prize laureate
Prof. Dov Pekelman
Prof. Itamar Procaccia, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Gabi Salomon, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Hillel Schocken
Prof. Alice Shalvi, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. David Shulman, Emet Prize laureate
Prof. Zeev Sternhell, Israel Prize laureate
Prof. Carlo Strenger
Prof. Zeev Tzahor, President of Sapir College
Prof. Menahem Yaari, Israel Prize laureate, President (Emeritus) of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Yossi Yonah
Prof. Yirmiyahu Yovel, Israel Prize laureate

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Hebrew University - Nurit Peled Elhanan (Dept of Education) continues to mourn her daughter by promoting the agenda of her daughter's killers; flaunts the Boycott law

"Dear South African peers,

"We are members of BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within, a group of Israeli students, professors, citizens, and residents who are active against our government's policies of apartheid, occupation and racism.

...

"We support your resistance to the Israeli government's propaganda in your universities and your efforts in advocating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel campaign at your campuses.

"In Solidarity!

"Professor Professor Nurit Peled-Elhanan and 25 others on behalf of BOYCOTT!"

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli Fifth Column Academics Continue Call for Boycott to Spite the Newly Passed Anti-Boycott Law

We, Israeli citizens, members of Boycott![2] [footnote #2: Our full name is: "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within". Aka: "Boycott from Within"], hereby reiterate our support and promotion of the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights[3]. We declare this in spite of the new legislation by the Israeli Knesset, which aims to penalize our and our partners' activities, curbing freedom of speech and political organizing and most importantly – banning Israeli citizens from acting according to their conscience when it conflicts with the deplorable policies of the state.

Among the Signatories:
Shir Hever
Anat Matar
Ofer Neiman
David Nir
Kobi Snitz

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Tel Aviv University – Far Leftist Faculty at TAU wants Shaul Mofaz, the Minister of Defense, to stand trial for "war crimes"; blames him for "moral decline"

In a more just world, Mofaz would have had to stand trial before the International Court of Justice in The Hague on grounds of war crimes. In a more just university, staff would have been ashamed of hosting this man at an official occasion and would organize to struggle against him and his methods - methods which have brought Israel to an unprecedented moral decline.

Among the Signatories:
Prof. Adi Ophir, Cohen Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science
Prof. Gady Algazy, Dept. of History
Prof. Anat Biletzky, Dept. of Philosophy
Prof. Rachel Giora, Dept. of Linguistics
Prof. Haim Ganz, Faculty of Law
Prof. Uri Hadar, Dept. of Psychology
Dr. Amalia Ziv, Dept. of Literature
Prof. Shlomo Zand, Dept. of History
Dr. Anat Matar, Dept. of Philosophy
Prof. Yoav Peled, Dept. of Political Science
Prof. Moshe Zuckerman, Cohen Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science
Prof. Yehuda Shenhav, Dept. of Sociology

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Jews for Genocide!

Israeli academics among those calling for the obliteration of Israel, in petition by pro-Jihad "Palestine Justice Network":

Among the pro-genocide signers:
Oren Ben-Dor (Dr.), School of Law, University of Southampton, UK
Haim Bresheeth (Prof.), BRICUP and University of East London
Ilan Pappe (Prof.), University of Exeter

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Rachel Giora wants the Pirate of the Caribbean to help her Make Israel walk the Plank!

Tel Aviv University's Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) joins the rest of the Jews for a Hamas Victory in demanding that Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp boycott Israel

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar, Rachel Giora, and their Fellow Israelis for the Elimination of Israel demand that Israel be Boycotted by Winner of Jerusalem Prize

As Israeli citizens who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions call on Israel, we believe that if Ian McEwan accepts the Jerusalem prize next month in Jerusalem (Letters, 26 January), it will make him a collaborator with Israel's worst human rights offenders and its "business as usual" policy. The Jerusalem prize is awarded by the Israeli establishment, which is keen on branding Israel in general, and Jerusalem in particular, as beacons of enlightenment and democracy. In reality, Ian McEwan will be playing into the hands of and shaking hands with cynical politicians who are trying to whitewash their systematic human rights violations. Specifically, he will be legitimising the actions of Jerusalem's racist mayor, Nir Barkat, who pursues and defends the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, in order for them to be occupied by Jewish settlers. If McEwan "opposes illegal Israeli settlements", how can he accept the accolades of the people who are responsible for that abomination?

Here are the names of the Signers:
Ronnie Barkan, Ofra Ben-Artzi, Joseph Dana, Professor Rachel Giora, Neta Golan, Iris Hefets, Shir Hever, Eytan Lerner, Dr Anat Matar, Rela Mazali, Ofer Neiman, Jonathan Stanczak

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Weizmann Institute of Science - Nir Gov (Dept of Physics) Organizes 155 Members of the Tenured Left to call for Boycott of Ariel University

The signatories state that Ariel was an illegal settlement whose existence contravened international law and the Geneva Convention. "It was established for the sole purpose of preventing the Palestinians from creating an independent state and thus preventing us, citizens of Israel, from having the chance to ever live in peace in this region."

The petition was initiated and organized by Nir Gov of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Chemical Physics. Unlike other such initiatives, over a third of the list's signatories are from the natural and exact sciences.

[Could they be after the budgets granted to Ariel? Looking for 155 Ideas of people who should be Boycotted?]

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli Tenured Traitors call on the Dutch to Boycott Israel

In view of the facts presented here, we would like to share with you our conclusion that the Hebrew University is institutionally complicit in Israel's illegal policies of occupation and racism. Therefore, we would like to ask you to respect the memory of Prof. Cleveringa and move the 2011 Cleveringa lecture to a different venue!

We would be interested in your response.

Sincerely
Ofra Ben Artzi
Prof. Rachel Giora
Neta Golan
Ohal Grietzer

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Ben Gurion University - Ran Greenstein (University of the Witwatersrand) signs name to a blatantly Anti-Semitic petition to have Johannesburg U cut ties with BGU; Criticism of Neve Gordon's treasonous call for boycott cited as reason enough to boycott BGU

What goes around comes around. South African University threatened to boycott Ben Gurion University. Its hordes of tenured treason did not spare it from accusations of engaging in "apartheid" made by South African anti-Semites!

"Written in part by Omar Barghouti:

A true breakthrough in the academic boycott of Israel!!

