17.07.2014 - 07:21 [ Haim Bresheeth ]

Statement by Israeli academics July 2014

The signatories to this statement, all academics at Israeli universities, wish it to be known that they utterly deplore the aggressive military strategy being deployed by the Israeli government. The slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent people, is placing yet more barriers of blood in the way of the negotiated agreement which is the only alternative to the occupation and endless oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel must agree to an immediate cease-fire, and start negotiating in good faith for the end of the occupation and settlements, through a just peace agreement.

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Academics in Israeli universities who have signed the statement above:

Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Emmanuel Farjoun, Hebrew University

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University

Dr. Kobi Snitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University

Dr Efrat Ben-Zeev, Ruppin Academic Center

Prof. As’ad Ghanem, Haifa University

Prof. Anat Biletzki, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University

Dr. Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Zvi Tauber, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Vered Kraus, Haifa University

Dr. Yuval Yonay, Haifa University

Prof. Oded Goldreich, Weizman Institute

Prof. Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

Professor Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University

Professor Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University

Professor As’ad Ghanem, Haifa University

Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Haifa University

Prof. Micah Leshem, Haifa University

Dr. Ilan Saban, University of Haifa

Dr. Avishai Ehrlich, TAU

Dr. Ivy Sichel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Prof. Yehuda Shenhav, TAU

Dr. Hannah Safran, The Academic College for Society and the Arts

Dr. Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University

Prof. Dudy Tzfati, Hebrew University

Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Jerusalem

Professor David Blanc, University

Dr. Haim Yacobi Bezalel, Ben Gurion University

Elizabeth Ritter, Ben-Gurion University

Paul Wexler, Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University

Prof. Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Amatzia Weisel, Tel Aviv University (retired)

Prof. Tamar Katriel, Haifa University

Dr. Haim Deuelle Luski, Tel Aviv University & Bezalel Academy of Art

Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University

Dr. Roy Wagner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor Uri Hadar, Tel Aviv University

Professor Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University

Professor Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amira Katz, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Prof. Julia Horvath, Tel-Aviv University