Letter in support of Dr. Anna-Esther Younes
Letter in support of Dr. Anna-Esther Younes
Why this petition matters
Support scholars, activists and journalists against censorship and 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.
The first 502 signatories:
1. European Legal Support Center (ELSC), The Netherlands
2. Room 4 Resistance, queer DJs and nightlife activists collective, Germany
3. Ronnie Kasrils, Former South African Government Minister and Author, South Africa
4. The Jewish Antifascist Bund, Berlin, Germany
5. Prof. Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, USA
6. Bundestag 3 for Palestine (BT3P), Germany
7. Palästina Spricht / Palestine Speaks, Germany
8. Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, Department of History, University of North Carolina, USA
9. Prof. Ella Shohat, Author, USA
10. Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University; Co-Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, USA
11. Prof. Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
12. Ken Loach, Film Director, UK
13. Achille Mbembe, Research Professor in History and Politics University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
14. Prof. Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona, USA
15. Omar Barghouti, human rights defender, Palestine
16. Houria Bouteldja, decolonial activist, France
17. Professor Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University, Australia
18. Dr. Yassir Morsi, Writer and Academic, Australia
19. Françoise Vergès, Antiracist Decolonial Feminist, Writer, France
20. Prof. Emeritus Dr. Fanny-Michaela Reisin, former president of the International League for Human Rights - FIDH Germany, Germany
21. Aviad Albert, PhD candidate, University of Cologne, Germany
22. Prof. Emeritus John Dugard, Universities of Leiden and the Witwatersrand, The Netherlands and South Africa
23. Dr. Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University, USA
24. Nacira Guénif, Sociologist and Anthropologist Professor, University of Paris 8, France
25. Prof. Emeritus Avner Ben-Amos, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
26. Dr. Sami Khatib, Interim Professor, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe, Germany
27. Dr. Hilla Dayan, Lecturer, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands and co-founder Academic for Equality, Israel
28. Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sociologist, University of Coimbra, Portugal
29. Prof. Roy Wagner, GESS department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
30. 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
31. Dr. Ofer Shinar Levanon, Hebrew University and Ruppin Academic College, Israel
32. Dr. Itamar Shachar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium
33. Prof. James Dickins, University of Leeds, UK
34. Dr. Robert Boyce, Emeritus Reader, London School of Economics, UK
35. E. Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada
36. Ronit Lentin, Associate Professor, Sociology (retired), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
37. Prof. Hagit Borer, FBA, FLSA, Department of Linguistics, SLLF, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
38. Prof. Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London, UK
39. Dr. Shir Hever, Manager of BIP e.V., Germany
40. Dr. Samir Abed-Rabbo, Professor of Political Science, Mansfield, USA
41. Prof. em. Dr. Norman Paech, University of Hamburg, Germany
42. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
43. Thomas Perroud, Professor of Public Law, Pantheon-Assas University, France
44. Mark LeVine, Professor of History, Chair, Program in Global Middle East Studies, UC Irvine, USA
45. Paul Aarts, Dept. of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
46. 7amleh, Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, Palestine
47. British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), UK
48. Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East), Germany
49. UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, UK
50. AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le respect du droit international en Palestine), France
51. Another Jewish Voice, Belgium
52. Independent Jewish Voices Canada
53. Comité Pour Une Paix Juste Au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
54. Norwich Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
55. The Rights Forum, The Netherlands
56. Jewish Network for Palestine, UK
57. Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ireland
58. Academics for Palestine, Ireland
59. Dutch Higher Education in Solidarity with Palestine, The Netherlands
60. Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, Australia
61. California Scholars for Academic Freedom, USA
62. Jewish Voice for Peace, Milwaukee Chapter, USA
63. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – Germany, Germany
64. Aydoun Holland, The Netherlands
65. Finnish-Arab Friendship Society, Finland
66. North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
67. BACBI, Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Belgium
