At the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana (UL ALUO), we express our support and solidarity with the Palestinian people, upon whom the Israeli state is committing genocide. According to United Nations data, in the first four months of the aggression in Gaza alone, more children died than in the previous four years combined in all conflicts worldwide. In the last six months, nearly seven, the genocide by Israel in the Gaza region has already claimed more than 35,000 lives, of which more than 14,500 are children’s lives.
We express our support and solidarity with the bleeding Palestinian people! We demand freedom and security for the Palestinian people and the immediate cessation of Israeli apartheid and aggression. We call on the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to follow the demands of the Palestinian people and immediately recognise Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
We also express our support and solidarity with activists who strongly condemn the genocide of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people, and we oppose the persecution, oppression, and censorship they experience due to their struggle.
We also express our full support and solidarity with the female and male students, professors, and all members of the academic community who, both at home and at numerous universities around the world, in peaceful protests for just and humane goals, oppose financial and military support from the USA, Germany, the United Kingdom, and some other countries which stand by the Israeli state and enable the continuation of the genocide against the Palestinian people. Protesters rightly demand the severance of financial ties of universities with corporations that economically benefit from this war. We also express opposition to the decisions of the management of some foreign universities to send police forces against the female and male student protesters!
As an academic community, we must fight against all causes of wars to prevent them in the future. As an academic community, we can, and must, help Palestinian students, professors, researchers, artists, just as we have helped Ukrainian ones, so they can continue to perform educational, artistic, and research work in EU countries until it is again possible to do such work in a free Palestine.
From the start of the Israeli state’s military attack on the innocent Palestinian people, the Academy has been doing its utmost to support and establish contacts with Palestinian artists and promote their artworks through its channels.
UL ALUO
prof. Alen Ožbolt
doc. dr. Tomo Stanič
doc. mag. Emina Djukić
izr. prof. dr. Barbara Predan
doc. mag. Marija Nabernik
Matej Zonta
doc. dr. Kaja Kraner
prof. Žiga Kariž
Meta Kojc
doc. dr. Petja Grafenauer
prof. dr. Lev Kreft
prof. Eduard Čehovin
doc. Emil Kozole
doc. Arjan Pregl
izr. prof. Primož Jeza
Nastja Majerič
mag. Irma Langus Hribar
Nina Gršič
Sara Bešlin Vatovec
prof. dr. Narvika Bavcon
prof. mag. Milan Erič
David Kosi
Darija Tratnik
Urška Savič
prof. Jure Miklavc
izr. prof. mag. Jurij Smole
Tina Konec
prof. dr. Miha Humar
doc. mag. Martina Vuga
izr. prof. dr. Natalija Majsova
doc. Kristina Rutar
doc. mag. Boštjan Drinovec
doc. Roman Ražman
doc. mag. Vasja Lebarič
Mirta Zajc
doc. Miha Klinar
doc. Peter Rauch
prof. dr. Uršula Berlot Pompe
doc. mag. Andrej Kamnik
Dorijan Šiško
izr. prof. dr. Natan Osterman
prof. dr. Mitja Velikonja
Žiga Gorišek
Barbara Kalan
doc. mag. Robert Černelč
doc. Matej Stupica
asist. Tamara Lašič Jurković
asist. dr. Ajda Mladenovič
Maša P. Žmitek
izr. prof. mag. Zora Stančič
doc. dr. Nataša Ivanovič
Mojca Manček
izr. prof. Peter Koštrun
Snežana Jurić Pangeršič
Admir Ganić
Petra Juvan
Petra Jager
Daša Bračko
Barbara Primožič
prof. dr. Petra Černe Oven
doc. Uroš Potočnik
izr. prof. dr. Nadja Zgonik
Ajda Schmidt
prof. mag. Lucija Močnik Ramovš
doc. mag. Metod Frlic
Branko Anđel
prof. Boštjan Botas Kenda
prof. Marjan Gumilar
Robert Ilovar
doc. dr. Tomislav Vignjević
doc. Mitja Ficko
prof. dr. Matej Blenkuš
Helena Tahir
prof. Domen Fras
prof. Radovan Jenko
prof. mmag. Ksenija Čerče
doc. mag. Maja Smrekar
doc. mag. Viktor Bernik
doc. dr. Blaž Šeme
(The list of signatories is being updated.)
