Lettre au rédacteur en chef du New York Review of Books (10 novembre, 2016)
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
Institutional affiliations for purposes of identification only
