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PetitionTuesday 14 May 2002
author: E Montes
PLEASE SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO:
Ran HaCohen
Petition in Support of Dr Ilan Pappe
We the undersigned, members of the academic and related professions inside
Israel and abroad, wish to express our dismay at the decision of Haifa
University to issue an invitation to Dr Ilan Pappe, Senior Lecturer at the
Department of Political Science, to stand for a trial, and roundly condemn
the demand of the University Prosecutor, the Haifa University Dean of
Humanities Prof Yossi Ben-Artzi, to expel Dr Pappe from the University on
the grounds of, among other things, the positions he had taken on academic
and other matters such as Dr Pappe's critique of the University's conduct
regarding the MA dissertation by Teddy Katz on the Tantura massacre in
1948; his proposal to teach a course on the Palestinian Nakbah next year;
and his support for boycott on Israel.
We completely condemn the Haifa University for these blantant trangression
against the professional principle of academic freedom, for this violation
of the fundamental right of freedom of statement and publication, and for
what looks like a politically motivated attempt to silence dissent voices.
We demand that all measures begun by Haifa University with the view to
prosecute Dr Ilan Pappe for his critical academic work and political
advocacy be immediately cancelled, and that Dr Pappe, like all other
academics and members of related professions, be granted the secury of
academic freedom inside and outside Haifa University.
Undersigned:
Name (and title): ___________________
University(*)/Institution(*)/Profession: _______________
(*) Affiliation for identication purposes only.
PLEASE SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO:
Ran HaCohen
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