For the Sake of Humankind
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As of July 8, 2025, cosigned by 41 Nobel laureates – among them twenty-one deans worldwide.
Supported by 8 Nobel Peace laureates : Oscar Arias Sanchez, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Pugwash Pdt Hussein Al-Shahristani, Kailash Satyarthi. Jody Williams;
11 Medicine laureates : Harvey Alter, Victor Ambros, Mario Capecchi, Andrew Zachary Fire, Jules Hoffmann, Craig Mello, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, Rich Roberts, Jack Szostak, Torsten Wiesel;
7 Chemistry laureates : Elias Corey, Alan Heeger, Yuan Tseh Lee, Jean-Marie Lehn, John Polanyi, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, John Walker;
15 Physics laureates : Alain Aspect, Albert Fert, Jerome Friedman, Sheldon Glashow, Serge Haroche, Geoffrey Everest Hinton, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Brian Josephson, Takaaki Kajita, Tony Leggett, Anne L’Huillier, Michel Mayor, Giorgio Parisi, Carlo Rubbia, Joseph Taylor.
From the end of 2023 to the end of 2024 there have been several calls for a lasting cessation of hostilities, some of them launched from Jerusalem and Nablus. Strangely, only a handful of Nobel laureates supported them. One of these calls was broadcast in May 2024 :
THE JERUSALEM AND NABLUS CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL HOSTAGES
Halas ! Khlass ! Hebrew like Arabic : ENOUGH !
Enough torture for the hostages and their families !
Enough torture for the displaced, Israelis and Palestinians !
Let them all go home now, to heal the wounds.
Eighteen countries* call for the immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza, starting with the women, the wounded, the elderly, the sick.
The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza has become one.
With the eighteen we whole-heartedly support the ongoing negotiations.
“We’re talking about people, and we all need to act, right now, to end this story.”**
- Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
- in one of the hostages’ parent’s words
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