{"id":41,"date":"2011-02-22T21:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-02-14T21:40:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:40:48","slug":"petition-regarding-ariel-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/41\/petition-regarding-ariel-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition regarding Ariel College (this is the previous closed petition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We,  academics from a variety of disciplines and from all the  institutions  of higher learning in Israel, hereby publicly express our  opposition to  the continuation of the occupation and the establishment  of settlements  in the occpied territories.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we declare our refusal to  participate in any academic  activity, of any sort, that takes place in  the college operating in the  settlement Ariel.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel was established  on occupied land. A few kilometers from  flourishing Ariel, Palestinians  live in hardship in villages and  refugee camps, deprived of basic of  human rights and life of dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are they denied access to  higher education, some of them do  not have access to their own lands and  means of livelihood, denied of  access even to electricity and running  water. Two different realities  exist in the occupied territories side by  side, resulting from a policy  that is leading to Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel is an illegal settlement, in breach of the international law and the Geneva convention, which Israel has signed.<\/p>\n<p>The  establishment of Ariel was aimed at one and only purpose: to  prevent  the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, thereby  denying  us, citizens of Israel, the chance of ever achieving a peaceful   existence in this region.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel is not part of sovereign Israel and we can not be obliged to go there.<\/p>\n<p>Our  conscience and our public responsibility compel us to express a  clear  position, especially at the current time, when there is a real  chance  for a peace agreement; it is now clearer than ever that the  settlements\u2019  purpose is to undermine it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, academics from a variety of disciplines and from all the institutions of higher learning in Israel, hereby publicly express our opposition to the continuation of the occupation and the establishment of settlements in the occpied territories. Therefore, we declare our refusal to participate in any academic activity, of any sort, that takes place in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/41\/petition-regarding-ariel-college\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/israeli-academics-for-peace.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}