68. International Fellowship of Reconciliation-France, France
69. Free Palestine Maastricht, The Netherlands
70. Institut für Palästinakunde (reg. assoc.) - Institute for the Study of Palestine (reg. assoc.), Germany
71. BDS Berlin, Germany
72. Bündnis gegen Rassismus Berlin, Germany
73. Die LINKE Berlin LAG Internationals, Germany
74. Dance with Pride, Germany and The Netherlands
75. Antifascist Music Alliance, Germany and The Netherlands
76. Decolonial International Network, The Netherlands
77. Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina (docP), The Netherlands
78. Europeans Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP), UK
79. Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP), UK
80. Een Ander Joods Geluid (EAJG), The Netherlands
81. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), UK
82. Artists for Palestine, UK
83. Palestine Legal, USA
84. Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), France
85. Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT), France
86. Fédération des tunisiens citoyens des deux rives (FTCR), France
87. Palestina Solidariteit, Belgium
88. Palästinensischen Studenten Verein Berlin - Brandenburg PSV e.V., Germany
89. Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine (CJACP), France
90. CAGE, UK
91. Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (CARE), No More Exclusions, UK
92. Women in Black (Vienna), Austria
93. Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine, France
94. UCL Students for Justice in Palestine, UK
95. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
96. Border Violence Monitoring Network
97. Islamic Human Rights Commission, UK
98. Africa 4 Palestine, South Africa
99. Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director, Afro-Middle East Centre, South Africa
100. Dr. Leena Dallasheh, Associate Professor of History, Humboldt State University, USA
101. Dr. Maria Elena Indelicato, CEEC Individual FCT Researcher, University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies, Portugal
102. Livnat Konopny Decleve, PhD candidate, Tel Aviv University, Israel
103. Bob Brecher, Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy, University of Brighton, UK
104. Richard Seaford, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Exeter, UK
105. Prof. Greg Philo (emeritus), Glasgow University, UK
106. Dr. Derek Summerfield, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College, University of London, UK
107. Herman De Ley, Emeritus Professor, Ghent University, Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI), member of the Coordination Committee, Belgium
108. Dr. Sai Englert, Lecturer, Leiden University, The Netherlands
109. Prof. Yonathan (jon) Anson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (retired), Israel
110. Lucia Admiraal, Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
111. Dr. Lana Sirri, Project manager BIWOC Rising, Germany
112. Prof. Joseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
113. 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)
114. Prof.dr.em Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
115. Professor Emerita, Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, National Board, Member, Jewish Voice for Peace, USA
116. Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Law and Political Science, Emeritur, Yale University, USA
117. Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor at Columbia University, USA
118. Ghislain Poissonnier, French magistrate, France
119. Prof. Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley, Turtle Island, USA
120. Prof. Rebecca Ruth Gould, Professor, Islamic World & Comparative Literature, University of Birmingham, UK
121. Dr. Noa Roei, Assistant Professor, Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
122. Dr. Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor in Legal Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
123. Ms Sarah Sheriff, Lecturer, Adult & Community Education, London, UK
124. Dr. Jens Hanssen, Assoc. Prof., Arab Civilization, Mediterranean Studies and Middle Eastern History, University of Toronto, Canada
125. Dr. Jess Bier, Assistant professor of urban sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
126. Dr. Lieke Smits, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium
127. Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky, Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK
128. Dr. David Kattenburg, University science instructor & journalist, Breda, The Netherlands
129. Dr. Nicola Perugini, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK
130. Irene van Oorschot, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher, The Netherlands
131. Prof. Neve Gordon, International Law, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK
132. Dr. Brooke Maddux, France Palestine Mental Health Network, doctoral scholar in Philosophy, Université de Reims, France
133. Dr. Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
134. Dr. Tamar Berger, Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem, Israel
