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A suit for disciplinary action (faculty) against Dr. Ilan Pappe
I hereby submit a suit to the disciplinary court of the faculty against Dr. Ilan Pappe of the division of international relations, and this is due to a severe and blunt violation of clause1.2 in the codex 'the duties of an academic member of staff'.
Dr. Pappe acted against conventional ethical rules of an academic institute in a series of letters that were published via the email network, and by that slandered departments and members in the humanities faculty, damaged their professional reputation and endangered the possible promotion of some of them. This action was constant and lasted several months, and included the department of Eretz Israel Studies and Middle Eastern History, Professor Yoav Gelber, Professor Amazia Baram, Professor Yossi Nevo, Professor Rafi Talmon, Dr. Ibrahim Jiris and myself, as well as the university itself and the institutions it established, such as the council for advanced studies and inquiry commission of Teddy Katz's tapes in the affair of his MA thesis.
I will present six documents (out of many) that include slander, libel, curses, defamation and mainly an appeal to presidents of professional unions in the world with regard to promotion and tenure of staff in the university. By this Dr. Pappe violated a serious ethical offence, that carries with it undermining the reputation and chances of promotion and therefore also a possible economic damage.
It is noteworthy that this is only part of a very rich correspondence relating mainly to the Katz affair, in which Dr. Pappe expressed himself rudely, without respect and with intolerance towards various colleagues for no good reason. Thus when Professor Sofia Menashe in a friendly and restrained manner remarked on his attach on the rector, he answered here while revealing secret details from here procedure for her promotion.
Here is a detailed account on the main insults, defamation, slander and libel that I attribute to DP (DR. Pappe henceforth) as violation of basic and accepted rules of processional and collegial ethics in the university.
A severe damage to the professional reputation and threats on the possibilities of promoting academic staff in Israel - the letter of DP to the presidents of professional associations in the US and UK.
In a document DP wrote to the president of American historical society, the president of BRISMES and MESA from 19.11.2001, he writes inter alia 'I appeal to you as a member and as a colleague to voice your opinion and protest against a shameful decision taken by Haifa university on November 18, 2001', with regard to Mr. Katz's thesis and moreover'…[This may not come to you as a surprise given the present atmosphere in Israel - a consensual nationalist and jingoist mood - and yet the Israeli academia depends very much on the opinion of your members and association (if not for anything else, you are badly needed for the completion of promotion and tenure procedure)'.
This means that DP complains of the moral erosion of the Israeli academia in a direct reference to the university decision, through its council for advanced studies, with regard to the Katz thesis, and therefore complains in front of these presidents, and mentions that they have a first degree means to police these academics (from the same university, of course) by their immense power stemming from their professional position and their possible influence on their promotion!
Those who may need such external opinions, among them Professor Yossef Nevo, Professor Rafi Talmon, Dr. Ibrahim Jiris and myself, all connected to the decision in the case of Mr. Katz's thesis, would face an overt threat to the possibility of their professional promotion. This is a severe violation of the ethics, an implicit threat by 'informing' to professional factors abroad
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