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Over 1,000 academics, including 21 Harvard faculty members and 16 students have signed a petition calling for greater action in protecting the freedom and accessibility of educational institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The 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...
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...
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 out.”
Thaksin at first appeared to dismiss the case, telling reporters that Somchai "just wanted to get away from family problems for a while." Rebuffing calls for a special investigation, he called Somchai "merely a lawyer." But to Muslims in the south, Somchai, 52, is a hero and icon. He has...