• TAU professors denounce Dershowitz for speech against left

    Posted on May 12, 2010

    Academics hit back after U.S. commentator slams university staff for backing boycotts against Israel. By Or Kashti Senior faculty members at Tel Aviv University have come out against remarks by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz on Saturday in which he condemned Israeli university faculty who criticize Israel and have even supported an academic boycott […]

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  • Jewish Daily Forward and Chicago Public Radio cover BDS

    Posted on February 27, 2010

    Thursday, February 25, 2010 Two pieces on BDS in the mainstream press this week caught our attention. Israeli academic and author Neve Gordon spoke to Chicago Public Radio about his support of BDS, making the argument that by opposing Israel’s policy of expansionism and occupation, BDS is in fact a movement to “save Israel from […]

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  • TAU lecturer to urge London audience to boycott Israel

    Posted on February 17, 2010

    BY JONNY PAUL 17/02/2010 04:08 Matar will be speaking at London University”s School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a campus renowned for anti-Israel activity. LONDON – Tel Aviv University senior lecturer Dr. Anat Matar will be the guest speaker Wednesday at a London event called “Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within.” Matar, […]

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  • BOYCOTT! supports Bergen University’s decision to allow an open debate on the possibility of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions

    Posted on February 12, 2010

    A letter to Professor Sigmund Grí¸nmo, rector of Bergen University January 31, 2010 Dear Professor Grí¸nmo, We are a group of Palestinians and Jews, citizens and residents of Israel, who are struggling to end the Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinians. We are writing to you in order to support your courageous decision to […]

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  • Boycott “Ariel” and the Rest! All Israeli Academic Institutions are Complicit in Occupation and Apartheid

    Posted on February 10, 2010

    In response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to upgrade the status of the so-called Ariel University Center of Samaria (AUCS) to a full university, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) reiterates its call for a boycott of AUCS and all other Israeli academic institutions due to […]

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  • In favor of academic boycott

    Posted on February 6, 2010

    Recognition of Ariel college as a university a purely political move Ariel Rubinstein About two years ago, Yigal Cohen-Orgad, chancellor of the college in Ariel, asked me to come and visit. Cohen-Orgad feels, correctly, that we have similar views – for example, against the trend of private colleges. Colleagues spoke in praise of Cohen-Orgad”s performance […]

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  • Milestones in the history of the Israeli BDS movement: A brief chronology

    Posted on January 26, 2010

    Rachel Giora 18 January 2010 Updated 27 January 2010 The emergence of the Israeli boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) movement has been influenced by a number of factors. In essence, however, the movement in Israel has been basically reactive – a response to (a) international calls following traumas, and to (b) ideas, primarily those introducing […]

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  • Israel Creates First ‘Army-owned’ University

    Posted on January 25, 2010

    By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine Palestinian confidence in the peace process. The decision, authorising the first Israeli university in Palestinian territory, is expected to […]

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  • Udi Aloni: Why We Support the Non-violent BDS Movement

    Posted on January 6, 2010

    [Aloni describes the BDS movement’s approach to the Palestinian Right of Return as “Legal and moral Recognition of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return (Obviously, each community’s position will be taken into consideration during the desired negotiations”. According to the Palestinian United Call for BDS (http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52), that is not in fact the position of the […]

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  • Israeli Academics are up in arms…literally!!!

    Posted on December 16, 2009

    December 16, 2009 The AIC published a report on the deep ties between Israel’s universities and the security forces, as well as other aspects of the involvement of academics and academic institutions in sustaining the occupation. As the AIC explains This report aims to empower the debate on an academic boycott by giving information not […]

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