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Appeal to allow imprisoned peace activist Ms. Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement.

Please feel free to forward this message to whoever you believe would be interested.

We appeal to women and men of conscience worldwide, especially members of the medical, psychiatric and legal professions, on behalf of Ms. Tali Fahima, an Israeli peace activist whose conditions of imprisonment in prolonged isolation (since August 2004) threaten her long-term wellbeing. Having closely followed her case, we strongly believe that the legal grounds for her detention and prosecution are insubstantial and verge on the ridiculous. We believe it is used to deter Israeli and international peace activists who seek direct contacts with Palestinians in grassroots activities. See a website with relevant information at http://www.freetalifahima.org/eng.php?lang=en 

On January 24, 2005, the Tel Aviv District Court ordered that Ms Fahima be released into house-arrest. This ruling was reversed by the Supreme Court, a move which was  sharply denounced by many commentators, including an editorial article in the elite daily Haaretz, which said: "Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein's decision to place Tali Fahima under arrest until the completion of proceedings against her…is unreasonable and disproportional…" (Feb. 6, 2005). Ms. Fahima is being held in Neveh Tirza Women's Prison in complete isolation by the decision of the prison authorities. Her next court hearing was scheduled for July 17, 2005! These conditions constitute vindictive harassment.

Concerned about the effects of imprisonment under conditions of  total isolation on Ms Fahima, we appeal for your intervention so that her conditions in prison are normalized in accordance with accepted Israeli and international standards.

To join this appeal, please send a message to

NoToSolitaryConfinement at hotmail.com

Any statement you would wish to add to your signature would be greatly appreciated.

Signed (in alphabetic order):

a) Individuals:

Dorit Abramovich.

Paula Abrams-Hourani, Vienna, Austria.

Larry Abramson, Jerusalem.

Dr. Thabet Abu Rass, Ben Gurion University.

Jane Adas

Why is Tali Fahima in solitary confinement?  Is it because Israeli society wants not to know?

Einat Adi

Prof. Rutie Adler, University of California, Berkeley.

Osman Afiefah, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Prof. Ron Aharoni, Technion, Haifa.

Dr. Ali Aissaoui, Pdt UNIR., Reims, France.

Orly Almi, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.

Prof. Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center.

Sara Alimi

Tamar Almog, Tel-Aviv.

Yaara Alon, The College of Management.

Professor Colman Altman, Technion, Haifa.

Dr. Janina Altman, Haifa.

Gil Alvarez, Indio, CA, USA.

Solitary confinement is an old, cruel and barbaric practice of baal and belzebub. In the ancient Hebrew days King Solomon of Ysrael ordered Refuge cities built that rehabilitated law breakers, to the good use of

the state and the community.   Modern Solitary Comfinement is an illegal and ungodly practice.

   I pray that Miss Tali Fahama be transfered to a more productive quarters and refuge place of dwelling as say'th the law of the sacred Torah.

Ra'anan Alxandrowicz, Jerusalem.

Dr. Muhammad H. Amara, Bar-Ilan University & Beit Berl College, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Chaya Amir, editor.

Dr. Shmuel Amir.

Prof. Daniel Amit, Jerusalem.

The violence of the state against Tali Fahima is a disgrace.

Dr. Yossi Amitay, Ben-Gurion University.

I think the entire procedure against Tali Fahima is paranoiac and vindictive, and fully endorse the call to put an end to her solitary confinement.

Dr. Meir Amor, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada.

The rule of law should be applied first and foremost to the institutions and people who administer the law in Israel. Ms. Fahima should be treated as innocent until proven otherwise.

Micha  Andreieff, Strasbourg, France.

Bianca Dacomo Annoni, Responsabile settore Educazione allo Sviuppo della ong ICEI, Milano, Italy.

Noriko Aoyagi, Vienna.

I will join the appeal-campaign for Ms. Tali Fahima. I do hope she would be soon free again.

Youval Arbel, Physical Geographer, Katsir.

Erhard Arendt, Das Palaestina Portal. Dortmund, Germany.

Prof. Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University.

I support the release of Tali Fahima.

Sivan Asiag

Dr. Yehuda Atai, Poet, publisher of "The World of the Bible".

Amal Atieh Jubran

Treat all Humans with love and care for all. Free Ms. Fatima from the Israeli prison.   Freedom - for peace and justice -  to Mr. Bargouti and all the others too.

To have Justice and peace, Israel must liberate all those  who are against the occupation

Dr. Irit Averbuch, Tel-Aviv University.

Dr. Adina Aviram

Meny Aviv

Dr. Einat Avrahami, Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Wesley Avram, Yale University

Dr. Tami Aylat-Yaguri, Tel Aviv University.

David Bach.

Good Luck Tali! I am among a growing number of Americans following your case, stay strong, your struggle is an inspiration for many others.

Mali Baer

     and

Prof. Michael Baer, Rehovot, Israel.

Connie E. Baker, Elmhurst, IL, Chair Church Network for Education on Palestine.

As the bright light of democracy in the Middle East, Israel should be working vigorously to apply the rule of law to the case of Ms. Tali Fahima.  The Tel Aviv District Court was correct when it ordered Ms. Fahima to be released to house-arrest.

Mona Baker, UK.

Edith Ballard

The Fahima case  should be closed by giving it prompt attention in the interest of humane treatment.

Fiamma Bianchi Bandinelli,  Siena, Italy.

          and

Luca Baranelli,  Siena, Italy.

Please release Tali Fahima  not only from solitary confinement , but from prison and have a fair trial before any imprisonment.

We support you Fahima  and hope your will be free soon....

Iris Bar, Haifa.

Yoav Bar, Haifa.

Nidal A. Barakat.

Israel is the one in solitary confinement in the world of humanity of conscience.

God Bless the Peace Makers.

Shireen Barat, Ramat Gan.

Prof. Ron Barkai, Tel Aviv University.

Osnat Bar-Or, Pardes-Hana, Israel.

Ronen Baruch, Moshav Ptachya.

Brita Bastogi, Women in dialogue Palestine-Denmark-Israel.

The case of Tali Fahima only shows too well, that seeking knowledge of what really goes on in Palestine  is a crime according to the Sharon regime – and the person will be judged and treated like a Palestinian.

Dalit Baum

Tali Bdolah

and

Eliahu Abram

The Supreme Court decision ordering Fahima's custody until the conclusion of her trial was a borderline ruling. Justice Rubinstein admitted that his opinion "wavered" concerning the question of whether Fahima's right to liberty should prevail over the state's contention that she poses a danger to state security. Now the Prison Authority not only denies Fahima her liberty but also holds her in solitary confinement. An amendment to the Prison Ordinance adopted by the Knesset in 2000 strictly limits the authority to hold a prisoner separately from other inmates. This amendment was adopted at the initiative of human rights organizations and was based on the government's own studies demonstrating that solitary confinement frequently causes severe psychological damage. The amendment allows solitary confinement for a limited period if it is essential to state security or the security of the prison, and if these security interests can be protected in no other way. To make such a claim concerning Fahima would be absurd. There is no conceivable justification for holding Tali Fahima in solitary confinement.

Anna Beck, Highland Park, NJ, USA.

Dr. Moshe Behar.

Dr. Avner Ben-Amos, Tel-Aviv University.

Ilana K Ben-Amos, Omer, Israel.

Alissa Ben-Ari, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Prof. Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University.

Ofra Ben-Artzi, Jerusalem.

Eldad Benary, New York.

In a democracy people are presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty in a court of law.

In a democracy, people are not held in detention for many months without indictment.

Jochanan Benbassat

Naomi Benbassat, clinical psychologist, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.

