Petition Online: Academics For Jew Killing

A new low is reached with this petition by "Academics Against Israeli Aggression on Lebanon and Gaza:"

While the United States government applauds the collective punishment of already vulnerable populations, we U.S.-based academics stand together to condemn the atrocities being committed by the U.S.-funded and armed Israeli military against the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine. Scholars based outside of the United States are also welcome to sign this letter as an expression of their support.

The brutal bombing and invasion of Gaza (whose people have never escaped the torment of Israeli occupation despite official Israeli “withdrawal”) and of Lebanon and are acts of Israeli state terrorism. Along with the devastating U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the current U.S.-Israeli threat to Syria and Iran, Israel’s escalation indicates another terrifying example of the heightened reliance on military force by both these powers in their ongoing struggle for hegemony in the Middle East.

While we unequivocally condemn the killing of civilians in Israel, it must be recognized that Israel's destructive and expansionist policies are primarily to blame for the seemingly perpetual "Middle East crisis.” To call Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon simply a “disproportionate response” helps justify Israeli war crimes by making Israel the victim and obscuring both the short and long-term sources of this catastrophic violence.

These repulsive "people" do not mention Hezbollah or Hamas or their goals in their petition. Also read the signers of this thing and find some of the usual suspects.

Crossposted at The Dougout