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Letter to Israeli Academics</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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</font></span></b><font color="#000000"><span
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are
desperately bad times. The government of Israel, having
provoked the firing of
rockets by its rampage through the West Bank, is now using
that response as the
pretext for an aerial assault on Gaza which has already
cost scores of lives.
An atmosphere of hysteria is being deliberately provoked
in Israel, and whole
communities are being subject to collective punishment, a
war crime. People are
dying, and for what? To prevent a unity government of
Fatah and Hamas?</span><span
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We have been asked by our academic colleagues in Gaza -
whose universities have
been destroyed a number of times in the last six years,
who are unable to teach
or study, and who are also in growing need of food and
medicines, like the rest
of the almost two million Palestinians living in Gaza - to
urge you to act
urgently, to make your voice heard in Israel and abroad
against what the
Israeli government is inflicting on the Gaza population.
More than 533 people
have been killed already in Gaza by the IDF since the
start of the Israeli operation
on July 7th, 2014, and the number will be bigger by the
time you read this
message. Most of these people are children, women and the
elderly. There could
be no credible claim made that these people were involved
in any military
activity whatsoever. The Gaza infrastructure, already in
tatters, is now
further undermined, and the population is in the worst
situation it has ever
been, and this is getting worse by the minute. These
atrocities, committed by
Israel will bring neither peace nor security to the
region, and can only lead
to further deterioration of the already dangerous
situation in
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We invite you, as fellow academics and intellectuals, to
join your voices in an
open and resounding protest about these war crimes by the
Israeli government –
your government. We urge you to stand up and be counted,
to answer the call of
your Gazan colleagues and make your voice heard. We hope
that you will be able
and willing to come together and voice your total
opposition to the war crimes
committed in your name! We realize you may feel worried
and lonely, as dissent
in Israel now carries a high price. We stand with you when
you take this
conscientious stand.</font></span></p>
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</font><font color="#000000"><b>International signatures<br>
</b>Dr. Ahdaf Sueif, Cairo and UK<br>
John Berger, France<br>
Angela Davis, USA<br>
Naomi Klein, Canada<br>
Prof. Richard Falk, Princeton University, USA<br>
Prof. Etienne Balibar, Paris-Nanterre, France and Kingston
University, UK<br>
Dr. (Baroness) Jenny Tonge, House of Lords, UK<br>
Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT, USA<br>
Prof. Michael Rosen, Goldsmiths, UK<br>
Prof. Haim Bresheeth, SOAS, UK<br>
Prof. Moshé Machover, KCL, UK<br>
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE, UK<br>
Prof. Marina Warner, Essex University, UK<br>
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, UK<br>
Prof. Hagit Borer, QMU, UK<br>
Prof. Sir Patrick Bateson, UK<br>
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL, UK<br>
Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead, LSE, UK<br>
Prof. Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<br>
Prof. Nur Masalha, UK<br>
Prof. Yigal Arens, USA<br>
Prof. Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck College, UK<br>
Prof. Andrew Ross, NYU, USA<br>
Prof. Terri Ginsberg, USA<br>
Prof. Hamid Dabashi, USA<br>
Dr. Ghada Karmi, Exeter University, London, UK<br>
Prof. Stephen Deutsch, University of Bournemouth, UK<br>
Prof. Sara Roy, Harvard University, USA<br>
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