Lettre au rédacteur en chef du New York Review of Books (10 novembre, 2016)
Par Angela Y. Davis, Chandler Davis, Richard A. Falk, Rashid Khalidi, Alice Rothchild, etc…
Traduction française SF pour l’AURDIP
Une déclaration récemment publiée dans le New York Review of Books appelle à « un boycott économique et une non-reconnaissance politique des colonies israéliennes dans les territoires occupés (Lettres, 13 octobre).
Nous saluons la façon dont la déclaration brise le tabou qui frappe le boycott des institutions israéliennes complices – au moins partiellement – des violations des droits humains des Palestiniens.
Défiant néanmoins le sens commun, la déclaration appelle à boycotter les colonies en laissant Israël, l’État qui a illégalement construit et entretenu ces colonies depuis des décennies, en dehors du coup.
De plus, les banques israéliennes non implantées dans les colonies mais qui financent leur construction ne devraient-elles pas être ciblées elles aussi ?
C’est ce qu’ont fait l’Église Méthodiste Unie et l’important Fond de pension néerlandais PGGM.
En omettant les autres violations graves du droit international perpétrées par Israël, la déclaration ne satisfait pas au test de cohérence morale.
Les réfugiés palestiniens, qui représentent la majorité des Palestiniens, n’ont-ils pas droit au respect des droits qui leur sont stipulés par l’ONU ?
Les citoyens palestiniens d’Israël ne devraient-ils pas jouir de l’égalité des droits, par le rejet des dizaines de lois israéliennes qui les soumettent à la discrimination raciale ?
La société civile palestinienne a appelé au Boycott, au Désinvestissement et aux sanctions (BDS) contre toutes les entités, israéliennes ou internationales, qui se font complices de la négation des droits des Palestiniens où qu’ils soient.
Comme l’a montré le boycott de l’apartheid sud africain, c’est le moyen non-violent le plus efficace pour atteindre la liberté, la justice et l’égalité pour tous.
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Co-director, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA
Mamdouh Aker, MD, Commissioner, Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, Ramallah, Palestine
Chandler Davis, Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Laurence Dreyfus FBA, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Farid Esack, Chair, Dept. of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Princeton, Santa Barbara, USA
Ronnie Kasrils, Former Minister of Intelligence, Johannesburg, South Africa
Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA
Malcolm Levitt FRS, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Miriam Margolyes, Actress, O.B.E., London, UK
John Pilger, Journalist and filmmaker, London, UK
Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Alice Rothchild, MD, Retired Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Seattle, USA
Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York, New York, USA
Joan W. Scott, Professor Emerita, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Peter H. S. Sporn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace, New York, USA
Alice Walker, Writer, Berkeley, CA, USA
Roger Waters, Musician, New York, USA
et cent quatre autres signataires
Les affiliations institutionnelles sont mentionnées à des fins d’identification seulement
Liste complète des signataires (11 octobre 2016)
Ahmed Abbes, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Paris, France
Ramy Abu Abdu, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Co-director, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA
Assad Abu Sharkh, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, New York, USA
Ali Abunimah, Author and journalist, Chicago, USA
Mamdouh Aker, MD, Commissioner, Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, Ramallah, Palestine
Huwaida Arraf, Civil rights attorney, Detroit, USA
Sion Assidon, Human rights activist, BDS Morocco, Casablanca, Morocco
Fouad Ayyad, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine
Omar Barghouti, Human rights defender, BDS movement, Acre, Palestine/Israel
Riham Barghouti, Co-founder, Adalah-NY, New York, USA
Nasser Barghouti, Board Member, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-San Diego, San Diego, USA
Ronnie Barkan, Human rights activist, Boycott from Within, Tel Aviv, Israel-Palestine
Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Sherna Berger Gluck, Emerita faculty, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, USA
Samia Botmeh, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine
Robert Boyce, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Jean Bricmont, Professeur de physique à Université de Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
Victoria Brittain, Author and playwright, London, UK
Diana Buttu, Lawyer, Nazareth, Palestine/Israel
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Elliott Colla, Dept. of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Lawrence Davidson, Professor Emeritus of History, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, USA
Chandler Davis, Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Colin Dayan, Professor of English & Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Herman De Ley, Emeritus Professor, Ghent University, Nevele, Belgium
Mary Ann De Vlieg, Independent evaluator and consultant, Venice, Italy
Raymond Deane, Composer and author, Dublin, Ireland
James Dickins, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Laurence Dreyfus FBA, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Nasser Eid, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine
Haidar Eid, Professor of Literature, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine
Farid Esack, Chair, Dept. of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Princeton, Santa Barbara, USA
