Susan Slyomovics

Overview

Susan Slyomovics supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and has signed her name to a petition calling for the academic boycott of Israel.

Slyomovics has suggested that Israelis are settler colonialists and that Israel is a project of “colonial domination.”

Slyomovics is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Demonizing Israel

In her 2015 book, “How to Accept German Reparations,” Slyomovics drew acomparison between Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians by suggesting that reparations paid by Germany to Israel might serve as a model for reparations she says are owed to Palestinians.

In an article published on April 13, 2013, Slyomovics described her basis of inquiry as being the “colonizing ideology that define spaces currently inhabited by Jewish Israeli settlers seeking to forget the original colonial domination.”

In 2002, Slyomovics published an article for the Palestine-Israel Journal, in which she made similar claims, repeatedly describing Jews as “colonizers” of the land, and Palestinians as “the colonized.”

Supporting BDS.

Slyomovics signed a petition, published by Mondoweiss on October 1, 2014, calling for anthropologists to join in the academic boycott of Israel.

On March 31, 2009, Slyomovics signed a petition discouraging the University of California from partnering with Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). The petition claimed, with no supporting evidence, that HUJI “has a longstanding and documented record of discriminating against Palestinian students, even those who are citizens of Israel” and suggested that “Arab-American (and especially Palestinian-American) and Muslim-American UC students who might want to participate in a UC EAP in Israel would encounter disabling forms of discrimination and a generally hostile anti-Arab and anti-Muslim environment in Israel.”