Anti-Israel group’s website puts bounties on heads of Israeli academics: reports
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An anti-Israel group’s website is offering rewards of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics, according to reports.
The “Punishment for Justice Movement” not only stated specific targets and prices, but also published personal information such as home addresses, emails and phone numbers, Jerusalem Post reported.
The targeted academics work at universities such as Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the Technion public research university in Haifa, and even Harvard and Oxford universities and the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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An anti-Israel website is offering rewards of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics, according to local reports. (AP Photo, File)
In addition to offering $100,000 to kill “specific targets,” $50,000 was offered to kill other targets, $20,000 to set their homes or cars on fire, $5,000 to provide information on a target, and $1,000 to put protest signs outside their homes.
The website, which was created last summer and appears to be based in the Netherlands, closed briefly on Friday night but reopened on Saturday, the source reported.
The site, written in English, accuses its targets of being “criminals and collaborators of the occupation army,” referring to the war in Gaza, according to the Times of Israel.
The target is also accused of being “distributors of weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli army” who were “involved in the killing of Palestinian children,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Punishment for Justice Movement allegedly set specific goals and prices. (Future via James Sheppard/Getty Images)
The organization claimed to have warned the targets to “desist criminal activities” and stop working with the Israel Defense Forces, but claimed they ignored the warnings and were therefore now “legitimate targets of the movement,” according to the Times.
Two targeted academics told the Post they received no warning, and several of the academics targeted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they did not work on military projects, although the website creators appeared confused by the word “nuclear.”
“Authorities must propose more comprehensive solutions than shutting down the website, because walking around with targets in our minds puts not only us but also our families at risk,” one targeted academic told the Post.
One of the universities whose website targeted academics was Harvard. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
But Michael Bronstein, who teaches computer science at Oxford, told the Post that he “doesn’t care” about his life’s reward and called those who threatened him “crazy people.”
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“I am deeply disturbed and shocked that my head is valued so cheaply, and given my position in the academic community, I find anything below seven figures extremely offensive,” he told the Post. “But I console myself that at least I’m in good company.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Anti-Defamation League for comment.
