Boycott Israel Now!
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As of noon on Friday, 5 April, more than 120 university academics and researchers from across Europe had signed an open letter, presented for publication in The Guardian, calling for a moratorium on all future cultural and research links with Israel at European or national levels until such time as the Israeli government abides by UN resolutions and opens serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians along the lines of the recent Saudi peace plan.
This open letter was quickly followed by a similar open letter in the US.
Some Israeli academics protested, arguing that there are Israeli academics who actively oppose Israeli state policy and actions. In addition, some projects funded by the European Community involve cooperation between European, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab and North African academics; a freezing of cultural and research links between Europe and Israel would hinder interaction and dialogue.
We, John Docker and Ghassan Hage, take these objections seriously. We still believe, however, that academics and intellectuals in Australia should act on their outrage at Israel's state terrorism. We therefore propose the following letter of protest along the lines of the European and American letters, but modified both by the force of the objections of the anti-government Israeli academics and Australia's own specific
situation.
We will be aiming to publish this letter in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian very soon. If you wish to have your signature included please forward either of us an e-mail stating your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes.
John Docker ([email protected])
Ghassan Hage ([email protected])
CALL FOR AUSTRALIAN BOYCOTT OF RESEARCH AND CULTURAL LINKS WITH ISRAEL
Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders. It is clear that while the Palestinians are rightly requested to reign in their extremists, the Israelis have elected their extremists to power. The slow, dehumanising and relentless colonisation of the West Bank and Gaza that has been continuing unabated in recent years has now taken an ugly murderous turn of immense proportions. How long are we, the citizens of a Western democracy, going to accept the silence of our government in the face of the current rampage of the Israeli army in the West Bank? How long are we going to look passively at the Israeli crimes of war perpetrated daily and systematically, not as something anomalous, but as a matter of national policy? In the face of our government's unwillingness or inability to act, civil society must step in to exert pressure against the continuation of this savagely anachronistic act of colonisation. In a globalised world, our passivity as citizens of the world in the face of such inhumanity will stain all of us.
Academics and intellectuals as always can play an important role in fostering the growth of such a non-violent movement within civil society. It is in this spirit that we call for a boycott of research and cultural links with Israel. We urge our colleagues not to attend conferences in Israel; to pressure our universities to suspend any existing exchange or linkage arrangements; and to refuse to distribute scholarship and academic position information. We note that while some academics and intellectuals in Israel oppose the government and some also are involved in cooperative Israeli/Palestinian research projects, the vast majority have either supported the current Israeli Army onslaught on the Palestinians, or failed to voice any significant protest against it. The boycott we propose will inevitably also adversely affect those who don't deserve it, and we regret that this has to happen. We ask our Israeli colleagues and friends to bear with us in solidarity. They know as well as we do that what they will endure because of these boycotts is minimal compared to what the Palestinian people and their academics continue to endure. As with boycotts against apartheid South Africa, urgent international action is now required to stop the massacres perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
Signatories(Please note that all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes).
As of noon on Friday, 5 April, more than 120 university academics and researchers from across Europe had signed an open letter, presented for publication in The Guardian, calling for a moratorium on all future cultural and research links with Israel at European or national levels until such time as the Israeli government abides by UN resolutions and opens serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians along the lines of the recent Saudi peace plan.
This open letter was quickly followed by a similar open letter in the US.
Some Israeli academics protested, arguing that there are Israeli academics who actively oppose Israeli state policy and actions. In addition, some projects funded by the European Community involve cooperation between European, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab and North African academics; a freezing of cultural and research links between Europe and Israel would hinder interaction and dialogue.
We, John Docker and Ghassan Hage, take these objections seriously. We still believe, however, that academics and intellectuals in Australia should act on their outrage at Israel's state terrorism. We therefore propose the following letter of protest along the lines of the European and American letters, but modified both by the force of the objections of the anti-government Israeli academics and Australia's own specific
situation.
We will be aiming to publish this letter in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian very soon. If you wish to have your signature included please forward either of us an e-mail stating your name and institutional affiliation. Please note that all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes.
John Docker ([email protected])
Ghassan Hage ([email protected])
CALL FOR AUSTRALIAN BOYCOTT OF RESEARCH AND CULTURAL LINKS WITH ISRAEL
Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders. It is clear that while the Palestinians are rightly requested to reign in their extremists, the Israelis have elected their extremists to power. The slow, dehumanising and relentless colonisation of the West Bank and Gaza that has been continuing unabated in recent years has now taken an ugly murderous turn of immense proportions. How long are we, the citizens of a Western democracy, going to accept the silence of our government in the face of the current rampage of the Israeli army in the West Bank? How long are we going to look passively at the Israeli crimes of war perpetrated daily and systematically, not as something anomalous, but as a matter of national policy? In the face of our government's unwillingness or inability to act, civil society must step in to exert pressure against the continuation of this savagely anachronistic act of colonisation. In a globalised world, our passivity as citizens of the world in the face of such inhumanity will stain all of us.
