Professors for a Strong Israel is a group of academics in Israel.
They describe themselves as a "non-partisan organization of academics united by a shared concern for the security and the Jewish character of the State of Israel."
The group was founded in 1988 but stepped up its activities after the signing of the
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; in 1993.
They are opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state and consider the removal of Israelis from
Gaza to have been
ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer ...
.
Re: Call for the Likud ministers to disengage from the government of ethnic cleansing
Professors for a Strong Israel, Accessed 29 April 2007
Notable members include Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
winner Robert Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...
and Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
member Arie Eldad.
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Political organizations based in Israel
Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Neo-Zionism
Conservatism in Israel
1988 establishments in Israel
Organizations established in 1988
Academia in Israel
Right-wing politics in Israel
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