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...petition, released online March 15, was written by the six-member executive committee of the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (FFIPP), which includes Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack ’59 and four professors from other universities...
...Mendelsohn said that there was no specific impetus for the petition, which had 1,045 signatures last night, but that the FFIPP was becoming increasingly concerned about the constraints on universities’ ability to operate—particularly after the construction of the separation wall between Israeli and Palestinian territories...
...Mendelsohn said that the petition addresses “the severe constraints on movement on people in the West Bank, and therefore the difficulty of normal patterns of university life being carried...
...Mendelsohn said that the group focuses on protecting academic freedom, but that this necessarily includes broader issues...
...can’t totally divorce [academic freedom] from other issues,” Mendelsohn said. “There are lots of other organizations that deal with these other issues, but we’re primarily aimed at an academic focus. This is what the group had in common...