Ronen Segev, Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Yitzhak Hen, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Meron Mendel, Professor, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Outi Bat-El Foux, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv Universityīenny Morris, Professor Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sara Helman, Associate Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (ret.) Ofer Ashkenazi, Associate Professor of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yiftah Elazar, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalemĭudy Tzfati, Associate Professor of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yael Sela, Research Associate, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam University Naama Meishar, Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology Oren Yiftachel, Professor of Geography, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev Omri Boehm, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research Yael Hashiloni Dolev, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevĪnat Matar, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Tel Aviv University Sarah Stroumsa, Professor Emerita, the Hebrew University of Jerusalemĭaniel Blatman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish History, the Hebrew University of JerusalemĮlla Segev, Associate Professor, the Hebrew University of Jerusalemīen Kiernan, Professor of History, Yale University (ret.)Įfraim Davidi, lecturer, Tel Aviv University

Zach Adam, Professor Emeritus, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nitzan Lebovic, Professor of History, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies, Lehigh UniversityĪmos Goldberg, Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tamir Sorek, Professor, Penn State University Yair Mintzker, Professor of History, Princeton University Lior Sternfeld, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State Universityĭavid N. Meir Amor, Associate Professor Concordia University (ret.) Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University Shira Klein, Associate Professor of History, Chapman University Support human rights organizations which defend Palestinians and provide real-time information on the lived reality of occupation and apartheid.Ĭommit to overhaul educational norms and curricula for Jewish children and youth in order to provide a more honest appraisal of Israel’s past and present.ĭemand from elected leaders in the United States that they help end the occupation, restrict American military aid from being used in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and end Israeli impunity in the UN and other international organizations. Support the Israeli protest movement, yet call on it to embrace equality for Jews and Palestinians within the Green Line and in the OPT. In this moment of urgency and also possibility for change, we call on leaders of North American Jewry - foundation leaders, scholars, rabbis, educators - to Meanwhile, American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right. As Israel has grown more right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have grown more and more alienated from it. Īmerican Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid. The problems did not start with the current radical government: Jewish supremacism has been growing for years and was enshrined in law by the 2018 Nation State Law. Indeed, the ultimate purpose of the judicial overhaul is to tighten restrictions on Gaza, deprive Palestinians of equal rights both beyond the Green Line and within it, annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population. There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it. Without equal rights for all, whether in one state, two states, or in some other political framework, there is always a danger of dictatorship. Settler vigilantes burn, loot, and kill with impunity. They face constant violence: this year alone, Israeli forces have killed over 190 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and demolished over 590 structures. Palestinian people lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest. We, academics, clergy, and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad, call attention to the direct link between Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and its illegal occupation of millions of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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