Published on Mon Apr 04 2022
- modified on Fri Aug 19 2022
The ELSC published a letter signed by over 500 scholars, artists, activists, organisations and human rights defenders to support Dr. Anna Younes and other scholars, activists and journalists against censorship and unlawful surveillance in Germany.
Support scholars, activists and journalists against censorship and unlawful surveillance
We the undersigned scholars, artists, activists and organizations, stand in solidarity with Dr. Anna-Esther Younes, a German-Palestinian critical race and post-colonial scholar, who has already faced several misinformation media campaigns in Germany due to her academic and policy related work on anti-Jewish racism and Palestinian rights. In November 2019, a secret file about her was leaked to her, which had already led to professional exclusions based on unlawful secret data collection and surveillance research by state-funded civil society organizations that purport to investigate anti-Semitism in German society. As signatories we support her struggle against all forms of racism, including anti-Muslim racism and anti-Jewish racism, everywhere. We condemn repression in Germany that targets Critical Race theorists, advocates of Palestinian human rights, and supporters of BDS. We therefore endorse Dr. Younes’s campaign for data protection and the release of secret files on her and potential other decolonial and anti-racist scholars and activists.
We are alarmed by recent efforts to exclude Dr. Anna-Esther Younes from academia and from the public debate in Germany. In November 2019, the Berlin Department for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) prepared a secret file that patches together distorted selections of Dr. Younes’s writings to defame her distorting her scholarly work as allegedly supporting Islamism, Sexism, and by extension anti-Semitism. This file appears to have been circulated to politicians and event organizers in order to exclude her from a public debate on racism and right-wing extremism in Germany. Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (JVP), Germany, has unequivocally defended Dr. Younes’s scholarship and condemned allegations on the “basis of decontextualized information, hearsay, and guilt by association.” JVP has reminded us that: “We need more, not less, critical analyses that shed light on the phenomenon of Islamophobia and its connection to antisemitism, as do those of Younes.” The purpose and method of information collection and sharing by RIAS did not respect Dr. Younes’s fundamental right to privacy and resembles State surveillance through a state-funded civil society organization.
We, the undersigned, believe that surveillance and secretly circulating defamatory documentation has no place in a democratic society. Attempts to silence critical and particularly minority voices in Germany have a common denominator: anti-Palestinian racism cloaked in anti-BDS positions. The German Parliament made such discrimination state doctrine when it adopted an anti-BDS resolution in 2019.
Dr. Younes’s RIAS file also features a public letter addressed to the German parliament and government signed by her and other international scholars. That letter is supposedly proof of her anti-Semitism. In anticipation of the proliferation of such fraudulent charges, hundreds of German, international, Jewish and Israeli scholars, among them world authorities on anti-Jewish racism and the history of the Holocaust, had earlier condemned the German Parliament’s anti-BDS declaration as an “unreasonable, disproportionate and unlawful limitation of the right to freedom of expression, association and assembly of human rights defenders.” They have pledged not to serve on juries or prize committees or in academic hiring consultations in Germany whenever there are “convincing indicators that their decisions may be subject to ideological or political interference or litmus tests.” Last year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected the criminalization of boycotts directed against Israel in support of Palestinian rights and affirmed BDS as a legitimate exercise of freedom of expression.
Based on the above, and irrespective of our diverse positions on supporting BDS, we demand RIAS release all documentation it has assembled on Dr. Younes and potential other decolonial and anti-racist scholars and activists. We, the signatories, also urge German institutions to rein in anti-Palestinian racism. There must be no Palestine exception to academic freedom and freedom of expression.