Part of the epidemic of growing violence, barbaric behavior and dehumanization .

Esther Ben Chur

Nora L. Bendersky, Jerusalem.

Deydier Ben Djrad, France.

Mara Ben Dov, artist, Ein Hod, Israel.

Orna Ben-naftali

Pinchas Ben-Or

Rachel Ben-Shitrit, Yaffo, Tel-Aviv.

I am appalled to learn that Israel has reached such dark ages, and Israeli government is so afraid of peace activists such as Tali Fahima, that it feels it has to break their spirit by isolating them in such conditions. I would like to encourage Tali, her mother, her lawyer, and everybody else who fights to deliver our nation once again from slavery to freedom, and justice to our own people, and to other peoples living among us, as we tell the story of the Hagada this year in celebration of Pesach, like every year for over 5000 years.

This year we are slaves, Next year - let us all be free in the land of Israel, and Jerusalem.

Dr. Yael Ben-zvi, Ben Gurion University.

Attorney Yael Berda.

Prof. Deborah Bernstein, University of Haifa.

I would like to strongly protest against Tali Fahima's imprisonment and most especially in solitary confinement. There appear to me to be no grounds what so ever for this except for vindictiveness.

Murray Bernstein

and

Marcia Bernstein, Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Enrique Bitchatchi, Kibbutz Gezer, Israel.

Sue Blackwell, Birmingham, UK.

Peace campaigners are in prison while the real criminals are in government.

Jeffrey Blankfort, Former Editor, Middle East Labor Bulletin, San Francisco.

Prof. Emeritus Joyce Blau, French Institute for Study of Oriental Civilizations and Languages.

Esther Blumenthal-Sheats

Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Lissy Bodenmüller

and

Ernst Bodenmüller,  Pfullingen, Germany.

We give our full solidarity to release Tali Fahima out of prison!!! Grüße.Viele

Christine Boeckmann, Magdeburg, Germany.

Sara Borrillo, student at Orientale University Naples, Italy.

Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley University.

Lila Braine, Columbia University, New York.

Prof. Haim Bresheeth, University of East London.

Steve Brook, Melbourne.

The imprisonment of Tali Fahima is not only wrong -- it also demonstrates a callous unconcern with Israel's image in the world.

Devorah Brous

Prof. Jose Brunner, Tel Aviv University.

Ido Bruno, Senior Lecturer, "Bezalel Academy of Art and Design", Jerusalem, Israel.

Tali Fahimas harassment is typical to the paranoid state we all live in. Her release to house arrest, and proper, lawful, judicial process, under constraints of human rights objectives, is important for Tali's well being, as well as for the well being of Israeli society.

Prof. Victoria Buch, Jerusalem, Israel.

Solitary confinement for Tali Fahima is a disgrace

In Israel, the forever ineffectual judicial inquiry of a military man for shooting unarmed Palestinians is a good opener for a successful political career. But a punishment for an unarmed Israeli activist for the "crime" of befriending Palestinians is administrative detention, torture, and solitary confinement.  And let us recall hundreds of  Palestinians currently under admistrative detention, without a prospect for a fair trial, with rubber-stamp judges obediently extending every few months their incarceration. And the mainstream Israeli citizens who do not want to know anything about it, and  who keep repeating propaganda mantras to justify their collaboration with the Occupation. That is Israel 2005 for you, in a nutshell.

Dena Bugel-Shunra, Port Townsend, WA, USA.

It is an evil policy, punitive without a trial of a woman who's actions have hurt no-one.

Dr. John Bunzl, OIIP and Vienna University, Austria.

Daniel Burnstein, Adjunct Professor, Gibbs College.

Ms. Tali Fahima should be allowed out of solitary confinement without delay.  The Jewish community in Boston and the US generally is expecting Israel to make the effort needed to keep the peace initiatives in place. I am honored to join the academics listed below including Dr. Ruchama Marton who I met in Boston.

Igal Bursztyn, Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Annelise Butterweck

As a member of Cologne "Women in Black" I support the endorsing of "No to Solitary Confinement" of peace-activist Tali Fahima. She must be released!

Elsa Bylund, Sweden .

"There is a point at which people must take responsibility and raise their voices within their society, or their society will speak for them as a result of their silence."

Paola Canarutto, Italy.

Barbara Caputo, Anthropologist, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy.

Paula Cardoso, Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa.

Smadar Carmon, Toronto, Canada.

I'm afraid the way Tali Pahima is treated reflects what is happening today in Israel: although Israel likes to see it self as the "only democracy in the Middle East", the facts are that today there is no democracy in Israel. The only people that enjoy democratic rights are right wing, white colored Zionists. 

Kevin Cassidy, Chair, Peace People, Ireland.

Elena Cavallone

Studi hanno dimostrato senza ombra di dubbio che la detenzione con regime di isolamento infligge danni fisici e psicologici che si prolungano nel tempo e che possono diventare permanenti, di ferquente comportano crisi depressive, psicosi e anche suicidi. Essere privati delle informazioni e delle comunicazioni personali aggrava il danno. Questo è contro la legge internazionale e la pratica dei diritti umani comunemete accettata.

Se i giudici israeliani insistono a perseguire in giudizio Tali Fahima sulla base di soli indizi, senza prove, dovrebbero perlomeno tenerla agli arresti domiciliari fino al processo. Se questo non fosse possibile i carcerieri dovrebbero almeno cessare violenza e tortue e permetterle contatti con le altre prigioniere.

Ellen Chaikin,  Jerusalem. 

 Release Tali Fahima (at least) from solitary confinement.

Prof. Julia Chaitin, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Stephen Charnas, South Africa.

Rachel Choukroun , Marseille, France.

Dr.  Raya Cohen.

Dr. Rebecca Cohen, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Tami Cohen, Tel Aviv.

Viviane Cohen, universitaire, France.

Pour la liberation de Tali Fahima

Steve Conrad, Henrietta, Montana, USA.

To hold someone in solitary confinement for merely trying to establish a rapport with the other side of a conflict is not only vindictive, it violates the very essence of the term "Humanitarian Law" and it sets a dangerous precedent while also discouraging discourse between the two sides.

Liliane Cordova Kaczerginski, France.

Free Tali and don'y give up the fight.

Fausto Correia, Member of the European Parliament.

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate.  

Dr. Leo Corry, Tel-Aviv University.

Frances Crowe, Northampton, Ma.

Carmen Curcó, México.

Michal Dabach

Adi Dagan, Tel Aviv, Coalition of women for peace.

Prof. Emeritus Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv Univeristy.

Ora Dagan, social worker, Herzlya.

Dr. Yossi Dahan

A. E. Dangor, Physicist, Imperial College London, UK.

The imprisonment of Ms Fahima is unjust, vindictive and cruel. That she is held in solitary confinement is a crime against humanity.

Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv.

Prof. Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University, West Chester, Pa, USA.

I fully support this appeal

Dr. Uri Davis, Hon. Research Fellow, U. of Exeter and U. of Durham, UK.

Prof. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, University of Paris-7.

Tracie de Angelis Salim, Oakland, CA, USA.

Dr. David Degani,  Haifa.

Mireille (Myriam) Delamarre, France.

No to solitary confinement for Fahima no to prison for human rights Jewish Israeli activists. Shame on the Israeli governement and those Israelis that support it. 

Bousha al col ha israelim she shotkim al ma she kore ba shetarim ha palestinaim akvoushim. 

Bousha Bousha Bousha

Not in our name

Marc Delarue, Avignon. France.

Maurizio Disoteo, Musicologist, Bruxelles-Brussel, Belgium

LIBERATE LA PACE!

