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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

Professor Rivka Carmi
President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheba, Israel
14.11.11
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.

Professor Ruth Gabison, a legal scholar, remarked about the illegitimacy and illegality of Professor Landau's punishment: "This is a disturbing and unjustified decision." "The refusal to serve is not relevant to academic activity. The salary deduction is not a decision that the administration can take in the absence of a legal or disciplinary procedure." 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, which might have been truly harmed if he had agreed to serve in the army reserves; this decision gives away an impression of persecution.

We support the call of members of the faculty of Ben-Gurion University to cancel immediately the sanctions that you imposed on Prof. Landau. We sympathize with the feelings of disgrace and shock of our colleagues, members of an academic institution, where freedom of expression and conscience are being trampled upon in an unprecedented manner.

The undersigned [see the signed from Israeli campuses below]
1. Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, MIT, USA
2. John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Hilary Putnam, Harvard, USA
3. Distinguished Professor Emerita Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
4. Distinguished Professor Edward L. Keenan, UCLA, USA
5. Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Linguistics, David Pesetsky, MIT, USA
6. Distinguished Professor Stephen Crain, Macquarie University, Australia
7. Silver Professor Richard Kayne, NYU, USA
8. Professor Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
9. Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs Thomas Pogge, Yale University, USA
10. Professor and Fellow of the British Academy Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge, UK
11. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics James Higginbotham, University of Southern California, USA
12.Professor Emerita Susan Curtiss, UCLA, USA
13 Professor Ad Neeleman, University College London, UK
14.Professor Jean Lowenstamm, Université Paris-Diderot, France
15.Professor Guglielmo Cinque, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
16.Professor Timothy Stowell, UCLA, USA
17.Professor Alec Marantz, NYU, USA
18.Professor Irene Heim, MIT, USA
19. Professor Hagit Borer, USC, USA
20 Professor Martin Everaert, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
21. Professor Adriana Belletti, University of Siena, Italy
22 ProfessorYitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University, USA
23. Dr. Hans van de Koot, University College London, UK
24. Professor Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneva, Switzerland
25. Dr. Judit Druks, Univesity College London, UK
26. Profesor John W. Du Bois, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
27 Professor Dominique Sportiche, UCLA, USA
28 Professor Ivano Caponigro, University of California, San Diego, USA
29. Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU, USA
30. Professor Gregory P. Garvey, Quinnipiac University, USA
31. Professor Hamida Demirdache, University of Nantes, France
32. Professor Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut, USA
33. Professor Joan W. Scott, Princeton, USA
34. Professor Sabine Iatridou, MIT, USA
35. Professor Kenneth Wexler, MIT, USA
36. Professor John Bowers, Cornell University, USA
37.Professor Susanne Wurmbrand, University of Connecticut, USA
38. Professor Hannah Wolfe, Columbia University, USA
39. Professor Alessandro Zucchi,Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
40. Professor Stephen Nathanson, Northeastern University, USA
41. Professor Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California, USA
42. Dr. Alexandra Perovic, University College London, UK
43. Professor Juliet Floyd, Boston University, USA
44. Professor Carlo Cecchetto, Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
45. Professor Seán P. Duffy, Quinnipiac University, USA
46. Professor Caterina Donati, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
47. Professor Josep Quer, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
48. Professor Adam Ussishkin, University of Arizona, USA
49. Professor Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
50. Dr. Benjamin Spector, CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
51. Professor Emeritus Robert Cowen, Queens College, CUNY, USA