135. Prof. Esther Peeren, Professor of Cultural Analysis & Academic Director, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
136. 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
137. Dr. Tammy Razi, Sapir College, Israel
138. Dr. Lori A. Allen, Reader in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, SOAS, University of London, UK
139. Prof. Laleh Khalili, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK
140. Prof. Goldie Osuri, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
141. Assoz. Prof. Dr. Birgit Englert, University of Vienna, Austria
142. Shmuel Groag, Senior lecturer, Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
143. Dr. Anat Matar, The Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel and co-founder, Academia for Equality, Israel
144. Prof. Carole H Browner, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
145. Nahla Abdo, Professor (Sociology and Anthropology), Carleton University, Canada
146. PhD fellow, Udi Raz, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany
147. Dr. Anne de Jong, Associate Professor Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
148. Ismail Poonawala, Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, UCLA, USA
149. Dr. Eloe Kingma, Managing Director Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands
150. Professor Emeritus, Raymond Bush, African Studies and Development Politics, POLIS, University of Leeds, UK
151. Dr. Michiel Bot, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
152. Christian Henderson, PhD Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, The Netherlands
153. Prof. Salman Sayyid, Professor of Social Theory & Decolonial Thought, University of Leeds, UK
154. Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sociologist, University of Coimbra, Portugal
155. Dr. Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
156. Dr.Melanie Richter-Montpetit, Senior Lecturer in International Security and Director of the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, UK
157. Mudar Kassis, Birzeit University, Palestine
158. Prof. Riccardo Bocco, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
159. Dr. Kobi Kabalek, Penn State University, USA
160. Prof. Dr. Henning Melber, University of Pretoria, South Africa
161. Prof. Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
162. Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, SOAS, University of London, UK
163. Prof. Dr. emeritus Moshe Zuckermann, Tel Aviv University, Israel
164. Miss Akudo McGee, PhD Researcher, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
165. Law Professor Xavier Dupré de Boulois, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
166. Dr. Rasha Soliman, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Leeds, UK
167. Dr. Inna Michaeli, Sociologist, Germany
168. Prof. em. dr. Marc David Dep. Wiskunde, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
169. Prof. Eva Brems, Head of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium
170. Prof. Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Canada
171. Dr. Nozomi Takahashi, Ghent University, Belgium
172. Prof. Dr. Reinhart Kößler, Germany
173. Dr. Maya Mikdashi, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, USA
174. Dr. Jacques Englebert, Lawyer and Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
175. 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
176. Gordon Doctorow, Ed.D. (adjunct faculty member, Nova Southeastern University—identification purposes only), Canada
177. Prof. em. Vincent Wertz, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium
178. 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
179. Prof. Geert van Loo, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation research Gent, Belgium
180. Prof. Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
181. Prof. Dr. Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London, UK
182. Jessica Elias, Tutor in Politics and Culture of the Middle East, Leiden University, The Netherlands
183. Dr. Helmut Krieger, University of Vienna, Austria
184. Marc Mormont, Professor, University of Liege, Belgium
185. Dr. Leander Meuris, Staff scientist, VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, Belgium
186. Dr. Beatriz de Abreu Fialho Gomes, retired Senior Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria
187. Stef Craps, Professor of English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium
188. Prof. em. Dr. Wolf Linder University of Bern, Switzerland
189. Prof. Dr. Hanan Toukan, Bard College Berlin, Germany
190. Norma Rantisi Professor, Dept. of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University, Canada
191. Marjolein De Pau, PhD Candidate at Ghent University, Belgium
192. Dr. Dror Warschawski, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
193. Layal Ftouni, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory Utrecht University, The Netherlands
194. PhD researcher Brigitte Herremans, Law Faculty, Ghent University, Belgium
195. Dr. Anya Topolski, Associate Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Radboud University, The Netherlands
