An anonymous anti-Israel website was discovered on Friday to be offering payments of up to $100,000 for the execution of senior Israeli academics whom it accused of being complicit in Israel’s war in Gaza.
The English-language site, The Punishment For Justice Movement, appeared to have been taken down by Friday afternoon, hours after garnering significant media attention.
The site called for the execution of a list of Israeli academic figures whom it said were deemed to be “criminals and collaborators with the occupation army” and “distributors of weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli army,” who are “involved in the murder of Palestinian children.”
Among the dozens listed on the site as “special targets” were Shikma Bressler, an anti-government protest leader who is a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Ben Gurion University President Danny Chamovitz.
In addition to rewards for their execution, the site offered a reward of $1,000 for placing signs in front of targets’ homes and $20,000 for burning their vehicles.
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It claimed that all of the academics were given warnings over the past few months to “abandon criminal activity,” but because they did not, they “have been chosen as legitimate targets for the movement.”
Hundreds of other Israeli academics or students were also listed, and a $50,000 reward was offered for their deaths.
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The movement “invites all unofficial military groups, armed groups and fighters to join the movement to confront these criminals and benefit from the rewards of punishing these victims and killers while trying to defend human rights and help the oppressed children of Gaza,” the webpage declared.
Some of those listed live outside of Israel, including in the US.
Hours after Hebrew media reports broke about the website, it was unavailable, apparently having been removed, although it was not clear by whom.
Chamovitz, who has been the president of Ben Gurion University since 2019, said in response to the site, which called for his death, that he was “mostly worried about the extremist discourse that encourages violence.”
He said he trusts the security services in Israel and other countries will “know how to deal with this incident.”
The Committee of Research Universities, which sits under the Council for Higher Education in Israel, said in a statement that it was “a dangerous and horrific escalation.”
The forum said the incident “joins the wave of antisemitism and hatred of Israel from abroad, creates a toxic and deadly mix that may end in harm to human life, God forbid.”
Daniel Chamovitz, President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba. (Facebook)
According to the Ynet outlet, which first reported on the site, the page is hosted in a Western nation, potentially the US, and is using virtual private networks (VPN) and ciphers as security precautions.
A source familiar with the case told Ynet that it represents “a most serious rise in the level of threat against Israeli citizens.”
The “open call to cause physical harm and the offering of remuneration make this a real threat that requires immediate attention,” the source said.
The Mossad spy agency and Shin Bet security service have launched a swift probe into the matter, the report said. Officials suspect that Iran is behind the website.
Israel’s universities have sent messages to academics warning them to be cautious and avoid publicizing details of trips abroad, and report anything suspicious, Ynet reported.
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