The Conscience Declaration of
Global Intellectuals
on the Gaza Genocide
Following a long-overdue and brief `humanitarian pause,` the Israeli government resumed its genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza on November 30. By doing so, Israel ignored the worldwide protests of masses representing the conscience of humanity and the persistent calls from moral, religious, and political leaders across the globe to transform the pause for hostage/prisoner exchanges into a permanent ceasefire. The primary aim of these calls was to prevent the further worsening of the suffering endured by the people of Gaza. Moreover, strong messages were sent to Israel, urging it to choose the path of mutual respect, genuine security, and lasting peace—not only for humanitarian reasons but also for the benefit of both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. Yet, these messages went unheeded. In Gaza, dead bodies pile up in the streets with each passing day, the medical system is unable to provide care for the injured, and the threats of widespread hunger and disease are intensifying.
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SIGNATORIES
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, Türkiye
Richard Falk
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967 (2008-2014), Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
Dr. Moncef Marzouki
Former President of Tunisia
Mahathir Mohamed
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Georges Abi-Saab
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Institute Geneva and Cairo University, Former UN Advisor to the Secretary Generals of the UN; Former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Egypt
Mairead Maguire
Nobel Peace Laureate (1976), Member of Russell Tribunal, Northern Ireland
Amr Moussa
Former Secretary General of the Arab League, Former Foreign Minister, Member of the UN’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change for International Peace and Security, Egypt
M. Javad Zarif
Professor, University of Tehran, Former Foreign Minister, Iran
Hamid Albar
Former Foreign Minister, First Chancellor of the Asia e University, Malaysia
Brigette Mabandla
Former Minister of Justice and anti-Apartheid Activist, South Africa
Judith Butler
Professor, University of California at Berkeley; Feminist Studies, USA
Kamal Hossein
Former Foreign Minister, Bangladesh
Paulo Sergia
Professor of Political Science (USP) and Former Minister of Human Rights, Brazil
Chris Hedges
Pulitzer-prize Winning Reporter and Former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, USA
Tu Weiming
Member of UN Group of Eminent Persons for the Dialogue Among Civilizations, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, USA; Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, China
John Esposito
Professor of International Relations and the Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University; Member of High Level Group of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, USA
Arundhati Roy
Author of God of Small Things, Human Rights Activist, India
Susan Abulhawa
Palestinian Novelist, Author of Mornings in Jenin, USA
Hans von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Faculty Member at Conflict Research Center, University of Marburg, Germany
Angela Davis
Berkeley, USA
Hilal Elver
Professor of International Law, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food (2014-2020), Türkiye
Abdullah Ahsan
Professor of History International Islamic University Malaysia and Istanbul Şehir University, USA
Phyllis Bennis
Journalist, Author and Social Activist, Institute of Policy Studies, USA
Noura Erakat
Activist and Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Co-founder of Jadalliyah, USA
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development; Deputy Director UN FAO, Malaysia
Victoria Brittain
Former Foreign Editor of the Guardian, worked closely with anti-Apartheid Movement, Founder of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature, UK
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak FBA
Professor, Columbia University, received Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy 2012, India
Ali Bardakoğlu
Professor of Theology, Former President of Directorate of Religious Affairs, Türkiye
Mustafa Ceric
Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia, President of the World Bosniak Congress, co-recipient UNESCO Felix Houphouet-Bougny Peace Prize, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maung Zarni
Human Rights Activist, Member of the Board of Advisors of Genocide Watch, Co-founder of Free Burma Coalition, Free Rohingya Coalition and Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia, Myanmar
Joseph Camilleri
Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Co-Convener of SHAPE Melbourne, Australia
Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government Columbia University, Chancellor of Kampala University, Uganda
Dayan Jayatilleka
Former Ambassador to UN (Geneva), France; Journalist, Sri Lanka
Elisabeth Weber
Professor of German Literature and Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara, Germany/USA
Marjorie Cohn
Dean of the Peoples Academy of International Law, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, USA
Jan Oberg
Chairman of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Sweden
Ramzy Baroud
Author, Academic, Editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Palestine/USA
Saree Makdisi
Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, USA
Roger Leger
Retired Professor of Philosophy at the Military College of Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada
Usman Bugaje
Professor, Former Adviser to the Vice President of Nigeria, Nigeria
Chandra Muzaffar
President, International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Malaysia
Avery F. Gordon
Professor Emerita, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Arlene Elizabeth Clemesha
Professor of Contemporary Arab History at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Ömer Dinçer
Professor, Former Minister of Education, Former President of Şehir University, Türkiye
Fethi Jarray
Former Education Minister, current Chairperson of the National Mechanism on Torture Prevention, Tunisia
Alfred de Zayas
Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, USA
Walid Joumblatt
Member of Lebanese Parliament, Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, Lebanon
Elmira Akhmetova
Professor at the Institute of Knowledge Integration in Georgia, Russia
Sami Al-Arian
Professor, Director of Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University, Türkiye
George Sabra
Signatory of the Damascus Declaration (2005), Former President of the Syrian National Council, Syria
Ray McGovern
Activist, Veterans For Peace, Supporter of the anti-war group Not in Our Name, USA
Juan Cole
Professor of History, The University of Michigan, Former Editor of The International Journal of Middle East Studies, USA
