• SPME Petitions - A Call for Faculty World Wide To Commend McMaster University's Administration's Principled Actions on "Israeli-Apartheid Week"
A Call for Faculty World Wide To Commend McMaster University's Administration's Principled Actions on "Israeli-Apartheid Week"
To: President, Peter George and Provost, Ilene Busch-Vishniac, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada
We, the undersigned, college and university faculty from around the world, wish to commend you and express to you our deep appreciation for your courageous and principled stand in calling to account the purveyors of anti-Israel material on the McMaster campus during recent “Israeli Apartheid Week” activities.
The very linkage of the word “apartheid” to the State of Israel is a vile canard that is designed to criminalize, demonize and delegitimize the Israeli state and its supporters. Moreover, the promotion of this falsehood within the campus setting serves, by intimidation and polarization, to create a chilled academic environment not only for Jewish students and faculty, but also for all others of good conscience who recognize the miracle of Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East.
We have learned from history that when intolerance and the abuse of language and free speech are allowed to permeate academia, tyranny will prevail. We sincerely hope that the McMaster example will serve as a catalyst to colleges and universities worldwide to remove from their campuses the annual abomination that goes by the name of “Israeli-Apartheid Week”.
Please sign and circulate this petition to as many colleagues as you can so that we can get 3000 signatures as soon as possible.
Many thanks.
Sincerely,
Lawrence E. Hart, MB, BCh, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FACR
Associate Professor of Medicine
McMaster University
Fred M. Hoppe, BSc, MSc, MA, Ph.D
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Joel Goldberg, Ph.D, CPsych
Associate Professor (Part-Time),
Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
McMaster University
Irwin Feuerstein, B.Ch.E, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
For More Information on the Actions of Administration and Students at McMaster University, go to:
1) Click here for Account in Blogosphere
2) Click here for Account on Canadian Jewish News
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
As an added security measure for signers of this petition to reduce the need to void anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic remarks that have been posted, as well as reducing the number of fraudulent signature postings, the authors might consider necessary to verify the authenticity of signatures. Unfortunately there are significant numbers of individuals who would like to sabotage the credibility and impact of this important precedent-setting petition. If you have any questions, please contact,
Dr. Samuel Edelman, Executive Director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Thank you for your understanding, support and patience.
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