About Us
Who is FFIPP?
FFIPP is an Educational Network for Human Rights in Palestine/Israel.
It a is a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty and students, working in solidarity for a complete end of occupation and just peace.
Our Objectives
To build an effective faculty and students network that educates the academic community about the situation in Israel/Palestine and the region and advocates policies conducive to reaching a just peace;
To cooperate with those who work for a just peace and assist conscientious Palestinian and Israeli faculty and students.
Statement of Purpose
Peaceful coexistence between Israel and Palestine is the resolution to the conflict supported by virtually all interested parties. Future cooperation between the two peoples and the enormous resulting regional benefits expected, make the pursuit of such a goal imperative.
We have no doubt that it is possible to reach such a brighter future, and we strongly believe that actions and policies moving in that direction are not only crucially needed, but that they can and must be pursued NOW.
No justice and no peace can be achieved without Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories, and that anybody truly and honestly favoring peaceful coexistence must support such withdrawal.
Furthermore, we are certain that any delay in beginning this process will result in increasing suffering and loss of human life. We, therefore, urge all faculty, and others, who care about the two peoples and the Middle East to support such efforts.
Guiding Principles
FFIPP- I Guiding Principles
Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals Working in Solidarity for a Complete End of Occupation and Just Peace
1. FFIPP-I recognizes and insists on the potential of peace and cooperation to transform the future of Israelis and Palestinians
2. Universal humanistic values, mutual respect and recognizing the humanity in each other are the starting points of FFIPP-I work. These key values include freedom, equality, justice and compassion for those who suffer.
3. FFIPP-I regards academic freedom for Palestinians as a key issue, focusing on the human right of the Palestinians to study free of hardships. This entails a struggle for the immediate alleviation of the conditions of the vast majority of the Palestinians, i.e., an end to checkpoints, dismantling of the Wall, and a complete end of occupation.
4. FFIPP-I’s work is rooted in Academia/Universities. It focuses on faculty, and students, thus magnifying the objective significance of academia/campuses.
5. FFIPP-I’s actions and words reflect a commitment to humanism, non-aggression and non-violence.
6. FFIPP-I’s decisions are (and have always been) made either jointly by, or through consultation among Palestinians, Israelis and internationals
FFIPP-USA
Board of Directors
Judith Butler, Yoav Elinevsky, Arnon Hadar, and John Womack
FFIPP-USA Advisory Board
Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley
Khalil Barhoum ,Stanford
Joel Beinin , Stanford
Judith Butler, UC Berkeley
Joshua Cohen, MIT
Ahmad Dallal, Stanford
Beshara Doumani, UC Berkeley
Richard Falk , UCSB & Princeton
Gordon Fellman , Brandeis
Stanley Katz , Princeton
Evelyn Fox Keller , MIT
Jeffry Frieden, Harvard
Dimitri Gutas, Yale
Mary Katzenstein Cornell
Herbert Kelman ,Harvard
Clovis Maksoud, American University
Seymour Melman, Columbia
Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard
Zia Mian, Princeton
Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley
Peter Singer, Princeton
Susan Slyomovics, MIT
Catherine Snow, Harvard
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell
Richard Thomas , Harvard
Robert Tignor ,Princeton
Elise G. Young, Westfield State College
Michael Watts, UC Berkeley
John Womack ,Harvard
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-International, FFIPP-I
Board of Directors:
Dr. Eyad Sarraj, President, Palestine
Prof. Arnon Hadar, Chair of the Executive Board, USA
Board of Directors:
Anat Biletzki, Israel *
Yoav Elinevsky, USA
Lily Feidy, Palestine *
Arnon Hadar, USA *
Bassma Kodmani, France
Eyad Sarraj, Palestine *
Lynne Segal, UK
Simone Susskind, Belgium
Salim Tamari, Palestine *
Oren Yiftachel, Israel *
* Member of the Executive Board
FFIPP-I Advisory Board
Hanan Ashrawi*
MIFTAH, Jerusalem
Zygmunt Bauman
Leeds University
Sydney Brenner
Kings College, Cambridge University, UK
Nobel Prize, Physiology/Medicine, 2002
Harvey Cox
Harvard University
Jacques Derrida (Deceased)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Freeman Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Yehuda Elkana*
President and Rector, Central European University, Budapest
Arun Gandhi
Founder, President, M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Stuart Hall (Deceased)
Birmingham University
The Open University
Albert Hirschman
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Eric Hobsbawm (Deceased)
University of London
Stanley Hoffmann
Harvard University
Edvard Hauff
University of Oslo
Tony Judt (Deceased)
New York University
Robert Jay Lifton
Yale University
City University of New York, John Jay College
Abdelwahab Mahjoub
Université Tunis El Manar
Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis
Ahmed Okasha
President, World Psychiatric Association
Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Training and Research
Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University – Cairo
Frances Fox Piven
City University of New York
Hilary Putnam
Harvard University
Jacqueline Rose
University of London
Joseph Rotblat (Deceased)
University of London
Founder, President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Nobel Prize, Peace, 1995
Jack Steinberger
Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire
Nobel Prize, Physics, 1988
Edriss Titi
Weizmann Institute of Science
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
South Africa
Nobel Prize, Peace, 1984