They actually cancelled the talk which honestly feels surreal right now because I really thought they were just going to ignore us completely. Thank you for sticking with this when it felt like shouting into the void but we should probably keep an eye on the event calendar just to …
March 5, 2018
Final supporters
We, staff, students and alumni of the University of Warwick, residents of Coventry and Warwickshire and members of the wider academic community are deeply dismayed to learn that Mark Regev, Israeli Ambassador to the UK, will speak at the University of Warwick. Mr Regev is best known for his commentaries defending and justifying Israel’s deadly military attacks amounting to war crimes on the Gaza Strip.
The invitation extended to Mr Regev is a blatant snub to the Palestinian victims of these crimes as well as Israel’s discrimination and illegal Occupation.
As we write, Ahed al-Tamimi and around 400 other Palestinian child prisoners remain incarcerated in Israeli jails; illegal Israeli settlements continue to be expanded across the West Bank, extending 70 years of dispossession and displacement of Palestinians from their land; Palestinians in Gaza are suffering a humanitarian crisis under an illegal Israeli siege; and deportations are underway of 35,000 African refugees who are at risk of death or detention in their home countries.
Nonetheless, Mr Regev will be given an academic platform at Warwick to normalise and justify Israel’s crimes and to transmit Israeli state propaganda. This event will not be an exercise of freedom of speech, but an exercise in the extension of state power into an institution of learning.
We stand firmly with Palestinian staff and students of the Warwick community for whom Mr Regev’s presence represents not only an insult, but also creates a threatening atmosphere. He will be accompanied by his own armed security team from the Israeli Embassy and we stress that this in itself is detrimental to our collective campus ethos and our community as a whole. We therefore wholly condemn Mark Regev’s presence on campus as divisive and alienating for Palestinian and other Arab students, as well as being antithetical to our academic principles and ideals.
- Shirin Rai, PAIS
- Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, English
- Nickie Charles, Sociology
- Virinder Kalra, Sociology
- Dennis Leech, Economics
- Nicola Pratt, PAIS
- Claude Baesens, Mathematics
- Goldie Osuri, Sociology
- Mahmoud Abdou, PAIS
- Craig Gent, CIM
- Marijn Nieuwenhuis, PAIS
- Aya Nassar, PAIS
- António Ferraz, PAIS
- Jennifer Philippa Eggert, IAS/PAIS
- Mohamed El-Shewy, PAIS
- Sharifah Sekalala, Law
- Teodora Todorova, Sociology
- Amin Abdelaziz, IFP Law
- Lorenzo Feltrin, PAIS
- Leon Sealey-Huggins, GSD
- Myka Tucker-Abramson, English
- Juanita Elias, PAIS
- Rashmi Varma, English
- Nick Lawrence, English
- Charlotte Heath-Kelly, PAIS
- Barclay Lane, Library
- Julia Welland, PAIS
- Lisa Tilley, Warwick/QMUL
- Rebecca Roberts, Consultant, Coventry
Updates
February 1, 2018
I was just looking at the notifications and honestly I have no idea how we got here so quickly but the momentum feels like a real shift in the conversation at campus. People keep reaching out with such intense stories about why they are signing and I am honestly speechless at the sheer volume of passion being directed at this (it really proves how much we all care about holding the university accountable). This has turned into something way bigger than I anticipated when I first typed this up in a total panic.
Reached 100 supporters
February 1, 2018
31 Comments
This man already has many a platform on the world stage to help maintain a positive and one-sided profile of Israel. He has no need of this one unless there is a deliberate desire to inflame and hurt those on campus that come from a position of oppression through occupation.
This visit normalises brutality. If it goes ahead, what opportunities will be given for criticism of Mr Regev's stance?
I will never forget the interview he had with J Snow on Channel 4 during the 2014 destruction of Gaza
a man like this! in coventry, city of PEACE and reconciliation? you having a laugh?
I finished my degree at Warwick 11 years ago but still often use the facilities there. Swimming baths, arts centre. I am also shocked to see this event happening. For what reason does Warwick university feel compelled to house such a genocidal, racist, apartheid causing extremist? I know that from this day forth I shall n9 longer visit the arts centre and shall be encouraging others from Coventry and Warwickshire to boycott Warwick university in every way for their support of an apartheid causing monster and a terror state.
