{"id":980,"date":"2002-05-27T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2002-05-27T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2002-05-27T13:19:07","slug":"protestbrev-til-rektor-for-haifa-universitet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Protestbrev til rektor for Haifa Universitet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dpv_author\">DPV<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"dpv_h3\">Brev til rektor for Haifa Universitet<\/h3>\n<p>Rector of Haifa University<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Aharon Ben Zeev<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed to learn that Associate Professor Ilan Papp\u00e9 is called for trial at your university (for his support of the research of M.A. student T. Katz) and that the research of T. Katz (about the Tantura massacre) is called in question as a result of a court trial.<\/p>\n<p>Does  Haifa University consider to decide historical facts by intimidating the researchers whose discovery was published?<\/p>\n<p>As Bertrand Russell has expressed: scientific truth cannot be  decided  by voting.<\/p>\n<p>In a society adhering to free speech and to academic freedom the questions  about the Tantura massacre april 1948 must settled by documentation and scientific arguments not by  court trials against the researcher Katz or the professor Ilan Papp\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the freedom of thinking and  expression of the academia &#8211; so important to uphold as Zygmunt Bauman describes so clearly in his book Modernity and Holocaust?<\/p>\n<p>I appeal to you to defend the respect of historical documentation  (truth) and of the academic freedom to discover  facts.<\/p>\n<p>cc: The Dean of Humanities at Haifa University<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, Limor Livnat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..i anledning af universitetets trusler om at ekskludere Ilan Papp\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/?p=980\">L\u00e6s resten <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}