Over 100 faculty members at Bar-Ilan University condemn an open letter calling to ease the terms of incarceration for a man convicted of killing three members of a Palestinian family in an arson attack in 2015.
The letter was signed by several Knesset members — including from the ruling Likud party — prominent rabbis and other figures, including Bar-Ilan rector Amnon Albeck. Along with calling for moving Amiram Ben Uliel to a different wing, the signatories also cast doubt on his conviction, claiming it was based solely on a confession obtained through alleged torture.
Ben Uliel is serving five live sentences for the deadly firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma, which killed Riham and Saad Dawabsha along with their 18-month-old son, Ali Saad.
“We wish to express our firm opposition and shock over the publication of the petition,” the Bar-Ilan faculty write in a letter.
They also charge the letter joins the government’s “support or at least tolerance toward terrible acts of violence committed against innocent Arabs in these violent days.”
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