Dr. Diana Dolev.

Dr. Shahar Dolev

Lissa Donner, Winnipeg, Canada.

Tommy Dreyfus, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. John W. Du Bois, University of California, Santa Barbara.

To subject an untried detainee to solitary confinement is an abuse and a

punishment in its own right, and is unacceptable and uncalled for the case of

Ms. Tali Fahima. Please release her immediately.

Mary Edwards

I support your campaign to free Tali Fahima from solitary confinement and recognise  the strategy being played by the Israeli authorities as those iemployed by the apartheid regime in South Africa whereby they treated  isolated cases very severely to act as a threat to others to stop further anti-government protests. 

I wish Tali Fahima has the strength to endure, like Nelson Mandela and many others in South Africa, as well as like many of your own people in Israel. Sadly, it is only through the painful sacrifice of such people  that freedom is given a chance.

My thoughts are with Tali.

Wolf Zeev Ehrenberg, Switzerland.

I join the appeal on Tali Fahimas revolting solitary confinement. Such methods remind me of the Holy Inquisition!

Ester Eillam

Aviva Ein-Gil, Tel Aviv.

Ehud Ein-Gil, Tel Aviv.

Prof.  Ivar Ekeland, Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics

University of British Columbia.

Director, the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Shraga Elam, journalist, Zurich, Switzerland.

Prof. Rachel Elior, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Yehudit Elkana, Jerusalem.

Francine Engelbach-Andreieff, Strasbourg, France.

Juno Sylva Englander, President

Women in Action-Global Mothers For the Environment and Peace, Vienna, Austria.

Free Ms. Tali Fahima from solitary confinement and from prison.

Dr. David Enoch, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Hedy Epstein, St. Louis, MO, USA.

In a democracy, which Israel claims to be, people are considered innocent until found guilty by a court of law. In a democracy, people are detained in humane conditions.  Keeping Tali Fahima in isolation is in violation of Israel's & international laws.

I hope Israel can live up to the very best it can be & provide Tali Fahima humane treatment.

Shalom.

Sandra Ethell, New Zealand.

Release Tali Fahima. Let Mordechai Vanunu go.

Release all prisioners who are in solitary confinement in Israel/Palestine.

The world expects better conduct from Jewish people.

Guy Even, Tel-Aviv.

Prof. Emeritus Aharon Eviatar, Tel Aviv University.

I think that holding Ms Fahima in solitary confinement constitutes torture and can have no justification.  It is obviously a vindictive action on the part of the authorities who seem to feel personally offended by her.  The judge in this case seems to have acted as a poodle for the security services and showed a lack of courage and integrity.

Debbie Eylon, The Hebrew University.

Dr. Ovadia Ezra, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Laura Fainsilber, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden.

Sonia Fayman, UJFP, SICO (Solidaires des Israeliens Contre l'Occupation), France.

Docteur Georges Yoram Federmann, Psychiatre, Strasbourg, France.

Freedom for Tali Fahima.

Rainer Fielenbach, Germany.

Dror Feiler, Chairman of EJJP (European Jews for a Just Peace), Stockholm, Sweden.

Pnina Feiler, Reg. Nurse, Kibbutz Yad-Hanna, Israel.

Tigran Feiler, JIPF (Judar för Israelisk-Palestinsk Fred), Sverige.

Shlomit Ferguson (Kleinman)

Whenever I think that it cannot get worse, the Israeli government and its state apparatuses prove me wrong. Shame on you.

Leslie Fiddes.

Gilberte Finkel

There is no reason why Tali Fahima should be kept in solitary confinement. Her "crime" was talking to a Palestinian, which is exactly what the government is doing.

Murderers of women and children are not treated this way. Amnon Cohen who burnt his wife to death and Ygal Axelrod who targeted and raped Tamar Brez haven't been treated this way. It seems that Ygal Amir is treated better  than she is.

Something must be done to stop this.

Pnina Firestone

Tami Firon-Smorodinsky

Michel Flament, Coordination de l'Appel de Strasbourg, France.

Giorgio Forti, Universita degli Studi, Milano,Italy.

Prof. Danny Fox, MIT.

Prof. Gideon Freudenthal, Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Elizabeth Freund, Jerusalem , (Hebrew University -- Emeritus).

Hannah Friedman, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Executive Director.

Anne Frisius, Berlin.

Dr. Iris Fry, Tel Aviv University

Professor Michael Fry, Technion

Patrice Gagnon, Canada.

Ron Ganzfried, Bern, Switzerland.

Rachel Garbarz, Lille, France.

Dr. Miriam Garfinkle

Dr. Ido Geiger, Ben-Gurion University.

Kosay Ghanaiem, Attorney, Hadera, Israel.

Tsvi E. Gil, Haifa

David Gilbert, Chicago, Illinois.

This solitary confinement is plainly intended to punish someone who has yet to be convicted of anything and to intimidate others.  Israel is sliming itself again.

Adrian Gill

Free Tali Fahima

Dr. Terri Ginsberg, Dartmouth College.

Prof. Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University.

Dr Snait Gissis, Tel Aviv University.

Ruth Glasl, Bonn, Germany.

Professor Eli Glasner, Tel Aviv university.

Charles Glass

There is no reason to put anyone in solitary confinement. It is cruel and potentially harmful. I know. Hizballah held me in solitary confinement for two months in 1987, and most of the western world condemned them for it. I think we should condemn those who hold this woman.

Bilha Golan, Physicians for Human Rights- Israel.

Mark Golden, Winnipeg MB Canada.

Rev. Beth Goldring, Brahmavihara, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Prof. Oded Goldreich, Weizmann Institute.

I believe that the accusations against Tali Fahima are plainly ridiculous.

The collaboration of the Israeli "Justice system" with her harassment is yet another low point in the sad records of the history of the present time at Israel.

Tali Goldsmith

Leigh Golterman, New York, NY.

Stop the Solitary Confinement

Ofer Goren

Dr. Edna Gorney, Technion and Lesley University,

      and

Zev Labinger, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

We strongly condemn the treatment that Ms. Tali Fahima is receiving from the State Of Israel. Lack of a clear judicial process and now solitary confinement is completely unacceptable. We are contacting politicians and dignitaries around the world to join in this struggle to maintain basic human rights. 

We demand her fair treatment, release to house arrest and a speedy, just trial.

Nir Gov, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Tamar Gozansky, Ben Gurion University.

Yoram Gozansky, Friendship Movement.

Joanna Graham.

I am following this case with great interest. I believe that the Israeli government is essentially torturing Ms. Fahima--and they are doing so for the simple reason that she is a working-class Mizrahi Jew. Twenty percent of Israelis are Palestinian and 60 percent are Mizrahi, Jews from Arab countries. These two groups share both an Arab culture and a second-class status in the "Jewish State," founded and dominated by Jews from Europe. If they ever get together, the days of Ashkenazi dominance would be over. Thus, it is essential for the government to keep them from discovering their commonality.

 In the same way the American government has always come down with special ferocity on leftists of color--because by revealing the class origins of "race" consciousness, they also threaten to overturn the lies which keep Americans from coalescing on their own behalf.

Fabio L. Grassi, Teacher, Italian High School, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Judy Greenbaum, Jerusalem

         and

Prof. Charles W. Greenbaum, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Demanding the release of Ms. Tali Fahima, at least from solitary confinement in an Israeli prison.

Avner Greenberg, Kfar Vradim, Israel.

Jean-Guy Greilsamer

Dr. Alessandro Grimaldi, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy.

Please, Allow Ms. Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement.

