Lee Mordechai is an Israeli historian and Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, on 15 March 2024, published an extensive document detailing his personal observations of Israel’s war in Gaza. This 17 March 2024 article has since been updated to include Mordechai’s 18 June 2024 update.

In an introduction to the document, posted on the public site for papers and research Academia.edu, he writes:  

I, Lee Mordechai, write this document as a historian and Israeli citizen, as my testimony to the horrible current situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. I write my personal opinion as an academic, partially because of the disappointing general silence on this issue among many international and Israeli academic institutions, especially those that are well-positioned to comment on it, even as some of my colleagues have bravely spoken out. I do not believe this document will convince many others to change their minds. Rather, I write this publicly to testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices who strongly dissented from Israel’s actions.

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In the updated document, Lee Morchechai adds:

This document corresponds to an update and expansion of earlier versions of my understanding of the situation in early January, late January and mid-February 2024, following ideas and suggestions I have since received. The document’s main purpose is still to state my opinion publicly out of a sense of commitment I have to human rights ideals. A secondary purpose is to preserve at least some of the evidence I have come across as I have been reading about the war. I hope readers find it useful to better understand the circumstances over these difficult days in the present and the future.

PDF of his testimony (originally til March, now updated 18 June 2024)