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FFIPP: Internationals Palestinians and Israelis Working in Solidarity for a Complete End of Occupation and Just Peace




FFIPP International


Guiding Principles |Statement on Academia|FFIPPI Advisory Board |Leadership


Statement of Purpose



So that, crushed beneath the rubble of occupation, a human spirit of hope will rise, its wounds heal and life flourish

The Middle East has been one of the most turbulent regions since WWII.  While attracting extraordinary world attention and inspiring initiatives of great imagination, it has also seen some of the worst violations of human rights and international law, ethnic humiliation and the perpetration of war, injustice and abuse of resources.  These dynamics have intensified in the past decade, alongside the emergence of hope for a fundamental change of course.  Particularly tragic is the conflict in Israel/Palestine. 

We call upon academics worldwide to join an International Network, whose efforts would support and promote the causes of real peace and human concern, while opposing violence and the degradation of human life. The International Network will act to promote the following aims:



    

  1. The right to self-determination of all peoples in the Middle East, within the norms of the international community.
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  2. The freedom from military occupation, territorial annexation and incursion, as well as from humiliation and the destruction of livelihood of any community.
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  3. Conformity with international law including the human right to teach and to learn.
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  4. The meaningful reconciliation between conflicting ethnic groups and denominations through joint educational and cultural projects.
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  5. Activity within campuses and related networks toward the mobilization of academia worldwide in support of the above.
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Academics, intellectuals and artists- by having a salient voice in shaping culture- have an obligation to guard and promote critical thinking, personal morality and human solidarity.

Crushed beneath the human suffering, a cry for help is rising, calling on  those witnessing the tragedy to join hands, in the name of our common humanity and a spirit of hope, for a just and lasting peace – lest an unimaginable catastrophe befall Palestinians, Israelis and beyond.



						Guiding Principles



FFIPP- I Guiding Principles

Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals Working in Solidarity for a Complete End of Occupation and Just Peace

1. FFIPP-I recognizes and insists on the potential of peace and cooperation to transform the future of Israelis and Palestinians

2. Universal humanistic values, mutual respect and recognizing the humanity in each other are the starting points of FFIPP-I work. These key values include freedom, equality, justice and compassion for those who suffer.

3. FFIPP-I regards academic freedom for Palestinians as a key issue, focusing on the human right of the Palestinians to study free of hardships. This entails a struggle for the immediate alleviation of the conditions of the vast majority of the Palestinians, i.e., an end to checkpoints, dismantling of the Wall, and a complete end of occupation.

4. FFIPP-I's work is rooted in Academia/Universities. It focuses on faculty, and incorporates students, thus magnifying the objective significance of academia/campuses.

5. The end of the occupation is FFIPP-I's focal issue, but this does not preclude support and involvement with other issues.

6. FFIPP-I's decisions are (and have always been) made jointly by Palestinians, Israelis and internationals.

7. FFIPP-I advocates an international effort, which cannot and must not wait for policy makers to 'change their mind'.

8.  FFIPP-I is a main arena for FFIPP's activities. The relation between local and international FFIPP work must be understood as dialectical: Internationals reinforce-and-reinforced by Palestinians and Israelis.

9. FFIPP-I views the struggle for justice and the support of Palestinian rights as simultaneously a struggle for the security and moral status of Israelis and world Jewry. 

10. While FFIPP-I's major efforts are aimed to end the occupation in Palestine, it recognizes the suffering under occupation of the Iraqi people and supports an end to all occupations in the region.

11. FFIPP-I's actions and words reflect a commitment to humanism, non-aggression and non-violence. 





Statement on Academia



Israeli Academia, Palestinian Higher Education and the International Community

FFIPPI is an international network of academics and students that support a complete end to the illegal Israeli occupation of lands seized in the 1967 war and removal of all the settlements and the separation wall built on occupied land.

We call on Israeli, Palestinian and international academics everywhere to take a stand in support of ending the occupation, as well as against the extreme violence to which it has subjected both Palestinians and Israelis. Academics worldwide must also stand firm in support of the basic human right for free education in both Palestine and Israel, a right that has been compromised, continually in Palestine, due to the continued occupation.