Nili Gross

Tami Gross

Jennifer Grosvenor, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Dear Officials,
Placing Ms. Fahima in isolation is will not promote Israeli long-term security or peace.  It further documents that Israel is acting outside the law and international standards.  Though it may seem that you can hide the truth from your citizens and Americans, you are only prolonging and adding to the complexities of Israel's systems of injustices.

Jean Grudgings

Please , in the name of justice release this woman.  Thank you.

Heidi Grunebaum, Cape Town, South Africa.

Forward in the struggle for peace, justice and human dignity

Alisa Gutman

      and

Yehuda Gutman

We strongly support the petition asking for the release of Tally Fahima from solitary confinement. The contrast between the treatment of Ms. Fahima and that of right wing activists speaks for itself.

Prof. Yossi Guttmann, University of Haifa

Freda Guttman, Montreal, Canada,

Amos Gvirtz, Shefayim.

Prof. Uri Hadar, Clinical Psychologist, Tel Aviv University.

Brigitte Hahn, Haifa.

Susan Hamovitch, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

To the Israeli courts,

Having just learned of the plight of Ms. Tali Fahima, I am opposed to the continued solitary confinement .  From what I have read, it is occurring before her trial has been completed!  This goes against international, and, I believe, Israeli law. 

News of her mistreatment has now travelled as far as New York City (as well as other cities around the world).  Clearly, it is an affront to our sense of human dignity, and how prisoners, or people charged with a crime, should be treated. 

Furthermore, as a Jew, versed in the Torah and other Jewish scripture, I am even more dismayed and saddened.  Nowhere in the Torah, nor the Talmud does it condone this kind of treatment for individuals undergoing trial. 

Thank you for reconsidering her interment, and definitely cease holding this activist woman in solitary confinement with little access to her friends and family.  It is indeed cruel, unwarranted, immoral ... and illegal.

Tal Haran

Sarah Harel Hoshen, Director of Exhibitions, Beth Hatefutsoth, Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv University Campus, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Yehudith Harel, Ramat Ha Sharon.

Shuli Hartman, Israel.

Liat Hasenfratz, Jerusalem.

Jacob Kobi Hass, Tel-Aviv.

Fredrik S. Heffermehl,  Hon. President, Norwegian Peace Alliance, Vice President,      

International Peace Bureau, Vice Pres., I Assn. Lawyers Ag. Nuclear Arms,  International Free Vanunu Committee.    

I support the appeal to free Ms. Tali Fahima. In the past, in the Vanunu case, the Israeli courts have accepted isolation to a degree that amounts to gross disregard for the prohibition against torture

Ada Heilbronn

My heart is with you.
There are no limits to the vindictiveness of the Israeli government. This - in spite of the fact that you did nothing wrong. These are the Israelis who break laws steadily: Laws of religion, morality and international laws of war. With coarse foot they trample everything that stands in their way. Cruelty, insolence and violence characterize our life in the Holy Land. A society that our founding fathers didn't imagine possible in a nation described as merciful.
I hope that you can at least receive letters, read and think. Please, please - don't break down. Don't let power win over your brain. Like the prisoners of Zion, in their time, so are you a model of courage and social conscience.

Valerie Heinonen, Ursulines for Justice and Peace.

Drago Heler, Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, Auatralia.

Dolores Helman.

 Please release Tali Fahima  not only from solitary confinement , but from prison and have a fair trial before any imprisonment

Dr. Sara Helman, Ben Gurion University, Beerssheva, Israel.

Dr. Christine Helot, Maitre de conferences Anglais, Strasbourg, France.

Hanita Hendelman, Tivon.

Taly's action was showing to the world there are also people in Israel that are willing to risk themselves in order to state that a process of dialogue should start. Peace you do not make with friends but with the enemy. As well as that she is the song bird of peace, singing the song that is now becoming louder. The only difference is that she did it before the politicians were ready to soil their hands, therefore she is paying the price. It is a big stain (toppled by many others) on our garments if she continues to be punished instead of all the war mongers.  Any day Taly remains in jail is one day too many. Release her now!

Annemarie Hendrikz, South Africa.

I support the appeal to have Ms Tali Fahima treated humanely. 

Avi Hershkovitz, France.

Prof. Rebecka S. Hess, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Tamar Hess, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Prof. Hannan Hever, The Hebrew University.

Prof. Emeritus Peter Hillman, Hebrew University.

Dr. Tikva Honig-Parnass, Between The Lines, Jerusalem.

Peter Hume, South Africa.

Dafna Ichilov, Tel-Aviv.

Hedva Isachar, Tel Aviv.

Dr. Shamsul Islam,  Vanier College, Montreal, Canada.

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Prof. Eva Jablonka,  Tel-Aviv Univeirsity.

Philippe Jacob.

I wish this kind of treatment would be used only by undemocratics countries!

Prof. Pranav Jani, Ohio State University.

Eldad Joffe (Yaffe), Ganie Tiqva, Israel.

I support the call for the release of Tali Fahima from prison while her trial is being held. There is absolutely no justification for her continues arrest.

It goes without saying that the inhumane treatment of solitary confinement must stop.

Dan Judelson, European Jews for a Just Peace, UK.

The fact that the Israeli state has imprisoned Tali Fahima at all, let alone that they feel the need to keep her in solitary confinement illustrates the moral weakness of the state.

Annegret Kabbani, Germany.

Please free Talih Fahima! Working for peace should not be treated as a crime!

Dr. Nirit Kadmon, Tel Aviv University.

Ari Kahana

Adv. Eli Kalir

Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT.

Amnon Kaplansky

Please release Tali Fahima, immediately!

Tamar Kaplansky, Tel Aviv

Let Tali Fahima go!

Prof. Rimon Kasher, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Dr. Irit Katriel, Max Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Germany.

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Katriel, Technion, Haifa.

Shlomo Kav-Venaki, Kaye College of Education, Beer Saba.

Prof. Adah Kay, the City University, London.

Protest the unlawful confinement of Tali Fahima.

Daniel Keleti, Writer, from Haifa, Israel, the Middle-East.

Adam Keller, Gush Shalom.

Prof. Paul Kessler, Hon. Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the French Society of  Physics. 

Brigitte Keyl

Setzen Sie der Einzelhaft von Tali Fahima ein Ende und entlasst sie in die Freiheit. In Solidaritätt mit Tali Fahima.

Prof. Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Norman King, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It is unacceptable that someone expressing a peaceful political dissent, whether it be in writing or through solidarity activities, be imprisoned.

Prof. Laurence Kirby, City University of New York.

Annelien Kisch-Kroon, Ramat Hasharon.

Klil Kispel

Ali Kisserli, The Emirates.

Silencing the voices of peace and dissent is not a democratic practice.

Paul Kivel.

Free Ms Fahima, who is unjustly imprisoned by the Israeli authorities.

Dr. Yechiel Klar, Tel Aviv University.

Yonat Klar, Kfar Saba.

Dr. Peter Klosterman, University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Lydie Koch-Miramond, astrophysicist, Scientific Advisor to the French Atomic Energy Commission, Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of the French Society of Physics.

Shulamith Koenig, New York, NY, USA.

Attorney Orna Kohn, Haifa.

Sharon Komash, University for Peace student, Costa Rica.

I would like to express my deep concern for the direction in which my homeland is going. confining Tali for so many months, as if she were a dangerous murder, is totally not proportional and contrary to basic norms of humanity, justice and reason.

It is a outrageous that in Israel today, a rapist can get a few months sentence, whereas a peace activist like Tali Fahima is put in a closed cell.

I hope the protest of sane people will help bringing back the people that are supposed to serve justice to their mind.

Kay Krafczyk, Luxembourg.

Jacob Kramer, City University of New York.

