By IRNA,
London : A collection of US and UK professors joined together Tuesday to express solidarity with the series of uprisings taking place across the Arab world.
“We offer our support to those courageous young demonstrators,” said the professors, including Noam Chomsky from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“The Jasmine revolution in Tunisia has offered much hope across the Arab world. We have seen young and hopeful demonstrators in Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, calling for much-needed reform and democracy in their own countries,” they said.
“Their aspirations and hopes are legitimate and the Jasmine revolution has shown that it may be possible to achieve them,” the professors said in a joint letter published in the Guardian Tuesday.
Their expression of support comes as the world focus remained the week-long protests on Egypt, being by far the largest Arab state of more than 80 million people.
The signatories, including six British and four American professors together with Professor Rainer Baubock from the European University Institute, condemned the violent repression of the demonstration.
They called on “western governments, especially EU members and the US, to respect the Arab world’s desire for change, and to halt their financial and military assistance to autocratic regimes in the region.”