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Anti-Israel Petitions Signed by Israeli AcademicsIsraeli 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 DayWe're not celebrating Israel's anniversary http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians Letters, 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
Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzki (Dept of Philosophy) issues a call to the Prez of TAUCommemorate 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 For more details and to see the full original article, go here
Israeli Academics Support UNISON's Boycotthttp://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 serveWe, 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 IsraelPalestinian 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 Involvementhttp://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
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