[Turkmath:6816] "Matematikçiler Gaza'daki soykırıma karşı" - uluslararası imza kampanyası

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Subject: Forwarding the petition "Mathematicians Against the Genocide in 
Gaza"

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the message sent this evening by the organizing 
committee of the petition _"__Mathematicians Against the Genocide in 
Gaza_ [2]_"_ to the presidents of France Universités, CNRS, and INRIA. 
This petition has already been signed by 850 mathematicians.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this petition with the 
leadership of your university or institute.

With best regards,
The Organizing Committee

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If you are a mathematician, you can sign this text by filling out the 
form here [3].

Mathematicians Against the Genocide in Gaza

On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a terrorist attack in Israel, 
killing more than 1,200 people [4] out of a population of 9.5 million, 
including over 800 civilians and at least 33 children, and injuring 
5,400 more. The attack also led to the capture of 248 hostages, around 
100 of whom are still held in Gaza.

Since then, the Israeli government has launched a response of genocidal 
violence against Gaza's Palestinian population, under the eyes of the 
international community. By late October 2024, identified victims had 
reached 43,061 [4], including over 13,735 children, 7,216 women, and 
3,447 elderly people, with over 100,000 injured, in a population of 2.3 
million. Thousands of additional victims remain buried beneath the 
rubble, uncounted.

The Israeli military is now inflicting upon Palestinian civilians at 
least the equivalent of an October 7th every ten days, and has done so 
for more than a year.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described [5] the situation in 
Gaza as a "crisis of humanity." In addition to the heavy toll on 
civilians, this war has led to the massive destruction of Palestinian 
civilian infrastructure and has forced 90% of Gaza's population into 
repeated displacement. Most hospitals have been bombed and destroyed, 
and numerous medical teams have been killed. Constant attacks and 
blockades on food, water, fuel, medicines, and humanitarian aid cause 
unbearable suffering for Gaza's population, who are facing starvation 
and infectious disease. Children, along with other vulnerable groups, 
are particularly badly affected.

In late October 2024, the Palestinian Ministry of Education, based in 
Ramallah, reported [6] that Israel had killed over 11,057 schoolchildren 
and 681 students in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and injured over 16,897 
schoolchildren and 1,468 students. In total, 441 teachers and education 
personnel have been killed, and 2,491 injured. At least 117 academics in 
Gaza have been killed, including Sufyan Tayeh [7], mathematician, 
theoretical physicist, and president of the Islamic University of Gaza, 
killed along with his family by an Israeli bombing in the Jabaliya 
refugee camp on December 2, 2023.

Additionally, 406 schools in Gaza have been damaged, with 77 completely 
destroyed. Gaza's universities have been gravely impacted, with 20 
institutions damaged, 51 buildings completely demolished, and 57 
partially destroyed. As a result, nearly 88,000 students and 700,000 
schoolchildren in Gaza have been deprived of education for more than a 
year.

On January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled [8] 
that there was a risk of genocide and ordered Israel to take measures to 
prevent it. On March 28, the ICJ reiterated [9] this order, requiring 
implementation of these preventive measures. Then, on May 24, the ICJ 
ordered [10] Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah 
and to open the Rafah crossing to allow unimpeded access to humanitarian 
services and aid for civilians.

These orders seem to have been entirely disregarded, and attacks on 
civilians in Gaza have intensified [11], especially in the north, with a 
clear aim to depopulate this region of Palestinians. On September 30, 
2024, after days of aerial bombardment, the Israeli military also 
invaded Lebanon, killing at least 1,600 people and displacing 1.2 
million.

Israeli government human rights violations extend beyond the Gaza Strip 
and do not begin as a reprisal for the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack. In 
the West Bank, since October 7, 2023, 79 schoolchildren and 35 students 
have been killed, with hundreds more injured or arrested. Yet 
systematic, widespread human rights violations [12], such as land 
confiscation, resource plundering, and racial discrimination, have been 
well-documented [13] over 57 years of occupation of Palestinian 
territories and 17 years of Gaza's blockade.

On July 19, 2024, the ICJ issued an advisory opinion on "the legal 
consequences arising from Israel's policies and practices in the 
Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem and 
Gaza," unequivocally declaring Israel's occupation illegal and calling 
for its immediate cessation. The ICJ underscored that the responsibility 
not to support this illegal practice falls not only on third-party 
states but also on all institutions that uphold international law, 
including universities.

