Know the Professor: Haim Bresheeth

  • Runs a virulently anti-Israel website promoting BDS and other anti-Israel content.[1]
  • Gave the keynote address at the first Palestinian BDS conference in Ramallah.[2]
  • Lectured worldwide promoting BDS and attacking Israel.[3]
  • Hosts a “Gaza Carnage Archive” section on his website.[4]
  • Signed a petition calling to boycott an international conference at Tel-Aviv University.[5]
  • Signed an open letter calling on the German government to reject a resolution equating BDS with anti-Semitism. The letter also urged Germany to continue funding organizations, including pro-BDS NGOs, that “peacefully challenge the Israeli occupation” and “expose severe violations of international law.”[6]
  • Signed a petition in support of anti-Semitic British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and of “end[ing] the occupation and the blockade of Gaza.”[7]
  • Hosted a petition on his website accusing Israel of the “slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent people” in Gaza.[8]
  • Signed a petition in support of Hermann Dierkes, a leader of the Left Wing Party in Germany, who called to boycott Israel.[9]
  • Signed a petition encouraging the United Methodist Church to divest from “companies that enable the occupation to continue.”[10]
  • Signed a petition accusing Israel of perpetrating “atrocities” in Gaza and urging the United Nations to impose sanctions on Israel.[11]
  • Signed a petition calling on the European Council, Commission and the European Parliament to pressure Israel into surrendering to Hamas’ demands.[12]
  • Signed a letter urging Australian historian Alison Bashford not to accept the prestigious Dan David Prize, which is headquartered at Tel-Aviv University, because doing so would “legitimize and normalize Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid.”[13]

[1] http://www.haimbresheeth.com/politics/political-writing/

[2] http://www.haimbresheeth.com/invited-lectures/

[3] http://www.haimbresheeth.com/invited-lectures/

[4] http://haimbresheeth.com/gaza/gaza-carnage-archive/

[5] https://spme.org/boycotts-divestments-sanctions-bds/boycott-israeli-cinema-tv-studies-conference-tel-aviv-university/17442/

[6] https://bdsmovement.net/news/240-jewish-and-israeli-scholars-german-government-boycotts-are-legitimate-and-non-violent-tool

[7] https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/citizens-of-israel-send-letter-of-support-to-corbyn/

[8] http://haimbresheeth.com/gaza/an-open-letter-to-israel-academics-july-13th-2014/statement-by-israeli-academics-july-2014/

[9] http://israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=7003&page_data%5Bid%5D=3840&cookie_lang=en

[10] https://knowbdsinisrael.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/United-Methodist-Church-petition.pdf

[11] http://www.israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=6830&page_data[id]=3840&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=cb9bee46a1af927d1b3d759257e17cd3

[12] http://www.eccpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ceasefire-Petition-by-Israeli-Citizens-to-the-EU-1.pdf

[13] https://bdsmovement.net/news/220-academics-urge-history-medicine-professor-reject-israeli-award-over-israels-medical

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