European Legal Support Center (ELSC), The Netherlands
Room 4 Resistance, queer DJs and nightlife activists collective, Germany
Ronnie Kasrils, Former South African Government Minister and Author, South Africa
The Jewish Antifascist Bund, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Bundestag 3 for Palestine (BT3P), Germany
Palästina Spricht / Palestine Speaks, Germany
Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, Department of History, University of North Carolina, USA
Prof. Ella Shohat, Author, USA
Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University; Co-Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, USA
Prof. Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ken Loach, Film Director, UK
Achille Mbembe, Research Professor in History and Politics University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
Prof. Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona, USA
Omar Barghouti, human rights defender, Palestine
Houria Bouteldja, decolonial activist, France
Professor Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University, Australia
Dr. Yassir Morsi, Writer and Academic, Australia
Françoise Vergès, Antiracist Decolonial Feminist, Writer, France
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Fanny-Michaela Reisin, former president of the International League for Human Rights – FIDH Germany, Germany
Aviad Albert, PhD candidate, University of Cologne, Germany
Prof. Emeritus John Dugard, Universities of Leiden and the Witwatersrand, The Netherlands and South Africa
Dr. Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University, USA
Nacira Guénif, Sociologist and Anthropologist Professor, University of Paris 8, France
Prof. Emeritus Avner Ben-Amos, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Sami Khatib, Interim Professor, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe, Germany
Dr. Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands and co-founder Academic for Equality, Israel
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sociologist, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Roy Wagner, GESS department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Hebrew university (rtd) and David Yellin Academic College Laureate of the EU Parliament Sakharov award for human rights and the freedom of thought, Israel
Dr. Ofer Shinar Levanon, Hebrew University and Ruppin Academic College, Israel
Dr. Itamar Shachar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. James Dickins, University of Leeds, UK
Dr. Robert Boyce, Emeritus Reader, London School of Economics, UK
E. Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada
Ronit Lentin, Associate Professor, Sociology (retired), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Hagit Borer, FBA, FLSA, Department of Linguistics, SLLF, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Prof. Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London, UK
Dr. Shir Hever, Manager of BIP e.V., Germany
Dr. Samir Abed-Rabbo, Professor of Political Science, Mansfield, USA
Prof. em. Dr. Norman Paech, University of Hamburg, Germany
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Thomas Perroud, Professor of Public Law, Pantheon-Assas University, France
Mark LeVine, Professor of History, Chair, Program in Global Middle East Studies, UC Irvine, USA
Paul Aarts, Dept. of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
7amleh, Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Palestine
British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), UK
Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East), Germany
UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, UK
AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le respect du droit international en Palestine), France
Another Jewish Voice, Belgium
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Comité Pour Une Paix Juste Au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
Norwich Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
The Rights Forum, The Netherlands
Jewish Network for Palestine, UK
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ireland
Academics for Palestine, Ireland
Dutch Higher Education in Solidarity with Palestine, The Netherlands
Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, Australia
California Scholars for Academic Freedom, USA
Jewish Voice for Peace, Milwaukee Chapter, USA
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – Germany, Germany
Aydoun Holland, The Netherlands
Finnish-Arab Friendship Society, Finland
North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
BACBI, Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Belgium
International Fellowship of Reconciliation-France, France
Free Palestine Maastricht, The Netherlands
Institut für Palästinakunde (reg. assoc.) – Institute for the Study of Palestine (reg. assoc.), Germany
BDS Berlin, Germany
Bündnis gegen Rassismus Berlin, Germany
Die LINKE Berlin LAG Internationals, Germany
Dance with Pride, Germany and The Netherlands
Antifascist Music Alliance, Germany and The Netherlands
Decolonial International Network, The Netherlands
Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina (docP), The Netherlands
Europeans Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP), UK
Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP), UK
Een Ander Joods Geluid (EAJG), The Netherlands
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), UK
Artists for Palestine, UK
Palestine Legal, USA
Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), France
Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l’homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT), France