Academics and intellectuals as always can play an important role in fostering the growth of such a non-violent movement within civil society. It is in this spirit that we call for a boycott of research and cultural links with Israel. We urge our colleagues not to attend conferences in Israel; to pressure our universities to suspend any existing exchange or linkage arrangements; and to refuse to distribute scholarship and academic position information. We note that while some academics and intellectuals in Israel oppose the government and some also are involved in cooperative Israeli/Palestinian research projects, the vast majority have either supported the current Israeli Army onslaught on the Palestinians, or failed to voice any significant protest against it. The boycott we propose will inevitably also adversely affect those who don't deserve it, and we regret that this has to happen. We ask our Israeli colleagues and friends to bear with us in solidarity. They know as well as we do that what they will endure because of these boycotts is minimal compared to what the Palestinian people and their academics continue to endure. As with boycotts against apartheid South Africa, urgent international action is now required to stop the massacres perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
Signatories(Please note that all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes).
2609 Signatures
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Ivanrty
- Institutional Affiliation
- None
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Jade N
- Institutional Affiliation
- No Support For Zionazism
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sbara eht k
- Institutional Affiliation
- IFE
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Haywood J
- Institutional Affiliation
- University of California (visiting professor)
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Joseph G
- Institutional Affiliation
- University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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john H
- Institutional Affiliation
- none
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Joe B
- Institutional Affiliation
- Israel is the most moral country in the Middle East. The Arab and Muslim countries could learn a lot from Israel about modernity, democracy and success. Arab and Muslim nations will never succeed until they stop scapegoating the Jews. Get with the 21st century and stop being apologists for Al-Qaeda and Palestinian terrorism. The real humanitarian problem in the Middle East is not the death of 1,000 Israelis or 2,500 Palestinians (80% of whom were terrorists) in the past decade, but the 2 million Sudanese Christians and Anamists killed by Arab Muslims in the past 13 years, the 1.5 million killed in the Iran-Iraq War, the 300,000 killed by Saddam Hussein, the 12 million Copts (don't believe the Egyptian government estimates) persecuted for their religion, the million Lebanese Christians chased out of Lebanon (yes,by the Muslims), the 150,000 civilians killed by fundamentalists in Algeria, 5,000 in Nigeria, and the tyranny over women throughout the Arab world. Look within before you criticisize others.
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jodie e
- Institutional Affiliation
- uk
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helli valashtrum Helsenki F
- Institutional Affiliation
- As a young girl from Finland I would like to understand one thing: why if thier calture is so fantastic the muslims do not stay in thier countries and come to the west ??? if the usa is so bad why dont you all go back home ??????????? try and answer that !!!!
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Al
- Institutional Affiliation
- screw all the land stealing bastards who think because george bush hands out free blow jobs to jewish voters and ariel sheron, they are god. Israel have no grounds for murder theft and pillage. The liers must be stopped.
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Herve A
- Institutional Affiliation
- none
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john raymond j
- Institutional Affiliation
- none
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steve h
- Institutional Affiliation
- israel has hijacked humanity
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I also support Israel - Moishe El M
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- WIZO
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Sign the petition against the boycott on: c
- Institutional Affiliation
- nnnnnoone
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Mostafa A
- Institutional Affiliation
- normal egyptian person
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James H
- Institutional Affiliation
- National Alliance..WWW.NATALL.COM...European-Americans against Jewish influence in America.
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James Hallman.......We need the justice of Hamas here in A
- Institutional Affiliation
- National Alliance
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Jonathan A
- Institutional Affiliation
- Concordia University
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Dr. H
- Institutional Affiliation
- the palestinans are regarded as a plauge by the arab world that is why egypt and jordan refused to give the palestinians a country from 1949 - 1967. egypt and jordan did rules the west bank and gaza from 1949-1967 but the palestinians destroy every country they reside in. look what the palestinians did in jordan in 1970 they caused a civil war. the palestinians in lebanon murdered over 200,000 people from 1975- 1982 because they were christian. they have been kicked out of egypt saudia arabia kuwatti and the list goes on. notice how the palestinians never mention how they blow up school buses and cafes and resturants in Israel the palestinians murdered olympic atheletes in 1972 the palestinians took over a school in Israel and murdered 25 innocent toddlers under the age of 3. the word does see through the palestinian rats eyes and it is a eye of lies
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Adam S G
- Institutional Affiliation
- I do not approve of everything Israel has done or does and I think there was a time when it was viewed uncritically, even for some bad things. Now, however, the pendulum is swinging. For a number of reasons, Israel is being unfairly singled out for all kinds of criticism, while Palestinians can seemingly do nothing wrong. Justice means justice for BOTH PARTIES, not a biased and partisan embrace of anything Palestinian to the detriment of anything Israeli.