A South African, long brewing, campaign at the prestigious University of Johannesburg to cut off academic links with Ben Gurion University due to its complicity and racist practices has won the endorsement of John Dugard, Desmond Tutu, Breyten Breytenbach, Allan Boesak, Mahmoud Mamdani and almost 200 other academics from 22 academic institutions in SA.

Here is the petition to sever links with Ben Gurion University

SOUTH AFRICAN ACADEMICS CALL FOR UJ TO TERMINATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAELI INSTITUTION

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/boycott-of-apartheid-gets-a%5C-boost-from-south-african-academics/

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3. CRIMINALISING DISSENT

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• BGU has been publicly criticised for disciplining academic staff, such as Professor Neve Gordon, the head of the politics department, for supporting the non-violent boycott of Israeli companies and institutions which profit or are complicit in the Israeli occupation."

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Anat Biletzky is distributing and promoting this petition that denounces Israel for being fascist, calls for boycott of Israel

Posted to Anti-Semitic Alef List
FW: antifa
From: Anat Biletzki <anatbi@post.tau.ac.il>Add to Contacts
To: HakampusL@Shotek.tau.ac.il

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For all those who are worried about boycotts, which boycotts, smart boycotts, solidarity boycotts…something to do, even when the campus is very quiet. Please distribute far and wide so that we reach 1000!

http://www.atzuma.co.il/solidarity/

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli Professors from Tel Aviv University claim Technion “develops death tech”

Professors from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute have signed a letter along with other academics world-wide denouncing Boston's Museum of Science for co-sponsoring and hosting a week-long exhibit surveying ground-breaking Israeli innovations and inventions in the fields of clean energy, medicine, and technology.  ... However, this display of Israeli pride was received with little enthusiasm among some members of the academia, including Jewish linguist Noam Chomsky, and faculty members hailing from Israeli institutes of higher education – Dr. Kobi Snitz from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Rachel Giora and Dr. Anat Matar, bother from Tel Aviv University.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli academics insist that Germans be more anti-Israel

Beyond this, the weakness of the Palestinians requires strong pressure from the international community. The strong side never relinquishes its position without substantial pressure and indeed, Israel has proven time and time again that it is not ready to act for peace and an end to the occupation without intensive pressure from civil society or various governments abroad....The state of Israel does not deserve prizes for its occupation, racist separation and its war crimes. Only international policy which emphasises to Israel that violations of international law are not tolerated will succeed in promoting a just peace for all residents of this land.

among signers:
Gadi Algazi TAU
Yehuda Shenhav TAU
Roy Wagner TAU
Anat Matar TAU
Orly Lubin TAU
Ofer Neiman Weizmann

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli anti-Israel academics backing Berkeley boycott against Israel

There is enough evidence today which (sic) allows one to safely state that the only pressure Israelis are sensitive to these days is that put forth by BDS activities. Boycott, sanctions and divestment from Israel and from companies invested in Israel are perceived by Israelis as questioning the legitimacy of Israeli policies and Israeli society. This indeed seems to be a cost Israelis are not willing to pay....We believe that actions such as yours will make Israelis face the fact that the people of the world will not be silent when human rights are crushed. We therefore applaud your efforts and thank you for them. They are not only the best hope for Palestinians but also for Israelis.

Among those signing the petition:
Prof. Rachel Giora
Prof. Lev Luis Grinberg
Dr. Anat Matar
Dr. Dorothy Naor
Ofer Neiman
Dr. David Nir
Dr. Kobi Snitz

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Trinity College (Ireland) - Ronit Lentin (Dept of Sociology) leads Anti-Israel academic extremists from the UK (including Pappe and Shlaim) and elsewhere in order to "defend" anti-Israel lecturer/propagandist at BGU Ahmad Sa'di  (Dept of Politics) from make-pretend "persecution"

We, Israeli, Palestinian and British academics, are writing to express our deep concern at the treatment of Dr Ahmad Sa’di, a Senior Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Politics and Government, who was subjected to racist treatment on 3 January 2010 when he arrived at Ben-Gurion University train station, as he does every teaching week.  He was humiliatingly searched, yelled at and embarrassed by the security staff at Mexico Gate, which we find offensive and unacceptable. … Dr Sa’di strongly believes that his treatment at Mexico Gate on 3 January was only the last in a whole series of racist encounters and harassment he has faced in the past ten years of his employment at Ben-Gurion University. Other incidents included his car being stopped, his bags searched and security staff making calls to ascertain whether he should be allowed to enter the university.

Signed by
Professor Avi Shlaim, Oxford University, UK
Professor Nur Masalha, St Mary’s University College, UK
Dr Ronit Lentin, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK
Professor Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA, US
Professor Ilan Pappe, Exeter University, UK

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

A Little Problem of Consistency at the University of Haifa

A university in Norway is calling for worldwide boycotts of Israel. Meanwhile the president and the rector of the University of Haifa have taken to the airwaves to denounce that initiative. See this: http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=1415

The only problem? They have done nothing about the members of the faculty at the University of Haifa who are themselves calling for a worldwide boycott of Israel! Prof. Daphna Carmeli, Prof. Yoram Carmeli, and Prof. Vered Kraus are listed here.

These University of Haifa leftist anti-Zionists were calling for such a boycott against Israel and against Israeli universities even before the recent call for such a boycott issued by anti-Israel extremist Neve Gordon from Ben Gurion University.

Want to let the heads of the University know what you think of this “inconsistency”? Write to University of Haifa:

President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240101
Fax: 972-4-8240281
E-mail: abenzeev@univ.haifa.ac.il

Rector of the University of Haifa
Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi
University of Haifa
Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa Israel
Tel: 972-4-8240405
Fax: 972-4-8342101
Email: yossib@univ.haifa.ac.il

Chairman of the Board of Governors
Mr. Leon Charney
Law Office of Leon H. Charney
Broadway 1441
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-819-0994
E-mail: charney@lhcharney.com

University "Friends of" Offices Outside Israel are listed here: http://www.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/friends.htm

Israeli Professors make call for international intervention during Operation “Cast Lead” in The Guardian

Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinian civilians get killed, thousands are bleeding to death, tens of thousands are uprooted and wandering in vain in search of some shelter to protect them. The Israeli army bombs hospitals and Unrwa relief centres, and, defying international convention, it uses white phosphorus bombs against civilians. "What else can we do?" these leaders keep asking. Well, here is what you can do: move from words to deeds. Only immediate, decisive and strict sanctions against the state of Israel and its limitless aggression will make it realise that there's a limit. We, as Israeli citizens, raise our voices to call on EU leaders: use sanctions against Israel's brutal policies and join the active protests of Bolivia and Venezuela. We appeal to the citizens of Europe: please attend to the Palestinian Human Rights Organisation's call, supported by more than 540 Israeli citizens (www.freegaza.org/en/home/): boycott Israeli goods and Israeli institutions; follow resolutions such as those made by the cities of Athens, Birmingham and Cambridge (US). This is the only road left. Help us all, please!

