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Letter from 187 Israeli academics warns of potential for Israeli “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity,” and “ethnic cleansing”

22 September 2002 | Early Genocide Red Flags, Key Documents & Letters

We, members and friends of Israeli academe, are horrified by US buildup of aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership’s enthusiastic support for it. We are deeply worried by indications that the “fog of war” could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing.

Letter to NYT in 1948 from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt & 26 Others warning that Menachem Begin’s “Freedom Party” was similar to the Nazi and Fascist Parties

4 December 1948 | Early Genocide Red Flags, Key Documents & Letters

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.