    

  1. We call upon international academics visiting Israeli institutions of higher education, and Israeli academics visiting foreign institutions, to make clear their support of ending the Israeli occupation and the removal of the separation wall built on occupied land.
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  2. Academics invited to speak at Israeli educational institutions should try to visit and speak at equivalent Palestinian institutions.
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  3. FFIPPI supports the call to sanction faculty and institutions, which clearly support the occupation.
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  4. FFIPPI calls on professional associations of academics, in Israel and internationally, to take a stand against the occupation and to issue guidelines regarding the use of academic connections to promote the end of Israeli occupation.
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  5. FFIPPI expresses its strong support for and encouragement of individuals in the Israeli and Palestinian academy whose actions against the occupation and in support of peace and justice have resulted in personal hardship. Notable cases include Israelis refusing IDF military service in the occupied territories; those publicly condemning the violation of civil and human rights in the occupied territories; and those Palestinians who have called for an end to suicide bombing and the use of arms against Civilian targets. FFIPPI will act to publicize their actions.
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  6. FFIPPI views the College of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank as a part of the machinery of Israeli occupation and calls upon academics worldwide to refuse to collaborate with it in any way.
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  7. FFIPPI calls for all possible assistance for Palestinian institution of higher education. It urges international academics:
    
	-to collaborate with and teach in Palestinian institutions of higher education; 
    
	-to invite Palestinian staff to conferences abroad and to work to secure their invitation to conferences within Israel;
    
	-to sponsor the exchange of students from and to Palestinian campuses;
    
	-to maximize the sharing of research, and the exchange of books and other resources with such Palestinian institutions.
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  8. FFIPPI will publicize infringements of academic freedom, urging action against Israeli violations of freedom of movement of academics and students at checkpoints, for example, and any related harassment that routinely obstructs the free functioning of Palestinian academic institutions.
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This statement is appended to the FFIPP-International statement of purpose and is understood in its context.





FFIPPI Advisory Board



Hanan Ashrawi*

MIFTAH, Jerusalem




Zygmunt Bauman 

Leeds University


Sydney Brenner

Kings College, Cambridge University, UK

Nobel Prize, Physiology/Medicine, 2002


Harvey Cox

Harvard University


Jacques Derrida (Deceased)

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales


Freeman Dyson

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton


Yehuda Elkana*

President and Rector, Central European University, Budapest


Arun Gandhi 

Founder, President, M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence


Stuart Hall

Birmingham University

The Open University


Albert Hirschman

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton


Eric Hobsbawm 

University of London


Stanley Hoffmann

Harvard University


Edvard Hauff

University of Oslo


Tony Judt

New York University


Robert Jay Lifton

Yale University 

City University of New York, John Jay College


Abdelwahab Mahjoub

Université Tunis El Manar

Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis


Ahmed Okasha 

President, World Psychiatric Association

Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Training and Research

Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University - Cairo


Frances Fox Piven  

City University of New York


Hilary Putnam

Harvard University


Jacqueline Rose

University of London


Joseph Rotblat (Deceased)

University of London

Founder, President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Nobel Prize, Peace, 1995


Jack Steinberger

Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire

Nobel Prize, Physics, 1988


Edriss Titi

Weizmann Institute of Science


Archbishop Desmond Tutu

South Africa

Nobel Prize, Peace, 1984


* Co-Chairs of the Advisory Board




Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-International Leadership



Dr. Eyad Sarraj, President, Palestine

Prof. Arnon Hadar, Chair of the Executive Board, USA

Board of Directors: 

Anat Biletzki, Israel *

Yoav Elinevsky, USA

Lily Feidy, Palestine *

Arnon Hadar, USA *

Bassma Kodmani, France

Eyad Sarraj, Palestine *

Lynne Segal, UK

Simone Susskind, Belgium

Salim Tamari, Palestine *

Oren Yiftachel, Israel *

* Member of the Executive Board


 

   

   
	
	

	   
	
	
  

  
	
	
	

    




	

	

		
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