Among the signatories
Prof. Daphna Carmeli (Haifa University), Prof. Yoram Carmeli (Haifa University), Dr. Ovadia Ezra (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Vered Kraus (Haifa University), Dr. Aim Deuel Luski (Tel Aviv University), Moshe Machover, Dr. Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University), Dorothy Naor, Prof. Yehuda Shenhav (Tel Aviv University), Dr. Kobi Snitz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Academics - Anat Matar, Rachel Giora and Kobi Snitz -organized a petition signed by “Israeli citizens” that demands international intervention to stop “Israel’s destructive criminal policy” during Operation “Cast Lead”; presented the petition to foreign embassies

Israel has returned to openly committing war crimes, worse than what we have seen in a long time. … Israel's destructive criminal policy will not cease without a massive intervention by the international community. However, except for some rather weak official condemnation, the international community is reluctant to intervene. … In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence. We are calling on the world to stop Israeli violence and not allow the continuation of the brutal occupation. We call on the world to Condemn and not become an accomplice in Israel's crimes.

Among the other signatories:
Dalit Baum, Anat Biletzki, Haim Bresheeth, Uri Davis, Lev Grinberg, Adam Keller, Yael Korin, Moshe Machover, Haggai Matar, Dorit Naaman, Dorothy Naor, Judd Ne'eman, Ofer Neiman, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Oren Yiftachel

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy) back lobbying for boycotts of Israel and denouncing  Jews as racists

Original Message -----
From: Anat Matar
To: 'bbffww'
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:37 AM
Subject: [bfw] Open letter to the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

I've just sent my signature. I urge you to do the same.
Anat

…

We understand that you intend to tour Israel with the Choir of Clare College to perform J.S. Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' between 25th and 30th December this year and we are asking you to reconsider this decision. Artists and musicians in Palestine, inspired by the example of the campaign which brought an end to apartheid in South Africa, have asked people of conscience around the world not to perform in Israel as an act of solidarity with them. … December 27 will be the anniversary of the terrible day last year that Israel unleashed a military onslaught on the trapped population of the Gaza Strip. While the rest of the world will be remembering the massacre of 1,400 Palestinian people, your choir will be performing in the capital city of the government which perpetrated acts now regarded as war crimes, according to the latest UN report from Judge Richard Goldstone.

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Tel Aviv University – Anat Matar (Dept. of Philosophy) and Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) embrace the pack of lies called the Goldstone Report; divest themselves from Mahmud Abbas

We write to join the Palestinian political parties, civil society groups, trade unions, and citizens that have condemned the recent decision at the UN Human Rights Council to withdraw Palestinian support for a resolution endorsing the report of the "UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict," led by Richard Goldstone. We consider this decision a betrayal of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and of broader efforts to promote human rights and a just international system. … But by withdrawing support for a resolution in the Human Rights Council, you have done more to undermine these efforts than all of the sustained, high-level attacks by Israel and its allies combined. … Furthermore, we believe this self-inflicted wound raises serious doubts about the soundness of your leadership and the authority of the diplomatic missions under your control worldwide to represent the interests of the Palestinian people. … We demand that you restore full Palestinian diplomatic support for advancing the Goldstone report through the United Nations system, including to the Security Council and the International Criminal Court. Furthermore, we reiterate our support for efforts to restore the unity and legitimacy of the Palestinian national struggle. Until such unity is restored, any appeals for solidarity or support from you or your subordinates will carry no weight.

[Among the] Signed,

Noam Chomsky
Omar Barghouti
Dr. Anat Matar, head of Israeli Association for the Palestinian Prisoners, Prof., Tel Aviv University
Rachel Giora, Prof., Tel Aviv University

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The usual Leftist cronies sign a petition in support of Neve Gordon & BDS; join the call for “external pressure” on Israel

BOYCOTT! would like to extend its support and appreciation to Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva for publishing his position in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel in an LA Times Op-Edⁱ. In an overwhelming assault on freedom of speech, Gordon has met with immediate condemnation in the Israeli media, coming from the Minister of Educationⁱⁱ and several political parties. Even though he was writing on a subject directly within the scope of his academic expertise, he was attacked by his own university, whose President, Prof. Rivka Carmi, went as far as to say that "the university may no longer be interested in his services".ⁱⁱⁱ The attempt to silence Gordon as well as the threats leveled against him illustrate how resistant Israeli society and institutions are to bringing about change, thus confirming the need for external pressure in an attempt to force Israel to end its colonial and apartheid policies and bring about justice for Palestinians.

Signed:
1. Prof. Rachel Giora - Tel Aviv University
2. Dr. Anat Matar - Tel Aviv University
3. Dr. Kobi Snitz - Technion
6. Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Hebrew University – Dept of Math
8. Dr. Marcelo Svirsky – Cardiff University (previously from University of Haifa)
9. Prof. Zvi Razi - Tel Aviv University – Dept of History
13. Haggai Matar, Tel Aviv
16. Prof. Uri Davis, Ramle
19. Dr. Dorothy Naor, Hertzliya
21. Dr. Eyal Nir, Tel Aviv
22. Dr. David Nir, Hebrew University – Dept of Math
26. Dr. Aharon Shabtai – Tel Aviv University – Dept of Literature
27. Dr. Haim Yacobi, Ben Gurion University - (Dept of Politics)
30. Dr. Aim Deuelle Luski Tel Aviv University (Dept of General Studies) & Bezalel (Dept of History)
31. Dr. Ruchama Marton Tel Aviv University (Dept of Mid East Studies)
33. Dr. Orly Lubin - Tel Aviv University (Dept of Comparitive Literature)
35. Iris Bar, University of Haifa
37. Ofer Neiman, Hebrew University (Dept of Computer Science)

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Tel Aviv University – Rachel Giora spearheads a call for Madonna to boycott Israel and Israelis to boycott the concert

According to Tel Aviv University Prof. Rachel Giora, a member of the group, the organization is also encouraging Israelis to boycott Madonna's performance, "to let Israel's government know how they feel... thereby hoping to encourage the Israeli government to reconsider its policies."

