To: Dr Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation Regarding: Cancelling Speech in Israel After Encountering Opposition Palestinian Sponsors
Dear Mr. Stallman, According to your e-mail, you have allowed the Palestinian group sponsoring your visit to prevent you from speaking in Israel. I'm not totally naive, so I know that your attempt to include both a talk to Palestinians and a talk to Israelis was bound to encounter some controversy. Nevertheless, I can't help thinking that by accepting these conditions that you are saying that it is somehow "okay" for this group to prevent you from speaking to Israelis. I wonder if you would be ready to allow an Israeli group to prevent you from speaking to Palestinians. I think that the free software movement will be made a bit weaker by this unfortunate event. I hope you will come and speak in Israel soon. Sincerely, Tom Balazs Haifa, Israel -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stallman [mailto:r...@gnu.org <r...@gnu.org>] Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:31 PM Cc: r...@gnu.org Subject: I have to cancel the speeches at universities The funds for my travel to Israel are coming from Palestinians who invited me to give talks for them. They are unhappy that I offered to give talks at Israeli universities, and say they won't buy the tickets if I'm going to do that. So I can go, and cancel these speeches, or not go, and cancel these speeches. I think it is best if I go, and give the speeches they originally invited me to give. I am sorry for the disappointment this will cause. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ 2011/5/30 Information Knowledge Mana Graduate School of Management < isch...@univ.haifa.ac.il> > שלום רב > לצערנו קיבלנו את הודעתו של ד"ר ריצ'רד סטולמן (RMS) על ביטול הרצאתו > באוניברסיטאות בישראל. > אנו עושים מאמצים נוספים לקיום ההרצאה. > במידה והאירוע יתקיים נעדכן אתכם על כך. > בברכה, > החוג לניהול מידע וידע ומרכז שגיא לחקר האינטרנט > אוניברסיטת חיפה > > Dep. of Information & Knowledge Management > Graduate School of Management - University of Haifa > Tel: 972-4-8288963 > Fax: 972-4-8249194 > http://management.haifa.ac.il/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stallman [mailto:r...@gnu.org <r...@gnu.org>] > Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:31 PM > Cc: r...@gnu.org > Subject: I have to cancel the speeches at universities > > The funds for my travel to Israel are coming from Palestinians who > invited me to give talks for them. They are unhappy that I offered to > give talks at Israeli universities, and say they won't buy the > tickets if I'm going to do that. So I can go, and cancel these > speeches, or not go, and cancel these speeches. > > I think it is best if I go, and give the speeches they originally > invited me to give. > > I am sorry for the disappointment this will cause. > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ > >
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