Que l’on soit ou pas en faveur de BDS (
Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions) comme outil pour changer
la situation qui a cours en Palestine, il est important de reconnaître
que le boycott est une forme d’expression politique affirmée
internationalement et constitutionnellement protégée.
En tant qu’instrument non violent visant à un changement politique,
le boycott ne peut être interdit sans que soit piétiné le droit
d’expression politique, qui est constitutionnellement protégé.
Les personnes qui soutiennent le boycott ne doivent pas être
soumises à des représailles, de la surveillance ou de la censure
quand elles choisissent d’exprimer un point de vue politique, même si
ses détracteurs peuvent le trouver offensant.
Nous voyons actuellement des efforts renforcés pour
court-circuiter la parole d’individus et mener contre eux des actions
de représailles sur la base de leurs opinions ou associations
politiques, notamment le soutien à BDS. Nous
demandons aux institutions culturelles et éducatives d’avoir le
courage et la position de principe de défendre et sauvegarder les
principes mêmes de la liberté d’expression et du libre échange d’idées
qui rendent ces mêmes institutions possibles. Ceci implique le refus
d’accepter les pressions, l’intimidation et les menaces qui visent
à baîllonner des orateurs, au prétexte de leurs opinions supposées
ou avérées. Cela implique aussi le refus d’imposer un contrôle
politique à des orateurs ou des artistes invités à parler ou montrer
leur oeuvre.
Nous demandons aux institutions éducatives et culturelles
qu’elles s’engagent à nouveau à maintenir les principes d’un débat
ouvert et qu’elles restent les lieux où exprimer une palette d’idées,
y compris sujettes à controverse.
C’est seulement en refusant de devenir la main de la censure et de la
calomnie, en rejetant la chasse aux sorcières, l’intimidation et la
discrimination à l’encontre de certains points de vue que ces
institutions seront fidèles à leur raison d’être : des centres
d’éducation et de culture.
Signataires :Judith Butler Professor, UC Berkeley
Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor in Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
Etienne Balibar Emeritus Professor, Paris-Nanterre
Natalie Zemon Davis Professor of History
Deborah Eisenberg Writer
Eve Ensler Playwright/Activist
Samera Esmeir Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Khaled Fahmy Professor, The American University in Cairo
Katherine Franke Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Paul Gilroy London
Naomi Klein Author and Journalist
Jacqueline Rose Professor of English, Queen Mary University of London
Mariam C Said Individual
Joan W Scott Institute for Advanced Study
Professor Lynne Segal University of London
Wallace Shawn Writer
Lila Abu-Lughod Columbia University
Sara Ahmed Goldsmiths, University of London
Udi Aloni Filmmaker and writer
Richard Appelbaum MacArthur Foundation Chair, Global & International Studies, UCSB
Elsa Auerbach Professor Emerita, UMass Boston
Lisa Baraitser Birkbeck, University of London
Yael Bartana Artist
Rosalyn Baxandall SUNY Old Westbury Distinguished Prof Emeritus
Joel Beinin Donald J McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford Univerrsity
Emanuela Bianchi New York University
Omri Boehm New School for Social Research, Assistant Professor
John Borneman Princeton University
Nicolas Bousserez Research Associate, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sarah Bracke Harvard Divinity School
Naomi Braine Brooklyn College
Laurie A. Brand University of Southern California
Renate Bridenthal Professor, retired from CUNY
Wendy Brown UC Berkeley
Shale Brownstein Retired psychiatrist HHC
Susan Buck-Morss Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Eduardo Cadava Princeton University
Margaret Cerullo Hampshire College
Sally Charnow Hofstra University, Professor of History
Alexandra Chasin New School for Social Research
Eric Cheyfitz Professor, Cornell University
Kandice Chuh Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center
Ilene Cohen Editor
Elliott Colla Georgetown University
Christopher Connery Professor, University of California Santa Cruz
Stuart Davis Cornell University
Walt Davis Retired minister/professor
Ashley Dawson Professor, English Department, CUNY
Colin Dayan Vanderbilt University
Brett de Bary Professor, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Beshara Doumani Professor of History, Brown University
Lisa Duggan Professor, New York University
Nancy du Plessis Artist
David Eng University of Pennsylvania
Darlene Evans Cornell University
Sara Farris Assistant Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Leila Farsakh Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Pnina Feiler Physicians for Human Rights
Kathy E. Ferguson Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Hawai’i
Elle Flanders Filmmaker
Jeff Fort University of California, Davis
Cynthia Franklin Professor of English, University of Hawaii
Carla Freccero Professor
Jamie Fuller Artist
Jennifer Gaboury Hunter College, CUNY
Ellen Gruber Garvey Ph.D.
