Anti-Israel group’s website puts bounty on Israeli academic leaders: reports

An anti-Israel group’s website is offering bounties of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics, according to reports.

The Punishment for Justice movement not only named specific targets and prices on their heads, but also published personal information such as home addresses, emails and phone numbers, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The targeted academics work at universities like Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, the Technion public research university in Haifa, and even Harvard and Oxford Universities and the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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An anti-Israel website is reportedly offering bounties of up to $100,000 for the murder of Israeli academics. (AP photo, file)

In addition to offering $100,000 for the killing of “special targets,” $50,000 was offered for the killing of other targets, as well as $20,000 to burn down their house or car, $5,000 to obtain information about a target, and $1,000 to put up protest signs outside their homes.

The website, created last summer and apparently originating in the Netherlands, was briefly down Friday evening, but was back up and running Saturday, the outlet reported.

The website is written in English, according to the Times of Israel, and accuses its targets of being “criminals and collaborators of the occupying army,” referring to the war in Gaza.

It also accuses the targets of being “distributors of weapons of mass destruction to the Israeli army” and of being “involved in the murder of Palestinian children,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

The Punishment for Justice movement reportedly set specific goals and prices. (James Sheppard/Avenir via Getty Images)

The organization claimed to have warned the targets to “abandon their criminal activities” and stop working with the Israel Defense Forces, but claimed they had ignored the warnings. They therefore now constitute “legitimate targets for the movement”, according to the Times.

Two targeted academics told the Post they received no warning, and several of those targeted against the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had not worked on military projects, but the website’s creators seemed confused by the word “nuclear.”

One targeted academic told the Post: “Relevant government agencies should come up with more comprehensive solutions” than simply shutting down the website “because walking around with targets on our heads endangers not only us, but also our families.”

Harvard was one of the universities whose academics were targeted on the website. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

However, Michael Bronstein, who teaches computer science at Oxford, told the Post he didn’t care at all about the price he paid for his life, calling those who threatened him “crazy”.

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“I was deeply disturbed and shocked that my head was valued so cheaply. Given my position in the academic community, I find anything below seven figures very offensive,” he told the Post. “I am, however, consoled to at least be in good company.”

Fox News Digital has contacted the Anti-Defamation League for comment.