Urgent appeal: the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) should help stop the massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip by avoiding "double standard" policies
The question I ask myself now, and that I ask all FEBS members, is the following: what decision was taken by the Executive Committee regarding the Biochemical Society of a State, Israel, represented by a regime that, in response to a terrorist act, conducted a war of ethnic cleansing against the defenseless Palestinian people living in Gaza? What forms of pressure were used by the FEBS Executive Committee to force the Israeli Biochemical Society to distance itself from the war crimes committed by the Israeli government?
Raffaele Porta
Past member of the FEBS Science & Society Committee
P.S.: Anyone who intends to participate in the appeal is invited to send an e-mail to [email protected] indicating their name and the institution to which they belong
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The current Israeli regime —well distinct from the democratic nation of Israel— has surpassed all moral boundaries in a military campaign directed against a defenseless civilian population, subjected to relentless bombardment and the agony of starvation.
It is imperative that international institutions take decisive action through appropriate means, making it unequivocally clear to the Israeli leadership that they are straying from the path of global understanding, diplomacy and morality. No one wishes Israel to become an isolated state, no one can bear the suffering of Gaza’s unarmed civilians to endure even a day longer.
I fully support the appeal of Prof Raffaele Porta and prof martino Bolognesi
VITTORIO BELLOTTI
Full professor of Biochemistry University of Pavia