According to reports, an anti-Israel group’s website is offering bounties of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics.
The Punishment for Justice Movement not only set specific targets and prizes on their heads, but also published personal information such as home addresses, emails and phone numbers, The 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 reportedly offering bounties of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics. (AP photo, file)
In addition to offering $100,000 for killing “special targets,” $50,000 was also offered for killing other targets, as well as $20,000 to burn their homes or cars, $5,000 for information about a target, and $1,000 to place protest signs outside their homes.
The website, which was created last summer and apparently originated in the Netherlands, was briefly down on Friday evening but was back up on Saturday, the outlet reported.
According to The Times of Israel, the website is written in English and accuses the targets of being “criminals and collaborators with the occupying army,” referring to the war in Gaza.
It also accuses the targets of being “distributors of weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli army” and “involved in the murder of Palestinian children,” The Jerusalem Post reported.
The Punishment for Justice Movement is said to have stated specific goals and prizes. (James Sheppard/Future via Getty Images)
The organization claimed to have warned the targets to “abandon criminal activities” and stop cooperating with the Israeli military, but claimed they ignored the warnings. So they are now “legitimate targets for the movement,” the Times said.
Two targeted academics told the Post they had received no warning, and several of those targeting the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had not worked on military projects, but the website’s creators seemed confused by the word “nuclear.”
One targeted academic told the Post: “The relevant government agencies should propose more comprehensive solutions” than just taking down the website “because walking around with targets on our heads endangers not only us, but also our families.”
Harvard was among the universities whose academics were targeted on the website. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
However, Michael Bronstein, who teaches computer science at Oxford, told the Post that he did not care what the bounty on his life would bring, calling those who threatened him “crazies.”
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“I was deeply disturbed and shocked that my head was valued so cheaply. Given my position in the academic community, I find anything below seven figures deeply insulting,” he told the Post. “However, I am comforted that I am at least in good company.”
