This document is a statement signed by over 600 students, alumni and faculty of Columbia University condemning Columbia University Apartheid Divest's characterization of terrorism during the first and second Palestinian intifadas as "civil disobedience." The statement asserts that the intifadas involved violence including suicide bombings, stabbings and shootings that killed thousands of innocent civilians on both sides, and labeling such acts as civil disobedience is an egregious ethical breach. The signatories uphold free speech but believe malicious incitement and factually inaccurate characterizations have no place in campus discourse.
This document is a statement signed by over 600 students, alumni and faculty of Columbia University condemning Columbia University Apartheid Divest's characterization of terrorism during the first and second Palestinian intifadas as "civil disobedience." The statement asserts that the intifadas involved violence including suicide bombings, stabbings and shootings that killed thousands of innocent civilians on both sides, and labeling such acts as civil disobedience is an egregious ethical breach. The signatories uphold free speech but believe malicious incitement and factually inaccurate characterizations have no place in campus discourse.
This document is a statement signed by over 600 students, alumni and faculty of Columbia University condemning Columbia University Apartheid Divest's characterization of terrorism during the first and second Palestinian intifadas as "civil disobedience." The statement asserts that the intifadas involved violence including suicide bombings, stabbings and shootings that killed thousands of innocent civilians on both sides, and labeling such acts as civil disobedience is an egregious ethical breach. The signatories uphold free speech but believe malicious incitement and factually inaccurate characterizations have no place in campus discourse.
This document is a statement signed by over 600 students, alumni and faculty of Columbia University condemning Columbia University Apartheid Divest's characterization of terrorism during the first and second Palestinian intifadas as "civil disobedience." The statement asserts that the intifadas involved violence including suicide bombings, stabbings and shootings that killed thousands of innocent civilians on both sides, and labeling such acts as civil disobedience is an egregious ethical breach. The signatories uphold free speech but believe malicious incitement and factually inaccurate characterizations have no place in campus discourse.
Statement of Condemnation of Terrorism: The Intifada is Not Civil Disobedience