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Israeli Academics who join Norman Finkelstein to eradicate the Jewish State of Israel

Research has shown that the return of refugees and the compensation of others who choose not to return is well within the means of Israel and its international backers in addition to being morally and legally right. It would be incredibly helpful if Jews were identified with the cause of the refugees.

Meir Amor, Israeli sociologist
Yigal Arens, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Hagit Borer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Yoav Elinevsky, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Amherst, Massachusetts
Micha Levi, Historian, Tel Aviv
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, History Department, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dudy Tzfati, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco
Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor of Gender & Ethnic Studies, University of Greenwich

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Israeli Academics join in a call for Academic boycott to protest the “occupation”

Drawing on past experiences of peace and human rights movements in Europe, we think that it is first necessary to expose, and then to break, all academic ties with the occupation - with its apparatus and support efforts, including military research - and with settlements and settlers.

3. Jacob Katriel, Professor Emeritus, Technion, Haifa, Israel
15. Dr. Anat Matar, Dept. of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
16. Prof. Batja Guggenheim-Ami, St.Gallen, Switzerland
37. Micah Leshem PhD, Psychology Department, University of Haifa, Israel
38. Dr. Michael Dahan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
39. Prof. Michael Saltman, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Haifa, Israel
41. Dr. Yehiam Soreq, Beit-Berl college, Israel
46. Professor Motty Perry, Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
51. Prof. Hanan Frenk, Dept. of Psychology, Tel Aviv University and Head of the School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
52. Professor Uri Hadar, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Haifa University – Bill Freedman and 230 other academics vow to disobey anti-Nakba laws if passed

According to the declaration, the proposals are "harshly anti-democratic, and all gravely violate basic rights essential to democracy and to freedom of expression." … The initiative to circulate the declaration began when Professor Bill Freedman of Haifa University sent an email to his colleagues on the matter.

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Tel Aviv Univeristy - Rachel Giora (Dept of Linguistics) Boycotts the University that Over-Pays her Salary; next letter should be letter of resignation

But shouldn’t Israeli academic institutions be exempted, some wonder? After all such institutions focus on academic research with no recourse to the military or state politics. But in fact Israeli academia is no different from any other Israeli institution and in many cases it plays an active if not a vital role in supporting Israeli apartheid practices against the Palestinians. For example, “the R&D [Research & Development] Directorate of the Israel Ministry of Defense is currently funding 55 projects at TAU [Tel Aviv University]”… “People are just not aware of how important university research is in general and how much TAU contributes to Israel’s security in particular”

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli anti-Israel Academics, Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University) and Kobi Snitz (Technion) join David Nir and Dorothy Naor to call on Barcelona Municipality to cancel "Twin City" planning with Tel Aviv due to the "brutality" of the "Gaza massacres"

Israel had unleashed an extreme level of brutality in the recent Gaza massacres. The silence of the international community to the Israeli atrocities during the 22-day "operation" only encouraged the Israeli regime to intensify the butchery. Mind you that the Spanish court system has gained our respect for undertaking that responsibility to prosecute Israeli criminals that had masterminded those atrocities.

1. Prof. Rachel Giora,Tel Aviv, Israel
2. Dr. Kobi Snitz,The Technion, Haifa, Israel
3. Dr. David Nir, Tel Aviv, Israel
19. Dorothy Naor, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Israeli Academics “Dissociate” themselves “Israel's brutal policies”; call on Leonard Cohen to boycott Israel

Unfortunately, recognizing Palestinian rights will require a fundamental shift in Israeli society. We suspect that this change will be achieved only via external pressure. … given your longstanding, vocal commitment to justice, we cannot envision you cooperating with continued Israeli defiance of justice and morality; we cannot envision you playing a part in the Israeli charade of self-righteousness. We appeal to you to add your voice to those brave people the world over who boycott Israel. We urge you to cancel your planned performance in Israel.

The following Israeli academics signed the petition to Leonard Cohen to support the boycott of Israel.
Diana Dolev, Holon Institute of Technology
Prof. Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University – Dept of Linguistics
Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel-Aviv University - Dept of Linguistics
Dr. Irit Katriel, Brown University - Dept of Computer Science
Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University - Dept of Philosophy
Dr. Nurit Peled, Hebrew University - Dept of Education
Dr. Kobi Snitz, Technion - Dept of Mathematics

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Israeli anti-Israel Academics think that International Pressure on Israel will miraculously solve the region's problems

We wish to express our support for students at Manchester University and elsewhere, who are drawing attention to the gross violations of academic and human rights in Gaza. We have seen their list of demands and feel that it is in the interest of an established and reputable university such as Manchester to address their concerns productively and to demonstrate that it is committed to upholding human rights. We strongly believe that without some pressure from outside Israel and without concrete support for Palestinians nothing will change in our part of the world. For us, Manchester students and students across Britain and the US are providing an inspiring example of commitment and decent human compassion, which others should emulate.

Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Eva Jablonka, Tel-Aviv University
Dr. Anat Matar, Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel-Aviv University
Dr. Kobi Snitz, Technion, Haifa

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Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) and Anat Matar (Dept of Philosophy) support Hampshire College divestment from Israel

They endorse, among other things, the boycotting Israeli goods and calling on the American Government to stop funding Israel.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Anat Matar and Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University), Kobi Snitz (Technion), and Jeff Halper (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) join an American Petition to President Obama to stop supporting Israel; call for the termination the Jewish State of Israel

Also among the charges to which these Israeli Academics signed are:

calling Israel an apartheid regime;
claiming ethnic cleansing;
protesting the disproportionate use of excessive force;
calling all of the above crimes against humanity; and
supplying the justification for terrorism

'Public figures as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter have recognized that Israel too maintains an apartheid regime, in practice if not in name. South Africa, now a functioning multi-racial democracy, was a white state for a white people. Israel is a Jewish state for a Jewish people.'

