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Deputy Israeli Ambassador’s Visit to Manchester University
On the 28th of April, 2010 the Deputy Israeli Ambassador visited the University of Manchester and spoke at an event ironically called “Hopes and Challenges in the Middle East “, Action Palestine felt it was our duty to the Palestinian people, who are systematically oppressed by the government she represents, to protest against her cynical […]
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Academic freedom in Israel and Palestine
Steven Rose, professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University, UK. EMBO reports 10:1184 (2009) doi:10.1038/embor.2009.229 Many readers of this journal will, like me, have Israeli colleagues whose research we respect, with whom we have collaborated, and among whom we have friends. Yet, these relationships have been overshadowed by the human rights abuses inflicted […]
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‘Free Palestine – Boycott Israel’ Protest – Birmingham University March 2010
http://northfieldpatriot.blogspot.com/ Salma Yaqoobs blog said: Protest at visit of the Israeli Deputy Ambassador to Birmingham. The protest assembled at 3pm, at the Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston Campus. Salma Yaqoob (Respect leader) wrote; “I will be attending and I encourage as many as possible to join me”.
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ISIS and “Ariel University of Samaria, Israel”
March 10, 2010 An Academic Blunder By SASAN FAYAZMANESH The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS), defined on its website as “an academic society to support and promote the field of Iranian Studies,” has found itself in hot water lately. In its forthcoming conference in Santa Monica, California, it has included a paper by an […]
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A Joint Letter to the International Society of Iranian Studies on “Ariel University of Samaria, Israel”
March 10, 2010 Dear Professor Sandler Members of the Executive Committee International Society for Iranian Studies We write to register our deep concern that during the 2010 Iranian Studies Biennial Conference in Santa Monica, California, the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) intends to host a faculty member from “Ariel University of Samaria, Israel.” We […]
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British academics urge Elton John to cancel Israel concert
A group of British academics have called on singer Elton John to cancel his scheduled performance in Israel this June. “Political or not political, when you stand up on that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state,” the British Committee for Universities of Palestine wrote in an open letter to […]
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BRICUP tells Elton John ‘Don’t Play Israel’
BRICUP has sent an open letter to Elton John asking him to cancel his planned concert in Israel in June. We’ve said to him: “Okay, you turn up in Ramat Gan, and it gets to that “Candle in the Wind” moment, and thousands of lighters flicker – but there won”t be any Palestinians from the […]
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BDS and The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange (BIRAX)
On 17 January 2010, UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis announced that the British government would be contributing an additional £29,000 (174,000 NIS) to the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange partnership scheme. Launched by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on 20 July 2008 at a meeting of the Knesset, […]
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Anti-boycott campaigners: Ariel upgrade is like ‘a red rag to a bull’
By Cnaan Liphshiz The decision to upgrade the status of Ariel College to a university will greatly motivate proponents of an academic boycott of Israel, but will not change the legal realities preventing this, leading figures in the campaign against the boycott told Haaretz yesterday. Ariel College’s upgrade – announced yesterday by Defense Minister Ehud […]
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Israel and the Environment – a meeting that should not happen
I hope you won’t mind my writing to ask if you would be willing to sign the attached open letter. It asks David Bellamy to withdraw from participation in a forthcoming event aimed to ‘showcase’ Israel’s environmentalist credentials, and the contributions of its environmental scientists. Israel has actually been responsible for environmental degradation on a […]
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