Fédération des tunisiens citoyens des deux rives (FTCR), France
Palestina Solidariteit, Belgium
Palästinensischen Studenten Verein Berlin – Brandenburg PSV e.V., Germany
Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine (CJACP), France
CAGE, UK
Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (CARE), No More Exclusions, UK
Women in Black (Vienna), Austria
Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine, France
UCL Students for Justice in Palestine, UK
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Border Violence Monitoring Network
Islamic Human Rights Commission, UK
Africa 4 Palestine, South Africa
Na’eem Jeenah, Executive Director, Afro-Middle East Centre, South Africa
Dr. Leena Dallasheh, Associate Professor of History, Humboldt State University, USA
Dr. Maria Elena Indelicato, CEEC Individual FCT Researcher, University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies, Portugal
Livnat Konopny Decleve, PhD candidate, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bob Brecher, Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy, University of Brighton, UK
Richard Seaford, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Exeter, UK
Prof. Greg Philo (emeritus), Glasgow University, UK
Dr. Derek Summerfield, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College, University of London, UK
Herman De Ley, Emeritus Professor, Ghent University, Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI), member of the Coordination Committee, Belgium
Dr. Sai Englert, Lecturer, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Prof. Yonathan (jon) Anson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (retired), Israel
Lucia Admiraal, Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Lana Sirri, Project manager BIWOC Rising, Germany
Prof. Joseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University*, USA. (*For purposes of identification only. The position taken here should not be attributed to the University)
Prof.dr.em Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Professor Emerita, Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, National Board, Member, Jewish Voice for Peace, USA
Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Law and Political Science, Emeritur, Yale University, USA
Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor at Columbia University, USA
Ghislain Poissonnier, French magistrate, France
Prof. Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley, Turtle Island, USA
Prof. Rebecca Ruth Gould, Professor, Islamic World & Comparative Literature, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Noa Roei, Assistant Professor, Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor in Legal Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ms Sarah Sheriff, Lecturer, Adult & Community Education, London, UK
Dr. Jens Hanssen, Assoc. Prof., Arab Civilization, Mediterranean Studies and Middle Eastern History, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Jess Bier, Assistant professor of urban sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Lieke Smits, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky, Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. David Kattenburg, University science instructor & journalist, Breda, The Netherlands
Dr. Nicola Perugini, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK
Irene van Oorschot, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher, The Netherlands
Prof. Neve Gordon, International Law, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dr. Brooke Maddux, France Palestine Mental Health Network, doctoral scholar in Philosophy, Université de Reims, France
Dr. Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Tamar Berger, Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Esther Peeren, Professor of Cultural Analysis & Academic Director, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Dr. Tammy Razi, Sapir College, Israel
Dr. Lori A. Allen, Reader in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS, University of London, UK
Prof. Laleh Khalili, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Prof. Goldie Osuri, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Assoz. Prof. Dr. Birgit Englert, University of Vienna, Austria
Shmuel Groag, Senior lecturer, Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Dr. Anat Matar, The Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel and co-founder, Academia for Equality, Israel
Prof. Carole H Browner, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Nahla Abdo, Professor (Sociology and Anthropology), Carleton University, Canada
PhD fellow, Udi Raz, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany
Dr. Anne de Jong, Associate Professor Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ismail Poonawala, Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, UCLA, USA
Dr. Eloe Kingma, Managing Director Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands
Professor Emeritus, Raymond Bush, African Studies and Development Politics, POLIS, University of Leeds, UK
Dr. Michiel Bot, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Christian Henderson, PhD Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, The Netherlands
Prof. Salman Sayyid, Professor of Social Theory & Decolonial Thought, University of Leeds, UK
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sociologist, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr. Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr.Melanie Richter-Montpetit, Senior Lecturer in International Security and Director of the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, UK
