• PSA PRESS RELEASE: UJ Takes Historic Decision to Boycott Israeli Institution &UP holds debate on Academic Freedom

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    ISSUED BY THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE-Today, Wednesday, 29 September 2010, the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) highest academic body voted to conditionally terminate its partnership agreement with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU). The decision, made at UJ’s Soweto campus, stands as a historic first step in refusing institutional affiliations between South African universities and Israeli institutions that […]

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  • SAfrica school rethinks Israel ties

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    University of Johannesburg threatens to sever ties with Israeli Ben-Gurion University if certain conditions are not met. Azad Essa Last Modified: 30 Sep 2010 01:21 GMT The South African University of Johannesburg (UJ) senate has threatened to end its relationship with the Israeli university, Ben-Gurion (BGU), unless certain conditions are met. In a statement released […]

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  • BDS Goes South

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    PACBI | 29 September 2010 In a landmark event held in New Delhi on 22-23 September 2010, the conference “A Just Peace for Palestine” ended with a clear call for BDS as a strategy for realizing justice for Palestinians. The conference was co-organized by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the Committee for Solidarity with […]

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  • Gaza Academics and Students: U. of Johannesburg’s Decision to Condition Ties with Ben Gurion University, a Step in the Right Direction

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    Besieged Gaza, University Teachers” Association Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel 30.September.2010 Gaza Academics and Students: U. of Johannesburg”s Decision to Condition Ties with Ben Gurion University, a Step in the Right Direction University Teachers” Association in Palestine and Palestinian Students” Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel welcome the decision taken […]

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  • South Africa Champions the Academic Boycott of Israel

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    PACBI | 30 September 2010 We can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. Having achieved our own freedom, we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others face. Yet we would be less than human if we did so. It behooves […]

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  • UJ decision backward

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    Sep 29, 2010 | Sowetan Editorial Sun Oct 03 15:00:48 SAST 2010 THE world, with the obvious exception of the lunatic fringe, is fast becoming unanimous in its condemnation of repression, wherever it rears its ugly head. It is heartening to note that the voices coming out of Cosatu are mindful of this clarion call […]

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  • It Takes a Cynic: ‘If I Were Not Obama, I Would Be Diogenes’

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    Cynics would critically understand the realities of the Palestinian-Israeli crises. By Dallas Darling As a lawyer and one time activist, President Barack Obama should not have lashed out at the Cynics when he asked the United Nations General Assembly and the world to back his plan to forge a Palestinian State and a secure Israel. […]

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  • South Africa’s Israel boycott

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    An international boycott helped end apartheid – now South Africans are leading world opposition to racism in Israel o Ronnie Kasrils o guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 September 2010 08.00 BST Desmond Tutu Prominent South Africans including Desmond Tutu have endorsed recent moves to boycott Israeli institutions. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian When Chief Albert Luthuli […]

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  • SAPA: UJ to mull Israeli university ties

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    NEWS24.COM 2010-09-29 14:08 Johannesburg – The University of Johannesburg (UJ) senate will hear recommendations from a task team on its relationship with Ben Gurion University (BGU) in Israel on Wednesday. UJ deputy vice chancellor Adam Habib could not comment on the recommendations, saying he did not want to “pre-empt” the meeting. The move followed calls […]

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  • Cut ties with Israel University, UJ told

    Posted on September 28, 2010

    September 28 2010 at 07:14pm The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Tuesday added its voice to calls for the University of Johannesburg to cut ties with Israel’s Ben Gurion University. “… we call upon the University of Johannesburg to act in the interest of justice and terminate an agreement between itself and the […]

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