Israeli universities

Middle East Studies Scholars and Librarians Call for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

September 15, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

by Jadaliyya Reports Aug 06 2014 [The following letter calling on scholars and librarians within Middle East studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions was submitted in the name of the below signatories to Jadaliyya on 6 August 2014.] We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new

1,200 Spanish University professors and researchers demand to break academic relationships with Israel

August 9, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

More than 1,000 professionals have signed a manifesto, released by the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) academic campaign for Palestine, demanding to end all institutional relations with the Israeli academic world, until it stops supporting occupation and apartheid in Palestine. The campaign, which started two years ago, asks for support from professionals from the academic and scientific field, and also from associations linked to

Boycotting Israel: the situation has changed and I have changed my mind too

August 9, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

MARTIN SHAW 31 July 2014 The latest Israeli assault on Gaza is for one scholar an occasion to rethink the fundamental arguments for and against a boycott of the country. Israel’s slaughter in Gaza must make us all pause and ask whether we should rethink our stance on the Palestine conflict. The killing is presented as a regrettable

Resources on the Complicity of the Israeli Academy in Colonization, Occupation, and Apartheid

August 7, 2014 Mona Baker Palestine

General http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1321 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1307 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1175 http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/4461-academic-boycott-has-to-be-part-of-the-bds-campaign http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/economy-of-the-occupation/2223-the-economy-of-the-occupation-23-24-academic-boycott-of-israel.html http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1430 http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history.premium-1.524308 http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/alrased1_eng.pdf http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/report_english_yara.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/court-stops-israeli-university-suspension-palestinians-commemorating-nakba/13408 Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) http://againstcornelltechnion.wordpress.com/ http://www.usacbi.org/2011/12/open-letter-to-cornell-university-dont-collaborate-with-apartheid/ Tel Aviv University http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10673.shtml http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1216 http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/study-tel-aviv-university-part-and-parcel-israeli-occupation/3434 http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/right-wing-ngo-funding-tel-aviv-university-dig-in-east-jerusalem-1.529641 Haifa University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1840(includes Tel Aviv U) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1794 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1329 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1274 Hebrew University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1852 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=11 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1242 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=947

Birzeit University Institute of Women's Studies Urgent Call

August 4, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

31 July 2014 As we write this statement, 25 days after the brutal incursion on Gaza, over a thousand and four hundred of innocent civilian women, men and children have been butchered by Israel’s war machine and much more are threatened to be killed. The call for raping Palestinian women by the

In light of renewed call for boycott following latest Gaza attack, Verso Books offers free download of BDS anthology

August 2, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

Adam Horowitz on August 1, 2014 In light of the ongoing Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip and the renewed call from Gaza civil society to enact boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel, Verso Books is offering a free ebook download of its 2012 BDS anthology, The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, with contributions from authors such

Israeli universities lend support to Gaza massacre

July 28, 2014 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 07/25/2014 – 13:10 Two leading Israeli academic institutions are offering strong support for Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza. Tel Aviv University is giving students who serve in the attack on Gaza one year of free tuition. “Tel Aviv University embraces and supports all the security forces who are working to restore quiet and