We the undersigned 600+ students, alumni and faculty write today to condemn Columbia University Apartheid Divests dismissal of terrorism as civil disobedience. The first and second intifadas mark tragic low points in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thousands of innocent civilians on both sides were murdered during these violent periods. The mischaracterization of suicide bombings, stabbings, and shootings as civil disobedience is an egregious ethical breach. We proudly uphold the value of free speech, but malicious incitement and fictitious characterizations do not lie within that value and should find no welcome within our campus discourse. Daniella Greenbaum BC 2017 Marissa Young CC 2016 Molly Stein CC 2016 Albert Mishaan CC 2019 Ayelet Hochman BC 2016 Benjamin Lewinter CC 2016 Lizzy Brenner BC 2017 Elisa Septee Lunzer BC 1978 Rebecca Wertman GSAS Arabelle Chafe SEAS 2018 Aaron Liberman CC 2019 Jeremy Cooper CC 2017 Jason Eisner CC 2017 Brett Krasner GS 2017 Elizabeth Klein BC 2017 Adam Deutsch CC 2013 Cliff Stein SEAS Faculty Elizabeth Kirshner BC 2017 Linda Lewinter BC 1985 Ariel Feifel CC 2018 James Boothe CC 2015 Dani Wilner CC 2019 Andrew Adler GS 2019 Jonathan Etra CC 2015 Sylvia Miller BC 2019 Rebecca Zeidman BC 2018 Sarah Senkfor BC 2019 Francesca Thau BC 2018 Ethan Cooper CC 2018 Sarah Grzebinski GS 2019 Erica Baruch CC 2016 Aaron Fisher CC 2018
Samara Dennis BC 2016
Daniel Bonner CC 2013 Sari Press Miller BC 1987 Barak Ben Noon GS 2019 Gabriella Sobol BC 2018 Jamie DeLuca BC 2017 Isabel Dicker BC 2017 Wendy Greenbaum BC 1975 Miranda Cohen SIPA 2017 Jessica Reich BC 2018 Ariella Lerner BC 2017 Julien Reiman CC 2018 Ariella Salimpur BC 2017 Martin Moskovitz CC 1985 Daniel Bienstock SEAS Faculty Abby Stein GS 2018 Rachel Kastner BC 2019 Shira King-Berkman GS 2019 Hannah Fischman BC 2018 Rachel Jones BC/JTS 2019 Alyson Dennis BC 2019 Jordana Fremed CC 2017 David Lewinter CC 1984 Paula Moskovitz BC 2016 Sammy Tbeile SEAS 2018 Jacob Hyman CC 2019 Eve Halimi BC 2019 Sasha Mutchnik CC 2019 Ariela Weinberger BC 2017 Zach Avigan CC 2015 Mikaella Bernstein CC 2017 Leora Borzak BC 2015
Ariella Israel BC 2017
Hillel Brenner GS 2019 Victof Zeitoune CC 2019 Dana Kukin BC 2015 Eliana Goldberg BC 2016 Leigh Bonner BC 2016 Tova Rohatiner BC 2016 Rivka Holzer BC 2015 Grace Milstein BC 2017 Corey Freeman GS 2017 Lauren Haberman CC 2018 Hillel Lehmann GS 2015 Raquel Wildes CJS 2016 Sharona Kern BC 2016 Beth Green BC 2017 Tanna Bogursky CC 2016 Harris Mevorah GS 2019 Daniella Philipson BC 2017 Yael Dana Neugut P&S 2018 Jeff Bogursky CC 1980 Amy Bravman BC 2017 Sarah Katz BC 2017 Eliana Bessler CC 2017 Michael Zaks CC 2017 Noah Rivkn CC 2017 Cheryl Smerling CC 2017 Rebecca Glanzer CC 2016 Aryeh Strobel CC 2016 Amalia Reich GS 2019 Howard Shams CC 1986 Jonathan Deluty CC 2018 Joseph Kogen GS 2014
Michal Greenspan BC 2015
Chavie Sharfman BC 2015 Netana Markovitz CC 2017 Leeza Hirt CC 2018 Ilana Lehmann BC 2017 Marc Bessler CUMC Faculty Sade Cooper BC 2017 Judith S. Jacobson MSoPH Faculty Eric J. Schorr GS 2012 Emma Lipner BC 2015 Leora Boussi BC 2015 Nathan Rubinger GS 2017 Shoshana Lauter BC 2018 Eitan Neugut CC 2017 Ellie Sheinwald GS 2016 Daniel Mackler GS 2019 David Offit GS 2013 David Golombeck GS 2018 Prashanth Jeyathilagar CJS 2016 Simone Vais BC 2015 Emily Polster BC 2015 Oded Netzer CC Faculty Shachar Cohen-Hodos GS 2019 Rikki Novetsky BC 2015 Anna Kalm BC 2019 Shira Lerner BC 2015 Emily Feldman BC 2015 Aryeh Zapinsky SEAS 2019 Ellin Mitchell BC 2019