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Israeli anti-Israel Academics call to recognize the “Right to Return” – “The Olga Document” – a document based in fear

Israel, 2004, is a state on the road to nowhere. Fifty-six years after its establishment - notwithstanding its many achievements in agriculture, science and technology, and albeit a great regional military power, armed with doomsday weapons - many of its citizens are heartsick with existential worry and fear for their future. …

We are united in a critique of Zionism, based as it is on refusal to acknowledge the indigenous people of this country and on denial of their rights, on dispossession of their lands, and on adoption of separation as a fundamental principle and way of life. Adding insult to injury, Israel persists in its refusal to bear any responsibility for its deeds, from the expulsion of the majority of Palestinians from their homeland more than half a century ago, to the present erection of ghetto walls around the remaining Palestinians in the towns and villages of the West Bank.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Ben Gurion University - Haim Yacobi (Dept of Politics & Bimkom Board Member) and Prof. Zvi Bentwich lead an Israeli call to stop the "disproportionate harm" and investigate "grave violations" by the military

[You may recall that just before the US and its allies invaded Iraq to topple Saddam, a group of more than 500 Israeli "academics" disseminated a petition all over the world in which they announced that the moment the first GI stepped foot in Iraq Israel was planning to conduct Nazi-like genocidal atrocities against Arabs. The GIs arrived and no mass murders of Arabs took place. Not a single one of those 500+ faculty members then issued an apology. Several explained that Israel really WAS planning to conduct a genocide but was scared off from doing so thanks to their petition.

Well, now a smaller number of similar moonbats, including some of the usual Israeli academics for Hamas, are back, with a new petition. It is being promoting by a gaggle of treasonous pro-terror leftist groups, led by Uri Avnery, Israel's Lord Haw-Haw:]

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British Academics call for Israel to lose; and trust in “justice and peaceful coexistence” of seventy years ago

The intellectuals, among them Palestinians as well as Israel-born academics Professors Haim Beresheet and Ilan Pappe, wrote: “Israel must lose,” and “We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war. Israel must accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and not upon the criminal use of force.”

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Israeli Academics in UK lead a call to boycott Israel; compare Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto and Israel to apartheid

We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin. When we see the dead and bloodied bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. When Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans "on a diet" and the deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, talked about the Palestinians experiencing "a bigger shoah" (holocaust), this reminds us of Governor General Hans Frank in Nazi-occupied Poland, who spoke of "death by hunger".

The real reason for the attack on Gaza is that Israel is only willing to deal with Palestinian quislings. The main crime of Hamas is not terrorism but its refusal to accept becoming a pawn in the hands of the Israeli occupation regime in Palestine.

The decision last month by the EU council to upgrade relations with Israel, without any specific conditions on human rights, has encouraged further Israeli aggression. The time for appeasing Israel is long past. As a first step, Britain must withdraw the British ambassador to Israel and, as with apartheid South Africa, embark on a programme of boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Ben Birnberg, Prof Haim Bresheeth, Deborah Fink, Bella Freud, Tony Greenstein, Abe Hayeem, Prof Adah Kay, Yehudit Keshet, Dr Les Levidow, Prof Yosefa Loshitzky, Prof Moshe Machover, Miriam Margolyes, Prof Jonathan Rosenhead and 65 others

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Haim Bresheeth (University of East London) leads another British boycott of Israel and equates IAF pinpoint bombing to the indiscriminant “Nazi firebombing of Guernica” in 1937

Since our governments decline to take action against Israel, we, as citizens, must act. We declare that, in solidarity with the bombed, maimed, tortured and ethnically cleansed people of Palestine, we will, individually and collectively:

• refuse to buy any fruit, vegetable, flowers, cosmetics, underwear, swimwear or piece of technology manufactured or produced in Israel or the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and we will inform shops that we object to them stocking Israeli products;
• we will not go on holiday to Israel;
• we will research which brands of computer contain Israeli-designed and manufactured components, make the information public, and and press all computer manufacturers to end research partnerships with Israel;
• we will boycott Israeli films, theatre companies, dance groups and orchestras, and make known our objections to the management of theatres and cinemas;

Signed by Prof. Haim Bresheeth and other local British Anti-Semites

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The "usual" Israeli Academics sign a call sponsored by bicycle riders for the EU to suspend trade with Israel

What the Peace Cycle has witnessed illustrates the abuses of human rights that at different times over many years have been judged to be illegal by international courts across the world. Yet the EU does nothing visible to bring Israel to account. Whilst this abuse goes on, the EU-Israel Association Agreement has allowed trade with Israel to flourish, with the addition of the EU-Israel Action Plan in 2005-2008 that has allowed for even closer partnerships to develop.

We call for an immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement and any further trade between Israel and EU Member States in protest against Israel's continued violation of human rights of the Palestinian people.

The Israeli Academics among the signed:
# 180:May 22, 2008, Moshé Machover, United Kingdom
# 286:May 22, 2008, Haim Bresheeth, United Kingdom
# 721:May 25, 2008, Dorothy Naor, Israel
# 790:May 25, 2008, Anat Matar, Israel
# 2339:Jun 10, 2008, Kobi Snitz, Israel

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Academics supporting boycott of Israel - Dorothy Naor initiates a letter of supporting the boycott of Israel by the United Methodist Church, Other Academics signed.

We assure the Methodist Church that it is no more anti-Semitic to criticize and oppose Israeli government policies than it was anti-American to oppose the Vietnam war or is anti-American to oppose the present war in Iraq. It is never anti-Semitic to oppose injustice, destruction, gross inequity, and inequality. We also assure the Church that Israel, having the fourth most powerful military in the world, is in no existential danger.

Among those signed are the following Academics:

92. Prof. Kobi Peterzil Haifa
88. Haim Bresheeth
67. Moshe Machover
18. kobi snitz haifa
12. Anat Matar
1. Dorothy Naor Herzliah, Israel

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New Leftist Blood Libel - Israeli leftist academics invent claim that Israel plans to attack Iran. Trying to start war through their lies?

A constant flow of information bears witness to the fact that the Israeli government is seriously considering attacking Iran, in order to disrupt its nuclear plans. We do not disregard irresponsible actions by the Iranian government - we also oppose atomic weapons in principle and support the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction from the region. However, it is clear that the main source of the immediate danger of a new, widespread war stems from the policies of the Israeli government and the flow of threats from it, backed by provocative military maneuvers.

Coordinating Group: Prof. Gadi Algazi; Judy Blanc; Prof. Rachel Giora; Prof. Anat Matar; Prof. Adi Ophir; Prof. Yoav Peled; Reuven Kaminer, Prof. Haggai Ram; Prof. Yehuda Shenhav; Prof. Oren Yiftachel.

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Israeli Academic "Righteous Jews" that "commemorate Palestinians who have been depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered by the Zionists".

