Condemnation of attack on people of Gaza

To:  All universities and international community

On February the 29th 2008 the deputy defense minister of the Israeli regime threatened the Palestinian people with a holocaust. Ironically, this genocidal rhetoric, which should have shaken the world, produced absolutely no reaction from the western political establishment and now the international community is witnessing the results of this indifference towards Zionist inspired genocide against the oppressed people of Palestine.

The racist regime of Israel has for decades carried out a reign of terror against Palestinians through murder, confiscation, secret prisons, the imprisonment of women and children, and plunder. However, in the last few decades rarely have we seen such a horrific manifestation of brutality and barbarism as we are witnessing today in Gaza.

Perhaps, one of the most painful aspects of this holocaust is the fact that it was preceded by the siege of Gaza. For months, and with the consent of western as well as a number of neighboring Arab regimes, the Israeli apartheid regime starved children and prevented Palestinians from accessing medicine for the sick and dying. For months, women and children were deprived from access to water and electricity and as a result many rays of youth and hope were forever lost to the grave.

As academics, we utterly reject racism and apartheid.

We declare that Zionism has no place in the civilized world and that all the dispossessed and traumatized people of Palestine have an undeniable right to their entire homeland.

We strongly condemn the endless terrorizing of women and children by the Zionist regime.

The children of Gaza are dying and the horrors of the Srebrenica Massacre and the Rwandan Genocide are back to haunt all of humanity. As academics, we call upon our colleagues throughout the civilized world to stand and be counted. Today silence is unforgivable.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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