Jonathan Steinberg CLS 2018
Omry Haizler SIPA 2016 Daniel Newman SEAS 2015 Shayna Halliwell GSAS 2016 Michael Schiff CC 2015 Talya Presser CC 2015 Ester Fuchs CC Faculty Keren Bergman SEAS Faculty Elaine Gottesman BC 2014 Hana Fusman BC 2019 Haim Waisman SEAS Faculty Michelle Feder CC 2013 Tamar Kosowsky BC 2016 Gil Zussman SEAS Faculty Gabriel W. Falk CC 2014 Ethan Shapiro GS 2016 Itsik Peer SEAS Faculty Hannah Rosenwein BC 2015 Julia Crain BC 2018 Hannah Spellman BC 2015 Samantha Zucker GS 2019 Etan Zapinsky SEAS 2014 Dana Peer CC Faculty Jasmine Bernstein JTS/GS 2019 Jason Strauss SEAS 2012 Joseph Quintas CC 2015 Rachel Blumenthal CC 2017 Ruthy Glass CC 2012 Rachel Meier BC 2019 Bryan Markowitz CC 2019 Julie Katz BC 2017 Shira Becker BC 2017 Taylor Zar BC Jackie Hajdenberg BC 2019 Jacob Lewis GS 2018 Tova Kamioner BC 2017 Rebecca Jedwab BC 2018 Deborah Pollack BC 2016 Elizabeth Fiedler BC 2014 Rachael Smilowitz SEAS 2013 Kara Kupferberg CC 2018 Judith Greenbaum CC 2016 Aryeh Goldstein CC 2015 Gal Raif GS 2019 Ori Edry GS Yarden Amsalem GS 2017
Felix Rozenberg CC 2018
Shiran Khanukaev GS 2019 Rebecca Battat BC 2014 Samuel Green GS Abigail Sadek BC 2018 Perry Kerner CC 2018 Daniel Boiarsky CC 2013 Dore Feith CC 2018 Shahar Kaminsky GS 2019 Danielle Silber BC 2018 Tali Elias BC 2018 Adin Goldstein CC 2018 David Smith GS Sararose Oster BC 2016 Talia Lefkowitz BC 2016 Raquel Rosenberg BC 2018 Daniel Schwartz CC 2017 Efrat Meier BC 1995 Marissa Golden SEAS 2016 Michael Anagnos CC 2018 Aviva Friedman BC 2017 Arielle Belfer BC 2014 Christian Truelove CC 2017 Matthew Parker CC 2017 Shaya Oster GS 2019 Lauren Jankelovits BC 2016 Josh Pilchik GS 2019 Sarah Brody-Bizar CC 2019 Ari Boosalis CC 2019 Sarah Skootsky BC 2019 Danielle Brody CC 2019 Rebecca Barabas BC 2019 David Rosenberg GS 1989 Isaac Greenbaum SEAS 2006 Ami Nadiv GS 2019 Jeremy Grill SEAS 2018 Tess Glassman-Kaufman BC 2015 Samara Nebel GS 2018 Danielle Dennis BC 2019 Eliana Straus BC 2015 Emily Birnbaum BC 2019 Ron Shapiro GS 2013 Matthew Kondub CC 2007 Merav Stein BC 2015 Garima Garg CJS 2016 Liza Wohlberg GS 2017 Noam Alon GS 2019 Sumeyra Tuzuner GS 2016
Lucas Drill GS/JTS 2019
Rudy Rochman GS 2018 Avielle Lifchitz BC 2013 Rachel Friedman CC 2015 Leah Zami BC 2016 Nina Diamond BC 2017 Talia Lakritz BC 2016 Yael Turitz BC 2019 Jeremy Sacks CC 2016 Alexander Stein SEAS 2016 Devorah Wolf BC 2006 Matan Markind SEAS 2015 Aminadav Grossman CC 2014 Lior Zwanziger BC 2014 Hanna Flesh BC 2014 Gabriel Kretzmer Seee GS 2011 Joseph Turitz CC 1992 Meital Sapir BC 2017 Joey Liberman SEAS 2016 Orlee Turitz BC 1991 Julia Dachs BC 2017 Keren Fefer GS/JTS 2013 Atara Charnoff BC 2014 Todd Gitlin CC Faculty Betty Soibel GS 2017 Sara Miriam Liben GS 2013 Allison Fremed CC 