UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CALL FOR EUROPEAN BOYCOTT OF RESEARCH AND CULTURAL LINKS WITH ISRAEL

Washington - 5 April 2002:

As of noon on Friday, more than 120 university academics and researchers from across Europe had signed during the course of three days, an open letter, presented for publication in The Guardian, calling for a moratorium on all future cultural and research links with Israel at European or national level until such time as the Israeli government abide by UNresolutions and open serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians along the lines of the recent Saudi peace plan.

The signatories include more than 90 from the UK, amongst them 43 university professors including some of the country's leading natural and social scientists. The list includes one signatory from within Israel itself. Other signatories are from Eire, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland,Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

The full text of the letter and list of signatories follows:

Letter:

Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders. The major potential source of effective criticism, the United States, seems reluctant to act. However there are ways of exerting pressure from within Europe. Odd though it may appear, many national and European cultural and research institutions, including especially those funded from the EU and the European Science Foundation, regard Israel as a European state for the purposes of awarding grants and contracts. (No other Middle Eastern state is so regarded). Would it not therefore be timely if at both national and European level a moratorium was called upon any further such support unless and until Israel abide by UN resolutions and open serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians, along the lines proposed in many peace plans including most recently that sponsored by the Saudis and the Arab League.

Signatories (alphabetically by country as of 16.00 5th April)

[Note - all signatories are signing in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes]

Britain

Ainley, Dr Patrick, ,University of Greenwich

Aleksander, Professor Igor, Imperial College London

Banks, Dr Sarah, University of Durham

*Bateson, Professor Patrick FRS, Provost Kings College Cambridge

Beckford, Dr Jim, University of Warwick

Bendelow, Dr Gill, University of Warwick

Bennett, Professor Tony, Open University

Birke, Dr Lynda, University of Lancaster

*Blakemore, Professor Colin FRS, Oxford University

Blankenburg, Dr Stephanie, SOAS, London

Breugel, Professor Irene, Middlesex University

Brunner, Dr Eric, University College London

Burton, Professor Emerita Leone, Birmingham University

Caddel, Dr Richard, Durham University

Cockburn, Cynthia, City University

*Cohen, Professor Robin, Warwick, currently University of Cape Town

Crompton, Professor Rosemary, City University, London

David, Professor Miriam, Keele University

*Dawkins, Professor Richard FRS, Oxford University

Dore, Dr Elizabeth, University of Southampton

Duckett, Professor Jeff, Queen Mary University of London

Ellison, Dr Nick, University of Durham

Edmondson, Linda, Birmingham University

Edmondson, William, Birmingham University

Ettore, Professor Elizabeth, Plymouth University

Fine, Dr Robert Warwick university

Fletcher, Dr John, Warwick University

Fonagy, Professor Peter, University College London

Fox, Edward London (writer)

Ginn, Dr Jay Surrey University

Glendinning, Victoria London (writer)

Gregory, Professor Richard FRS, Bristol University

Hakimian, Dr Hassan, SOAS, London

Healey, Dr Peter SPSG London

Himmelweit, Dr Sue, Open University

Hobson, Professor Marian, London University

Honderich, Emeritus Professor Ted, University College London

Humphrey, Professor Nicholas, London School of Economics

Hunter, Professor Lynette, Leeds University

Kamminga, Dr Harmke, Cambridge University

*Karmiloff-Smith, Professor Annette, Institute of Child Health, London

Kuper, Richard, Hatfield University

Laven, Dr David, University of Reading

Lawler, Dr Stephanie, University of Durham

Law, Professor John, Lancaster University

*Lister, Professor Ruth, Loughborough University

Macpherson, Rev. Duncan, St Mary's University College,University of Surrey

*McRobbie, Professor Angela, Goldsmith's College London

Merck, Professor Mandy, Royal Holloway and Bedford College

Messkoub, Dr Mahmood, University of Leeds

*Midgley, Dr. Mary, retired Newcastle University (philosopher)