You will all be pleased to hear that an American Holocaust Denier and Neo-Nazi has set up a web site to honor what he regards as "Righteous Jews," meaning anti-Semitic self-hating Jews and those working against Israel.

It is supposed to imitate the "Righteous Gentiles" honors by Yad Vashem. Many of those so honored are Israeli leftist academics.

The "Righteous Jews" web site (http://www.righteousjews.org/) is run by one Daniel McGowan, a notorious Holocaust Denier (see http://mystical-politics.blogspot.com/2007/10/daniel-mcgowan-holocaust-denial.html for details)

Gowen was once a lecturer at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York, now retired. For more on McGowen's Nazi activities see

http://one-state.net/mcgo.html

http://zundelsite.org/english/news/070326_McGowan_vs_Bishara.php?tmpl=print

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/McGowan30.htm

The test for inclusion in the list is supposed to be that the recipient of the "award" helped to "Commemorate Palestinians who have been depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered by the Zionists."

Among Israelis so honored by the Neo-Nazi web site are Adi Ophir, Aharon Shabtai, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Anat Biletzki, Ariella Azulay, Avishai Ehrlich, Avraham Oz, Boaz Evron, Daphna Golan, Haim Bresheeth, Haim Yacobi, Ilan Pappe, Moshe Machover, Moshe Zuckermann, Nurit Peled Elhanan, Oren Ben-Dor, Oren Yiftachel, Orit Kamir, Yigal Arens, Uri Davis, Shimshon Bichler, Uri Hadar, Ruchama Marton, Yitzhak Laor, Zalman Amit.

The full list of the laureates appears here:

http://www.righteousjews.org/initial-list.html

Israeli Academics who wont be celebrating Israel's Independence Day

We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians

Letters,
The Guardian,
April 30 2008

In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasised, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Naqba is to the Palestinians.

In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.

In July 1948, 70,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in Lydda and Ramleh in the heat of the summer with no food or water. Hundreds died. It was known as the Death March. We will not be celebrating.

In all, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. Some 400 villages were wiped off the map. That did not end the ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinians (Israeli citizens) were expelled from the Galilee in 1956. Many thousands more when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Under international law and sanctioned by UN resolution 194, refugees from war have a right to return or compensation. Israel has never accepted that right. We will not be celebrating.

We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.

We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.

Prof. Haim Bresheeth
Uri Fruchtmann
Yael Oren Kahn
Paul Kaufman
Prof. Adah Kay
Yehudit Keshet
Prof. Eleonore Kofman
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky
Prof. Emeritus Moshe Machover
Orna Neumann
Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead
 

Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) issues a call to the Prez of TAU

Commemorate Sheikh Muwanis

Published by StudentCoalition on Mar 30, 2008

Category: Politics

Region: Israel

Target: students/workers of Tel-Aviv university and other supporters

Web site: http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/images/sheikh_muwannis_lowresolution.pdf

Description/History:

(The petition is available in Hebrew, Arabic and English)

A letter to the president of Tel-aviv university - A request for commemoration of the village of Sheikh Muwanis on campus and in university publications

(signatures would be added to the letter).

Please note your status and department at TA university, if relevant.

Petition:

To: Prof. Tzvi Galil

President, Tel Aviv University

Re: A request for commemoration of the village of Sheikh Muwanis on campus and in university publications

Dear Sir,

We, students and employees of Tel Aviv University and their supporters, hereby request that you take action to commemorate a chapter in the history of our institution which has heretofore been silenced – the fact of its erection on the lands of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwanis, which was destroyed in 1948 and its residents forced to become refugees.

Commemoration is possible through many means, for example the construction of memorial markers, as is common around the world and in Israel. We consider it particularly important to make public the past of the university club, the "Green House", formerly the home of the Abu-Kahil family of Sheikh Muwanis. This building is one of the sole remnants of the village, but its history is absent from the official publications of the University. It would also be appropriate to respect the memory of the village's cemetery, upon which many university parking lots have unfortunately been constructed.

In our opinion, a leading institution dedicated to the search for and revelation of the truth, such as Tel Aviv University, is morally obliged to take this important step of recognition of historical truth – documented among other places in research done at the University itself. In addition, this is a gesture of rapprochement of the kind which we deem very necessary at the present moment. While Israel celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation, the Palestinian people are marking six decades since their national catastrophe, the Nakbah. After such a long delay, the University would do well to act against the willful ignorance of the plight of the Palestinian people and the deliberate erasure of its presence. We would appreciate it if you would agree to meet with a delegation of the signatories to this letter to discuss the topic.

This letter recaps the content of a previous letter, sent on 28 October 2003 to then-University President, Prof. Itamar Rabinowitz, by students and employees of the University, the descendants of the residents of Sheikh Muwanis, and the members of Zokhrot organization. The previous letter is hereby attached.

http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=143

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Israeli Academics Support UNISON's Boycott

http://www.labournet.net/world/0706/israelet1.html

Israeli citizens who support UNISON’s boycott of Israel proposal

Report by Nitza Aminov and 85 others

Published: 15/06/07

Hello

We are a group of Israeli citizens who support UNISON’s boycott of Israel proposal. We are sending you a letter we wrote in support of the proposal. We circulated the letter among our networks and in a few days gathered 86 signatures of Israeli citizens. We decided to stop gathering more signatures and to send you the letter today so that you will have time to circulate the letter among your constituents before your June 19th meeting. We wish you well in your efforts, and thank you very much for taking action to try to bring the Israeli occupation to an end. We hope to keep in touch and we would be very happy to cooperate further with you on this matter. Please find the letter below as well as in an attachment with this e-mail. We would appreciate it if you could confirm having received our letter.

Thank you very much.

Citizens of Israel in support of the proposal for a UNISON Economic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

We Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel strongly support the proposal for UNISON to implement an economic and cultural boycott of Israel. We commend this proposal, especially in the wake of the historic decision by the University and College Union in Britain and similar proposals by the Architects for Peace and Justice in Palestine and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Actions such as these have an immediate impact within Israel. They receive wide coverage in the mainstream media and provide an extremely effective tool in our joint struggle to bring the occupation to a just end.

We are Israeli citizens active against our country’s occupation of Palestine. We refuse to accept the state of poverty, unemployment, oppression and violence from which our Palestinian brothers and sisters are suffering in the OPT. We stress the connections between the violent oppression of the Palestinians in the OPT, and the oppression of the working poor, women, immigrant workers, the unemployed, Arabs, and other minority groups within Israel. The ongoing conflict in the region prevents Israeli workers from effectively mobilizing against neo-liberal reforms and an accelerated process of privatization, under the guise of an ongoing state of emergency in which national security always take precedence over societal needs.

