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The Israeli petition expresses outrage over “indications that the ‘fog of war’ could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing.”
The American academics echoed this concern in their petition.
But the organizers of the more recent petition also wrote it to point out the culpability of the U.S. should the Israeli government begin forcibly expelling Palestinian residents, said an organizer of the petition.
Fifteen of the Harvard signatories on this new petition also supported last spring’s petition requesting the University divest from Israeli financial interests—a petition that drew strong criticism from some.
While this new petition does cite American financial support of Israeli tactics as an additional cause for concern, the campaign for divestment from Israel is a wholly separate issue, Hoffman said.