Susan mickel lmft santa monica2/6/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() In his letter, Gordon stated that while “we grieve the heinous killings of Israeli and Palestinian civilians,” he wished to express the “profound concern over the content of your letter of 29 October to Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian… given the current atmosphere in Israel, its capacity to incite both verbal and physical violence against Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian.” According to Gordon, the letter’s widespread circulation has “potentially endangered Professor Shalhoub Kevorkian’s mental and physical wellbeing and contravenes your duty of care towards her.” Tamir Sheafer, the Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Asher Cohen, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian also works as the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, where Gordon also teaches.Ī couple of weeks ago, Gordon, as the vice president of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), sent a letter on behalf of the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom, addressing Prof. He is a political scientist with no experience in human rights law, which is what he teaches, who apparently was recruited due to his anti-Israel bias. For two decades, Gordon has been espousing the false Palestinian narrative that the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank live under Israeli occupation. ![]() Gordon, formerly of the Ben Gurion Department of Politics and Government who called for the boycott of Israel in 2009, is currently teaching Human Rights Law at the Queen Mary University of London. Professor Neve Gordon stands out in this context. The Israeli media reported on the petitions, generating anger among Israelis against the professor.įor almost two decades, IAM has been reporting on Israeli academics who have used their position as a platform for anti-Israeli agitation. Neither of the petitions expressed any empathy for the suffering of Israelis during the Black Sabbath attack by Hamas. The first petition, “Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza” from 15 October, stated, “As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” The second petition, published on November 7, 2023, “Childhood researchers and students call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” stated, “We write this letter as academics and students who specialize in the study of children and childhood to call for the immediate cessation of the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and the egregious violation of Palestinian children’s rights.” Things came to a head when she signed two anti-Israel petitions recently, after the Black Sabbath of 7 October, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians. Her anti-Israel bias, paid by the Israeli taxpayers, prompted anger against her. That “Necrocapitalism” is “operationalized through violent policing of Palestinians.” For Shalhoub-Kevorkian, necrocapitalism is the “means of accumulating capital and profit from the death” of Palestinians, where “profit flows from visible and invisible violence, as well as the killing of the colonized, as a state of fear generates continuous insecurity, which in turn generates a demand for security goods.” Because “Israel is one of the top arms exporters in the world.” IAM also reported that Shalhoub-Kevorkian espoused fake news about Israel in her co-authored 2021 article, “Colonial Necrocapitalism, State Secrecy and the Palestinian Freedom Tunnel,” arguing that in Israel, “the very existence of the Palestinian endangers the colonial state… their death is necessary for the survival” of Israel. ![]() In 2017, she wrote that in the Palestinian city space of “occupied” East Jerusalem, “Colonial and settler colonial dispossession is performed through various forms of violence, justified by cultural, historical, religious and national imperatives… one of these forms of violence as the occupation of the senses, referring to the sensory technologies that manage bodies, language, sight, time and space in the colony.” Shalhoub-Kevorkian has a history of anti-Israel scholarship. She said that Israel uses its humanitarian aid to distract from its “oppressive power.” She argued in support of Palestinians throwing stones at Jews as a form of “violent resistance.” She examined the “framing, production and performance of security regimes that create and encourage systems of racialized oppression.” The Hebrew University Law Faculty professor spoke at a George Washington University Professional Psychology Program event in September 2022, where she espoused anti-Israel arguments. In January 2023, IAM reported how Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian abused her academic position to bash Israel. ![]()
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