52. Professor David Adger, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
53. Professor James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
54. Dr. Rákosi, György, University of Debrecen, Hungary
55. Dr. Ora Matushansky, CNRS, France, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
56. Dr. Aritz Irurtzun, Iker-CNRS, France
57. Professor Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
58. Dr.Fabrizio Arosio,Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
59. Professor Liam Breatnach, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland
60. Dr. Klaus Abels, University College London, UK
61. Professor Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut, USA
62. Professor Rosalind Thornton, Macquarie University, Australia
63. Dr Aidan Doyle UCC, Cork, Ireland
64. Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Harvard University, USA
65. Professor Yonatan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, France
66. Professor Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Japan
67. Professor Christopher Piñón, University of Lille 3, France
68. Professor Ken Hiraiwa, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
69. Dr Éamon Ó Ciosáin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
70. Professor Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena, Italy
71. Professor Esther Torrego, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
72. Professor Diane Massam, University of Toronto, Canada
73. Professor Carmen Manzano, University of the Basque Country, Spain
74. Professor Alan Berger, Brandeis University, USA
75. Distinguished University Professor Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, USA
76. Professor Dalina Kallulli, University of Vienna, Austria
77. Professor Yael Sharvit, UCLA, USA
78. Visiting Professor Cathal Goan, Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Ireland
79. Professor Hans Bergmann, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Quinnipiac University, USA
80. Professor Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers University, USA
81. Professor Norbert Hornstein, Professor, University of Maryland, USA
82. Professor Anna Cardinaletti, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
83. Professor Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts, USA
84. Professor Carlos Piera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
85. Professor
86. Dr. Yoad Winter, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
87. Professor Hilda Koopman, UCLA, USA
88. Dr. Daniel Hershenzon, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy
89. Dr. Mélanie Jouitteau, CNRS, Paris, France
90. Professor Arhonto Terzi, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece
91. Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
92. Dr. Naor ben Yehoyada, Visiting Lecturer, Harvard, USA

Academics from Israeli Universities that signed the Hebrew petition [IsraCampus translation]

1. Prof. Aharon Eviatar, Tel Aviv University
2. Prof. Zohar Eviatar, University of Haifa
3. Prof. Arnon Avron, Tel Aviv University
4. Prof. Zach Adam, Hebrew University
5. Prof. Ofer Aharoni, Physics, Weizmann Institute
6. Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University
7. Ariella Azoulay, Tel Aviv University
8. Dr. Inbal Arnon, University of Haifa
9. Prof. Sidra Ezrachi, Hebrew University
10. Prof. Ehud Achishar, Weizmann Institute
11. Prof. Max Achishar, Hebrew University
12. Prof. Benjamin Isaac, Tel Aviv University
13. Dr. Yuval Ayalon, The Open University
14. Dr. Piki Ish-Shalom, Hebrew University
15. Prof. Hanan Itai, Ben Gurion University
16. Prof. Zohar Eitan, Tel Aviv University
17. Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
18. Prof. Ehud Altman, Weizmann Institute
19. Dr. Coleman Altman, Technion
20. Prof. David Enoch, Hebrew University
21. Prof. Yehuda Anzalaf, Hebrew University
22. Prof. Daphne Efrat, The Open University
23. Prof. Yigal Erel, Hebrew University
24. Prof. Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, University of Haifa
25. Prof. Itamar Aroch, Hebrew University
26. Prof. Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University
27. Dr. Amos Arieli, Weizmann Institute
28. Dr. Nora Boneh, Hebrew University
29. Dr. Jerome Bourdon, Tel Aviv University
30. Prof. Yigal Borstien, Tel Aviv University
31. Prof. Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University
32. Prof. David Blank, University of Haifa
33. Dr. Ayelet Ben-Ishay, University of Haifa
34. Prof. Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University
35. Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat, Tel Aviv University, Sapir College