2011 Michael Abramson CC 2013 Harrison Dale GS 2019 Ran Kivetz CBS Faculty Anna Etra BC 2014 Gideon Wolf CC 2014 Olivier Toubia CBS Faculty Giovanna Invernizzi GS 2019 Gilana Keller BC 2013 Rochelle Stern BC 1984 Andrew Kisch SEAS 2012 Tzvi Sherman GS 2017 Jonah Liben GS 2011 Hillel Gontownik SEAS 2014 Asaf Shamis CBS Adam Hanau SEAS 2013 Rina Kreitman CC Faculty Jana Wolf Ponczak BC 2007 Anna Wagner GSAS 2015 Matthew Jacobs CC Oscar Lebwohl P&S Faculty
Rochelle Goldsmith CUMC
Faculty Awi Federgruen GSB Faculty Jeremiah Sharf GS 2014 Ann T Dachs BC 1981 Paul Appelbaum P&S Faculty 1972 Hannah Brody BC 2017 Richard Friedman CUMC Faculty Michal Edelman BC 2015 Elliot Finkelstein CC 2016 Max Finkel GS 2016 Avinoam J. Stillman CC 2017 Benjamin Bromberg Gaber GS 2015 David Marcus GS Faculty Rebecca Stillman Linzer BC 1988 Julie Tauber BC 2015 Serena Rapoport BC 2015 Dorothy Etra BC 2013 Samuel Schacher GSAS Faculty Nicole Charlap BC 2017 Adena Berkowitz BC 1983 Noah Stein CC 2019 Adam Mann CC 2019 Kurt Moskovitz CC 2019 Jason Birke CBS 2005 Mollie Zanger BC 2018 Nina Kretzmer Seed BC 2014 Ella Kahan BC 2018 Ruth Raphaeli GS Faculty Elizabeth Rosen CC 2018 Missy Zedeck GS 2016 Sara Sternstein Hasson BC 2003 Danielle Felder GS 2014 Chantal Rubin GS 2018 Richard Pious BC Faculty Naomi Stillman BC 1984 Luke Foster CC 2015 Jason Levine CC 2013 Jackie Cohen BC 2015 Franni Bernstein BC 2015 Tali Herenstein BC 2014 Sarah Shevchuk BC 2019 Miriam Lichtenberg BC 2019
Howard Stecker CC 1987
Gabriel Metzger CC 2013 Rose Landowne SSW 1973 Nadav Steinmetz GS Dani Lefkowitz BC 2019 Monica Marks Aboodi BC 1985 Cheryl Tager Goldschmidt BC 1980 Meyer Muschel GS 1988 Karin Charnoff-Katz BC 1977 Sandy Gooen BC 2019 Pamela Brenner BC 2012 Rebecca Eis BC 2017 Linda Apple BC 1984 John Loike CUMC Faculty Ellen Senker Muss BC 1992 Ari Berg CC 2014 Penina Weinberger BC 1989 Elijah Kahn GS 2019 Daniele Selby SIPA 2017 Linda Katz Zucker BC 1987 Jill Liebowitz Blumenthal BC 1981 Jonathan Smerling CC 2015 David Blumenthal CC 1981 Joseph Bernstein CC 1987 Gavriella Bernat-Kunin GS/ JTS 2017 Michelle Latz BC 2015 Joshua R. Fattal CC 2015 David Fine CC 2013 Samantha Grubner SEAS 2019 Eric Shapiro CC 2013 Yakov Schindel CC 2014 Elie Kaplan-Marans CC 2014 Julia Baruch CC 2013 Michael Fraynd SEAS 2014 Seth Hochhauser SEAS 2015 Mark Fischer SEAS 2014 Danielle Arje BC 2014 Margot Schacter Marans CC 2010 Rachel Barnes BC 2014 Daniel Reidler SEAS 2012 David Baruch CC 2013 Barbara Charikov BC 2019 Deborah Greenberg BC
Diana Straus CC 2010