Isreal stop your crimes against humanity and the people of palestine
Israel is a terrorist state
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They actually cancelled the talk which honestly feels surreal right now because I really thought they were just going to ignore us completely. Thank you for sticking with this when it felt like shouting into the void but we should probably keep an eye on the event calendar just to …
March 5, 2018
Final supporters
We, staff, students and alumni of the University of Warwick, residents of Coventry and Warwickshire and members of the wider academic community are deeply dismayed to learn that Mark Regev, Israeli Ambassador to the UK, will speak at the University of Warwick. Mr Regev is best known for his commentaries defending and justifying Israel’s deadly military attacks amounting to war crimes on the Gaza Strip.
The invitation extended to Mr Regev is a blatant snub to the Palestinian victims of these crimes as well as Israel’s discrimination and illegal Occupation.
As we write, Ahed al-Tamimi and around 400 other Palestinian child prisoners remain incarcerated in Israeli jails; illegal Israeli settlements continue to be expanded across the West Bank, extending 70 years of dispossession and displacement of Palestinians from their land; Palestinians in Gaza are suffering a humanitarian crisis under an illegal Israeli siege; and deportations are underway of 35,000 African refugees who are at risk of death or detention in their home countries.
Nonetheless, Mr Regev will be given an academic platform at Warwick to normalise and justify Israel’s crimes and to transmit Israeli state propaganda. This event will not be an exercise of freedom of speech, but an exercise in the extension of state power into an institution of learning.
We stand firmly with Palestinian staff and students of the Warwick community for whom Mr Regev’s presence represents not only an insult, but also creates a threatening atmosphere. He will be accompanied by his own armed security team from the Israeli Embassy and we stress that this in itself is detrimental to our collective campus ethos and our community as a whole. We therefore wholly condemn Mark Regev’s presence on campus as divisive and alienating for Palestinian and other Arab students, as well as being antithetical to our academic principles and ideals.
- Shirin Rai, PAIS
- Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, English
- Nickie Charles, Sociology
- Virinder Kalra, Sociology
- Dennis Leech, Economics
- Nicola Pratt, PAIS
- Claude Baesens, Mathematics
- Goldie Osuri, Sociology
- Mahmoud Abdou, PAIS
- Craig Gent, CIM
- Marijn Nieuwenhuis, PAIS
- Aya Nassar, PAIS
- António Ferraz, PAIS
- Jennifer Philippa Eggert, IAS/PAIS
- Mohamed El-Shewy, PAIS
- Sharifah Sekalala, Law
- Teodora Todorova, Sociology
- Amin Abdelaziz, IFP Law
- Lorenzo Feltrin, PAIS
- Leon Sealey-Huggins, GSD
- Myka Tucker-Abramson, English
- Juanita Elias, PAIS
- Rashmi Varma, English
- Nick Lawrence, English
- Charlotte Heath-Kelly, PAIS
- Barclay Lane, Library
- Julia Welland, PAIS
- Lisa Tilley, Warwick/QMUL
- Rebecca Roberts, Consultant, Coventry
Updates
February 1, 2018
I was just looking at the notifications and honestly I have no idea how we got here so quickly but the momentum feels like a real shift in the conversation at campus. People keep reaching out with such intense stories about why they are signing and I am honestly speechless at the sheer volume of passion being directed at this (it really proves how much we all care about holding the university accountable). This has turned into something way bigger than I anticipated when I first typed this up in a total panic.
Reached 100 supporters
February 1, 2018
31 Comments
I am shocked that Mark Regev is given a platform at Warwick University. A man who has advocated violence and represents a repressive regime. Actually he should be allowed but also those who would like to contradict him. It is also scandalous that a speaker at Warwick or any other University shold come with his body guards.
This man already has many a platform on the world stage to help maintain a positive and one-sided profile of Israel. He has no need of this one unless there is a deliberate desire to inflame and hurt those on campus that come from a position of oppression through occupation.
This visit normalises brutality. If it goes ahead, what opportunities will be given for criticism of Mr Regev's stance?
I will never forget the interview he had with J Snow on Channel 4 during the 2014 destruction of Gaza
a man like this! in coventry, city of PEACE and reconciliation? you having a laugh?
I finished my degree at Warwick 11 years ago but still often use the facilities there. Swimming baths, arts centre. I am also shocked to see this event happening. For what reason does Warwick university feel compelled to house such a genocidal, racist, apartheid causing extremist? I know that from this day forth I shall n9 longer visit the arts centre and shall be encouraging others from Coventry and Warwickshire to boycott Warwick university in every way for their support of an apartheid causing monster and a terror state.
Isreal stop your crimes against humanity and the people of palestine
Israel is a terrorist state
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I am shocked that Mark Regev is given a platform at Warwick University. A man who has advocated violence and represents a repressive regime. Actually he should be allowed but also those who would like to contradict him. It is also scandalous that a speaker at Warwick or any other University shold come with his body guards.