Published: 17 September 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
The signatories include 48 winners of Israel’s most prestigious awards (the Israel Prize and the EMET Prize); seven high-ranking IDF officers; 20 former Israeli Ambassadors, ministers, senior government officials and Members of Knesset; 160 professors in Israeli universities, authors David Grossman and Amos Oz, and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman. ‘We call upon Jews around the world to join with Israeli partners for coordinated action to end the occupation and build a new future, for the sake of the State of Israel and the generations to come.’
See text of the open letter here and full list of signatories here
And see:
Begin and my father had the courage to be real leaders. Netanyahu hasn't. – Yuval Rabin – Haaretz 16.09.16
It was a Likud government in 1979 that endorsed a return to the 1967 borders in the context of the Camp David Accords. But in today's Israel, the right wing is rewriting, forgetting and distorting this history.
Why Israel’s defence and security experts appear ‘leftist’ July 12, 2016
They have been privy to the most sensitive intelligence, and their hands-on security experience, individually and collectively, far surpasses that of Netanyahu. And here they are, unified in the same message: Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a catastrophe for Israel in all respects.
Settlement boycotts - calling time on the hypocrisy of our Jewish leadership – Robert A. H. Cohen – Patheos 16.09.16
In the month of Elul, a call for serious self-examination, even, or especially, if one remains opposed to boycotts of any kind.
David Grossman, the dissenting patriot May 28, 2016
“Literature can remind us that the enemy is not solely the enemy. He is another human being who became the enemy. The writer’s job is to make him less simply ‘the enemy’ and more of a full human being. We do this for our own sake, not just for his sake.”
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