I am a supporter of Palestinian rights, and proudly so. No one can change me or challenge me on this.

In 2025, Springer @SpringerNature removed me from EiC position of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering https://link.springer.com/journal/13389, a journal I coined the name of, and I started in 2011 as the founding editor-in-chief.

In 2025, IACR @IACR_News removed me from the steering committee of the Conference of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems https://ches.iacr.org, the world’s second largest cryptography conference I co-founded in 1999.

In 2017, the other co-founder of the Conference of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems was given IACR Fellow award https://iacr.org/fellows/2017/paar.html. The first part of the award citation reads it as “For co-founding CHES”, yet I was not given the same award, as if I do not exist.

You know why: because I am a supporter of Palestinian rights.
However, I still am a supporter of Palestinian rights.
Let the historical record show that.