Boycott of research links with Israel by Hilary Rose 8:34pm Sat Apr 6 '02 Moratorium on all future cultural and research links with Israel at European or national level until such time as the Israeli government abide by UN resolutions. print article Press Release Saturday 6th April University Professors call for European boycott of research and cultural links with Israel As of noon on Friday, more than 120 university academics and researchers from across Europe had signed during the course of three days, 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 level until such time as the Israeli government abide by UN resolutions and open serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians along the lines of the recent Saudi peace plan. The signatories include more than 90 from the UK, amongst them 43 university professors including some of the country's leading natural and social scientists. The list includes one signatory from within Israel itself. Other signatories are from Eire, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. For further information contact either: Professor Hilary Rose (h.rose@open.ac.uk) or Professor Steven Rose (s.p.r.rose@open.ac.uk) telephone 0207 713 1709 The full text of the letter and list of signatories follows: Letter: 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. The major potential source of effective criticism, the United States, seems reluctant to act. However there are ways of exerting pressure from within Europe. Odd though it may appear, many national and European cultural and research institutions, including especially those funded from the EU and the European Science Foundation, regard Israel as a European state for the purposes of awarding grants and contracts. (No other Middle Eastern state is so regarded). Would it not therefore be timely if at both national and European level a moratorium was called upon any further such support unless and until Israel abide by UN resolutions and open serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians, along the lines proposed in many peace plans including most recently that sponsored by the Saudis and the Arab League. Signatories (alphabetically by country as of 16.00 5th April) Note: all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes Britain Ainley, Dr Patrick, ,University of Greenwich Aleksander, Professor Igor, Imperial College London Banks, Dr Sarah, University of Durham *Bateson, Professor Patrick FRS, Provost Kings College Cambridge Beckford, Dr Jim, University of Warwick Bendelow, Dr Gill, University of Warwick Bennett, Professor Tony, Open University Birke, Dr Lynda, University of Lancaster *Blakemore, Professor Colin FRS, Oxford University Blankenburg, Dr Stephanie, SOAS, London Bruegel, Professor Irene, South Bank University Brunner, Dr Eric, University College London Burton, Professor Emerita Leone, Birmingham University Caddel, Dr Richard, Durham University Cockburn, Cynthia, City University *Cohen, Professor Robin, Warwick, currently University of Cape Town Crompton, Professor Rosemary, City University, London David, Professor Miriam, Keele University *Dawkins, Professor Richard FRS, Oxford University Dore, Dr Elizabeth, University of Southampton Duckett, Professor Jeff, Queen Mary University of London Ellison, Dr Nick, University of Durham Edmondson, Linda, Birmingham University Edmondson, William, Birmingham University Ettore, Professor Elizabeth, Plymouth University Fine, Dr Robert Warwick university Fletcher, Dr John, Warwick University Fonagy, Professor Peter, University College London Fox, Edward London (writer) Ginn, Dr Jay Surrey University Glendinning, Victoria London (writer) Gregory, Professor Richard FRS, Bristol University Hakimian, Dr Hassan, SOAS, London Healey, Dr Peter SPSG London Himmelweit, Dr Sue, Open University Hobson, Professor Marian, London University Honderich, Emeritus Professor Ted, University College London Humphrey, Professor Nicholas, London School of Economics Hunter, Professor Lynette, Leeds University Kamminga, Dr Harmke, Cambridge University *Karmiloff-Smith, Professor Annette, Institute of Child Health, London Kuper, Richard, Hatfield University Laven, Dr David, University of Reading Lawler, Dr Stephanie, University of Durham Law, Professor John, Lancaster University *Lister, Professor Ruth, Loughborough University Macpherson, Rev. Duncan, St Mary's University College,University of Surrey *McRobbie, Professor Angela, Goldsmith's College London Merck, Professor Mandy, Royal Holloway and Bedford College Messkoub, Dr Mahmood, University of Leeds *Midgley, Dr. Mary, retired Newcastle University (philosopher) Mileusnic, Dr Radmila, Open University Moon, Dr Claire, University of Kent Moore, Professor Robert, Liverpool University Murcott, Professor Anne, Nottingham University Murphy, Professor Sean, Nottingham University Orun, Dr Ahmed, Birmingham University Osborne, Professor Peter, Middlesex University Phillips, Dr. Sarah, University of Durham Press, Dr Ron (engineer, retired) Preston, Dr Rosemary, University of Warwick Rangwala, Dr Glen, Trinity College, Cambridge Rivera, Consuela, University of Lancaster Rose, Professor Hilary, City University London Rose, Professor Nikolas, Goldsmith's College London Rose, Professor Steven, Open University Rosen, Michael, London (writer and broadcaster) Rowley, Professor Gwyn (retired) Russell, Professor Willie, FRSE, University of St Adrews Ryan, Dr Mark, Birmingham University Salter, Professor Brian, University of East Anglia Samuels, Professor Andrew, Essex University Sassoon, Professor Anne Showstack, Kingston University *Savage, Dr Wendy, London Hospital (retired) Scott, Professor Sue, Durham University Segal, Professor Graeme, All Souls, Oxford *Segal, Professor Lynne, Birkbeck College, London Shakespeare, Dr Tom, Life Centre, Newcastle Shackle, Dr Emma, Plater College Oxford Shire, Dr George, Open University Shuker, Professor David, Open University Sinha, Professor Martin, Southampton University Sloman, Professor Aaron, Birmingham Smith, Dr Paul, University of Keele Solomon, Professor Joan, Open University Taylor, Dr Paul, Warburg Institute, London Tozer, David, Peterborough, Cambridge University Treacher, Dr Amal, Birkbeck College, London Tudge, Dr Colin, London (writer and broadcaster) Ward, Dr Helen, Imperial College London Yao, Professor Xin, Birmingham University Yuval-Davis, Professor Nira, University of Greenwich Eire *Lynch, Dr Marina, Trinity College Dublin Regan, Professor Ciaran, University College Dublin Denmark Sinha, Dr Chris, Technical University, Copenhagen Finland Hearn. Professor Jeff, School of Economics, Helsinki France *Levy-Leblond, Professor Jean-Marc, Nice University Cobb, Dr Matthew, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Paris Ohlsson-Malek, Dr Fairouz, CNRS, Paris Germany Reymann, Professor Klaus, Magdeburg *Frey, Professor Julietta, Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg Iceland *Vilhjalmsson, Professor Thorsteinn, University of Iceland Sigurdsson, Dr Skuli, University of Iceland Italy *Frontali, Professor Nora, ISS, Rome Mengheri, Elena, INRAN, Rome Minicozzi, Dr Velia, University of Tor Vergata, Rome Murgia, Dr Chiara, INRAN, Rome Ranaldi, Dr Giulia, INRAN, Rome Turrini, Dr Aida, INRAN, Rome Vladikas, Dr Anastassios, INFN, Rome Israel **Jablonka, Professor Eva, Tel-Aviv University Norway **Andersen Professor Per, Oslo University Fjelland, Professor Ragnar, Bergen University Waerness, Professor Kari, Bergen University Portugal *Matos, Dr Augusta, Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Lisbon Queiroz, Professor Clara, ( retired)University of Lisbon Spain *Ferrus, Professor Alberto, Cajal Institute, Madrid Sweden Elzinger, Professor Aant, University of Goteborg Esseveld, Professor Johanna, University of Lund Holmquist, Associate Professor, Ingrid, University of Goteborg Karfve, Professor Eva, University of Malmo Nilsson, Professor Arne, University of Goteborg *Therborn, Professor Goran, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala Wellin, Professor Stellan, University of Goteborg Switzerland *Lipp, Professor Hans-Peter, Zurich University Maranta, Dr Alessandro, ETH, Zurich add your comments Source file