196. Eric Shragge, Associate Professor (retired) School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec, Canada
197. Dr. Terri Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Cinema, Concordia University, Canada
198. Dr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law Academic Director, International Law Programs Faculty of Law Queen’s University, UK
199. Mark Ayyash, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University, Canada
200. John King, Associate Adjunct Professor, New York University, USA
201. Denis Kosseim Philosophy Department CEGEP André-Laurendeau Montréal, Canada
202. Dr. Todd May, Philosopher, USA
203. Randa Farah, Associate Professor University of Western Ontario, Canada
204. Dr. Alexis Merlaud, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Belgium
205. Michael Rothberg, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Holocaust Studies, UCLA, USA
206. Prof. Mark Lance, Department of philosophy, program on justice and peace Georgetown University, USA
207. Dr. Les Levidow Senior Research Fellow Open University, UK
208. Dr. Imad Mustafa, University Erfurt, Germany
209. Dr. Chiara De Cesari, Associate Professor, European and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
210. Dr. Susan Blackwell Lecturer, Dept of Languages, Literature and Communication, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
211. Dr. Kathrin Thiele, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
212. Prof. Nitzan Shoshan, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico
213. Prof. Mandy Turner Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies, University of Manchester, UK
214. 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
215. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Peyman Jafari, Princeton University, USA
216. Dr. Giovanni Picker, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow, UK
217. Prof. Adam Hanieh Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies University of Exeter, UK
218. Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh Head of English University of Kent, UK
219. PhD(c) Nadia Silhi Chahin Researcher, University of Edinburgh, UK
220. Prof. Nicola Pratt, Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East University of Warwick, UK
221. Daniel A. Segal, Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology & Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont, USA
222. Dr. Martijn de Koning, Associate Professor Islam Studies Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
223. Mauricio Amar, Professor at the Eugenio Chahuan Center for Arab Studies, University of Chile, Chile
224. PhD Lina Meruane, Writer and Associate Clinical Professor at New York University, Chile/USA
225. Omar Jabary Salamanca, FNRS Research Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
226. Mr. Barry Finnegan, Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at the Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications, Griffith College, Ireland
227. Suad Joseph Distinguished Research Professor University of California Davis, USA
228. Professor Karen Till, Maynooth University, Ireland
229. Prof. dr. Sarah Bracke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
230. Ivan Huber, PhD Prof Emeritus of Biology Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, NJ, USA
231. Dr. Nick Riemer, Senior Lecturer, English and Linguistics departments, University of Sydney, Australia
232. Professor Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music, USA
233. William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
234. 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
235. Dr. Robert Austin Henry, Honorary Associate, Dept. of History University of Sydney, Australia
236. Viviana Ramírez, BA (Hons), Dip. Ed. Senior Teacher of Spanish & Home Economics (retired) NSW & Queensland Depts. of Education (1980-2016), Australia
237. David Mond, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, UK
238. (Dr) Michael Leonard Furtado, BA(Hons), CertEd(Lond), GradDipRE(ECU), DipSoc(Oxon), MA(WA), PhD(QLD), CertFour (Disability Studies)
239. Professor Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University Vienna, Austria
240. David Klein, Professor of Mathematics California State University Northridge, USA
241. Dr. Sharae Deckard, Associate Professor in World Literature University College Dublin, Ireland
242. Ximena de la Barra Mac Donald, Independent scholar UN retiree, Spain
243. Dr. Larry Haiven, Professor Emeritus, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
244. Howard Winant, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara, USA
245. Frances M. Clarke, Associate Professor Frances M Clarke Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia
246. David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University, USA
247. Prof. Gerry Kearns, Professor of Geography Maynooth University, Ireland
248. David Barkin, Profesor Distinguido, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Unidad Xochimilco, Mexico
249. Sophia Hoffinger, PhD Researcher University of Edinburgh, UK
