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TIAA-CREF: Don’t Invest Our Pension Funds In Israeli Settlements
September 10th, 2009 Dear TIAA-CREF: We, the undersigned clients, are writing you because of our deep concern upon discovering that TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund) is investing pension funds in Africa-Israel, a company that is actively violating human rights and international law. Africa-Israel, principally owned by real estate and diamond […]
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Israeli officer promotes war crimes at Harvard
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi and Dr. Anat Matar, The Electronic Intifada, 22 July 2009 On 9 July Harvard University’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) invited Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, former Israeli military legal adviser, to their online Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum. The stated aim was to bring “objective” discussion to the principle of […]
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Israel boycott push in U.S. not yet a threat, say monitors
By Raphael Ahren Local and international anti-boycott groups said this week they are monitoring the growing academic boycott movement in the U.S. but currently do not deem it a serious threat. The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said recently it has more than tripled its membership since it was launched […]
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Israeli academic charged with war crimes to lecture on int’l law at Harvard
Alleged war criminal, Israeli Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was recently appointed by Tel Aviv University as a lecturer in the faculty of law, is invited to a Harvard University seminar as an expert on international law. For those who do not recall, Sharvit-Baruch headed the international law division of the Israeli army during its criminal […]
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Study: Tel Aviv University part and parcel of the Israeli occupation
Report, SOAS Palestine Society, 9 July 2009 As part of Tel Aviv’s centenary celebration, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London hosted a Tel Aviv University Special Lecture Series from January to March 2009. Taking place in the midst of Israel’s war on Gaza — which had already mobilized SOAS students to […]
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Boycotting the Israeli academy
June 25, 2009 Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza has provoked an international outcry and organizing in support of Palestinian rights. Among the responses is a movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to pressure Israel in a variety of ways. This strategy takes as its inspiration the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa. […]
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A message to BRICUP’s pre UCU Congress 2009 meting from Rachel Giora
20.5.2009 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to express my support of your actions toward helping the boycott movement become engulfing and effective. By responding to the Palestinian call to boycott Israel, you emerged as the pioneers of the boycott movement against Israel and I hope you will be able to witness its impact on redressing […]
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UC Davis students move to cancel study abroad in Israel
By Yaman UC Davis AggiesUC Davis students have formed the EAP Equality Coalition (EEC), calling upon university administrators to discontinue a recently revived study abroad program in Israel. EAP is the UC sanctioned Education Abroad Program. Addressed to Eric Shroeder, the Summer Abroad faculty director at UC Davis, including Vice Provosts Jean-Xavier Guinard and William […]
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EAP Equality Coalition letter to UCD regarding Study Abroad in Israel
The Education Abroad Program (EAP) Equality Coalition, a group of concerned faculty and students at UC Davis, is today presenting a letter endorsed by 389 signatories to Vice Provost William Lacy requesting that the university discontinue its Summer Program in Israel, opened this year. The letter contains both individual signatures and endorsements from organizations such […]
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Militarization of Tel Aviv University
Urgent Briefing Paper (to download pdf file click here: palsocontau_jan_2009_draft3) Tel Aviv University – A Leading Israeli Military Research Centre Prepared By SOAS Palestine Society, February 2009 In the rough and tumble reality of the Middle East, Tel Aviv University is at the front line of the critical work to maintain Israel”s military and technological […]
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