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Neve Gordon writes: As Jews around the world come together to celebrate Passover, the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery and the beginning of a life of freedom, they should keep in mind Rachel’s last words to her mother: “I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the US supports….”

Neve Gordon writes: “A simple google search with the words “Palestinian violence” yields over 86,000 pages, while a search with the words “Palestinian civil disobedience” generates only 47 pages – this despite the fact that for several years now Palestinians have been carrying out daily acts of civil disobedience against the Israeli occupation…”

Anat Matar a philosophy Professor at Tel Aviv University, comes out in support of Neve Gordon (see https://jfjfp.com/?p=4667 and https://jfjfp.com/?p=4720) and details both the engagement of her own university in the occupation and Israel’s on-going lack of concern for Palestinian academic freedom and basic education: ‘When the flag of academic freedom is raised, the oppressor and not the oppressed is usually the one who flies it.’

Prof Neve Gordon of Ben Gurion University wrote in an op-ed in the LA Times (20 August) that the question that kept him up at night, both as a parent and as an Israeli citizen, was how to ensure that his two children as well as the children of his Palestinian neighbors do not grow up in an apartheid regime. His pained conclusion is that the only strategy left is “massive international pressure” in the form of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).
Since then he has been subjected to vilification and threats from his university to sack him. Please rally to his support […]

PS: The Magnes Zionist (22nd August) has an amusingly sardonic take on the response of some Los Angeles Jews to the Neve Gordon’s article below. See it here. __________________ In a Los Angeles Times op-ed Neve Gordon, an American-born Jew who has lived in Israel for nearly 30 years and teaches political science at Ben-Gurion […]