250. Dr. Sheryl Nestel, Lecturer in Sociology (retired), University of Toronto, Canada
251. Assistant Professor Jillian Rogin, University of Windsor, Windsor ON, Canada
252. Dr. Erella Grassiani University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
253. Margaret Ferguson, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of California, Davis, USA
254. Deborah Cowen, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
255. Dr. Lamia Moghnieh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
256. Dr. Pepijn Brandon, Assistant Professor Global Economic and Social History Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
257. Julio Yao, Professor of International Law, International Analyst, Panama
258. Shahla Razavi, Associate Professor, Mathematics (Retired) Mt. San Jacinto Community College California, USA
259. Prof. Rami Salameh, Birzeit University, Palestine
260. Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
261. Dr. Sarah El Bulbeisi, Researcher, Lebanon
262. Leah Galant, Fulbright Scholar, USA
263. Professor Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
264. Professor Ruba Salih, SOAS, University of London, UK
265. Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, University of London, UK
266. Professor emeritus Moshé Machover, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, London UK
267. Prof. Daniel Boyarin Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, UC Berkeley (emeritus) and Grus Visiting Professor of Jewish Law, Harvard Law School (2021-2022), USA
268. Mike Cushman, Research Fellow LSE (rtd), UK
269. Dr. Lila Sharif, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies. The University of Illinois, USA
270. Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics, UK
271. Esther Romeyn, Senior Lecturer, Center for European Studies, University of Florida, USA
272. Prof. Candice Breitz, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
273. Dr. Alyosxa Tudor, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
274. Prof. Yael Politi, B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
275. Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, USA
276. Prof. Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK
277. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kempf, University of Konstanz Department of Psychology, Germany
278. Professor Ilan Pappe, Historian, University of Exeter, UK
279. Professor Jodi Melamed, Marquette University, USA
280. Dr. Alborz Ghandehari, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Utah, USA
281. Karma R. Chávez, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas, USA
282. Eithne Luibhéid, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Arizona, USA
283. Professor (of American Studies and Anthropology) J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. Wesleyan University, USA
284. Dr. Jacqueline Ismael, Professor Emerita, University of Calgary, Canada
285. Max Weiss, Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies Princeton University, USA
286. Prof. Caroline Rooney, University of Kent, UK
287. Anne Meneley, Professor of Anthropology Trent University, Canada
288. Bárbara Azaola Piazza, Researcher, GRESAM, Spain
289. Professor James A. Reilly, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto, Canada
290. Dr. Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law, City University of London, UK
291. Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA
292. Dr. Angelo Stefanini, Retired Faculty, University of Bologna, Italy
293. Walid Kazziha, Professor of Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt
294. Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English & Middle Eastern Studies City University of New York, USA
295. Prof. Janet C.E. Watson, FBA Co-director of Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems University of Leeds, UK
296. Prof. Laura Guazzone, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
297. Susan Slyomovics, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures University of California Los Angeles, USA
298. Nada Moumtaz, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
299. Dr. Farid Hafez, Researcher, Georgetown University, The Bridge Initiative, USA
300. Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Assistant Professor American University of Beirut, Lebanon
301. Leila Pourtavaf, Assistant Professor of Global Public History Department of History York University, Canada
302. Charles E. Butterworth, Emeritus Professor Department of Government & Politics University of Maryland College Park, MD USA
303. Catherine Cobham, Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Persian, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
304. Stephen Marmura PhD (he/him) Associate Professor Department of Sociology, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
305. Dr. Paul Kelemen retired academic (formerly of Manchester University UK)
306. Leonardo Capezzone Associate Professor Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