Zionism Is Dead, Collegas. by Deporte Juif 11:08pm Sat Apr 6 '02 address: Tel-Aviv print comment Dear Collegas of the "Free & Democratic" Europe & USA, Radio and TV stations of your countries have broadcasted a false picture of our Zio-Nazi State of Israel during all time of its existance. We wanted to get out from the closed world of East Europe and Russia. Having the Holocaust behind us we trusted your information, we have let us move with our children to Israel by Jewish Agency racists ONLY because radio and TV broadcasters of your countries - and you in person - assured us that Israel is a human state. By using YOUR tax money YOUR governments with the help of your countries communication and information sources participated in deporting and locking up in the Zio-Nazi Israel thousands of your desinformed "foreign collegas". Many of us commited suicide, they just could not stand the smell of eternal Judaic religious nazism. Maybe you did not want to give us a working place at your university departments?.. We would not ask you, keep your money, we could survive with our families on our own in the first months of our presence in your countries and later move on. You told us nice things about Israel... Just the same as Danmark...Only subtropics...Just the same as France...Free and democratic majority...Just the same...Just the same...Go, go to the indicated showers...Do not be afraid...Go, go...They are not the gas chambers, the anti-Semites just make you nervous...There you'll get a real soap,real warm water...You should like it, dear collega... It is impossible to receive a status of a political refugee if you leave ( you do not like the word escape,not?..you will feel a bit guilty...terminology...) the Zio-Nazi state, if you succeed to reach Europe, USA or Canada. I do not know the situation in other countries. We need a break. We have been psychologically tortured by great specialists.We need a short break.A few weeks, a few months...A short break for us and our families after escaping from the racist and closed psychiatric ward of Israel. We would agree to become plumbers in your kitchens. We would agree to dig graves in your cemetries. We would agree to become your butlers. Just take from us our blue Israeli passports, take from our breasts blue and yelow stars and pushed them by your hands, with the help of the world academical "community" (intellectual community!..) into the asses of Ambassadors and Concils of the Fourth Reich freely functioning on the territory of your independent ( I hear you laugh also!..) states. We are not Palestinians. We have compassion with their suffering in the hands of our Zio-Nazi relatives. Helas, we are not the suicide partizans and we do not have tanks or a small atom bomb...That's why we cannot help the robbed and murdered ( by your intellectual ignorance also ) the heroic and really free - without houses, without water, without medical help, without grants, with dead children on their hands - Palestinians.. We salut Palestinian people in the darkest days of his existance amoung the intellectual elites of different democratic and socialist countries busy with the fundamental research. Yes, we understand, you, dubble Western intellectuals, work today for the bright future of the humanity, you cannot visit the concentration reservations of democratic Israel or keep in your houses for one-two months Jewish families escaping from Israel. Would you give today your roof to Einstein?..To Spinoza?.. We have no guns. Sometimes we have no food, hiding in Europe with forged papers, being chased by Zio-Nazis. Yes, because the failure of Nazi-Zionism means cutting off American tax payers money, subventions and...grants, the crushing of shares on all world markets, because of this we must pay with our lifes. Have a grant, dirty Jew, and have a shower. We shall grant you military equipment, just kill your Palestinian brothers. And if you refuse we will look to that you never be able to leave Israel, the state where we have our interests too. We do not have guns. We are not suicide partizans, we are very known, described in popular literature characters, the egg heads. But we shall reach the throats of your politicians with our bare hands, hands of Free Humans. Zionism is dead. The lie has simply expired. Let us say, natural death. New times shall dictate new goals, new strategy, new tactics achieving human enviroment. We shall add our efforts. We are no more interested in the "scientific" research. Our honour similar to the honour of Free Arab Partizans does not permit us to pursue the academical cariers because we are no "Jews" and no "Europeans" or and no "Americans" anymore. We learned our lesson. We understood the thing that thousands of academicians and professors can not understand - we are Humans. No grants, no legal papers, sometimes no money to buy a book but now we add our struggle to the struggle of all mislead and opressed men, women and children in the world. Take it easy. Do your research, collegas, and write your petitions where every second word is afraid of first. All land of Palestine must be given back to Palestinian people. They deserve it. They may permit the establishment of Jewish Home with the capital Tel-Aviv in their old country so the Jews could visit the ex-Holy Land to pray near the Wailing Wall if they are religious or to marry into textile or retail families if they are just Americans. 5 % of the historical Palestine should be enough for the Jewish Home. And Saudis shall pay our tickets back to the countries where from we had been with all kind of lies deported to the Zio-Nazi state of Israel. Today Jews may trust only Muslims. add your comments

