This petition came to me yesterday – there are probably more signatures by now -
The current Knesset, to the chagrin of decent citizens everywhere, is considering the following three bills, all of them blatantly anti-democratic, all of them flagrant violations of the basic right to free expression, essential to democracy.
1) That citizens who do not sign an oath, pledging their loyalty to the State of Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state and declaring their willingness to do military or alternate national service, will be stripped of their citizenship.
2) That anyone publicly marking Israel’s Independence Day as a day of mourning, i.e. as Nakba, will be punished by imprisonment for three years.
3) That anyone denying the identity of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, if there is a reasonable possibility this will generate hatred, scorn or disloyalty to the state or any of its entities, will be punished by imprisonment for one year.
Because we understand the meaning of democracy and the nature and responsibilities of a truly democratic state, as many members of the current government clearly do not, we the undersigned.hereby declare our intention to publicly defy some or all of the above prohibitions if they are passed into law.
Signed
1. Prof. (emeritus) Bill Freedman
2. Prof. (emeritus) Zvi Sobel
3. Prof. (emeritus) Mechal Sobel
4. Dr. Shakhar Rahav
5. Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli
6. Eliezer Rafaeli
7. Prof. Shimon Sapir
8. Prof. Avner Giladi
9. Prof. Adi Ben Ari
10. Yaron Ben Ari
11. Prof. Stanley Waterman
12. Prof. (emeritus) Michael Saltman
13. Prof. Kobi Peterzil
14. Prof. Danielle Schaub
15. Sandra Levy
16. Prof. Esther Levinger
17. Prof. Leon Blaustein
18. Prof. (emeritus) Butrus Abu-Manneh
19. Prof. (emeritus) Alexander Guiora
20. Prof. Ruth Lorand
21. Dr. Sara Meyer
22. Dr. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
23. Prof. Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
24. Prof. (emeritus) Shmuel Sever
25. Dr. Ilan Saban
26. Prof. Micah Leshem
27. Prof. Avi Oz
28. Prof. Guiora Hon
29. Dr. Michele Rosenthal
30. Prof. Tamar Katriel
31. Dr. Ron Kuzar
32. Prof. David Blanc
33. Prof. (emeritus) Yoram Carmeli
34. Prof. Daphna Carmeli
35. Prof. (emeritus) Gabi Salomon
36. Dr. Bennett Kravitz
37. Prof. John Myhill
38. Dr. Nadav Kashtan
39. Dr. Ruth Fidler
40. Dr. Yuval Yonai
41. Prof.. Debbie Bernstein
42. Prof. Vered Kraus
43. Dr. Ayelet BenYishai
44. Dr. Jonathan Berg
45. Prof. Anna Sfard
46. Prof. Mira Ariel
47. Prof. Noam Flinker
48. Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt
49. Uri Mor
50. Prof. Yehudit Harel
51. Sinai Peter
52. Prof. (emeritus) Irene Sever
53. Dr. Maria Yelenevskaya
54. Dr. Dalit Simchai
55. Dr. Yael Maschler
56. Illan Gonen
57. Prof. (emeritus) Reuven Shoham
58. Paul Inbar
59. Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph
60. Prof. (emeritus) Yossi Mart
61. Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul
62. Prof. Samuel J. Wajc
63. Dr. Diane Shubinsky
64. Prof. Susan Rothstein
65. Prof. Fred Landman
66. Dr. Amos Megged
67. Dr. Yehuda Shubinsky
68. Dr. Lynne Toubkin
69. David Toubkin
70. Michal Artzy
71. Miriam Rieck
If you want to add your name to this list, please write
Prof. Bill Freedman: freedman@research.haifa.ac.il
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