36. Dr. Ram Ben-Shalom, The Open University
37. Dr. Galia Benziman, The Open University
38. Dr. Good Lansky, College of Management
39. Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, University of Haifa
40. Prof. Shoshana Bar-Nun, Tel Aviv University
41. Prof. Erez Baron, Technion,
42. Prof. Ron Barkai, Tel Aviv University
43. Dr. Ronnie Barkay, Technion
44. Prof. Oti Bat-El, Tel Aviv University
45. Prof. Ruth Butler, Hebrew University
46. Prof. Yoram Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University
47. Dr. Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute
48. Dr. Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University
49. Prof. Oded Goldreich, Weizmann Institute
50. Dr. Ofra Goldstein-Gideon, Tel Aviv University
51. Prof. Harry Golomb, Tel Aviv University
52. Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
53. Prof. David Gilat, Tel Aviv University
54. Prof. Hagai Ginsburg, Hebrew University
55. Prof. Shimona Ginsburg, The Open University
56. Dr. Sinai Gissis, Tel Aviv University
57. Prof. Michael Gluzman, Tel Aviv University
58. Prof. Eli Glazner, Tel Aviv University
59. Prof. Avner Giladi, University of Haifa
60. Dr. Nurit Gronau, The Open University
61. Prof. Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University
62. Dr. Eyal Gross, Tel Aviv University
63. Prof. Helena deSeville Cena, Jezreel Valley College
64. Prof. Yuval Dor, Hebrew University
65. Prof. Idit Doron, Hebrew University
66. Prof. Leon Deuel, Hebrew University
67. Dr. Tal Dekel, Tel Aviv University, Beit Berl College
68. Dr. Eli Dresner, Tel Aviv University
69. Prof. Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv University
70. Prof. Giora Capital, University of Haifa
71. Dr. Matthew Huss, Hebrew University
72. Prof. Julia Horvath, Tel Aviv University
73. Prof. Amnon Horovitz, Weizmann Institute
74. Prof. Amir Horowitz, The Open University
75. Dr. Dafna Hirsch, The Open University
76. Dr. Ariel Hirschfeld, Hebrew University
77. Dr. Jonathan Handelolts, College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
78. Prof. Yehudit Harel, University of Haifa
79. Prof. Alon Harel, Hebrew University
80. Prof. Ehud Haroshovski, Hebrew University
81. Prof. Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute
82. Prof. Joseph Varbin, The Open University
83. Dr. Roy Wagner, Hebrew University
84. Prof. Shmuel Wolf, Hebrew University
85. Dr. Eli Weitz, Tel Aviv University
86. Dr. Ayelet Vilan, Weizmann Institute
87. Prof. Ruth Weintraub, Tel Aviv University
88. Prof. Eilon Vaadia, Hebrew University
89. Prof. Paul Wexler, Tel Aviv University
90. Prof. Oded Zehavi, University of Haifa
91. Prof. Eli Salzberger University of Haifa
92. Prof. Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University
93. Prof. Shimon Sandbank, Hebrew University
94. Dr. Dalia Sachs, University of Haifa
95. Prof. Hannan Hever, Hebrew University
96. Prof. Galit Hazan-Rokem, Hebrew University
97. Prof. Ran Hassin, Hebrew University
98. Prof. Zvi Tauber, Tel Aviv University
99. Prof. Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv,
100. Prof. Daphna Joel, Tel Aviv University
101. Dr. Amnon Yuval, Kibbutz Seminar College
102. Dr. Yuval Yonai, University of Haifa
103. Prof. Shlomo Yazreel, Tel Aviv University
104. Dr. Dalit Yasur-Borocovic, Jezreel Valley College
105. Prof. Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University
106. Prof. Gerald Cohen, Tel Aviv University
107. Dr. Ron Strange, University of Haifa
108. Dr. Hagai Canaan, Tel Aviv University
109. Dr. Kathleen Katz, Hebrew University
110. Prof. Hannah Kasher, Bar-Ilan University
111. Prof. Jacob Katriel, Technion
112. Prof. Tamar Katriel, University of Haifa
113. Dr. Vered Lev Canaan, University of Haifa
114. Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University
115. Dr. Oded Levenheim, Hebrew University
116. Dr. Zach Levi, University of Haifa
117. Dr. Arnon Levy, Van Leer
118. Prof. Esther Levinger. University of Haifa
119. Dr. Ido Leviatan, The Open University
120. Prof. Uriel Leviatan, University of Haifa and Western Galilee College
121. Prof. Edna Lomsky-Feder, Hebrew University
122. Prof. Ruth Morandi, University of Haifa
123. Prof. Nati Lineal, Hebrew University
124. Prof. Raanan Lipshitz, University of Haifa.
125. Prof. Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University
126. Prof. Micah Leshem, University of Haifa
127. Dr. Oren Meyers, University of Haifa
128. Dr. Shai Meiri, Tel Aviv University
129. Dr. Millie Maas, Hebrew University
130. Prof. Gideon Medini, Tel Aviv University
131. Prof. Uzi Motro, Hebrew University
132. Prof. Ben Tzion Munitz, Tel Aviv University
133. Dr. Yael Munk, The Open University
134. Dr. Ben Moore, University of Haifa
135. Prof. Anita Mitvach, Hebrew University
136. Dr. Ophir Mintz-Manor, The Open University