Mileusnic, Dr Radmila, Open University

Moon, Dr Claire, University of Kent

Moore, Professor Robert, Liverpool University

Murcott, Professor Anne, Nottingham University

Murphy, Professor Sean, Nottingham University

Orun, Dr Ahmed, Birmingham University

Osborne, Professor Peter, Middlesex University

Phillips, Dr. Sarah, University of Durham

Press, Dr Ron (engineer, retired)

Preston, Dr Rosemary, University of Warwick

Rangwala, Dr Glen, Trinity College, Cambridge

Rivera, Consuela, University of Lancaster

Rose, Professor Hilary, City University London

Rose, Professor Nikolas, Goldsmith's College London

Rose, Professor Steven, Open University

Rosen, Michael, London (writer and broadcaster)

Rowley, Professor Gwyn (retired)

Russell, Professor Willie, FRSE, University of St Adrews

Ryan, Dr Mark, Birmingham University

Salter, Professor Brian, University of East Anglia

Samuels, Professor Andrew, Essex University

Sassoon, Professor Anne Showstack, Kingston University

*Savage, Dr Wendy, London Hospital (retired)

Scott, Professor Sue, Durham University

Segal, Professor Graeme, All Souls, Oxford

*Segal, Professor Lynne, Birkbeck College, London

Shakespeare, Dr Tom, Life Centre, Newcastle

Shackle, Dr Emma, Plater College Oxford

Shire, Dr George, Open University

Shuker, Professor David, Open University

Sinha, Professor Martin, Southampton University

Sloman, Professor Aaron, Birmingham

Smith, Dr Paul, University of Keele

Solomon, Professor Joan, Open University

Taylor, Dr Paul, Warburg Institute, London

Tozer, David, Peterborough, Cambridge University

Treacher, Dr Amal, Birkbeck College, London

Tudge, Dr Colin, London (writer and broadcaster)

Ward, Dr Helen, Imperial College London

Yao, Professor Xin, Birmingham University

Yuval-Davis, Professor Nira, University of Greenwich

Eire

*Lynch, Dr Marina, Trinity College Dublin

Regan, Professor Ciaran, University College Dublin

Denmark

Sinha, Dr Chris, Technical University, Copenhagen

Finland

Hearn. Professor Jeff, School of Economics, Helsinki

France

*Levy-Leblond, Professor Jean-Marc, Nice University

Cobb, Dr Matthew, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Paris

Ohlsson-Malek, Dr Fairouz, CNRS, Paris

Germany

Reymann, Professor Klaus, Magdeburg

*Frey, Professor Julietta, Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg

Iceland

*Vilhjalmsson, Professor Thorsteinn, University of Iceland

Sigurdsson, Dr Skuli, University of Iceland

Italy

*Frontali, Professor Nora, ISS, Rome

Mengheri, Elena, INRAN, Rome

Minicozzi, Dr Velia, University of Tor Vergata, Rome

Murgia, Dr Chiara, INRAN, Rome

Ranaldi, Dr Giulia, INRAN, Rome

Turrini, Dr Aida, INRAN, Rome

Vladikas, Dr Anastassios, INFN, Rome

Israel

**Jablonka, Professor Eva, Tel-Aviv University

Norway

**Andersen Professor Per, Oslo University

Fjelland, Professor Ragnar, Bergen University

Waerness, Professor Kari, Bergen University

Portugal

*Matos, Dr Augusta, Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Lisbon

Queiroz, Professor Clara, ( retired)University of Lisbon

Spain

*Ferrus, Professor Alberto, Cajal Institute, Madrid

Sweden

Elzinger, Professor Aant, University of Goteborg

Esseveld, Professor Johanna, University of Lund

Holmquist, Associate Professor, Ingrid, University of Goteborg

Karfve, Professor Eva, University of Malmo

Nilsson, Professor Arne, University of Goteborg

*Therborn, Professor Goran, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in

the Social Sciences, Uppsala

Wellin, Professor Stellan, University of Goteborg

Switzerland

*Lipp, Professor Hans-Peter, Zurich University

Maranta, Dr Alessandro, ETH, Zurich

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Robert S. Rodvik

Author/media analyst