It is now evident that the so-called disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 has, in fact, kept the military occupation of the strip intact. Since the implementation of the disengagement plan in August 2005, the Israeli military has killed more than 590 Palestinians in direct conflict in the Gaza Strip, including 113 children, and injured over 1, 600, including 103 children. It is also evident that the current situation in Sderot is the direct consequence of Israel’s continuing aggression in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Since the ruling of the ICJ court in Hague against the Separation Wall, and in blatant violation of that ruling, the Israeli government has accelerated construction of the Wall, leading to progressive violations of the human rights of residents of the West Bank. It also continues to build and expand settlements, including on land confiscated for the purpose of building the Wall, illegal according to international law.

As citizens devoted to the promotion of peace and democracy in the region, we are especially bewildered at the international community’s decision to punish the Palestinians and to withhold funds from the PA for having exercised their democratic right to elect the government of their choice. At the same time, the international community continues, through economic investments in Israel, to actively support Israel’s daily violations of international law and accelerated colonization of the occupied territories. We fear the potentially irreversible damage created by Israeli and international policy, and realize that the occupation will truly end only when its cost becomes higher that its gain for Israeli society. As Israelis, we stress that divestment and boycott actions taken by individuals or organizations against the occupation are neither Anti-Semitic nor Anti-Israel. We also recognize that boycott, divestment and sanctions constitute one of the few effective methods left to civil society in the absence of intervention by governments and official policy makers. We salute UNISON for putting the proposal for boycott of Israel up for consideration, and strongly encourage others to take similar steps.

Sincerely,

Nitza Aminov, Dr. Aharon Shabtai, Dorothy Naor, Romm Levkovitz, Talma Bar-Din, Jeannette Herzberg, Michael Warschawski, Shai Carmeli Pollack, Kerstin Sodergren, Emmanuel Farjoun, Dr. Anat Matar, Angela Goldfrey-Goldstein, Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Roman Vater, Hillel Barak, Angelo Aidan, Yoav Barak, Dr. Kobi Snitz, Amit Ron, Ofer Neiman, Tsilli Goldenberg, Adam Keller, Beate Zilversmidt, Aviv Sela, David Nir, Shira Pinhas, Alissa Ben-Ari, Rann Bar-On, Neta Golan, Reuven Kaminer, Mazen Masri, Emily Schaeffer, Amit Ron, Yael Levi, Einat Podjarny, Jonatan Stanczak, Amit Perelson, Elana Wesley, Dr. Ilan Pappe, Ronit Lentin, Deb Reich, Moshe Machover, Ali Al-Azhari, Ruth Tenne, Edna Canetti, Racheli Bar-Or, Racheli Gai, Itay Greenstein, Yotam Pappo, Tamar Fleishman, Galit Hess, Racheli Merhav, Rela Mazali, Dr. Rachel Giora, Yonatan Pollack, Yfat Doron, Hanna Aviram, Juliano Mer Khamis, Matan Cohen, Dr. Hubert Law-Yone, Arie Finkelstein, Shmuel Yerushalmi, Nina Mayorek, Yosef Atia, Judith Blanc, Dafna Kaminer, Alla Nikonov, Dorit Abramovitch, Layla Tripoli Mosenson, Nadav Franckovits, Lymor Goldstein, Hanna Knaz, Dr. Hannah Safran, Hed Roth, Sergio Yahni, Ronnie Barkan, Asaf Weit, Adi Dagan, Netta van Vliet, Tamar Berger, Yael Lerer, Israel Puterman, Raja Zaatry, Aisheh Sedawi, Hagit Borer, Hisham Naffa

Anat Biletzki (Tel Aviv University) incites academics to refuse to serve

We, faculty members from a number of Israeli universities, wish to express our appreciation and support for those of our students and lecturers who refuse to serve as soldiers in the occupied territories. Such service too often involves carrying out orders that have no place in a democratic society founded on the sanctity of human life.

For thirty five years an entire people, some three and a half million in number, have been held without basic human rights. The occupation and oppression of another people have brought the State of Israel to where it is today.

Without an Israeli declaration of an end to the occupation, accompanied by appropriate action--unilateral, if necessary--the present war is not being fought for our home but for the settlements beyond the green line and for the continued oppression of another people.

We hereby express our readiness to do our best to help students who encounter academic, administrative or economic difficulties as a result of their refusal to serve in the territories. We call on the University community at large to support them.

Faculty members who wish to join are welcome to contact Anat Biletzki.

This letter is being updated. So far, 358 faculty members have signed it.

For more details and to see the full original article, go here

Israeli academics endorse Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel

Palestinian Civil Society

Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel

Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights

9 July 2005

One year after the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel's Wall built on occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal, Israel continues its construction of the colonial Wall with total disregard to the Court's decision. Thirty eight years into Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights, Israel continues to expand Jewish colonies. It has unilaterally annexed occupied East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights

Tikva Honig-Parnass, Dalit Baum, Kobi Snitz, Moshe Machover, Haim Bresheeth, Hagit Borer, Dror Warschawski, Dorothy Naor

Israeli academics endorse Palestinian call for International Involvement

http://www.jerusalemites.org/appeal/7.htm

April.12.2003 URGENT APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT: SAVE PALESTINE AND ISRAEL

The elimination of the Palestinian national presence west of the Jordan River is implicit in the long-term aims of the Israeli right wing. A violent, apocalyptic driving-out of the entire Palestinian population is explicitly advocated by the rightmost political circles. What has actually been taking place since the beginning of the 35 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but at an unprecedented rate for the last two years, is a systematic process of demolition of Palestinian private and public property, and mass expropriation of Palestinian land on behalf of settlers. The guiding principle is the effort to minimize the size of the area actually inhabited by Palestinians. At the same time, huge-scale harassment has been taking place, by means of prolonged curfews, road-blocks, humiliations, beatings, military invasions of densely populated areas, detentions of thousands without trial under sub-humane conditions, obstruction of access to work, medical care, schools and universities, and a host of other means. The soldiers were given license to treat any Palestinian as a potential terrorist. Millions of Palestinians have been reduced by Israeli government policies to life in fearsome ghettos. Most are now subsisting under the poverty line, on savings or handouts from humanitarian organizations.

