Who is FFIPP?

FFIPP, the Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace, is a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, with an affiliated international student network, working in solidarity for a complete end of the occupation and just peace.

Our Objectives

• To build an effective faculty 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 educate policy and opinion makers around the world to help stop the violations of human rights and international law and their cause, the occupation;
• 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.

We strongly believe that 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 incorporates students, thus magnifying the objective significance of academia/campuses.

5. The end of the occupation is FFIPP-I's focal issue, but this does not preclude support and involvement with other issues.

6. FFIPP-I's decisions are (and have always been) made jointly by Palestinians, Israelis and internationals.

7. FFIPP-I advocates an international effort, which cannot and must not wait for policy makers to 'change their mind'.

8. FFIPP-I is a main arena for FFIPP's activities. The relation between local and international FFIPP work must be understood as dialectical: Internationals reinforce-and-reinforced by Palestinians and Israelis.

9. FFIPP-I views the struggle for justice and the support of Palestinian rights as simultaneously a struggle for the security and moral status of Israelis and world Jewry.

10. While FFIPP-I's major efforts are aimed to end the occupation in Palestine, it recognizes the suffering under occupation of the Iraqi people and supports an end to all occupations in the region.

11. FFIPP-I's actions and words reflect a commitment to humanism, non-aggression and non-violence.

Statement on Academia

Israeli Academia, Palestinian Higher Education and the International Community

FFIPPI is an international network of academics and students that support a complete end to the illegal Israeli occupation of lands seized in the 1967 war and removal of all the settlements and the separation wall built on occupied land.

We call on Israeli, Palestinian and international academics everywhere to take a stand in support of ending the occupation, as well as against the extreme violence to which it has subjected both Palestinians and Israelis. Academics worldwide must also stand firm in support of the basic human right for free education in both Palestine and Israel, a right that has been compromised, continually in Palestine, due to the continued occupation.

1. We call upon international academics visiting Israeli institutions of higher education, and Israeli academics visiting foreign institutions, to make clear their support of ending the Israeli occupation and the removal of the separation wall built on occupied land.
2. Academics invited to speak at Israeli educational institutions should try to visit and speak at equivalent Palestinian institutions.
3. FFIPPI supports the call to sanction faculty and institutions, which clearly support the occupation.
4. FFIPPI calls on professional associations of academics, in Israel and internationally, to take a stand against the occupation and to issue guidelines regarding the use of academic connections to promote the end of Israeli occupation.
5. FFIPPI expresses its strong support for and encouragement of individuals in the Israeli and Palestinian academy whose actions against the occupation and in support of peace and justice have resulted in personal hardship. Notable cases include Israelis refusing IDF military service in the occupied territories; those publicly condemning the violation of civil and human rights in the occupied territories; and those Palestinians who have called for an end to suicide bombing and the use of arms against Civilian targets. FFIPPI will act to publicize their actions.
6. FFIPPI views the College of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank as a part of the machinery of Israeli occupation and calls upon academics worldwide to refuse to collaborate with it in any way.
7. FFIPPI calls for all possible assistance for Palestinian institution of higher education. It urges international academics:
   -to collaborate with and teach in Palestinian institutions of higher education;
   -to invite Palestinian staff to conferences abroad and to work to secure their invitation to conferences within Israel;
   -to sponsor the exchange of students from and to Palestinian campuses;
   -to maximize the sharing of research, and the exchange of books and other resources with such Palestinian institutions.
8. FFIPPI will publicize infringements of academic freedom, urging action against Israeli violations of freedom of movement of academics and students at checkpoints, for example, and any related harassment that routinely obstructs the free functioning of Palestinian academic institutions.

This statement is appended to the FFIPP-International statement of purpose and is understood in its context.