• WHY UJ SHOULD SEVER RELATIONS WITH ISRAELI UNIVERSITY

    By Professor Ran Greenstein Sunday Independent – South Africa – [26_09_2010] Can one live a normal life in an abnormal society? The anti-apartheid movement believed that you could not, and must not. It set out to disrupt the comfortable lives of white South Africans, to force them to understand that change was necessary. One tactic […]

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  • Israeli ties: a chance to do the right thing

    Sep 26, 2010 12:00 AM | By Archbishop Desmond Tutu The University of Johannesburg’s Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university’s active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the […]

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  • SOUTH AFRICAN ACADEMICS CALL FOR UJ TO TERMINATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAELI INSTITUTION

    PETITION to sever links with Ben Gurion University www.ujpetition.com This petition was first disseminated on the 05th of September, within two days it was signed by over 100 South African academics from more than 12 SA universities. To date it has more than 200 signatories from 22 academic institutions. Supported by: Professors Kader Asmal, Allan […]

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  • New pressure on UJ to sever Israel ties

    DAVID MACFARLANE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Sep 24 2010 06:00 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana and author Breyten Breytenbach have added their voices to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The cooperation between the two universities dates from the 1980s, when […]

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  • Palestine’s students call on PLO envoy to boycott South African Zionists

    Open Letter, Various undersigned, 11 August 2010 The following open letter was sent to Ambassador Ali Ahmed Halimeh, PLO Mission, South Africa on 10 August 2010: We address you from occupied Palestine urging you to cancel your participation in an event hosted by the South African Union of Jewish Students (SAUJS) entitled “Towards Peace in […]

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  • Varsity row over Israel links

    LIONEL FAULL – May 21 2010 12:00 The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is considering cutting academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in protest against Ben Gurion’s alleged association with Palestinian human rights abuses. An “extraordinary” meeting of the university’s senate debated the matter on Monday. The university’s current partnership with Ben Gurion dates from […]

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