Margaret Ferguson, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Davis, Davis, US
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Writer, talk show host, Maryland, USA
Naomi Foyle, University of Chichester, Brighton, UK
Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Manoa, USA
Irene Gendzier, Prof Emeritus, Boston University, Boston, USA
Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Terri Ginsberg, Assistant Professor & Director of Film, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Neta Golan, Co-founder and activist, International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Palestine
Kevin A. Gould, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dorothy Griffiths OBE FCGI FRSA, Imperial College London, London, UK
Andrew Paul Gutierrez, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Marwan Hamdan, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA
Salah Hassan, Michigan State University, Lansing, US
Kamel Hawwash, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Nasser Hejazi, Al-Quds Open University, Gaza, Palestine
Nadia Hijab, Author and human rights advocate, London, UK
Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, US
Ray Jureidini, Professor, Doha, Qatar
Andrew Kadi, Steering Committee Member, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Washington, DC, USA
Remi Kanazi, Poet, New York, USA
Ronnie Kasrils, Former Minister of Intelligence, Johannesburg, South Africa
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Assaf Kfoury, Boston University, Boston, USA
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA
Suhail Khoury, Director, Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Jerusalem, Palestine
David Klein, Professor of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, US
David Landy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, Labor for Palestine ; Former President, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325, NYC, USA
Les Levidow, Open University, London, UK
Malcolm Levitt FRS, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, England
David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, US
Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, University of London, London, UK
Anna Majavu, PhD Candidate, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Rayaz A. Malik, Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
Mike Marais, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Miriam Margolyes, O.B.E., Actress, London, UK
Rania Masri, Associate Director, Asfari Institute, American University Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, London, UK
Omar M. Masri, Managing Director, EDGO, Amman, Jordan
William Messing, Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Alan Meyers, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Michel Mietton, Professeur émérite, Université Lyon 3 – Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Bill V. Mullen, Professor of American Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, US
Dorit Naaman, Alliance Atlantis Professor of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Karma Nabulsi, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Rima Najjar, Professor (retired), Al-Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine
Mica Nava, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, London, UK
Josiane Olf-Nathan, Ingénieur d’Etudes (retired), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Dina Omar, PhD Candidate, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ayyoub Othman, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford, Stanford, USA
David Pegg, Professor of Biology, University of York, York, UK
John Pilger, Journalist and filmmaker, London, UK
Sami Ramadani, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Marwan Rashed, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Roshdi Rashed, Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, Professeur honoraire à l’Université de Tokyo, Paris, France
Timothy Reiss, Professor Emeritus, New York University, Berkeley, US
John Reynolds, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Nick Riemer, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York, US
Steven Rose, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, The Open University, London, UK
Jonathan Rosenhead, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, London, UK
Bob Ross, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, USA
Alice Rothchild, MD, Retired Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Seattle, USA
Josh Ruebner, Policy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Washington, DC, USA
Samah Sabawi, Author and playwright, Melbourne, Australia
Steven Salaita, Edward W. Said Chair, American University Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston, US
Malini Schueller, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York, New York, USA
Joan W. Scott, Professor Emerita, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Richard Seaford, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Sid Shniad, Member, National Steering Committee, Independent Jewish Voices Canada, Vancouver, Canada
David Simpson, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
Kobi Snitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Ahdaf Soueif, Writer, Cairo, Egypt
Peter H. S. Sporn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Lina Suleiman, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Salim Vally, Director, Center for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace, New York, USA
Alice Walker, Writer, Berkeley, CA, USA
Roger Waters, Musician, New York, USA
Craig Willse, George Mason University, Washington, DC, US
Hatem Zaag, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Université Paris 13, Paris, France
Haifa Zangana, Author and UN-ESCWA Adviser, London, UK
