- THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT MAY BE CONTEMPLATING CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY.
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- We, members of Israeli academe, are horrified by US build-up
of aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's enthusiastic
support for it.
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- We are deeply worried by indications that the "fog
of war" could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further
crimes against the Palestinian people, up to FULL-FLEDGED ETHNIC CLEANSING.
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- The Israeli ruling coalition includes parties that promote
"transfer" of the Palestinian population as a solution to what
they call "the demographic problem". Politicians are regularly
quoted in the media as suggesting forcible expulsion, most recently MKs
Michael Kleiner and Benny Elon, as reported on Yediot Ahronot website on
September 19, 2002.
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- In a recent interview in Ha'aretz, Chief of Staff Moshe
Ya'alon described the
- Palestinians as a "cancerous manifestation"
and equated the military actions in the Occupied Territories with "chemotherapy",
suggesting that more radical "treatment" may be necessary. Prime
Minister Sharon has backed this "assessment of reality".
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- Escalating racist demagoguery concerning the Palestinian
citizens of Israel may indicate the scope of the crimes that are possibly
being contemplated.
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- We call upon the International Community to pay close
attention to events that unfold within Israel and in the Occupied Territories,
to make it absolutely clear that crimes against humanity will not be tolerated,
and to take concrete measures to prevent such crimes from taking place.
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- Signatories, as of the 23 Sept 2002, morning:
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- Prof. Zach Adam, Rehovot
- Prof. Colman Altman, Haifa
- Dr. Janina Altman, Haifa
- Tammy Amiel-Houser, Tel Aviv
- Chaya Amir, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Shmuel Amir, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Daniel Amit, Jerusalem/Rome
- Yali Amit, Chicago
- Dr. Meir Amor, Montreal, Canada
- Dr. Yonathan (Jon) Anson, Beer Sheva
- Prof. Shalom Baer, Jerusalem
- Dan Bar-On, Beer Sheva
- Dr. Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Jerusalem
- Prof. Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv
- Avi Berg, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Louise Bethlehem, Hod Hasharon
- Prof. Anat Bilezki, Tel Aviv
- Uri Bitan, Haifa
- Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley
- Prof. Victoria Buch, Jerusalem
- Smadar Carmon, Toronto
- Dr. Nicole Cohen-Addad, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Uri Davis, Sakhnin
- Athena Elizabeth DeRasmo, Haifa
- Prof. Aharon Eviatar, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Ovadia Ezra. Tel Aviv
- Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Jerusalem
- Pnina Firestone, Jerusalem
- Elizabeth Freund, Jerusalem
- Gadi Geiger, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Dr. Amira Gelblum, Tel Avv
- Dr. Ruchama Marton, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jerusalem
- Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Jerusalem
- Menucha Moravitz, Ramat-Gan
- Regev Nathansohn, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Avraham Oz, Haifa
- Dr. Ilan Pappe, Haifa
- Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
- Shakhar Rahav, Berkeley
- Dr. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Beer Sheva
- Prof. Zvi Razi, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Fanny-Michaela Reisin, Berlin
- Prof. Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv
- Prof. Henry Rosenfeld, Haifa
- Dr. Maya Rosenfeld, Jerusalem
- Ouzi Rotem, Philadelphia
- Dr. Hannah Safran, Haifa
- Tami Sarfatti, UCLA
- Dr. Nita Schechet, Jerusalem
- Hillel Schocken, Tel Aviv
- Ruben Seroussi, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Erella Shadmi,Beit Berl
- Prof. Nomi Shir, Beer Sheva
- Dr. Miriam Shlesinger, Tel Aviv
- Aharon Shabtai, Tel Aviv
- Orly Soker, Sapir-Jerusalem
- Nurit Steinfeld, Jerusalem
- Roman Vater, Tel Aviv
- Dr. Roy Wagner, Tel-Aviv
- Dr. Michael Yogev, Haifa
- Kim Yuval, T
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