Yana Krapova, University of Haifa

Coordinator, Coalition of Women for Peace.

Prof. Vered Kraus, Haifa and Berlin.

Bennett Kravitz, University of Haifa.

I would like to protest the cruel and unusual solitary confinement of Ms Fahima.

Dr.Robert Krieg

and

Monika Nolte, documentary filmmakers, Cologne, Germany.

1991-1995 Robert worked as founder and head of a training program for Palestinian TV and Radio journalists and technicians / planning and set-up of the first radio station in the Palestinian territories, funded by the German ministery BMZ and the EU. We work together in our production company WORLD TV and made two long documentaries about the Israel-Palestine-conflict: "Intifada", 1989 - about the first Intifada in the occupied territories - and "I came to Palestine", 1998 - about 9 pioneers of the Israelian peace-movement, among others Uri Avnery, Shmuel Amir and Pnina Feiler.

Richard Kuper, JfJfP, UK.

Dr. Ron Kuzar, University of Haifa.

Angela Lano, journalist, Turin, Italy.

Paul Lahham

Luis Landa, Ben Gurion University.

Dr. Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University.

Uri Laor

Let Tali Fahima be released immediately. Keeping her in prolonged solitary confinement pending a (deliberately?) slow judicial process is a severe violation of human rights and is manifestly illegal.

Fr. George Larin.

I'm appalled at such injustice and am truly sorry for those responsible for this inhumane treatment.  At the end of the day, they will have to answer to a much higher authority.

Maria La Salandra, Milano, Italy.

La detenzione con regime di isolamento è una tortura! Tali Fahima deve essere liberata!

Prof. Smadar Lavie, Tel Aviv.

Chris Leadbeater, Ashford, Kent, England.

Maire Leadbeater

I support your campaign for better conditions and or the release of Ms Fahima.

Suzanne Leaf

No to any forms of torture including solitary confinement.

James Marc Leas, patent attorney.

Those in the IDF who ordered the extra-judicial killings should be arrested, not those who protest these crimes. Free Tali Fahima now. She rightly protested those killings.

Stephanie Lecapelain

Shamai Leibowitz, Attorney-At-Law.

Israeli judges who render evil judgments under the guise of  'security' should be reminded constantly of Benjamin Franklin's warning: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Motti Lerner, Playwright, Israel.

Prof. Micah Leshem, University of Haifa.

I endorse the appeal to treat Tali like any other untried detainee and with full cognizance of her rights under the law. Vindictiveness by state authority is a travesty and unacceptable, and those individuals in the prison service who are harassing Tali will have to answer for it.

Noam Lester, Pardes Hana, Member of the 'Pilots Petition'.

Prof. Richard Levins, Harvard School of Public Health.

Prof. Malcolm Levitt, University of Southampton, Southampton, England.

Tali Fahima's courage in opposing Israeli Apartheid is admirable. Solitary confinement of an activist because of her opposition to state policy is outrageous.

Ariella Levy, Ganey-Yehuda.

Lital Levy, UC Berkeley.

Samuel W. Levy, Ph. D., Canada.

Free Ms. Tali Fahima without further delay.

Jacques Lewkowicz, Strasbourg, France.

I am opposed to the denial of human rights for Tali Fahima -  that she would not have  the right to talk to other prisoners, access to a phone, and the ability to meet her family and lawyer without a partition.

Stacey Leyton, Esq., San Francisco, California.

Dr. R. Ruth Linden, Sociologist, Oakland, California, USA.

Tali Fahima must be released at once from solitary confinement and returned to civil society.

Abby Lippman, Montreal, Quebec.

Helge Loew, Berlin, Germany.

This solitary confinement is totally inhuman! There must be put an end to it immediately.

Janet Logan, Montreal, Canada.

Please remove Tali Fahima from solidarity confinement. Peace and justice cannot be achieved through bullying and force. I fully support Ms Fahima and her attempts at creating dialogue in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

Frederick Joseph Lombardi, Carson City, Nevada, USA.

Yossi Loss, University of Haifa.

Yael Lotan, Givatayim, Israel.

Dr R. Lovell-Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

Prolonged solitary confinement amounts to torture and is not the practice of any civilised justice system.

Arno Lowi, Radio Let's Grow, Toronto.
The historical courage and resistance of the Jewish people lives on in Tali Fahima.

Henry N. Lowi, Advocate, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto, Canada.

Tali is a hero of the movement for peace and reconciliation.  Tali's solitary confinement is vindictive, a public display of cruel and unusual punishment. Free Tali Fahima!

Prof. Miriam R. Lowi, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, N.J.

Ms. Tali Fahima should be removed from solitary confinement immediately!

Dr. Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University.

Caroline Lucas Member of the European Parliament, London, UK.

Anne Lund, Denmark.

Ruth Luschnat, Berlin, Germany.

It is the compassion that will win peace!

But when people get trained to become unable to be compassionate, then totalitarian regimes can use people for genocidal politics.

Free Tali Fahima ! Stop her solitary confinement now!!!!

Prof. Emeritus  Moshe  Machover, King's College, London.

I endorse the appeal to allow the peace activist Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement, which is a serious violation of her human rights.

Dr. Angelika Maeser Lemieux, Vanier College, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Requesting amnesty for this Israeli peace worker.

Liz Magnes

I am signing my name to be among the counted......when Israel will be able to become an enlightened country, I will feel proud to be among those who consistently pushed for  freedoms, and equality among it's citizens, ... May it come sooner than later....and in my lifetime.

David Makofsky, Oakland, California, USA.

The Israeli legal system must learn that the duel standard - "anything goes for right wing orthodox jews"  and "maximum punishment for those who oppose the human rights violations of the state"  are consistently being revealed to the world.  No imprisonment, no solitary confinement for Tali Fahima.

Dr. Bruce J. Malina, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

David L. Mandel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Sacramento.

Free Tali.

Shani Maor, Jerusalem.

Spyros Marchetos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Joelle Marelli, translator, Paris.

Thank you Tali Fahima for your courage and beautiful lesson of resistance.

May your example be followed in many ways by many more.

Hubert Marshall, Professor emeritus of Political Science.

Let Tali Fahima be allowed the full legal rights granted to other prisoners, including the right to join in the regular prison population.

Rachelle Marshall

Solitary confinement can have only one purpose -- to pressure and

intimidate the prisoner. There must be a limit on the inhumanity that

the authorities practice against prisoners of conscience

Jean-Francois Martel, directeur du Teatre de l'Opprime, Lille, France.

Dr. Ruchama Marton, President – Physicians for Human Rights – Israel.

  Solitary confinement is torture. Fight against it.

Alex Massis, Film Producer

Dr. Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University.

Birgit Max, Milano, Italia.

I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SOLIDARITY TO  TALI FAHIMA  !

ESPRIMO LA MIA PROFONDA SOLIDARIETA'  A TALI FAHIMA !

Vicky Mayk

Rela Mazali

I endorse the appeal to discontinue the solitary confinement of Tali Fahima immediately

Maine McEachern , University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

I protest the grotesquely punitive solitary confinement of Ms. Tali Fahima!!! She is the victim of a Supreme court ideologue's arrogant bigotry! This Supreme court "justice" should himself be impeached and imprisoned for gross abuse of power and breach of moral professionalism (nevermind for an outright sadistic instinct).

David McPhail.

Gil Medovoy, Davis, California.

Free Tali Fahima!

D. H. Melhem

Please allow Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement.  It has become a form of torture you cannot in good conscience countenance.  Her "crime" is merely an assertion of her human right to free speech, and in a good cause.  Please show mercy here.

Benjamin Merhav, Melbourne, Australia.