307. Francesco Zappa Associate Professor, Islamic Studies Sapienza University, Italy
308. Dr. James Deutsch Faculty, Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
309. Dr. Raz Segal, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, USA
310. Dr. Elaine C. Hagopian, Professor Emerita of Sociology Simmons University (Boston), USA
311. Dr. Ruth Marshall Associate Professor Departments of Political Science, Study of Religion University of Toronto, Canada
312. Michael Lambek, FRSC. Professor, University of Toronto Canada
313. 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
314. Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English, University of Hawai'i, USA
315. Dr. Claudia Prestel, Professor emerita, Germany
316. Yasser Munif Associate Professor/ Emerson College, USA
317. Elsa Wiehe, ED. D. Boston University African Studies Center K-16 Education Program Manager Boston, Ma, USA
318. Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
319. Nigel C. Gibson Professor, Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Emerson College Boston, USA
320. Jason A. Springs, Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies University of Notre Dame, USA
321. Dr. Ada Barbaro, Senior lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
322. Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Director, Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University, Palestine
323. Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada
324. Prof. Jawed Siddiqi, Emeritus Professor Sheffield Hallam University, UK
325. Lora Wildenthal, John Antony Weir Professor of History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
326. Najat Rahman, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal, Canada
327. Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University, USA
328. Lawrence Davidson, Professor Emeritus of History, West Chester University, USA
329. Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science and Co-editor of Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, University of Calgary, Canada
330. Prof. Michelle Hartman, McGill University, Québec, Canada
331. Jane Mchan, retired professor, USA
332. Vincent Romani, Professor, Department of Political science, UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Canada
333. Prof. Ferhat Kentel, "We Shall Live Together" - Foundation of Education and Social Researches (BAYETAV), General Coordinator, Turkey
334. 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
335. Ira Dworkin, Associate Professor Texas A&M University, USA
336. Dr. Ellen Fleischmann, Professor Emerita, University of Dayton, USA
337. Prof. Nakayike Musisi, History Department, University of Toronto, Canada
338. Prof. Dr. Karin Kulow Near and Middle East Scientist, Germany
339. Dr. Hana Masri Fellow Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), USA
340. Prof. em. Dr. Georg Meggle Analytical Philosopher, Philosophy Department, University Leipzig, Germany
341. Dr. Hab. Nora Lafi, Historian, Germany
342. Dr. Sigrid Vertommen, postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
343. Kate Korycki, Phd Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Western University, London Ontario, Canada
344. Amber Jamilla Musser, Professor of English, CUNY/ The Graduate Center, USA
345. Dr. Katherine Blouin, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of Toronto, Canada
346. Prof. John Chalcraft, London School of Economics, UK
347. Prof. Tim Jacoby, Global Development Institute, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute Treasurer, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, UK
348. James Godfrey, PhD Researcher, UK
349. Paul Allies, Professeur Emérite, Université Montpellier, France
350. Dr. Rinella Cere, College of Social Sciences and Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
351. Michael Allan, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, USA
352. Prof., Dr. iur., Dr. h.c., Stefan Trechsel, Former President, European Commission of Human Rights, former Judge of the ICTY, Switzerland
353. Dr. Peter E Jones, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
354. Prof. Gadi Algazi Tel Aviv University, Department of History & Minerva Institute for German History, Director, Israel
355. Dr. Jana Cattien, Assistant Professor in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
356. Dr. Markha Valenta Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
357. Dr. Grietje Baars, Reader in Law and Social Change, The City Law School, City, University of London, UK
358. Dr. Leandros Fischer, Assistant Professor for International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark/Germany
359. Dr. Sharri Plonski, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK
360. Marco Balboni, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
361. Dr. Philippe Enclos, Associate professor in law, retired, University of Lille, France
362. Fabio Marcelli, Research Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies of the National Research Council, Italy
363. Dr. Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination, Lakehead University, Canada