The ever-intensifying oppressive measures are being inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli government, ostensibly to fight terror. We unequivocally condemn terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. There can be no justification for acts of violence against any unarmed people. However, the Israeli policies are not a way to reduce terror; rather, they promote it, as evidenced by the dramatic increase in terror acts during the last two years. The terror acts are then cynically used by Prime Minister Sharon as a pretext to inflict more damage and hardships on the Palestinians, and to further de-legitimize their existence in the occupied territories in the perception of the Israelis. THE PALESTINIAN PRESENCE STANDS IN THE WAY OF SHARON'S LIFE-LONG VISION OF GREATER ISRAEL, WITH SETTLERS SUPPLANTING PALESTINIANS. THIS OBJECTIVE IS TRANSPARENT TO ANYBODY WHO FOLLOWS WHAT HIS GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY DOING, rather than listening to the frequently uttered but empty declarations about peace intentions, "once the security problems are solved".

The Israeli society pays a high price for the attempts of its politicians to extend the Israeli domination, and for their addiction to territorial expansion. The drive to develop Israel as a modern, productive and tolerant society was cruelly truncated. This drive has been evident in periods of hopeful peace negotiations with neighboring Arab states, and with Palestinians. Fatalistic resignation to the vicious circle of fear, oppression, violence and counter-violence is depriving the whole society of positive energy, forward looking projects and hope. The drain on the state resources by the war effort and the expansion of the settlements and the concurrent loss of investment result in large scale unemployment and economic recession. Large sectors of the Israeli society are denied access to a decent standard of living, to decent education, and to productive integration into modern technological and cultural world. Instead, backward-looking ultra-nationalistic ideologies are taking firm hold on the social and political scene. Young Israeli soldiers sent to implement the brutal occupation measures are likely to be morally scarred for life.

The ongoing devastation of Palestine must be stopped, for the sake of both Palestine and Israel.

Prof. Zach Adam, Prof. Colman Altman, Dr. Janina Altman, Dr. Issam Aburiya, Dr. Amotz Agnon, Dr. Shmuel Amir, Prof Daniel Amit, Prof. Zalman Amit, Dr. Yossi Amitay, Prof. Michael Ardon, Dr. Judith Avrahami, Prof. (Emeritus) Shalom Baer, Dr. Outi Bat-El, Prof. Maya Bar-Hillel, Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal, Prof Ron Barkai, Dr. Anat Barnea , Prof. Matania Ben-Arzi, Ofra Ben-Arzi, M.A., Dr. Shmuel Ben-Dor, Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat, Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Prof. Anat Biletzki, Dr. Jose Brunner, Dr. Ido Bruno, Prof. Victoria Buch, Prof. Ruth Butler, Raz Chen-Morris, Dr. Eliot Cohen, Dr. Raya Cohen, Dr. Veronica Cohen, Dr. Leo Corry, Dr. Michael Dahan, Prof. David Degani, Prof. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Dr. David De-Vries, Athena Elizabeth DeRasmo, Prof. Tommy Dreyfus, Dr. Otniel E. Dror, Dr. Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Dr. Elizabeth Freund,Prof. Gideon Freudenthal, Dr. Iris Fry , Prof. Michael Fry , Michal Gal, Prof. Chaim Gans, Dr. Ido Geiger, Prof. Avner Giladi, Prof. Rachel Giora, Dr. Snait Gissis, Prof. Eli Glasner, Dr. Daphna Golan, Prof. Oded Goldreich, Dr. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Dr. Neve Gordon, Prof. Lev Grinberg , Prof. Yossi Guttman, Dr. Ruth HaCohen, Prof. Uri Hadar, Dr. Jeff Halper, Yuval Halperin, Shoshana Halper, M.A., Prof Don Handelman, Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem, Prof. Avram Heffner, Dr. Sara Helman, Dr. Yitzhak Hen, Prof. Hanna Herzog, Prof. Ze'ev Herzog , Prof. Hannan Hever, Prof. Peter Hillman, Uri Horesh, Prof. Ehud Hrushovski, Tal Itzhaki, Prof. Eva Jablonka, Dr. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Prof. Naftali Kaminski, MD, Prof. Jacob Katriel, Prof. Tamar Katriel, Dr. Shoshana Keiny, Prof. Baruch Kimmerling, Judy Kupferman, Dr. Orna Kupferman, Prof. Raz Kupferman, Dr. Ron Kuzar, Dr. Idan Landau, Prof. Hubert Law-Yone, Daphna Levit, Joyce Livingstone, MS, Prof. Ram Loevy , Dr. Orly Lubin, Haim Luski, Prof. Ruth Manor, Prof Uri Maor, Dr. Anat Matar, Dr. Nina Mayorek, Dr. Sara Meilijson , Prof. Isaac Meilijson, Prof. Amnon Meisels, Prof. Ben Tzion Munitz, Dr. Doron Narkiss, Prof. (Emeritus) Gad Nathan, Dr. Isaac (Yanni) Nevo, Prof. Ami Oren, Prof. Avraham Oz, Ronie Parciack, Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Prof. Yoav Peled, Dr. Kobi Peter, Dr. Yuri Pines, Dr. Uri Ram , Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Dr. Ofra Rechter, Prof. Ya'acov Ritov, Dr. Daniel Rohrlich, Prof Freddie Rokem, Dr. Dana Ron, Dr. Moshe Ron, Prof. Tova Rosen, Dr. Maya Rosenfeld, Dr. Zeev Rotem, Dr. Amalia Sa'ar, Dr. Ilan Saban, Prof. Benny Shanon, Dr. Nita Schehet, Dr. Christoph Schmidt, Prof. Avraham Schweiger, Dr. Gideon Shelach, Ricki Shiv, Prof. Moshe Shokeid, Prof. Idan Segev, Prof. Leon Sheleff, Rinah Sheleff, M.A., Prof. Nomi Shir, Prof. David Shulman, Prof. Anna Sfard, Marcos Wasem, Dr. Amiel Vardi, Dr. Vered Vinitzky, Renata Wolfson, M.A., Smadar Tabenkin-Ezer, M.A., Dr. Zvi Tauber, Dr. Dudy Tzfati, Rakefet Zalashik, Dr. Niza Yanay, Dr. Michael Yogev, Prof. Joseph Zeira, Dr. Moshe Zuckermann, Prof. Moshe Zimmermann