אמא by nonsense 1:32pm Thu Apr 11 '02 print comment From what higher institute of learning in the Middle East is this illiteracy the product. add your comments

Hitler would have been proud by Professor Joav Merrick 6:36pm Thu Apr 18 '02 print comment To all the professors, even a lecturer from Tel Aviv University, I can only say that Hitler is very proud of you. You have managed to dig up that old vintage called anti-semitisme, instead of staying with your call to be academics, who think before they write. Instead of supporting the only democracy in the region, the only moral people in the region, the only soldiers with dignity, you choose to support murderers, yes a mafia, who does not care about anything but money (Arafat is geting 10 million dollars from Europe every month)and the killing of innocent children, civilians and mothers. Shame on you, you are not worth your academic titles and poor students who will have to deal with you. So short time after the Shoah and you now want to bring upon us another one. Shame on you. add your comments

it stinks by Andrew V. 4:28am Fri Apr 19 '02 print comment Yes it's about this web-site. It has this easily recognizable stench of Soviet propaganda. The same language that made us puke in the ex-USSR 20 years ago. The leftist idea is DEAD! That is another reason it stinks. add your comments

Correction by Graeme Segal 5:45pm Fri Apr 26 '02 print comment Although I am strongly opposed to the policies of the Israeli government I did not sign the above letter, and do not support an academic boycott. My name was added to the list because of a misunderstanding. I have asked Hilary and Steven Rose to remove my name, but they say they cannot, and the website itself does not answer my e-mails. Graeme Segal add your comments

WHAT TO SAY? by GEBUHRER 7:26pm Mon Apr 29 '02 olivier.gebuhrer@wanadoo.fr print comment What to say?What to add? Maybe as an intellectual(a very modest one) who hates writing petitions where one word contradicts the other,and also as a french citizen of jewish ascent who rejected Zionism since the date of his passage to adult life,maybe this:your suffering is beyond words ,still worth to express it but your despair, your absolute despair cannot help !I know it is all too easy to give advices,when you do not really bear the burden ,but all of you know the jewish tragical joke:"father , I wish to go away from here ,I wish to go away ,far away. My sun , from where do you think to go away????" So ,you have to know that despite their tremendous weaknesses, their cowardice etc,there is a global movement in the world and in France in particular to support different views and acting as those which are symbolized by SHARON. WE MUST EXCHANGE . WE MUST KEEP IN CONTACT.THE EVIL IS NOT GOING TO WIN FOR EVER BUT IT REQUIRES A LOT OF DECISIVENESS ,A LOT OF TIME AND A LOT OF PUBLIC EXPRESSION .WITH MY CHEERFULLEST REGARDS OLIVIER GEBUHRER add your comments

Dear olivier. by sara 5:02am Sat Jun 22 '02 print comment You have a soothing style of writing,,,please - modesty aside, continue expressing your thoughts and pains.. add your comments