155 universitaires de renom lancent un appel pour le droit de critiquer Israël

Parmi les signataires de cet appel, on retrouve de grands noms, tels l’historien israélien Ilan Pappé ou l’écrivaine américaine Alice Walker qui a reçu le  Prix Pulitzer.

“Les institutions universitaires doivent défendre la liberté d’expression et nous nous opposons à la campagne menée dans différents pays et consistant à réprimer celles et ceux qui défendent les droits des Palestiniens”, déclare la Comité International pour la Paix, la Justice et la Dignité dans un appel signé par 155 personnalités.

 

Il appelle à soutenir cet appel en signant ici :

https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/academic-institutions-must-defend-free-speech?just_launched=true

Il s’élève notamment contre les attaques et licenciements récents d’universitaires tels que Marc Lamont Hill à Temple University (Philadelphie) aux USA, et Tim Anderson à l’Université de Sydney, en Australie.

 

Ils rappellent que d’autres universitaires comme Steven Salaita et Norman Finkelstein ont été victimes de ces attaques, et que des menaces similaires pèsent sur Hatem Bazian, Ahlam Muhtaseb, William Robinson, Rabab Abdulhadi, et d’autres.

 

Ils récusent l’exception que constitue la défense des droits des Palestiniens à la liberté d’expression.

 

“On peut critiquer librement, et y compris manquer de respect, quand il s’agit des gouvernements, religions, opinions politiques, etc, sauf quand il s’agit des actions et de la politique israéliennes. Ceux qui osent les critiquer deviennent la cible de campagnes généreusement financées et savamment orchestrées pour bâillonner et/ou les détruire eux et leurs carrières”.

 

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Signataires :

 

Abbas Ali, chair, Inminds Human Rights Group

 

 

Abbas Hamideh, Co-Founder, Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition

 

Abby Martin, journalist, former host, “The Empire Files”

 

Abe Hayeem, Architect, peace activist and founder member of Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine

 

Adam Kossoff, University of Wolverhampton

 

Adrian Grima, poet, professor of Maltese literature

 

Ahlam Muhtaseb, Professor, University of California San Bernardino ; co-director, “1948 : Creation and Catastrophe”

 

Ajamu Baraka, Human rights defender, former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate

 

Alice Walker, author, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner

 

Alicia Jrapko, US National Coordinator, International Committee for Peace

 

Alison Weir, founder, If Americans Knew ; author, “Against Our Better Judgment”

 

Amal Wahdan, Political and human rights activist

 

Amani Barakat, National Chair, Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition

 

Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University

 

Andrea Balduzzi, Researcher, Università di Genova, Italy (retired)

 

Anthony Gonzales, American Indian Movement – West

 

Anthony Hall, Editor-in-Chief, American Herald Tribune

 

Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford

 

Barbara Erickson, journalist and author

 

Ben Norton, journalist

 

Bernard Regan, St Mary’s University

 

Blake Alcott, ecological economist ; director of One Democratic State in Palestine (England) Limited

 

Brian Winston, University of Lincoln

 

Dr. Burhan Ghanayem, Retired, National Institutes of Health

 

Carlos Latuff, cartoonist

 

Carlos Prieto Del Campo, Editor, New Left Review (Spanish), Madrid

 

Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

 

Cynthia McKinney, Former Member of US House of Representatives

 

Dan Kovalik, Labor and human rights attorney

 

Prof. Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

 

David Heap, University of Western Ontario, Canada

 

David Klein, California State University, Northridge ; Organizing Collective, US 

Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

 

Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, Women Make Movies

 

Derek Summerfield, Hon Sen Clin Lect, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London

 

Diana Carminati, former associate professor in University of Turin, Italy

 

Diana Johnstone, Writer and commentator

 

Dina Matar, SOAS, UK

 

Dorothy Reik, President, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains

 

Estee Chandler, Board Member, JVP

 

Eva Bartlett, journalist

 

Ewa Jasiewicz, activist

 

Francesco Orilia, UNIMC, Italy

 

Franco Camandona, MD, gynecologist, Italy

 

Gayle McLaughlin, former Mayor of Richmond, CA, USA

 

George Bisharat, Professor of law, UC Hastings College of the Law

 

George Galloway, Broadcaster, writer, former Member of Parliament

 

George Paizis, University College London, Honorary Research Fellow

 

Gerry Condon, President, Veterans for Peace

 

Ghada Karmi, Palestinian doctor, activist, academic and writer ; London

 

Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report

 

Graham Dawson, University of Brighton, UK

 

Greg Dropkin, Liverpool Friends of Palestine

 

Hagit Borer, Queen Mary University of London

 

Hagop Kevorkian, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia 

University New York

 

Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Humanities School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

 

Hala Allabadi, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

 

Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University New York

 

Hassan Fouda, Board Director, CNI and Tree of Life Educational Fund

 

Hatem Bazian, Co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College ; National Chair, American Muslims for Palestine

 

Herman De Ley, Emeritus Professor, University of Ghent (Belgium)

 

Hisham Ahmed, St. Mary’s College of California

 

Iain Atack, University of Dublin

 

Iain Chalmers, Coordinator ; James Lind Initiative

 

Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter

 