364. Dr. Kylie Thomas Researcher, Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
365. Hazem Jamjoum, Doctoral Candidate, New York University, UK
366. Prof. Emerita Marie Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
367. Dr. Zvi Bekerman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
368. Dr. Grietje Baars, Reader in Law and Social Change, The City Law School, City, University of London, UK
369. Rush Rehm, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, and Classics, Stanford University, Artistic Director, Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT), USA
370. Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology & Middle East Studies, Brown University, USA
371. Prof. Emerita Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, USA
372. Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Associate Professor, Department of English & Chair of Program in Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
373. Dr. Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles (organization for identification purposes only), USA
374. Howard Rechavia-Taylor, PhD Candidate at Columbia University in the City of New York, Berlin, Germany
375. Dr. (EdD), Gordon Doctorow, Retired (Adjunct Nova Southeastern University), Canada
376. Dr. Mikki Stelder, Marie Sklowdowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands
377. Prof. Pablo Idahosa, York University, Canada
378. Prof. Dr. Matthias Haase, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA
379. Dr. Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Music, University of Birmingham, UK
380. Dr. Kirsten L. Scheid, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
381. Prof. Dr. Helga Baumgarten (retired professor at Birzeit University, Palestine), Germany
382. Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Researcher and PhD candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands/Mexico
383. George Bisharat, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, USA
384. Dominique Vidal, journalist and historian, France
385. Alain Gresh, journalist, France
386. Marlène Tuininga, Activist journalist, France
387. Pary El-Qalqili, Filmmaker, Germany
388. Jan Ralske, Filmmaker, Germany
389. Canan Turan, Film Scholar, Filmmaker and Activist
390. Lili Sommerfeld, Musician and Activist, Germany
391. Monika Vykoukal, Accountant, Vienna, Austria
392. Teresa Bailey, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, UK
393. Noor Blaas, Research Master’s student in Cultural Anthropology University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
394. Dr. Martin Kemp, Psychoanalyst, UK
395. Ms Eliana Pinto, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, UK
396. Annette Feld, Practising Analyst, New Lacanian School, World Association of Psychoanalysis, Israel
397. Helen Marks, member of Jewish Voice for Labour and Liverpool Friends of Palestine, retired Psychotherapist, UK
398. Ruth Orli Moshkovitz, activist, mother and project manager, Vienna, Austria
399. Fenya Fischler, Another Jewish Voice, Belgium
400. Dipl.-Psych., Psychoanalyst, Michal Kaiser-Livne, Germany
401. Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst, Germany
402. Wieland Hoban, composer and translator, chairman of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Germany
403. Raphael Van Laere, Former President of the Académie Royale d’Archéologie de Belgique, Belgium
404. Suzanne Berliner Weiss, Author and social justice activist, Canada
405. Kamal Aranki, Finnish Arab Friendship Society, Finland
406. Sid Shniad, Founding member, Independent Jewish Voices, Canada
407. Jay Murphy, writer & author, New Orleans, USA
408. Elizabeth Block, Member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, Canada
409. Dr. Egbert Harmsen, Board member of docP-BDS Netherlands, The Netherlands
410. Ms Erica Lang, Secretary, North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
411. Laura Prevedello, Assopace Palestina Italia, Italy
412. Bruce H. Lofquist M.A. Human Rights Advocate, Canada
413. Peter Leuenberger, Historian, Switzerland
414. Rachida Lamrabet, Writer and legal practitioner, Belgium
415. Charlotte Kates, international coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Canada
416. Sam Bahour, Writer, businessperson, activist, Palestine
417. Michael Letwin, Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325 and Member of Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Labor for Palestine, USA
418. Kathy Bergen, Board member of Canadian Friends of Sabeel and Coordinator of MCEC PIN (Mennonite Church of Eastern Canada Palestine Israel Network), Canada
419. Michel Legrand, President of Comité Pour Une Paix Juste Au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
420. Ahmed Abbes, mathematician, Director of research in Paris, France
421. Drs. Jakob de Jonge, Visual Artist, The Netherlands
422. Dr. Enrico De Angelis, independent researcher, Italy
423. Deb Reich Author, No More Enemies Writer/translator Israel
424. Ms Katherine Priestley, Treasurer, Lewisham Friends of Palestine, UK
