Hagit Borer (born 1952) FBA is a professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London.
[2] Borer earned her PhD in linguistics in 1981 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a student of Noam Chomsky.
[10][citation needed] Borer was a passenger on the vessel Audacity of Hope, a member of the 2011 Freedom Flotilla II which, sailing from Greece, attempted to break the Israeli Blockade of the Gaza Strip.
[11] Before the voyage, the Los Angeles Times carried an op-ed by Borer in which she explained her motivation and wrote that "a society built on conquest and dispossession would have to dehumanize the conquered in order to continue to dispossess and oppress them" and "We wish to say to the Palestinians that, yes, there are people in Israel who know that any viable future for the Middle East must be based on a just peace – not the forced imposition spelled out by Netanyahu to Congress – or else we are all doomed.
[13] Following that trip, they all co-signed a statement entitled Nous accusons... on how the mainstream media fails to report on Israeli atrocities against civilians in Gaza,[14] also published in French.