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Columbia University Professors Sign Petition in Support of BDS - Jewish World News - Haaretz - Israeli News Source Haaretz.com
▻http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.706529

Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition urging the New York school to divest from companies that “supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.”
The petition was released Monday morning to mark the first day of Israel Apartheid Week, the Columbia Spectator reported.
According to the petition, the signatories “stand with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine as well as with Jewish Voice for Peace in calling upon the University to take a moral stance against Israel’s violence in all its forms.”
They include Rashid Khalidi, a history and Middle Eastern studies professor who is a longtime critic of Israel and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history who sees Zionism as a racist and colonialist movement, and Nadia Abu El-Haj, an anthropology professor who received tenure in 2007 following a heated battle over the merits of her work, particularly a book that accuses Israel of manipulating archaeological findings to legitimize its existence.
The most heavily represented departments among the signers are Middle Eastern South Asian and Africa studies, or MESAAS, English and comparative literature, and anthropology.
Partha Chatterjee, an anthropology and MESAAS professor at the Ivy League school who signed, told the Spectator in an email that he wanted to protest Israel’s security regime, which “virtually amounts to apartheid.”
“I fully support every effort to put pressure on the Israeli government to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands,” he said.
Dirk Salomons, a signatory who is a senior lecturer at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, told the Spectator, “I’ve always had a feeling as a Jew that a Jewish state should rise slightly above the lack of morality of its neighbors. It pains me to see how a country which I love and which I have visited many times can be so blind to the needs of its neighbors.”

Pétition des professeurs de l’université de Columbia à New York
Des enseignants, chercheurs et membres de la communauté de l’Université de Columbia, le 5 mars 2016
►http://www.aurdip.fr/petition-des-professeurs-de-l.html

En tant qu’universitaires et membres de la communauté, nous sommes, professionnellement, intellectuellement, et moralement, investis dans notre université. Nous estimons de notre devoir de tenir l’institution responsable des implications éthiques de ses propres actions, notamment de ses investissements financiers et de leurs implications dans le monde. En particulier, nous entrons en désaccord avec nos participations financières dans des institutions associées à l’occupation militaire par Israël des terres palestiniennes, à ses violations continuelles des droits de l’homme palestiniens, à sa destruction systématique de la vie et des biens, à sa ségrégation inhumaine et à ses formes systémiques de discrimination.

En 2002, les membres du corps enseignant de différents départements ont demandé à ce qu’il soit mis fin à notre investissement dans toutes les entreprises qui avaient approvisionné l’armée d’Israël en armes et en équipement militaire. Étudiants, anciens élèves, professeurs, et membres du personnel, ont convenu de joindre leur nom à un appel demandant de retirer l’autorisation sociale à l’État d’Israël dans son utilisation d’une violence asymétrique et excessive contre les civils palestiniens.

Nous sommes aujourd’hui aux côtés d’Apartheid Divest de l’université de Columbia, des Étudiants de Columbia pour la Justice en Palestine aussi bien que d’une Voix juive pour la paix, en faisant appel à l’université pour qu’elle adopte une position morale contre la violence d’Israël sous toutes ses formes. Nous exigeons que l’université se désinvestisse des sociétés qui fournissent, perpétuent, et profitent d’un système qui subjugue le peuple palestinien depuis plus de 68 ans. Nous prenons bonne note que notre position se tient explicitement en soutien à un mouvement non violent privilégiant les droits de l’homme comme le seul moyen d’aller à une résolution politique.

Nous demandons à notre université de reconnaître son rôle indéniable, et son influence, dans et sur les systèmes mondiaux, un rôle éminent qui s’accompagne d’une dose de la même importance de responsabilité morale.

Signataires :
Nadia Abu El-Haj | Anthropology, Barnard
Lila Abu Lughod | Anthropology, Columbia
Gil Anidjar | Religion & MESAAS, Columbia
Zainab Bahrani | Art History & Archaeology, Columbia
Brian Boyd | Anthropology, Columbia
Allison Busch | MESAAS, Columbia
Partha Chatterjee | Anthropology & MESAAS, Columbia
Hamid Dabashi | MESAAS, Columbia
E. Valentine Daniel | Anthropology, Columbia
Katherine Franke | Law, Columbia
Victoria de Grazia | History, Columbia
Robert Gooding-Williams | Philosophy & IRAAS, Columbia
Stathis Gourgouris | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Farah Griffin | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Wael Hallaq | MESAAS, Columbia
Marianne Hirsch | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Jean Howard | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Rashid Khalidi | History & MESAAS, Columbia
Mahmood Mamdani | Anthropology & MESAAS, Columbia
Joseph Massad | MESAAS, Columbia
Brinkley Messick | Anthropology & MESAAS, Columbia
Timothy Mitchell | MESAAS, Columbia
Rosalind Morris | Anthropology, Columbia
Frederick Neuhouser | Philosophy, Barnard
Mae Ngai | History, Columbia
Gregory Pflugfelder | History & EALAC, Columbia
Sheldon Pollock | MESAAS, Columbia
Elizabeth Povinelli | Anthropology, Columbia
Wayne L. Proudfoot | Philosophy, Columbia
Anupama Rao | History & Human Rights, Barnard
Bruce Robbins | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
George Saliba | MESAAS, Columbia
Dirk Salomons | SIPA, Columbia
David Scott | Anthropology, Columbia
Avinoam Shalem | Art History & Archaeology, Columbia
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Neferti Tadiar | Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard
Michael Taussig | Anthropology, Columbia
Marc Van De Mieroop | History, Columbia
Gauri Viswanathan | English & Comparative Literature, Columbia
Paige West | Anthropology, Barnard
Michael Harris | Mathematics, Columbia
Jonathan Crary | Art History & Archaeology, Columbia
Shamus Khan | Sociology, Columbia
Zoe Crossland | Anthropology, Columbia
Steven Gregory | Anthropology, Columbia
James Schamus | Film, Columbia
Abeer Shaheen | MESAAS, Columbia
Elizabeth Bernstein | Sociology, Barnard
J. Blake Turner | Psychiatry, Columbia
Lydia Goehr | Philosophy, Columbia
Danielle Haase-Dubosc | French & Romance Philology, Columbia
Peter Marcuse | GSAPP, Columbia
Gray Tuttle | EALAC, Columbia
Rebecca Jordan-Young | Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard
Josh Whitford | Sociology, Columbia
Ross Hamilton | English, Barnard
Nora Akawi | GSAPP, Columbia
Taylor Carman | Philosophy, Barnard
Reinhold Martin | GSAPP, Columbia
Branden W. Joseph | Art History, Columbia
Felicity Scott | GSAPP, Columbia
Audra Simpson | Anthropology, Columbia
Carol Benson | International & Comparative Education, Columbia
Michael Thaddeus | Mathematics, Columbia
Karen Froud | Neuroscience & Education, Columbia
John Collins | Philosophy, Columbia

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Nothing Unintentional « LRB blog- Nadia Abu El-Haj- 29 July 2014
Tags: #israel | #palestine
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/07/29/nadia-abu-el-haj/nothing-unintentional

... imagine if Hamas were able to aim its rockets. Imagine it targeting the home of a high-ranking officer in the IDF, killing his wife and children, nieces and nephews, along with the family next door. Imagine these casualties being described as ‘collateral damage’ for which Hamas bore no legal or moral responsibility.

The IDF’s bombardment of Palestinian homes, schools and hospitals, indiscriminately pummelling the people of #Gaza into the ground, deserves to be called what it is: a war #crime.

#punition_collective #victimes_civiles #impunité #complicité