I join the demand to immediately release Tali Fahima from solitary

confinement, and to immediately stop any other form of torture/denial of

human rights used by the shabak against her. Release Tali Fahima

now ! Put on trial Israeli war criminals!

David Merhav, University of Haifa.

Tsamir Merav

Razia Meron, New Profile.

Vindictiveness by state  authority is a travesty and unacceptable.

Yael Meroz, Rome, Italy.

Ditza Meshulam, Psychologist, Carcur, Israel.

Madjid Messaoudene, France.

Clemens Messerschmid, Hydrogeologist, Ramallah.

Annalucia Messina, Teacher of History, Milano, Italy.

Prof. Jean Claude Meyer, Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix, Strasbourg, France.

Claire Mialhe, Dieupentale, France, French Jewish Union for Peace.

Dr. Hannah Middleton, Convenor, Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition, Australia.

Allow the peace activist Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement, which is a serious violation of her human rights and constitutes torture. Her incarceration and isolation are particularly barbaric and unjust since her "crime" is apparently talking to a Palestinian, something which the Israeli Government is doing.

Rachella Mizrachi

Ingeborg Moa, Oslo, Norway.

Gulhan Moeel, Berkeley, California, USA.

Litsis Moissis, journalist, Athens, Greece.

Avi Mograbi

Dr. Claire Moon, Centre for the Study of Human Rights,

London School of Economics and Political Science.

Release Tali Fahima not only from solitary confinement, but from imprisonment.

Prof. Donald Moore, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

I agree wholeheartedly that the decision of the Supreme Court to keep Ms Fahima in prison is a brand of  'cruel and unusual' punishment aimed at harassing Israelis and Palestinians who seek to cooperate in non-violent protests to the policies of the Israeli government. Why does the government fear non-violent protests?

Dr. Aura Mor, University of London.

Rotem Dan Mor, Jerusalem.

Rami Moran

Susy Mordechay, Giv'ataim.

Jenny Morgan, London, UK.

Rayna Moss, Jaffa, Israel, International Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu.

Mordechai Vanunu was the first Israeli to earn mention in the Guinness Book of World records, for the most time spent in solitary confinement in the modern age - 11 and a half years. Is solitary confinement our country's weapon of choice against dissidents?

Mitra Mosslemi

All humans have the right to say what they believe in, search and try for peace.

They have to be treated well.

Prof. Dorit Naaman, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

There is absolutely no justification for way the Israeli state is treating  Tali Fahima, particularly in light of the very minimal charges brought against her in court.  Clearly, the state would like to scare anyone from seeking dialogue with Palestinians. But despite their punitive measures, we will keep talking and working with Palestinians for a better future for all of us.

Dorothy Naor

In the civilized world, a person is innocent till proven guilty.  Tali Fahima has not been tried, has not been proven guilty beyond doubt, but is nevertheless serving a sentence, and not only serving a sentence, but in solitary confinement.  What sort of treatment is this?  Israel prides itself on being a democracy.  But if civil liberties are part and parcel of democracy, than Israel's acts belie its claims, and no acts more so than its treatment of Tali.

Efrat Natan

Ofer Neiman, Jerusalem.

Ana Netzer Shai.

Marlene Newesri, New York City, USA

"Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law" (From Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Israel is a signatory).

Sarah Nicholson, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Prof. Laurent Niederman, Universite Paris 11.

Heidi Niggemann, Berlin.

Dr. David Nir, Tel Aviv.

Alex Nissen.

Chaim Noy

Fahima and Vanunu - one doesn't have to be a Mizrahi or a feminist to see the point: the more "peripheral" identities are (the closer they are perceived to be to the "enemy"), the higher are the walls, the deeper is the silence, the harsher are the retributions.

Eli Noy, Tel-Aviv University.

Andrea Norouzi, Women In Black Frederick, Maryland, USA.

Dr. Sam Noumoff, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Fabrice O'Higgins

Adeline O'Keeffe, London, England.

I would like to add my name to all those who are calling for justice for Tali Fahima.  I applaud her courage and determination and am grateful for the example she and others like her (not least of all Vanunu) provides in the State that promotes fear over truth.

Perrine Olff-Rastegar

et

Ali Olff-Rastegar, Strasbourg, France.

Martine Olff-Sommer, Strasbourg, France.

Je demande la fin de l'isolement de Tali Fahima , des conditions decentes en application du droit international.

Norah Orlow, MachsomWatch, Jerusalem.

Dr. Eitan Ornoy, The Hebrew University.

I strongly protest against holding Tali Fahima, as well as any other human-being, in prolonged isolation. Ms. Fahima deserves full rights and detention conditions as any fellow detainee in accordance with Israeli as well as universal code of justice. While declaring such, I do not share the sweeping criticism regarding the judicial grounds that brought about Ms. Fahima's confinement. I do share, however, the concern for a fair, reliable and un-biased trial, and admire Tali for her courage in fighting for her beliefs.

Janine Orssaud

Je demande la liberation de Tali Fahima et reparation pour les prejudices subits.

Je demande que la paix soit faite sur les bases des declarations de l'ONU et que soient enfin reconnus les droits du peuple palestinien  a un  etat pour  vivre en paix.

Il en va de l'existence d'Israel egalement.

Prof. Avraham Oz, University of Haifa.

Naomi Paltiel Lowi, M.D., Montreal.

Demanding just treatment for Tali Fahima by the Israeli Justice authorities.

Anat Padan , Jerusalem.

Guy Pade, Haifa University, Israel.

Dr. Joseph Parisi, physicist at the University of  Paris-11.

Professor Iris Parush, Ben-Gurion University.

Jean Pauline

and

Tom Brown, Oakland, California, USA.

Studies have shown beyond doubt that solitary confinement inflicts long-lasting and often permanent psychological and physical damage, frequently leading to serious depression, psychosis, or death by suicide. Deprivation of media access & personal communications compounds the injury.

Clearly it is the intent of the Israeli court and prison system to cripple or permanently disable Ms. Fahima, if not to kill her or drive her to suicide.  This is counter to international law and commonly accepted practices of human rights, if not to Israeli law and practices (to say nothing of Jewish law!). If the courts insist on pursuing the ridiculous charges filed against her, Ms. Fahima should be released on personal recognizance pending trial. Or, at the very least, her jailers should cease and desist from further abuse and torture and she should be allowed to join the general prison population.

Prof. Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Kobi Peter (Peterzil), University of Haifa.

D Pickup, Northampton, United Kingdom.

I wish to add my voice to the appeal to allow imprisoned peace activist Ms. Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement. I strongly believe that the legal grounds for her detention and prosecution are insubstantial and that Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein's decision to place Tali Fahima under arrest until the completion of proceedings against her is unreasonable and disproportional.

I also believe that her conditions of imprisonment in prolonged isolation since August 2004 threaten her long-term well-being, and constitute vindictive harassment in a thinly veiled attempt to deter Israeli and international peace activists.

Dr. Halleli Pinson, Haifa University.

Karen Platt, community college instructor, San Francisco, California.

Mitchell Plitnick, Director of Education and Policy, Jewish Voice for Peace.

Katha Pollitt, columnist, The Nation.

Vivienne Porzsolt, Sydney, Australia.

Let Ms Tali Fahima be treated in accordance with accepted Israeli and international standards and released from solitiary confinement.  Her imprisonment is itself a violation of human rights.

Prof. Mary C. Potter, MIT.

Protest against Ms. Tali Fahima's solitary confinement without justification in law or human morality.

Janet M. Powers, Emeritus Professor, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA.

Ben Price, Carlisle Peace College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.