Mudar Kassis, Birzeit University, Palestine
Prof. Riccardo Bocco, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
Dr. Kobi Kabalek, Penn State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Henning Melber, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS, University of London, UK
Prof. Dr. emeritus Moshe Zuckermann, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Miss Akudo McGee, PhD Researcher, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Law Professor Xavier Dupré de Boulois, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Dr. Rasha Soliman, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Leeds, UK
Dr. Inna Michaeli, Sociologist, Germany
Prof. em. dr. Marc David Dep. Wiskunde, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Prof. Eva Brems, Head of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Nozomi Takahashi, Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Reinhart Kößler, Germany
Dr. Maya Mikdashi, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, USA
Dr. Jacques Englebert, Lawyer and Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Associate Professor (retired) Robert Kirchner, University of Alberta Linguistics Dept (retired), Independent Jewish Voices Canada, steering committee, Temple Beth Ora Reform Jewish synagogue, board member, Canada
Gordon Doctorow, Ed.D. (adjunct faculty member, Nova Southeastern University—identification purposes only), Canada
Prof. em. Vincent Wertz, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium
Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies San Francisco State University, USA
Prof. Geert van Loo, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation research Gent, Belgium
Prof. Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Prof. Dr. Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London, UK
Jessica Elias, Tutor in Politics and Culture of the Middle East, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Dr. Helmut Krieger, University of Vienna, Austria
Marc Mormont, Professor, University of Liege, Belgium
Dr. Leander Meuris, Staff scientist, VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Belgium
Dr. Beatriz de Abreu Fialho Gomes, retired Senior Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria
Stef Craps, Professor of English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. em. Dr. Wolf Linder University of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Hanan Toukan, Bard College Berlin, Germany
Norma Rantisi Professor, Dept. of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University, Canada
Marjolein De Pau, PhD Candidate at Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Dror Warschawski, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Layal Ftouni, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory Utrecht University, The Netherlands
PhD researcher Brigitte Herremans, Law Faculty, Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Anya Topolski, Associate Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Eric Shragge, Associate Professor (retired) School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Dr. Terri Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Cinema, Concordia University, Canada
Dr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law Academic Director, International Law Programs Faculty of Law Queen’s University, UK
Mark Ayyash, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University, Canada
John King, Associate Adjunct Professor, New York University, USA
Denis Kosseim Philosophy Department CEGEP André-Laurendeau Montréal, Canada
Dr. Todd May, Philosopher, USA
Randa Farah, Associate Professor University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Alexis Merlaud, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium
Michael Rothberg, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Holocaust Studies, UCLA, USA
Prof. Mark Lance, Department of philosophy, program on justice and peace Georgetown University, USA
Dr. Les Levidow Senior Research Fellow Open University, UK
Dr. Imad Mustafa, University Erfurt, Germany
Dr. Chiara De Cesari, Associate Professor, European and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Susan Blackwell Lecturer, Dept of Languages, Literature and Communication, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dr. Kathrin Thiele, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Prof. Nitzan Shoshan, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico
Prof. Mandy Turner Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Prof. Dr. Yolande Jansen Socrates Professor for Humanism in Relation to Religion and Secularity at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the Free University Amsterdam, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Peyman Jafari, Princeton University, USA
Dr. Giovanni Picker, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow, UK
Prof. Adam Hanieh Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies University of Exeter, UK
Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh Head of English University of Kent, UK
PhD(c) Nadia Silhi Chahin Researcher, University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Nicola Pratt, Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East University of Warwick, UK
Daniel A. Segal, Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology & Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont, USA
Dr. Martijn de Koning, Associate Professor Islam Studies Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mauricio Amar, Professor at the Eugenio Chahuan Center for Arab Studies, University of Chile, Chile