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Jeff E
- Institutional Affiliation
- UNC-Greensboro
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GOD BLESS I
- Institutional Affiliation
- GOD BLESS ISRAEL
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Helen S
- Institutional Affiliation
- Darvill-Docker Academy of Lies, Damned Lies, and Distortions.
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A WORD FROM OUR S
- Institutional Affiliation
- YOU ARE URGED TO SIGN THE PETITION NOW SIGNING AT www.HonestReporting.com OR www.Terrorpetition.com
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I also support Israel - Muhammad B
- Institutional Affiliation
- UNFEL
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Chris N
- Institutional Affiliation
- If you play a lot with fire You could get your fingers burnt, If your English is still very basic This short lesson you haven't learnt. So on your donkey my Arab 'hero'' To the desert you should ride, No more places for you to damage, No more truths for you to lie, now It's time for you to die
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Lorn S
- Institutional Affiliation
- Anti-Arab? Because we back the Israeli cause? Give me a break and find another excuse to condemn people who want peace and justice
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Asshraf A
- Institutional Affiliation
- Cairo University, My sister had an affair, they told her she could only save her soul if she killed the zionists. They packed her with a 5 kg bomb with nuts and bolts, for what!? She killed herself along with a father and his daughter and a pregnant woman. These are all people! I was taught to hate the zionists, but at least they don't target innocent people and tell us we are doing jihad. This is blasphemy, anyone here who thinks otherwise has not been hit as close to home as me and doesn't know what they're talking about. We must come to terms with our history...we attacked the jews that lived there long before they got there independence. they need their own country because so many of us want to kill them, are taught to kill them, or have baseless hate for them as expressed in this petition, by a people who oppress their own as it is..the world knows about the aboriginals. the holocaust may or may not have happened (although i recently saw the camps and the mass graves) but that is irrelevant, the point i
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Youareanantisemiteandahypocrite
- Institutional Affiliation
- israelisfightingforsurvivalagainstterrorism
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Alexandra O'Mally (Wife of Alex the Super M
- Institutional Affiliation
- Irish-Americans are tired of Arabs murder and raping of the Israeli children. Arabs are Demonic.
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Wally F
- Institutional Affiliation
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Johan Sebastian B
- Institutional Affiliation
- Institute for Gay Arab Sex in Ramallah
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Monsul
- Institutional Affiliation
- Institute for Gay Arab Sex in Ramallah
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dicky
- Institutional Affiliation
- indonesia
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false entry v
- Institutional Affiliation
- Hmm.... censorship still not complete.....
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Justin E
- Institutional Affiliation
- none
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Karen R
- Institutional Affiliation
- USA - Human Rights Advocate
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Jack M. M
- Institutional Affiliation
- MENSA
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Caryn USA World C
- Institutional Affiliation
- "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." http://www.jfjfp.org/ http://www.justice4jamesmiller.com/home.htm http://www.criticalconcern.com/rachelcorrie.html http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/
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Jessica W
- Institutional Affiliation
- University of Michigan
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When the so-called Palestinians learn to love their children more than they hate the Jews, there will be p
- Institutional Affiliation
- Iraq fell, Syria next Iran later,Job well done ! they dont like it the arabs !!
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khurram
- Institutional Affiliation
- University of Wollongong
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Kurt F
- Institutional Affiliation
- University of Western Sydney
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jennifer
- Institutional Affiliation
- israel stinks even a skung gives good smeel in front of them BOYCOTT THEM NOW stupid terrorists
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Kamel
- Institutional Affiliation
- asdfg
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Professor Furfural de H
- Institutional Affiliation
- This "acadmic" petition seeks to isolate people like the scientists at the Weitzmann Institute, whose research gives hope to millions - including Palestinians - with chronic diseases, and the doctors at the Hadassah Medical Centre, whose skill (again without discrimination) does likewise. Could it be that because you Australian "acadmics" are Down Under, and therefore upside down, what you call "brains" is what the rest of us call "bowels"?
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abdullah a
- Institutional Affiliation
- Boycott Islamofascism Now!!! Remember the "peaceful Islam" of 9/11
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ariel s
- Institutional Affiliation
- plz people if u want to say badwords say it to me, plz don't say anything to my darling bush, i love him especially when he kisses me on the ass
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Ludvig B
- Institutional Affiliation
- Department of Government, Uppsala University
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