{"id":2066,"date":"2025-05-18T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:37:28","slug":"i-am-a-supporter-of-palestinian-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/i-am-a-supporter-of-palestinian-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a supporter of Palestinian rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I am a supporter of Palestinian rights, and proudly so. No one can change me or challenge me on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 2025, Springer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpringerNature\">@SpringerNature<\/a> removed me from EiC position of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6vQQFwLe8D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/13389<\/a>, a journal I coined the name of, and I started in 2011 as the founding editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 2025, IACR <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IACR_News\">@IACR_News<\/a> removed me from the steering committee of the Conference of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yBk1hPRyqr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ches.iacr.org<\/a>, the world&#8217;s second largest cryptography conference I co-founded in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In 2017, the other co-founder of the Conference of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems was given IACR Fellow award <a href=\"https:\/\/iacr.org\/fellows\/2017\/paar.html\">https:\/\/iacr.org\/fellows\/2017\/paar.html<\/a>. The first part of the award citation reads it as &#8220;For co-founding CHES&#8221;, yet I was not given the same award, as if I do not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You know why: because I am a supporter of Palestinian rights. <br>However, I still am a supporter of Palestinian rights. <br>Let the historical record show that.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cetinkayakoc\/status\/1924166069536645155\/photo\/1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1024%2C259&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=512%2C129&amp;ssl=1 512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=768%2C194&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=1536%2C388&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-18-at-9.25.31%E2%80%AFPM.png?w=2028&amp;ssl=1 2028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a supporter of Palestinian rights, and proudly so. No one can change me or challenge me on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,12,34,5,7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs","category-cryptography","category-humans","category-logic","category-nature","category-randomness","category-science","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}