137. Dr. Ariel Meirav, University of Haifa
138. Dr. Nurit Melnik, The Open University
139. Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Hebrew University, University of Chicago
140. Dr. Yishai Menuhin, Ben Gurion University
141. Prof. Avishai Margalit, Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
142. Prof. Shimon Marom, Technion
143. Dr. Yael Maschler, University of Haifa
144. Prof. Samuel Mark, Tel Aviv University
145. Prof. Zvika Neeman, Tel Aviv University
146. Lia Nirgad, Beit Berl College
147. Prof. Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute
148. Dr. Ilan Saban, University of Haifa
149. Prof. Menahem Segal, Weizmann Institute
150. Prof. Michael Saltman, University of Haifa
151. Prof. Dan Stassman, University of Haifa
152. Dr. Dov Sitton, Ben-Gurion
153. Prof. Tal Siloni ,Tel Aviv University
154. Prof. Gavriel Salomon, University of Haifa
155. Prof. Shimon Sapir, University of Haifa
156. Dr. Levi Specter, The Open University
157. Prof. Anna Sfard, University of Haifa
158. Dr. Hannah Safran, Jezreel Valley College
159. Dr. Amalia Saar, University of Haifa
160. Prof. Amotz Agnon, Hebrew University
161. Prof. Avraham Oz, University of Haifa
162. Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa
163. Dr. Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University
164. Dr. Tammy Amiel Hauser, The Open University
165. Prof. Silvia Vogl Bizaoi, College of Management
166. Dr. Yael Poznanski Achva Academic College
167. Prof. Danny Fox, Hebrew University, MIT
168. Prof. Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute
169. Prof. Amos Fiat, Tel Aviv University
170. Dr. Gil Fishuf, Tel Aviv University
171. Prof. Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University
172. Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Hebrew University, Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought
173. Dr. Alec Fellman, Bar-Ilan University
174. Prof. Raphael Falk, Hebrew University
175. Dr. Elizabeth Freund, Hebrew University
176. Prof. Gideon Freudenthal, Tel Aviv University
177. Prof. Menahem Perry, Tel Aviv University
178. Prof. Bill Friedman, University of Haifa
179. Prof. Victor Friedman, Jezreel Valley College
180. Dr. Benny Pearl, The Open University
181. Prof. Hanan Frank, Tel Aviv University, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
182. Dr. Galia Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University
183. Dr. Kobi Peter (Peterzil), University of Haifa
184. Prof. Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University
185. Prof. Raz Kupferman, Hebrew University
186. Prof. Joshua Tsal, Tel Aviv University
187. Prof. Moshe Zuckermann, Tel Aviv University
188. Prof. Moshe Zimmerman, Hebrew University
189. Dr. Rachel Tzlnik-Abramovich, Tel Aviv University
190. Dr. David Tzafati, Hebrew University
191. Dr. Nirit Kadmon, Tel Aviv University
192. Prof. Orit Kedar, Hebrew University
193. Dr. Hagai Kupermintz, University of Haifa
194. Dr. Avi Cordova, Tel Aviv University
195. Prof. Leo Corry, Tel Aviv University
196. Dr. Tamar Caesar, University of Haifa-Oranim
197. Prof. Yehoshua Kolodny, Hebrew University
198. Prof. Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute
199. Dr. Deborah Calkin-Fishman, University of Haifa
200. Prof. Ruth Kimchi, University of Haifa
201. Prof. Vered Kraus, University of Haifa
202. Dr. Bennett Kravitz, University of Haifa
203. Prof. Amitai Regev, Weizmann Institute
204. Dr. Shahar Rahav, University of Haifa
205. Prof. Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University
206. Prof. Amiram Ron, Technion
207. Prof. Freddy Rokem, Tel Aviv University
208. Dr. Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University
209. Prof. Dan Rabinowitz, Tel Aviv University
210. Dr. Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa
211. Prof. Tamar Rapaport, Hebrew University
212. Dr. Oren Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute
213. Prof. Shimon Schuldiner, Hebrew University
214. Dr. Ofra Rechter, Tel Aviv University
215. Prof. Idan Segev, Hebrew University
216. Prof. Dov Sagi, Weizmann Institute
217. Prof. David Shulman, Hebrew University
218. Dr. Richard Schuster, University of Haifa
219. Dr. Joseph Schwartz, Tel Aviv University
220. Dr. Abie Sichel, Hebrew University
221. Prof. Abraham Shwiger, College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
222. Dr. Dimitry Shumsky, Hebrew University
223. Dr. Dina Stein, University of Haifa
224. Prof. Joseph Shimron, University of Haifa
225. Dr. Martin Schiffer-Kravitz, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center
226. Dr. Eyal Shechter, Weizmann Institute
227. Dr. Malat Shamir, Tel Aviv University
228. Prof. Yeshayahu Shen, Tel Aviv University
229. Prof. Sharon Shafir, Hebrew University
230. Prof. Ilan Talmud, University of Haifa