Michael Gilsenan Prof. Michael Gilsenan
Neve Gordon
Samira Haj Professor
Lisa Hajjar Professor of Sociology, University of CA-Santa Barbara
J. Halberstam Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
Sondra Hale Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Abdellah Hammoudi Professor , Princeton University
Beth Harris Associate Professor, Ithaca College
Professor Emerita, Princeton University
Salah D. Hassan Associate Professor, MSU
Gail Hershatter University of California, Santa Cruz
Neil Hertz Johns Hopkins University
Marianne Hirsch Professor, Columbia University
Andrew Hsiao Verso Books
Elizabeth Ingenthron Graduate Theological Union
Margo Jefferson Writer
Joseph Jeon Pomona College
Jeanette Jouili College of Charleston
Moon-Kie Jung University of Illinois
Ann Jungman Writer
Amy Kaplan University of Pennsylvania
Carolyn L. Karcher Professor Emerita, Temple University
Suvir Kaul A M Rosenthal Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Kendall Associate Professor, New School
Arang Keshavarzian Faculty member, New York University
Dr. Gail Lewis Reader in Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College
Risa Lieberwitz Professor, Cornell University
Audrea Lim Verso Books
David Lloyd University of California, Riverside
Zachary Lockman New York University
Ania Loomba Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Miriam R. Lowi Professor, The College of New Jersey
Sandra R Mackie Reverend
Saba Mahmood UC Berkeley, Associate Professor
Harriet Malinowitz Professor of English, Long Island University, Brooklyn
Curtis Marez Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
Mario Martone Cornell University
Barry Maxwell Senior Lecturer, Cornell University
Rela Mazali Author & Independent Scholar
Jeffrey Menlick University of Massachusetts Boston
Brinkley Messick Columbia University
Jennifer Miller Circus Amok, Director
University of Southern California
Susette Min University of California, Davis
Chandra Talpade Mohanty Syracuse University
Aurora Levins Morales Writer
Fred Moten University of California, Riverside
Yasser Munif Emerson College
Tad Mutersbaugh Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky
Chiara Nappi
Manijeh Nasrabadi New York University
David Palumbo-Liu Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Professor, Vassar College
Rosalind Petchesky Distinguished Professor Emerita, Hunter College & the Graduate Center CUNY
Silvia Posocco Birkbeck, University of London
Vijay Prashad Trinity College
Sara Pursley Associate Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Bruce Robbins Columbia University
Corey Robin Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew Ross New York University
Dr. Catherine Rottenberg
John Carlos Rowe
Rachel Rubin Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Leticia Sabsay Birkbeck College, Univeristy of London
Neil Saccamano Cornell University
Ilan Safit Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Pace University
Josefina Saldaña Professor, New York University
Paul Sawyer Cornell University
James Schamus Columbia University
C. Heike Schotten Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Sarah Schulman Distinguished Professor of the Humanities CUNY College of Staten Island
Sherene Seikaly Director of Middle East Studies Center, American University in Cairo
Karen Shimakawa Associate Professor
Lincoln Shlensky University of Victoria
Marc Siegel Ast. Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Victor Silverman Chair, Department of History, Pomona College
David Simpson U of California-Davis
Jeffrey Skoller Professor, UC Berkeley
Darryl A. Smith Associate Professor, Pomona College
Alisa Solomon Professor, Columbia University
Dov Waxman Professor
Robert Warrior University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kathy Wazana Documentary filmmaker
Max Weiss Princeton University
Laura Wernick Fordham University
Lisa Westarp Grace Memorial Episcopal Church
John M. Willis Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Dagmawi Woubshet Cornell University, Associate Professor
Rachel Zolf Writer
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