PhD Lina Meruane, Writer and Associate Clinical Professor at New York University, Chile/USA
Omar Jabary Salamanca, FNRS Research Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mr. Barry Finnegan, Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at the Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications, Griffith College, Ireland
Suad Joseph Distinguished Research Professor University of California Davis, USA
Professor Karen Till, Maynooth University, Ireland
Prof. dr. Sarah Bracke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivan Huber, PhD Prof Emeritus of Biology Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, NJ, USA
Dr. Nick Riemer, Senior Lecturer, English and Linguistics departments, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music, USA
William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraAuthor, Co-Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, USA
Dr. Robert Austin Henry, Honorary Associate, Dept. of History University of Sydney, Australia
Viviana Ramírez, BA (Hons), Dip. Ed. Senior Teacher of Spanish & Home Economics (retired) NSW & Queensland Depts. of Education (1980-2016), Australia
David Mond, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, UK
(Dr) Michael Leonard Furtado, BA(Hons), CertEd(Lond), GradDipRE(ECU), DipSoc(Oxon), MA(WA), PhD(QLD), CertFour (Disability Studies)
Professor Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University Vienna, Austria
David Klein, Professor of Mathematics California State University Northridge, USA
Dr. Sharae Deckard, Associate Professor in World Literature University College Dublin, Ireland
Ximena de la Barra Mac Donald, Independent scholar UN retiree, Spain
Dr. Larry Haiven, Professor Emeritus, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Howard Winant, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Frances M. Clarke, Associate Professor Frances M Clarke Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University, USA
Prof. Gerry Kearns, Professor of Geography Maynooth University, Ireland
David Barkin, Profesor Distinguido, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana – Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico
Sophia Hoffinger, PhD Researcher University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Sheryl Nestel, Lecturer in Sociology (retired), University of Toronto, Canada
Assistant Professor Jillian Rogin, University of Windsor, Windsor ON, Canada
Dr. Erella Grassiani University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Margaret Ferguson, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of California, Davis, USA
Deborah Cowen, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Lamia Moghnieh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Pepijn Brandon, Assistant Professor Global Economic and Social History Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Julio Yao, Professor of International Law, International Analyst, Panama
Shahla Razavi, Associate Professor, Mathematics (Retired) Mt. San Jacinto Community College California, USA
Prof. Rami Salameh, Birzeit University, Palestine
Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Dr. Sarah El Bulbeisi, Researcher, Lebanon
Leah Galant, Fulbright Scholar, USA
Professor Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Professor Ruba Salih, SOAS, University of London, UK
Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, University of London, UK
Professor emeritus Moshé Machover, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, London UK
Prof. Daniel Boyarin Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, UC Berkeley (emeritus) and Grus Visiting Professor of Jewish Law, Harvard Law School (2021-2022), USA
Mike Cushman, Research Fellow LSE (rtd), UK
Dr. Lila Sharif, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies. The University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics, UK
Esther Romeyn, Senior Lecturer, Center for European Studies, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Candice Breitz, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
Dr. Alyosxa Tudor, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
Prof. Yael Politi, B CUBE – Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kempf, University of Konstanz Department of Psychology, Germany
Professor Ilan Pappe, Historian, University of Exeter, UK
Professor Jodi Melamed, Marquette University, USA
Dr. Alborz Ghandehari, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Utah, USA
Karma R. Chávez, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas, USA
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Professor (of American Studies and Anthropology) J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. Wesleyan University, USA
Dr. Jacqueline Ismael, Professor Emerita, University of Calgary, Canada
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Prof. Caroline Rooney, University of Kent, UK
Anne Meneley, Professor of Anthropology Trent University, Canada
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Professor James A. Reilly, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law, City University of London, UK
Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Angelo Stefanini, Retired Faculty, University of Bologna, Italy
Walid Kazziha, Professor of Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English & Middle Eastern Studies City University of New York, USA
Prof. Janet C.E. Watson, FBA Co-director of Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems University of Leeds, UK
Prof. Laura Guazzone, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Susan Slyomovics, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures University of California Los Angeles, USA