Joseph Straus CC 2010 Katie Peyser CC 2014 Ilana Sandberg BC 2017 Wendy Gartenberg GS Jacqueline Guttman BC 2014 Jacqueline Bryk CC 2013 Kelila Kahane BC 2014 Pamela Nadler Emmerich CLS 1985 Joshua K. Marans CC 2008 Dorothy Urman Denburg BC 1970 Talia Silber BC 2014 Karen Radkowsky BC 1979 Zev Wiener GS 2006 Daniella Kahane BC Rochelle Richman Cohen BC 1979 Dov Kahane CDM 1983 Aviva Sopher BC 1991 Joyce Straus BC 1980 Eliav Grossman CC 2016 Yoni Zolty CC 2018 Tal Malkin SEAS Faculty Samuel Zakay CC 2013 Yakira Heller BC 2014 Yal Cohen CC 2019 Benjamin Gersten GS 2018 Eric Grossman GS 2014 Alexandra Tabachnikova CC 2018 Raphael Rosen P&S 2011 Shoshana Bar-David BC 2012 Diana Heller BC Faculty Phyllis B Stone CC 1991 Elisheva Bellin BC 2010 Talya Jacobs BC 2007 Jessica Frankel Spira BC 1991 Elizabeth Janszky GS 2019 Avi Grumet SEAS 2011 Michelle Foxman CC 1991 Tanya Gershon BC Victoria Cook CC 1991 Elizabeth Harrison Kubany CC 1991 Diane Sarnoff CC 1991 Leah Greenstein CC 2013
Simone Semer BC 1994
Deborah Isaac BC 1986 J. Yoheved Novogroder BC 1992 Marianne Novak BC 1989 Aviva Pratzer BC 2015 Caroline Lobel CC 2014 Joel D. Wine CC 1991 Jennifer Horowitz BC 1989 Sarah Straus BC 2011 Gabrielle Wilner MSoPH 2016 Matthew Renick GS 2013 Ilana Schulder BC 2015 Alicia Hanau BC 2015 Dov Kleiner CBS, CLS 1994 David Engelhardt SEAS 2010 Malka Levitin CLS Debora Snitcovsky BC 2017 Daniel Parmet GS/JTS 2016 Nathaniel Rahimzada GS 2015 David Weltman GS 2012 Ariella Spievack BC 2017 Daniella Gold CBS 2014 JJ Hornblass CJS 1992 Stephanie Bloom GS 2015 Daniel Altman CLS 1995 Josepha Weinstein BC Gary Papilsky CLS 1996 Yaira Singer GS 2001 Danielle Aronowitz BC 2013 Eric Feder CC 2013 Claudia Marbach BC 1986 Hilary Goldberg CC 1992 Jonathan Reich SEAS 1989 Nicole Adler Dicker BC 1992 Gregory Fragin CLS, CBS 2003 Erika Henik CC 1990 Drorit Adler Ratzker BC 1993 Chloe Michaelson CC 2016 Alan Jason Feder CC 2009 Michael Fragin CBS 2001 Lesley Herbert BC 2016 Marisa Savitsky BC 2000 Sherri Berkowitz Libin BC 1997 Robert Meislin CC 1981
Melanie Goldman Brenner
BC 1985 Paul Dauber CC 1986 Yechezkel Khayyat SEAS 1996 Jon Merkin CC 2009 Maia Levy BC 2016 Alexandra Michal Agus Fox BC Nikki Press BC 2014 Chaim Davis CC 2000 Julia Baum BC 2015 Abigail Feinerman Glass GSAPP 1997 Rina Kattan BC 2015 Shira Agus Lewis BC 1990 Becky Guttman BC 2000 Nathan Fox CC 1997 Scot Glasberg CC 1986 Jack Hersch SEAS David Hess GS 1981 Simone Greenbaum CLS 2013 Theodore Kahn CC 2004 Irene Weintraub CC 2012 Steven R. Gross CC 1968 Helen Greenberg BC 1982 Bruce Gillers CC 1969 Zachary Kestenbaum CC 2007 Atara J. Berliner BC 1981 Deborah Fishkind BC 1992 Elizabeth Mandel CC 1992, SIPA 1998 Jeff Retig CC 1975 Alissa Burstein CC 1987 Naomi Rosen CC 1998 Zoe Heisler BC 2015 Jeremy Frend CC 1981 Byron Weiss SEAS 2015 Natalie Telson GS 2015 Jonathan Talansky CC 2001 Erin Fortgang BC 2014 Michelle Zellner CBS 2004 Abigail Lerner BC 1975 David Held CC 1987 Michael Rubin CC 2013 Eugene Major CBS 1988 Pamela Aurbach CC 1989
Adina Cimet A&S 1992