The scientific community has often mobilized in the past to defend human 
rights and international law. In an open letter [14] published in the 
_New York Times_ in December 1948, cosigned by Hannah Arendt and Albert 
Einstein, the authors denounced the visit of Menahem Begin, leader of 
the Tnuat Haherut party, precursor to Likud (the party of current 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), in these terms: "Among the 
most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the 
newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a 
political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political 
philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was 
formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai 
Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.... 
It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real 
character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to 
do in the future. A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab 
village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded 
by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off 
Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9, 
terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military 
objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants (240 men, 
women, and children) and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives 
through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was 
horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology 
to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But the terrorists, far from being 
ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, 
and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to 
view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin."

For more than a year now, the Israeli government and its military forces 
have been committing the equivalent of a Deir Yassin massacre every day 
in Gaza, while the scientific community largely remains silent. Yet, as 
the open letter above demonstrates, this community has already strongly 
opposed attacks on civilians, whether during the Algerian and Vietnam 
wars or, more recently, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 
Scientists, particularly mathematicians, cannot remain indifferent to 
the ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially as Western powers appear to 
support this crime against humanity politically, diplomatically, and 
militarily.

Enough is enough. We urge our colleagues to cease all scientific 
collaboration with Israeli institutions that do not explicitly condemn 
the genocide in Gaza and the illegal colonization of Palestine. We also 
encourage them to put pressure on our own institutions to terminate 
agreements with these partners under the same conditions, in accordance 
with international law. This position obviously does not include 
individual collaborations with Israeli colleagues, 3,400 of whom have 
courageously signed a call [15] to the international community, which we 
wish to support, "to intervene immediately by applying any possible 
sanctions against Israel to achieve an immediate ceasefire between 
Israel and its neighbors, for the future of the people living in 
Israel/Palestine and the region, and to guarantee their right to 
security and life." Finally, we demand that our institutions 
scrupulously respect academic freedoms and resolutely uphold freedom of 
expression in accordance with the law.

If you are a mathematician, you can sign this text by filling out the 
form here [3].
Comité d'organisation

Ahmed Abbes, directeur de recherche au CNRS, France
Viviane Baladi, CNRS (retraitée), Suède
Michel Broué, Professeur émérite Université Paris Cité, France
Adrien Deloro, Maître de conférences, Sorbonne Université, France
Ivar Ekeland, ancien président de l'Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Catherine Goldstein, directrice de recherche, CNRS, Paris, France
Julien Grivaux, professeur, Sorbonne Université, France
Michael Harris, professor of mathematics, Columbia University, USA
François Loeser, professeur, Sorbonne Université, France
Joseph Oesterlé, professeur émérite, Sorbonne Université, France
Pierre Schapira, professeur émérite, Sorbonne Université, France
Lionel Schwartz, professeur émérite, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 
France

PJ. « Mathématiciens contre le génocide à Gaza [16] » Pétition signée 
par 850 personnes au 26 novembre 2024. Accessible à cette adresse [17].

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Click on me [19] [20]

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[1] 
http://ziko.mjt.lu/nl3/P4Hdqql0kQpkzE7tzurxfg?m=AWYAAFp6pXAAAc52QyoAA8kmZxYAAYCrIwoAn_P5AAYNfwBnRi0I_4PAGhIVQWq2p06ZqmzmLQAFzBk&b=c992c22c&e=7903ee0f&x=khzkThojc2ByCx2_9tzvFEXTP1JvrCv6DBCZj3UBySU
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[3] 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvibFVoHTEz84U8AuwEnA7r6HL6Z5MVwLVSlcJSrCSiBkmtA/viewform
[4] 
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-29-october-2024
[5] https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm22021.doc.htm
[6] 
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-attacks-in-gaza-west-bank-have-killed-over-11-800-students-palestinian-education-ministry/3378711
[7] https://www.ictp.it/news/2023/12/memoriam
[8] 
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf
[9] 
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240328-ord-01-00-en.pdf
[10] 
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240524-ord-01-00-en.pdf
[11] 
https://www.972mag.com/exterminate-expel-resettle-israel-northern-gaza/
[12] 
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/
[13] 
https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid
[14] 
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948
[15] https://israelicitizensforin.live-website.com/english/
[16] 
http://ziko.mjt.lu/lnk/AWYAAFp6pXAAAc52QyoAA8kmZxYAAYCrIwoAn_P5AAYNfwBnRi0I_4PAGhIVQWq2p06ZqmzmLQAFzBk/6/d5V0pWgBr4FSG3pr_-DFtQ/aHR0cHM6Ly9kb2NzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20vZG9jdW1lbnQvZC8xb0tSNTd4elNmc0ItamJjS0ZrMXAxdUJObnZxOUcxQkU0QjRIU3NYQ1ZnOC9lZGl0P3VzcD1zaGFyaW5n
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[20] 
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