-
News from Within Podcast: Academic Boycott of Israel
The idea of an academic boycott of Israel emerged in 2002 and has since gained momentum worldwide, particularly in the aftermath of the December 2008 and January 2009 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in Occupation of Palestinian Territories In his Economy of the […]
Continue reading -
Report: Israeli academic institutions’ role in the occupation
Report, The Alternative Information Center, 14 December 2009 The idea of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as means of struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories has gathered pace in the years following the second intifada, and all the more so since the Israeli siege and attacks on the Gaza Strip. As academics and […]
Continue reading -
Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Israeli universities
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 16 November 2009 Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the “witch-hunt” tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. The watchdog groups IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor are believed to be stepping up […]
Continue reading -
Studies in Racism
Sara Leibovitz-Dar | Maariv | 21 October 2009 “When Israel sends a sophisticated satellite into space, the Arabs come up with a new kind of hummus,” Dr. Dan Schueftan told students during his course on Israel”s security perspective in the diplomacy and security program for senior managers at Tel Aviv University. An essay that was […]
Continue reading -
AIC Releases Report on Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions
The Alternative Information Centre (AIC) has released a groundbreaking report on the role of Israeli academic institutions in supporting and maintaining Israeli Apartheid. The idea of an academic boycott of Israel first emerged in 2002 as part of the growing boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, itself a part of the struggle against the Israeli […]
Continue reading -
BDS and the Israeli Left
PACBI Column BRICUP Newsletter #20 September 2009 The recent declaration by Neve Gordon, an Israeli academic at Ben-Gurion University, in support of BDS [1] has generated a great deal of commentary and controversy, ranging from demands that he be dismissed from the university to a celebration of Israeli democracy and the upholding of academic freedom. […]
Continue reading -
Neve Gordon’s divisive Op-Ed
Ben-Gurion University’s president responds to one of her professor’s call for a boycott of Israel. By Rivka Carmi September 1, 2009 As president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, I have always remained open and impartial to the wide diversity of opinions within our academic faculty and their right to free speech, no matter how […]
Continue reading -
A modest proposal
By Rachel Giora Like the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Prof. Rivka Carmi, I too believe the demand that Dr. Neve Gordon resign as head of the university’s Department of Politics and Government is a legitimate and even modest demand, given the financial damage the university will sustain if he fails to do […]
Continue reading -
Israel and Academic Freedom
August 31, 2009 Neve Gordon has no illusions about the ability of Palestinian terrorists to harm Israelis. In 1986, while serving as a paratrooper on Israel’s border with Lebanon, he suffered severe injuries from hand grenades and bullets. These days, Gordon is under a very different kind of attack — one that he and other […]
Continue reading -
Boycotts as a Legitimate Means of Resistance
As Determined by the Oppressed People by Kim Petersen / August 29th, 2009 Prejudice does not always come with an ugly face. The same holds for Zionism and racism. It is entirely possible for well-intentioned people to hold a prejudice and, even worse, act on held prejudices. Uri Avnery opposes the brutality inflicted on Palestinians. […]
Continue reading