Incarceration should be used only as a way to protect peaceful society from harm at the hands of violent aggressors. We therefore ask: how dare an Occupying Military Government confine Tali Fahima to solitary confinement for acting on humanitarian instincts? It is time to end the hypocrisy. It is time to end the Occupation. It is time to end the incarceration of political prisoners!

Yemil Harcha Raffachello, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Ram and Michaela Rahat , Jerusalem.

Shakhar Rahav, Albany, California, USA.

Dr. Haggai Ram, Ben Gurion University.

Roland Rance, London UK.

Prof. Tamar Rapoport, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Ada Ravon, Adv., Tel Aviv University.

Release Tali Fahima from solitary confinement, in fact release her immediately. Tali Fahima has been created into the symbol of honest goodwill and clean ambition of good people, both Jews and Arabs, that believe in peace and co-existence. She has become the symbol of those of us who believe that just peace and mutual prosperity can and should be brought about through grass root involvement in both peoples, even if the leadership fails us.

Dr Marie-France Raynault, University of Montreal, Canada.

Avi Raz, University of Oxford.

The despicable solitary confinement of Ms Tali Fahima proves, yet again, that the Sharon government is adamant to maintain Israel's role as a dark to all the nations (hoshekh la-goyim).

Lotahn Raz

Evelyne Reberg, Jewish French woman.

Tali Fahima must be treated as a human being with all the rights that you benefit from in a democratic state.

Prof. Rush Rehm, Stanford University.

It is unconcionable that Israel continues in her inhuman and totally unwarranted punishment. Is it any surprize that decent people all over the world increasingly view Israel as a 'rogue' state, uninterested in basic human rights?

Eitan Reich

Miriam  M. Reik

Prof. Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv University and University of Utrecht.

Dr. Nira Reiss, Haifa.

Tova Reshef, Galilee.

Dr. Julia Resnik, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Rivka Ribak, Haifa.

Prof. Avraham Rinat, physicist.

No'omi Rinat, clinical psychologist.

Noam Rind

Dr. Nurit Rinott, Jerusalem.

Prof. Bruce Robbins, Columbia University.

Ellen Robbins,Women in Black Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Let Tali Fahima be treated with respect, dignity, and the rule of civilized law.

Prof. Steven Robins, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Marilyn Robinson, Denver, Colorado.

I join the appeal to allow imprisoned peace activist Ms. Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement. It is an honor to write on her behalf. The Israeli government's action apparently is an attempt to silence peace activists not only from Israel but from around the world.  They seem to be attempting to send a message to silence those who would protest the Israeli government's inhumane and illegal actions against the Palestinian people.  To remain silent in the face of injustice is to be an Accomplice. Besides, the truth will never let you be silent

Eleanor Roffman

Release Tali Fahima from solitary confinement. The crime does not match the punishment. she is being treated severely because of her politics, not her actions.  Please let justice be served and release her from prison.  This is the humanitarian thing to do.

Ellen Rohlfs, Germany.

Tali Fahima is no criminel - but a human being, looking for peace and understanding.

Prof. Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Nara Ronchetti, Venice, Italy.

Yael Ronen

Prof. Emerita Hilary Rose, University of Bradford, UK.

Roee Rosen, Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem.

Prof. Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv.

Prof. Emeritus Henry Rosenfeld, University of Haifa.

Yehoshua Rosin

Yehoshua Rosin, Rehovot.

Leon Rosselson, London, UK.

David (Dudu) Rotman Tel Aviv University.

Eyal Rozenberg, Haifa.

Paula Rubinek, Beer-Sheva.

Edith Rubinstein, Femme en Noir, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Je n’ai qu’une chose a dire : « Le pire des terrorismes est le terrorisme d’Etat ! »

Je vous souhaite beaucoup de success dans cet appel de pure humanite.

Ingrid Rumpf, Pfullingen, Germany.

I vehemently protest against the conditions of imprisonment of Ms. Tali Fahima.

Maren Rytter

Please release Tali Fahima.

Galit Saada-Ophir, Jerusalem.

Amalia Sa'ar, University of Haifa

Dr. Dalia Sachs, Haifa University.

Calanit Saenger, Jewish Voice for Peace Board.

I have been following Tali's case closely and I am outraged and frightened by the response of Israeli judicial authorities. When I visited in Israel last time I came to take part in one of the hearings, but they prevented activists getting in. Tali's case shows the entire world that Israel is a military state and that its aspirations for democracy are flawed.

Yasin Safak, Istanbul Turkiye.

I want to say "in solidarity" to this justice call which never knew,knows and will know

any physical limit.No limit like geographic distances or borders and jails can stop

this call as long as people keep resisting.

Dr. Hannah Safran, Leslie University, Israel.

Moshe Salmona, UK.

Prof. Gavriel Salomon, Recipient of the Israel Award (Pras Israel), 2001

Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Has Tali Fahima been made the scapegoat for our anxieties?

Catherine Samary, Paris, France.

Prof. Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University.

Sergeiy Sandler, Beer-Sheva

Etan Sanger

Free political prisoner Tali Fahima immediately!

This kind of attempt to harass peace activists in Israel should be fought against by all means. This is a behavior expected from totalitarian regimes, and so it becomes clearer more and more that this is the actual kind of regime that rules in Israel, giving the State of Israel the worse possible PR.

Anne Yosefa Sartiel, M.D.

Continued denial of liberty and solitary confinement for Tali Fahima consist punishment without trial and unacceptable vindictiveness - unworthy of a modern state and its judicial system.

Emily Schaeffer, law student.

Democracy cannot be sacrificed for Israel's fears.

Free Tali Fahima.

Eran Schaerf

Angelika Schneider, Cologne, Germany.

I add my plea to those of many others: let Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement.  She has done nothing but seek justice!

Prof. Dominique Schiff, director of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the University of Paris-11.

Seth Schneider, Oakland, California, USA.

Naomi Schor, Haifa, Israel.

Nava Schreiber, Tel Aviv.

Dr. Yossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Avraham Schweiger, Academic College, Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Evalyn F. Segal

Free Tali Fahima from solitary confinement; let her go home.

Itamar Shachar, Haifa.

Dr. Tony Shahar, Clinical Psychologist.

Cindy Shamban

Yonatan Shapira

Jeanie Shaterian, Berkeley, CA, USA. 

David Shayeb, USA

Please release Tali Fahima, she is a prisoner of conscience, not a criminal.

Oz Shelach

Idit Shemer, Jerusalem.

Matityaho Shemoelof, Haifa, Israel.

Prof. Ellen Shifrin, Humber College (retired).

The world is watching. Release Ms. Fahima immediately from solitary confinement, and either try her in a FAIR and IMPARTIAL and PUBLIC court, or set her free

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Prof. Nomi Shir, Ben Gurion University.

Prof. Avi Shlaim, Oxford University.

Dr. Hagit Shlonsky, Jerusalem.

Prof. Ella Shohat, New York University.

Dr. Tal Shuval.

Michele Sibony, France.

Dr. Ivy Sichel, Hebrew University.

Dr. Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Marcella Simoni, University of Venice, Italy.

Dr. Rann Smorodinsky, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Dr. Kobi Snitz, Ben Gurion University.

Eitan Sommerfeld, Karkur, Israel.

Dr. Tamir Sorek, Cornell University.

Dr. Yehiam Soreq, Beit-Berl College.

Carlo Spagnolo, Univ. degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy.

Mikhal Spektor, Tel Aviv.

John Spritzler, Sc.D., Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Prof. Maria Giovanna Stasolla, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.

Ingrid Steinitz, Denmark.

It is high time Tali Fahima gets reasonable treatment and stop terrorising her in prison.