Nada Moumtaz, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Farid Hafez, Researcher, Georgetown University, The Bridge Initiative, USA
Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Assistant Professor American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Leila Pourtavaf, Assistant Professor of Global Public History Department of History York University, Canada
Charles E. Butterworth, Emeritus Professor Department of Government & Politics University of Maryland College Park, MD USA
Catherine Cobham, Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Persian, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Stephen Marmura PhD (he/him) Associate Professor Department of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Dr. Paul Kelemen retired academic (formerly of Manchester University UK)
Leonardo Capezzone Associate Professor Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Francesco Zappa Associate Professor, Islamic Studies Sapienza University, Italy
Dr. James Deutsch Faculty, Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Raz Segal, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, USA
Dr. Elaine C. Hagopian, Professor Emerita of Sociology Simmons University (Boston), USA
Dr. Ruth Marshall Associate Professor Departments of Political Science, Study of Religion University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Lambek, FRSC. Professor, University of Toronto Canada
Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Keough School of Global Affairs, The University of Notre Dame, USA
Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English, University of Hawai’i, USA
Dr. Claudia Prestel, Professor emerita, Germany
Yasser Munif Associate Professor/ Emerson College, USA
Elsa Wiehe, ED. D. Boston University African Studies Center K-16 Education Program Manager Boston, Ma, USA
Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Nigel C. Gibson Professor, Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Emerson College Boston, USA
Jason A. Springs, Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies University of Notre Dame, USA
Dr. Ada Barbaro, Senior lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Director, Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University, Palestine
Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada
Prof. Jawed Siddiqi, Emeritus Professor Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Lora Wildenthal, John Antony Weir Professor of History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Najat Rahman, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal, Canada
Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University, USA
Lawrence Davidson, Professor Emeritus of History, West Chester University, USA
Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science and Co-editor of Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, University of Calgary, Canada
Prof. Michelle Hartman, McGill University, Québec, Canada
Jane Mchan, retired professor, USA
Vincent Romani, Professor, Department of Political science, UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Canada
Prof. Ferhat Kentel, “We Shall Live Together” – Foundation of Education and Social Researches (BAYETAV), General Coordinator, Turkey
Ivar Ekeland, Professor emeritus, former President, the University of Paris-Dauphine Member of the Academia Europea, foreign member of the Academies of Norway and Austria
Ira Dworkin, Associate Professor Texas A&M University, USA
Dr. Ellen Fleischmann, Professor Emerita, University of Dayton, USA
Prof. Nakayike Musisi, History Department, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Dr. Karin Kulow Near and Middle East Scientist, Germany
Dr. Hana Masri Fellow Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), USA
Prof. em. Dr. Georg Meggle Analytical Philosopher, Philosophy Department, University Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Hab. Nora Lafi, Historian, Germany
Dr. Sigrid Vertommen, postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
Kate Korycki, Phd Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University, London Ontario, Canada
Amber Jamilla Musser, Professor of English, CUNY/ The Graduate Center, USA
Dr. Katherine Blouin, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. John Chalcraft, London School of Economics, UK
Prof. Tim Jacoby, Global Development Institute, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute Treasurer, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, UK
James Godfrey, PhD Researcher, UK
Paul Allies, Professeur Emérite, Université Montpellier, France
Dr. Rinella Cere, College of Social Sciences and Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Michael Allan, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, USA
Prof., Dr. iur., Dr. h.c., Stefan Trechsel, Former President, European Commission of Human Rights, former Judge of the ICTY, Switzerland
Dr. Peter E Jones, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Prof. Gadi Algazi Tel Aviv University, Department of History & Minerva Institute for German History, Director, Israel
Dr. Jana Cattien, Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Markha Valenta Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Dr. Grietje Baars, Reader in Law and Social Change, The City Law School, City, University of London, UK
Dr. Leandros Fischer, Assistant Professor for International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark/Germany
Dr. Sharri Plonski, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Marco Balboni, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Philippe Enclos, Associate professor in law, retired, University of Lille, France