Jackelyn Mariano, Co-chair, National Lawyers Guild International Committee

 

James Abourezk, Former U.S. Senator, founder, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination 

Committee (ADC)

 

James Bowen, UCC – National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

 

James Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution

 

Jeff Halper, ICAHD founder, Member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) Coordinating Committee

 

Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, Member of the House of Lords

 

Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, 2016

 

Joe Catron, U.S. Coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network ; New York City Democratic Socialists of America Anti-War Working Group

 

Joe Lauria, Editor in Chief, Consortiumnews

 

Joe Lombardo, Founding member of United National Antiwar Coalition,

 

Joe Meadors, US military veteran, USS Liberty

 

John Adams, Prof. Emeritus, Film & Screen Media Practice, Bristol University, UK

 

John Erickson, former Executive Director, Friends of Sabeel North America

 

Jonathan Cook, Journalist and author

 

Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics

 

Judith Bello, Member United National Antiwar Coalition Administrative Committee, Administrator UNAC Blog

 

Judit Druks, University College of London

 

Jules Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University

 

Katie Miranda, Jewelry designer and artist, Katie Miranda Studios

 

Khalil Barhoum, Senior Lecturer. African and Middle Eastern Languages, Stanford University

 

Lamis Deek, human rights attorney, Global Justice Human Rights Law

 

Lara Kiswani, Executive Director, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)

 

Laura U. Marks, Visiting professor, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

 

Liana M. Allabadi, Arab American University of Palestine

 

Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

 

Marilyn Levin, co-founder, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

 

Marina Carter, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Marina Rui, University of Genova

 

Marjorie Cohn , Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law., former president National Lawyers Guild

 

Mark Braverman, Executive Director, Kairos USA, Research Fellow in Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Stellenbosch University

 

Martin Kemp, Psychoanalyst, UK

 

Max Blumenthal, journalist and author

 

Medea Benjamin, Co-founder of CodePink and author

 

Meron Rapoport, Israeli journalist

 

Michael Chanan, University of Roehampton, London

 

Michael Edwards, Bartlett School, UCL, London, England

 

Michel Chossudovsky, President and director, Centre for Research on Globalization

 

Miriam Levin, UK government official

 

Miriam Margolyes, Actress and voice artist

 

Mnar Muhawesh, Publisher, Mint Press News

 

Mohammed Alatar, Film writer and director, “The Iron Wall” and more.

 

Mona Baker, Professor Emerita of Translation Studies , University of Manchester

 

Moshé Machover, King’s College London and University of London (retired)

 

Nadje Al-Ali, Chair, Centre for Gender Studies , University of London, UK

 

Naomi Foyle, Novelist and poet

 

Nathalie Grima, Author

 

Netfa Freeman, Analyst and Events Coordinator for the Institute for Policy Studies

 

Nira Yuval-Davis-Davis, Prof. Emeritus & Honorary Director, Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London UK

 

Noam Chomsky, Emeritus professor of linguistics, MIT

 

Norman Solomon , Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy

 

Ofra Lythe, Israeli writer and activist ; Author, “Politically Incorrect : Why a Jewish State is a Bad Idea”

 

Oren Cohen, Israeli journalist

 

Paul Larudee, Former Fulbright Lecturer and govt advisor

 

Paola Manduca, University of Genoa, Italy

 

Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria and Bahrain

 

Peter Phillips, Sonoma State University ; former director, Project Censored

 

Philip Giraldi, Executive Director, Council for the National Interest

 

Philip Weiss, Publisher, Mondoweiss

 

Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University

 

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

 

Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University

 

Richard Hudson, FBA at UCL, London

 

Richard Silverstein, Tikkun Olam

 

Rick Sterling, investigative journalist

 

Robert Trivers, President, Biosocial Research Foundation

 

Ronit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin

 

Rumy Hasan, Senior Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.

 

Sabah Al-Mukhtar, President, Arab Lawyers Association (UK)

 

Sai Englert, SOAS, University of London

 

Sam Husseini Independent journalist, senior analyst at Institute for Public Accuracy

 

Sami Awad, Executive Director, Holy Land Trust

 

Sami Ramadani, Academic

 

Sharmine Narwani, Analyst and commentator

 

Shir Hever, independent economic researcher and journalist

 

Shohini Chaudhuri, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of 

Essex, UK

 

Snehal Shingavi, Associate Professor, English, University of Texas at Austin

 

Stefania Fortuna, UNIVPM, Italy

 

Stephen Deutsch, Professor of Post-Production, Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK

 

Swee Ang, MD ; co-founder, Medical Aid for Palestinians

 

Tariq Ali, Writer and public intellectual

 

Ted Honderich , Grote Professor Emeritus Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London

 

Terri Ginsberg, The American University at Cairo

 

Thomas Gumbleton, Retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

 

Tim Anderson, University of Sydney

 

Tom Hickey, Principal Lecturer in Philosophy and Critical Theory, University of Brighton, UK

 

Valerio Gennaro, UO Clinical Epidemiology IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy

 

William “Jimbo” Simmons, American Indian Movement – West

 

William I. Robinson, Univ of California, Santa Barbara

 

Zahra Billoo, Co-founder, CAIR

 

Zuhair Sabbagh, Palestinian academic and researcher

 

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