Press releases
General Information
Statements: English and German statement and signatures (or download the English or German version as a pdf file).
Initiators of the statement are Prof. Macartan Humphreys (WZB, Humboldt Universität, and TCD), Prof. Steffen Huck (WZB and UCL) and Prof. Christine Binzel (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).
Updates
The Statement went online on April 2, 2024. See threads on X in English and German.
On April 11, 2024, the statement was sent to the chancellor and several ministers (Ms. Baerbock, Mr. Habeck, Ms. Stark-Watzinger, Ms. Roth); at that point, the statement had 204 signatures. Over the next 2-3 weeks, copies were sent to the members of several committees of the German parliament (Foreign Affairs, Defence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, Economic Cooperation and Development), to the members of the Bundessicherheitsrat (Federal Security Council), and to Ms. Reem Alabali-Radovan (Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor, Commissioner for Integration, Migration, and Refugees, and Anti-Racism Officer). We also reached out to the German Ethics Council (Deutscher Ethikrat).
Media mentions and reports
- taz, Daniel Bax, 04.04.2024: „Schärfere Töne gegen Israel“
- Wiarda Blog, Jan-Martin Wiarda, 09.04.2024: „Höchste Zeit, den Kurs zu ändern„
- Stern, Nico Fried, 09.04.2024: „Deutsche Israel-Politik in der Kritik: Uni-Professoren distanzieren sich von Bundesregierung„
- Rheinische Post, 09.04.2024: „120 Sozialwissenschaftler fordern Bundesregierung zu Kurswechsel auf„
- Tagesspiegel, Jan Kixmüller, 16.04.2024: „In einem offenen Brief: Deutsche Wissenschaftler stellen bedingungslose Unterstützung Israels infrage„
(A short version of the article appeared in the print edition on 17.04.2024.)
- Novara Media, James Jackson, 17.04.204: „Germany’s Anti-Palestine Crackdown Has Reached ‘a New Low’“