Fabio Marcelli, Research Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies of the National Research Council, Italy
Dr. Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination, Lakehead University, Canada
Dr. Kylie Thomas Researcher, Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hazem Jamjoum, Doctoral Candidate, New York University, UK
Prof. Emerita Marie Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Dr. Zvi Bekerman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Grietje Baars, Reader in Law and Social Change, The City Law School, City, University of London, UK
Rush Rehm, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, and Classics, Stanford University, Artistic Director, Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT), USA
Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology & Middle East Studies, Brown University, USA
Prof. Emerita Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Associate Professor, Department of English & Chair of Program in Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles (organization for identification purposes only), USA
Howard Rechavia-Taylor, PhD Candidate at Columbia University in the City of New York, Berlin, Germany
Dr. (EdD), Gordon Doctorow, Retired (Adjunct Nova Southeastern University), Canada
Dr. Mikki Stelder, Marie Sklowdowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands
Prof. Pablo Idahosa, York University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Matthias Haase, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Music, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Kirsten L. Scheid, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Prof. Dr. Helga Baumgarten (retired professor at Birzeit University, Palestine), Germany
Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Researcher and PhD candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands/Mexico
George Bisharat, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, USA
Dominique Vidal, journalist and historian, France
Alain Gresh, journalist, France
Marlène Tuininga, Activist journalist, France
Pary El-Qalqili, Filmmaker, Germany
Jan Ralske, Filmmaker, Germany
Canan Turan, Film Scholar, Filmmaker and Activist
Lili Sommerfeld, Musician and Activist, Germany
Monika Vykoukal, Accountant, Vienna, Austria
Teresa Bailey, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, UK
Noor Blaas, Research Master’s student in Cultural Anthropology University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dr. Martin Kemp, Psychoanalyst, UK
Ms Eliana Pinto, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, UK
Annette Feld, Practising Analyst, New Lacanian School, World Association of Psychoanalysis, Israel
Helen Marks, member of Jewish Voice for Labour and Liverpool Friends of Palestine, retired Psychotherapist, UK
Ruth Orli Moshkovitz, activist, mother and project manager, Vienna, Austria
Fenya Fischler, Another Jewish Voice, Belgium
Dipl.-Psych., Psychoanalyst, Michal Kaiser-Livne, Germany
Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst, Germany
Wieland Hoban, composer and translator, chairman of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Germany
Raphael Van Laere, Former President of the Académie Royale d’Archéologie de Belgique, Belgium
Suzanne Berliner Weiss, Author and social justice activist, Canada
Kamal Aranki, Finnish Arab Friendship Society, Finland
Elizabeth Block, Member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, Canada
Dr. Egbert Harmsen, Board member of docP-BDS Netherlands, The Netherlands
Ms Erica Lang, Secretary, North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
Laura Prevedello, Assopace Palestina Italia, Italy
Bruce H. Lofquist M.A. Human Rights Advocate, Canada
Peter Leuenberger, Historian, Switzerland
Rachida Lamrabet, Writer and legal practitioner, Belgium
Charlotte Kates, international coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Canada
Sam Bahour, Writer, businessperson, activist, Palestine
Michael Letwin, Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325 and Member of Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Labor for Palestine, USA
Kathy Bergen, Board member of Canadian Friends of Sabeel and Coordinator of MCEC PIN (Mennonite Church of Eastern Canada Palestine Israel Network), Canada
Michel Legrand, President of Comité Pour Une Paix Juste Au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
Ahmed Abbes, mathematician, Director of research in Paris, France
Drs. Jakob de Jonge, Visual Artist, The Netherlands
Dr. Enrico De Angelis, independent researcher, Italy
Deb Reich Author, No More Enemies Writer/translator Israel
Ms Katherine Priestley, Treasurer, Lewisham Friends of Palestine, UK
Dr. Leonov Hadas, Board member of the Juedische Stimme, Germany
Michèle Sibony, French Jewish Union for Peace, France
Maha Abdallah, Legal Researcher and Human Rights Advocate, Palestine
Luz Diaz, DJ / Curator/ Community organiser, Room 4 Resistance, Germany
Nicholas Morris Member, Global Network on the Question of Palestine, UK
Deena R. Hurwitz, Independent human rights lawyer, USA
Maj Britt Jensen, Visual Artist and PhD student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia Germany/Canada
Dr. Clemens Messerschmid, independent hydrogeologist, Palestine
Gabi Bieberstein, Spokesperson for the Regional Working Group on Peace and International Politics in North Rhine-Westphalia of DIE LINKE, Member of the National Council of Attac, Germany
Dr. Detlef Griesche, Vice-President of the German-Palestinian Society, Germany