Penny Green
Professor of Law and Globalization, Director, International State Crime Initiative Queen Mary University of London, UK
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Professor of English and Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara, USA/India
Nader Hashemi
Professor, Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, USA
Ahmed Abbes
Mathematician, Director of Research at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques Paris, France, Tunisia
Bhaskar Sarkar
Professor of Film and Media, UC Santa Barbara, USA/India
Akeel Bilgrami
Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, USA, India
Assaf Kfoury
Mathematician and Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, Boston University, USA
Helena Cobban
Journalist, Author, President of Just World Educational, USA
Bilijana Vankovska
Professor and Head of the Global Changes Center, Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
David Swanson
Author, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, USA
Radmila Nakarada
Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade; Spokesperson of the Yugoslav Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Serbia
Fredrick S. Heffermehl
Lawyer and Author, Norway
Anis Ahmad
Emeritus Professor and President, Riphah International University Islamabad, Pakistan
Lisa Hajjar
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed
President Emeritus, Islamic Society of North America, USA
Muhammed al-Ghazzali
Professor, Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan, Pakistan
Syed Azman Syed Ahmad
Former Member of Malaysia Parliament, Chairman of Asia Forum for Peace and Development (AFPAD), Malaysia
Osman Bakar
Al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology and Civilisational Renewal, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Malaysia
Ibrahim M Zein
Professor of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Engin Deniz Akarlı
Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University, Türkiye
Francesco Della Puppa
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Julio da Silveira Moreira
Professor, Federal University of Latin-American Integration, Brazil
Nabeel Rajab
Founder and former president of the Gulf Center for Human Rights; Former Deputy Secretary-General of the International Federation for Human Rights, Recipient of the Ion Ratiu Award for Democracy and Human Rights, Bahrain
Feroz Ahmad
Emeritus Professor of History and International Relations, Harvard University, USA, India
Serap Yazıcı
Professor of Constitutional Law, MP, Turkish Parliament, Türkiye
Natalie Brinham
Genocide and Statelessness Scholar, UK
Ayçin Kantoğlu
Author, Türkiye
Dania Koleilat Khatib
ME Scholar and President of RCCP TrackII Organisation, UAE
Imtiyaz Yusuf
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Non-Resident Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary Islamic World (CICW), Shenandoah University, USA/Vietnam
Kamar Oniah Kamuruzaman
Former Professor of Comparative Religion, International Islamic University, Malaysia
Ümit Yardım
Former Ambassador of Türkiye to Tehran, Moscow, and Vienna, Türkiye
Ahmet Ali Basic
Professor, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kani Torun
Former Ambassador of Türkiye to Somalia, Former Head of Doctors Worldwide, Member of Parliament, Türkiye
Ermin Sinanovic
Center for Islam in the Contemporary World at Shenandoah University, USA/Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nihal Bengisu Karaca
Journalist, Türkiye
Alkasum Abba
Emeritus Professor of History, Abuja, Nigeria
Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim
Professor of History and Civilization, Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Anwar Alrasheed
Khiam Rehabilitation Center, The victims of Torture (KRC), Representative of the International Council for Fair Trials and Human Rights in the State of Kuwait and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Kuwait
Mohd Hisham Mohd Kamal
Assoc. Prof. Dr., Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, Malaysia/Indonesia
Syed Arabi Bin Syed Abdullah
Former Rector, International Islamic University, Malaysia
Yusuf Ziya Özcan
Former President of Council of Higher Education, Türkiye
Mohamed Jawhar Hassan
Former Chairman and Chief Executive, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia
Shad Faruqi
Professor of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi
Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Relations, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL, USA/India
Mohamed Tarawna
Judge at the Cassation Tribunal, Jordan
Etyen Mahcupyan
Author, Former Chief Advisor to Prime Minister of Türkiye
Khawla Mattar
Director of the United Nations Information Center in Cairo, Former UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Bahrain
Aslam Abdullah
Senior Journalist, USA/India
Stuart Rees
Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Australia
Hatem Ete
Academic, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Sociology, Türkiye
Karim Makdisi
Professor of Political Science, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Bridget Anderson
Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol, UK
William Spence
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Professor of Law, Founding CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia/Afghanistan
Ferid Muhic
Professor of Philosophy, Krill Metodius University, Macedonia
Frej Fenniche
Former Senior Human Rights Officer/UN, OHCHR, Switzerland
Sevinç Alkan Özcan
Associate Professor, International Relations Department, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
Sigit Riyanto
Professor, Faculty of Law Universitas, Indonesia
Khaled Khoja
Former President of Syrian National Coalition
Tarık Çelenk
Former Chairman of Ekopolitik, Türkiye
M. Bassam Aisha
Human Rights Expert, Libya
Naceur El-Kefi
Academician and Human Rights Activist, Tunisia
Jean-Daniel Biéler
Former Ambassador, Special Advisor, Human Security Division, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin
Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Ahmet Okumuş
Chairman of The Foundation for Sciences and Arts (BİSAV), Türkiye
Khan Yasir, Dr.
Director In-Charge, Indian Institute of Islamic Studies and Research, India
Mahmudul Hasan, Md.
Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia/Bangladesh
Tara Reynor O’Grady
General Secretary for Human Rights Sentinel, USA
Nurullah Ardıç
Professor of Sociology, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Phar Kim Beng
Founder and CEO of Strategic Pan-Pacific Arena, Malaysia
Dinar Dewi Kania, M.M, M.Sos.
Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics, Jakarta, Indonesia
Mulyadhi Kartanegara
Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia
Habib Chirzin
Academic and Human Rights Activist, IIIT, Indonesia
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