Daniel Joels CBS 2014 Barbara Weinblass BC 1978 Zachary Weiss CC 2017 Phillip Merkin CC 2015 Rebecca Rubin BC 2012 Lisa Aschkenasy BC 1995 Charles Trauring CC 1964 Elizabeth Barrenkette CBS 1997 Alexandra Peyser SEAS 2011 Gary Krim SEAS 1983 Carl Mosesson CC 1984 Lisa Brocato BC 1984 Harlan Simon CC 1981 Hailee Grey GS 2019 Iris Fixler CC 1992 Elisa Rigol BC 2012 Shira Schindel CC 2011 Ethan Berman GS 2019 Abigail Kahn GSB 2005 Leron Kornreich BC 1995 Ron Goldstein CC 1978 Dina Hellerstein CLS 1988 Robert Podell CC 1963 Judith Podell BC 1961 Nechama Cox BC 1993 Sherry Fessel CC 2006 Laurie Schlussel BC 1987 Merill Weber CC 1978, CLS 1984 Sandra Altman BC 2013 Anat Reschke BC 1992 Jay Pearlberg CC 1969 Tzippy Quint GSAS 2016 Michal Dicker BC 2014 Gabrielle Altman BC 1994 Pearl Herskovitz BC 1975 Lilli Fink BC 2013 Margy-Ruth Davis BC 1970 Emily Marbach TC 1989 Jeffrey Hochman SEAS 1998, CLS 1991 Elaine Schnall BC 1988 Rachel Berger BC 2011 Stephanie Riederman CC 2011 Helene Peyser BC 1988 Liat Graber BC 2011
William Albert CC 1965
Joanne Aranoff BC 1997 Lauren Steinberg GS 2009 Deborah Tuchman CLS 2001 Camille Gandara BC 2011 Navah Kogen BC 2008 Matt Rutta GS 2006 Deborah Ziering BS 1989 Gabi Wachs BC 2013 Michelle Freidman BC 1974 Gail Novetsky BC 1984 Maya Petashnick BC 2013 Liron Kranzler CC 2008 Gilad Bendheim CC 2011 David Wiener CC 1975 Chaya Creque GS 2012 Sylvain Kleinhaus CC 1957 Nicholas Gura SEAS 1978 Martin Sterenbuch CC 1960 Daniel Greenberg CC 2010 Naomi Kornhauser BC 2008 Martin Ramirez CLS 1996 Oliver Herzfeld CLS 1990 Samuel T. Ackerman CC 2018 Menorah Rotenberg BC 1959 Ariel Irwin BC 2005 Dena Brody BC 1966 Julie Dinerman CC 2011 Gabrielle Long BC 1964 Aliza Stein BC 2012 Ruth Eisenberg BC 2012 Rachel Belfer BC 2015 Miriam Hermann BC 1992 David Gruber CBS 1986 Dan Iter SEAS 2011 Debra Rosenbaum BC 2014 Eric L Fremed CC 1979 Bina Westrich BC 2012 Leah Worenklein BC 1993 Leonard Ash CC 2015 Dorit Herman BC 1988 Gita Rosenberg BC 1961 Anna Glatt BC 2011 Ilan Bielas SPS 2018 Rachel Wolf BC 1999 Fara Hain BC 1996 Talia Harcztark BC 2013 Vera Royf CC 2008 Nediva Koschitzy CC 2016
Livia Sklar BC 1969
Rachelle Zucker BC 1988 Ann Sultan BC 1988 Rachel Chiceckel BC 2014 Esher Zediman BC 1993, CLS 1996 Denise Zarn BC 1973 Ayala Falk CBS 2017 Ilana Meyers BC 1988 Mayer Grosser CC 1977 Ephraim Rudman CLS 1996 Sharon Frank CLS 1986 Aviva Raskas CC 1992 Anna Berkowitz CC 2019 Cara Kleiman BC 2012 Janet Horowitz BC 1964 Jennifer Kramer BC 1997 Servando Ortoll GS 1987 Emily Lerer BC 2015 Eden Dolev GS 2016 Helene Eisenstein GS 2010 Chavie Lieber CJS 2017 Rakmiel Peltz GS 1981 Yael Spiewak BC 2009 Amram Altzman GS 2017 Laura Fein CLS 1996 Noah Bassel GSAS 2011 Linda Moreen BC 2010 Daniel Brovman CC 2016 Julia Schluger CC 2018 Ari Gardner CC 2008 Adeena Rosen BC 1998 Miriam Loren BC 2002 Raanan Agus CBS/CLS 1993 Nina Meyer BC 1993 Michael David CC 1989 Peggy Ellsberg BC Faculty Charles Freileich Faculty Justin Hedvat GS 2012 Shanna Wolf BC 1990 Mina Gillers BC 1969 Matthew Herenstein CC 1988 Gayle Lewis BC 1994 Ariel Fremed TC 2015 Shira Rozenberg BC 1990 J. Heyman TC 2016 Peri Horowitz BC 1996 Shera Spar Dubitsky TC 1988 Chaim Grushko CE 2015
Abraham Shulman CC 2002
Louis Boguslav GS 2018 Barbara Chubak CC 2002 Ben Chevlin GS 2019 Cindy Frank CC 1992 Shachar Binyamin GS 2014 Riva Kaynan BC 1990 Steven Schon SEAS 1979