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Israel, South Africa, Academic Boycotts
September 27, 2010 The Faculty Senate at the University of Johannesburg will vote this week on whether to end an academic relationship between the South African university and one in Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The vote has set off an intense debate among South African academics and intellectuals, with Archbishop Desmund Tutu last […]
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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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OLMV – Jess Ghannam & Nada Elia talk BDS with hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman
One Land, Many voices – Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Jess Ghannam join hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman for an extended discussion of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Movement. One Land, Many Voices, March 26th, 2010, 9:00AM-10:00AM: KBOO Community Radio Click here to listen to the show: > > >One Land, Many Voices – September 24, 2010 […]
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Letter from Gaza Academics and Students: Eight American Universities Normalize Occupation, Colonization and Apartheid!
Besieged Gaza, 24.September.2010 At a time when the Israeli ongoing crimes against us the Palestinians are at their most visible, their most documented and their most condemned by civil society around the world, we were shocked to learn of the plans by the Universities of Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, Washington, Miami and New Jersey […]
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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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UMass Boston Faculty Call on TIAA-CREF to Divest from Israeli Occupation
September 20, 2010 – Faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts Boston asked the non-profit investment firm TIAA-CREF to divest its holdings from companies that do business with the Israeli Occupation at the company CEO”s public address on campus last Monday. Faculty presented TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson with a letter requesting that the firm […]
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Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Over 500 academics have endorsed USACBI! “We have to be careful not to over-exaggerate on this, but we also have to be careful not to ignore it,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and co-founder of the International […]
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By Colonial Design
Ann Laura Stoler | 10 September As someone who has worked for some thirty years as a teacher and student of colonial studies– on comparative colonial situations, colonial histories, and the violent and subtle forms of governance on which colonial regimes rely, it would be difficult not to describe the Israeli state as a colonial […]
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Academic research collaboration emboldens Israeli apartheid
Diane Shammas, The Electronic Intifada, 14 September 2010 In July, Donna Shalala, the president of the University of Miami and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, joined a 13-member delegation of American university presidents to Israel. The delegation’s main objective was to discuss opportunities for academic collaboration with […]
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