Marcel Stelzer, Brussels, Belgium.

Mor Stoler, Advocate.

Dave Stratman, Editor, New Democracy, Boston.

Prof. Jon Stratton, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

Colin Stuart, Ottawa, Canada.

Vivi Sury, Jerusalem.

Gila Svirsky, Jerusalem.

Kristof Szombati, Hungary.

Martine Szyper-Kravitz, MD.

Reda Taleb, senior, University of Michigan.

I firmly oppose the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. I also oppose the ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and the Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is in reality a prison wall that cuts through homes, backyards and divides Palestinian families, and for some denies them access to their farms. I call for the immediate dismantling of the wall, and the immediate halt of settlements. It is the duty of every concientious member of humanity to fight for the rights of Palestinians and other oppressed peoples around the world.

Itay Talgam

Dr.  Yoram Talmon, psychiatrist, Kaplan Medical Center.

Inbar Tamari, London UK.

Tirtza Tauber

Dr. Zvi Tauber, Tel Aviv University.

Edward Tawil

The State of Israel is afraid of Tali Fahima so much so as to insist on her imprisonment in solitary confinement.  Shame on you.  You have the power of the gun only.  The power of conscience is absent.

Jill Taylor, Mountain Ash, South Wales.

Robert Thompson, Avocat Honoraire au Barreau de Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Solitary confinement is of itself a form of torture and thus a breach of human rights.

Nicole Tonneau, Cineaste, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Michelguglielmo Torri, University of Torino, Italy.

Gerard Toulouse, Department of physics, Ecole normale superieure, Paris, France.

Violence backfires: History has shown how the unlimited brutality of European colonization in America, Africa and Asia boomeranged inside Europe, inducing internal brutalisation, arbitrary discrimination and inhuman treatments.

Lily Traubmann, Feminist activist.

Hamutal Tsamir, Assistant Prof., Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Georges Tugene, Strasbourg, France.

Dr. Dudy Tzfati, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Dr. Allon Uhlmann, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Ing. Valentina Valleriani, Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico d'Abruzzo, Italy.

Free Tali Fahima.

Roman Vater, Tel Aviv.

Keith Vermeulen, Director: Parliamentary Office  SA Council of Churches, Cape Town, South Africa.

As a South African, I reject out of hand the torture and solitary confinement of any person as a flagrant violation of the human right to freedom of expression and movement. Such practice I believe is also contrary to international norms that reject torture and solitary confinement and has special implications for countries, such as Israel and Palestine, that face the prospect of social and political transformation. Solitary confinement and torture remind us too clearly of the kind of social control machinery of a desperate and tyrannical apartheid regime. The ongoing detention as well as solitary confinement and abnormal prison sentence of the peace-activist, Ms. Tali Fahima, make one question the civil and human intent of the Israeli government especially in a day and age when peaceable strategies for resolving violent conflict are readily at hand (from the human and political resources in South Africa). The least we expect in the situation of Ms. Fahima is that the authorities speedily bring charges against her or immediately order her release.

Maria Grazia Vischi, Torino, Italy.

Richard Wagman, President, Union juive francaise pour la paix (UJFP), Paris, France.

I call for an end to the solitary confinement of Tali Fahima, and for her immediate release from prison.

Orit Waisman

Free Tali Fahima NOW!

This is injustice!

Eric Walberg

Micha Wald, filmmaker, Brussel, Belgium.

Jochi Weil-Goldstein, Zurich, Responsible for Projects of medico international schweiz, Department Palestine and Israel (formerly Centrale Sanitaire Suisse CSS Zuerich).

As a former expert during many years in Penal Reform I’m clearly supporting the following part of the below appeal for Ms. Tali Fahima:

“Concerned about the effects of imprisonment under conditions of  total isolation on Ms Fahima, we appeal for your intervention so that her conditions in prison are normalized in accordance with accepted Israeli and international standards.”

After reading in http://www.freetalifahima.org/eng.php?lang=en “Free Tali Fahima” I’m not able to decide, if the legal grounds for the detention and prosecution of Ms. Tali Fahima are insubstantial or not - also because I’m living in Switzerland and not in Israel.

So I only may ask for a fair and urgent trial-procedure for Ms. Fahima.

With best regards and Shalom

Michel Weill, Consultant, Montpellier, France.

Avi Weinberg

Yael Weisz-Rind

Tali Fahima is a Prisoner of Conscience. Her harassment and persecution are disgrace to the state of Israel. Free Tali Fahima.

Abraham Weizfeld

Shani Werner, New Profile.

Elana Wesley, translator, Tel Aviv.

Remove Tali Fahima from solitary confinement.  She shouldn't be in prison at all - at the very worst, house arrest would have accomplished the control the government seeks over her movements until her trial - which should not need to wait until the summer or longer.

Hyla Willis, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Please end the solitary confinement and harassment of Tali Fahima.

Pamela Wilson, Berkeley, California.

I agree with the Haaretz editorial which condemned the treatment of Tali Fahima as unreasonable and disproportional, and I ask for your intervention so that her conditions in prison are normalized in accordance with International Standards.

Shebar Windstone, Catskill, New York, USA.

[See statement of Jean Pauline and Tom Brown].

Betsy Wolf-Graves.

I believe that the treatment of Tali Fahima is torture.  When I read of sleep deprivation, sexual  harassment, lack of access to ordinary amenities,  this is against International Law and against the International Declaration of Human Rights.
She apparently has acted in good conscience by attempting to alleviate the pain for some
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.  If more Israelis acted as Ms. Fahima, perhaps there
would be more understanding between Palestinians and Israelis -- and, maybe, both sides
would decide to engage in constructive interactions.

David Wurfel, Toronto, Canada.

It is urgent that Tali Fahima be released from solitary confinement and remanded to house arrest pending trial, as was first ordered by the Tel Aviv judge.  Such treatment fundamentally negates Israel's claim to live under the 'rule of law'.

Eitan Ya’ari

Andy Yehezkel

Adam Yakin, Jerusalem.

Release Tali Fahima.

Shmuel Yerushalmi, the Israeli poet.

Dr. Yuval Yonay, University of Haifa.

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London.

Uri Zackhem

Beate Zilversmidt

Anat Zimerman, Tel Aviv.

Sylvia Zolly-Dauer, Vienna.

b) Organizations:

Adalah: The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel.

Arbeitskreis Palästina, Tübingen.

Batshalom Nazareth Meggido & Haamakim.

Free Tali Fahima.

Civimed Initiatives

Coalition of Women for Peace, Israel.

Collectif judeo-arabe et citoyen pour la paix, Strasbourg, France.

Nous nous joignons a cet appel pour demander la fin  immediate de l'isolement punitif  de Tali Fahima et sa liberation definitive.

European Jews for a Just Peace.

Femmes en Noir, Marseille, France.

International Civilian Campaign for the Protection of the Palestinian People  (CCIPPP), Grand-Est et Allemagne.

Jewish Voice for Peace, California, USA.

Jews for Justice for Palestinians (UK).

l'Appel de Strasbourg, France.

www.eutopic.net/coordination

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI).

Union des Progressistes Juifs de Belgique ( UPJB), Brussels, Belgium.

Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix (UJFP), Paris, France.

Union juive francaise pour la paix (UJFP) de Lyon, France.

UJFP de Lyon  france est solidaire de votre action et exige la liberation de TALI FAHIMA.

Women in Action-Global Mothers, For the Environment and Peace, Vienna, Austria.

Women in Black, Strasbourg , France.

Let Tali Fahima out of solitary confinement.....and have her legal rights respected.....

We support you Fahima  and hope your will be free soon....