Ahir va tenir lloc al campus Catalunya de la URV a Tarragona l’acte organitzat pel col·lectiu BDS Tarragona, “67 anys de la Nakba. El desastre continua (1948-2015) amb aqueix programa:
9’30 -10’15 “Una mirada a Palestina des dels Drets Humans” per Santiago José Castellà Surribas. Professor de Dret Internacional Públic a la URV. Investigador en les línies Protecció Internacional de Minories Ètniques, nacionals, lingüístiques i religioses, Drets Humans, Immigració i Pluralisme religiós i laïcitat.
10’15-11 “Del Projecte sionista al Terrorisme d’Estat” per Josep Sánchez Cervelló. Degà de la Facultat de Lletres i professor d’Història contemporània a la URV. Acadèmic corresponent a la Real Academia de la Historia.
11’30 Passi de Documental sobre Palestina. Col·loqui a càrrec de Mohammad Rujailah. Periodista de Gaza i codirector del documental “To shoot an elefant” (2009).”
Aqueix acte és la infàmia elevada a la categoria acadèmica amb la complicitat dels professors i autoritats universitàries que lluny de vetllar pels principis d’universalitat, proporcionalitat i no discriminació a l’hora d’analitzar els conflictes entre els pobles, s’arrengleren amb els qui propugnen la destrucció de l’Estat d’Israel i un nou genocidi contra el poble jueu.
Un veritable desastre (nakba) per a la universitat.
Post Scriptum, 26 de maig del 2015.
Avui he parlat amb Santiago Castellà que m’ha fet cinc cèntims de com va anar la seva participació en aqueix acte i quins foren els plantejaments que hi va defensar, els de la defensa de les minories i la denuncia dels totalitarismes, inclòs l’integrisme islàmic. Això va provocar la reacció irada i fanàtica d’organitzadors i assistents, obcecats a culpar Israel de tots els crims gihadistes, des de l’11-S a Charlie Hebdo. Aqueixa explicació fa encara més indigna l’actitud de Josep Sánchez Cervelló.
Post Scriptum, 23 d’octubre del 2015.
Ahir va tenir lloc a la URV un altre acte de propaganda del racisme antijueu a la URV organitzat amb tota impunitat pel Centre d’Estudis sobre Conflictes Socials depenent d’aqueixa universitat i dirigit pel catedràtic Josep Sánchez Cervelló, antisionista notori, conjuntament amb la secció tarragonina del col·lectiu BDS. L’acte duia per títol, “L’agressió sistemática d’Israel a Plaestina”, i la crònica de la infàmia la transcriu Jesús Gellida des del Reus Digital.
Post Scriptum, 6 de juny del 2019.
Si Sánchez Cervelló i els antisionistes nostrats de la URV tinguessin un mínim d’ètica acadèmica haurien de contrastar els seus plantejaments amb els de Shmuel Trigano, una de les figures intel·lectuals del judaisme francès, que desconstrueix el palestinisme mític en aqueix article publicat avui per JForum: “Les trois âges du mythe de la Nakba: une décosntruction”.
Post Scriptum, 18 de maig del 2022.
Pels qui cerquen el rigor historiogràfic, recomano la lectura de la carta a l’Irish Times, (February 21, 2008), from the Israeli historian Benny Morris, author of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (1989) and Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (2001): “Israel and the Palestinians”
Madam, – Israel-haters are fond of citing – and more often, mis-citing – my work in support of their arguments. Let me offer some corrections.
The Palestinian Arabs were not responsible “in some bizarre way” (David Norris, January 31st) for what befell them in 1948. Their responsibility was very direct and simple.
In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29th, 1947 (No. 181), they launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost; and one of the results was the displacement of 700,000 of them from their homes.
It is true, as Erskine Childers pointed out long ago, that there were no Arab radio broadcasts urging the Arabs to flee en masse; indeed, there were broadcasts by several Arab radio stations urging them to stay put. But, on the local level, in dozens of localities around Palestine, Arab leaders advised or ordered the evacuation of women and children or whole communities, as occurred in Haifa in late April, 1948. And Haifa’s Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, did, on April 22nd, plead with them to stay, to no avail.
Most of Palestine’s 700,000 “refugees” fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders). But it is also true that there were several dozen sites, including Lydda and Ramla, from which Arab communities were expelled by Jewish troops.
The displacement of the 700,000 Arabs who became “refugees” – and I put the term in inverted commas, as two-thirds of them were displaced from one part of Palestine to another and not from their country (which is the usual definition of a refugee) – was not a “racist crime” (David Landy, January 24th) but the result of a national conflict and a war, with religious overtones, from the Muslim perspective, launched by the Arabs themselves.
There was no Zionist “plan” or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of “ethnic cleansing”. Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 10th, 1948 (it is open and available for all to read in the IDF Archive and in various publications), was the master plan of the Haganah – the Jewish military force that became the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – to counter the expected pan-Arab assault on the emergent Jewish state. That’s what it explicitly states and that’s what it was. And the invasion of the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq duly occurred, on May 15th.
It is true that Plan D gave the regional commanders carte blanche to occupy and garrison or expel and destroy the Arab villages along and behind the front lines and the anticipated Arab armies’ invasion routes. And it is also true that mid-way in the 1948 war the Israeli leaders decided to bar the return of the “refugees” (those “refugees” who had just assaulted the Jewish community), viewing them as a potential fifth column and threat to the Jewish state’s existence. I for one cannot fault their fears or logic.
The demonisation of Israel is largely based on lies – much as the demonisation of the Jews during the past 2,000 years has been based on lies. And there is a connection between the two.
I would recommend that the likes of Norris and Landy read some history books and become acquainted with the facts, not recycle shopworn Arab propaganda. They might then learn, for example, that the “Palestine War” of 1948 (the “War of Independence,” as Israelis call it) began in November 1947, not in May 1948. By May 14th close to 2,000 Israelis had died – of the 5,800 dead suffered by Israel in the whole war (ie almost 1 per cent of the Jewish population of Palestine/Israel, which was about 650,000). – Yours, etc,
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