425. Dr. Leonov Hadas, Board member of the Juedische Stimme, Germany
426. Michèle Sibony, French Jewish Union for Peace, France
427. Maha Abdallah, Legal Researcher and Human Rights Advocate, Palestine
428. Luz Diaz, DJ / Curator/ Community organiser, Room 4 Resistance, Germany
429. Nicholas Morris Member, Global Network on the Question of Palestine, UK
430. Doris Ghannam, Activist, Germany
431. Seth Aubrey Pyenson, Activist, Germany
432. Solveig Qu Suess, Filmmaker, Researcher and PhD Candidate, Basel University, Switzerland
433. Ahmed Abed, Lawyer of the BT3P (bt3p.org), Germany
434. Omar Ashour, Medical intern, University of Maastricht; founding chair, Free Palestine Maastricht, The Netherlands
435. Franklin Ledezma Candanedo, Journalist, writer and member of the COPASOLPA (Panamanian Committee of Solidarity with the Palestinian People), Panama
436. Danna Marshall, Student Activist, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
437. Jumana Manna, Artist, Germany
438. Katharine Halls, Translator, UK
439. Heiko Schmidt, Bookseller, Germany
440. David Morgan, Consultant Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst, UK
441. Mohammad Braiwish, Managing Director, TrafQuest Engineering Consulting, United Arab Emirates
442. Alisa Gayle-Deutsch, Musician Toronto, Ontario, Canada
443. Judith Deutsch, psychoanalyst, Canada
444. Deena R. Hurwitz, Independent human rights lawyer, USA
445. 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
446. Dr. Clemens Messerschmid, independent hydrogeologist, Palestine
447. 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
448. Dr. Detlef Griesche, Vice-President of the German-Palestinian Society, Germany
449. Phil Butland, Commissioning Editor, theleftberlin.com, Germany
450. Ursula Mathern, Disarmament and Peace Activist, Germany
451. Naoual Belakhdar, Political scientist, Germany
452. Peter Leuenberger, Historian, Switzerland
453. Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Black in Berlin, Curator, Norway
454. Gabriela (Nin) Solis Gutiérrez, Photographer, Mexico
455. Dror Feiler, Chair, European Jews for a Just Peace, Sweden
456. Arthur Goodman Diplomatic and Parliamentary Officer, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, UK
457. Jowan Safadi, Musician, writer and activist, Palestine (AKA Israel)
458. Michael Warschawski, Activist and Journalist, Chairman of the Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
459. Mr Craig Murray, Journalist, former British Ambassador and Rector of the University of Dundee Scotland, UK
460. Yuval Gal Cohen, Part of JID.Le - Jüdisch Israelischer Dissens Leipzig, Germany
461. Berna Toprak, PhD Candidate Political Sociology University of Amsterdam, Co-Founder of Muslim women’s collective S.P.E.A.K., The Netherlands
462. Maria Fernanda Caceres, Lawyer, Chile
463. Yara Kayyali, Palestine
464. Jaap Hamburger, Chair for Een Ander Joods Geluid, The Netherlands
465. Frances Webber, Vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations, London, UK
466. Michael Sappir, Writer, Germany
467. Marwa Fatafta, Al-Shabaka, Germany
468. Esra Ozyurek, UK
469. Kiefah Muhaisen, Palestinian in Germany
470. Yehudit Yinhar, Artist, Germany
471. R. Goossens, Project manager, The Netherlands
472. Dr. Jennifer Petzen, Social Scientist, Germany
473. Dr. Kerem Schamberger, political activist, Germany
474. Dr. Dror Dayan, Senior Lecturer in Media Production, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
475. Roger Waters, Musician/Activist
476. Dr. Eik Doedtmann, Postdoctoral researcher, Filmuniversity Babelsberg, Germany
477. John Smith, Artist, Emeritus Professor of Fine Art, University of East London, UK
478. Lynne Segal, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
479. Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
480. Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
481. Miriam Margolyes, actor, UK
482. Kika Markham, actor, UK
483. Roy Battersby, television director, UK
484. Penny Woolcock, screenwriter, director, UK
485. David Farr, writer, director, UK
486. Alexei Sayle, comedian, writer, broadcaster, UK
487. Gillian Slovo, author, UK
488. Hanan Al-Shaykh, writer, UK
489. Victoria Brittain, writer, UK
490. Carmen Callil, publisher, writer, UK
491. Selma Dabbagh, writer, UK
492. April De Angelis, playwright, UK
493. Dr. Rachel Holmes, writer, UK
494. Brigid Keenan, author, United Kingdom
495. Dr. Dana Mills, writer, Israel
496. Dr. Maggie Gee, novelist, UK
497. Omar Al-Qattan, Chair, AM Qattan Foundation, UK
498. Charlotte Prodger, artist, Scotland
499. Saeed Taji Farouky, filmmaker and educator, UK
500. Dr. Miranda Pennell, artist, filmmaker, UK
501. Dr. Daniel O'Gorman, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow in English Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK
502. Angela Davis, scholar, activist, US
503. Dr. Kristina Kolbe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
504. Dr. Ladan Rahbari, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
505. China Miéville, writer, UK
506. Sabrina Mahfouz, writer, UK
507. Gemma Jackson, Production Designer, UK