Nelson Mandela est mort mais l’apartheid est toujours vivant
Par Michel Bôle-Richard | Le Monde | 13 décembre 2013 | Après avoir salué la disparition d’un « dirigeant moral de premier ordre », Benyamin Netanyahou a décidé de ne….
Catégorie : Tribunes
Academics should boycott Israel: Growing movement takes next step
By Steven Salaita | Salon | 5 décembre 2013 | A major scholarly group affirms a boycott over Palestine. They’re right and ethical — and widely misunderstood. In recent years,….
The Iran case proves it: Sanctions will get Israel to end the occupation
The settlements are an all-Israeli project and the boycott can’t be limited to them.
Campaigning for Palestinian Rights in Europe
Aneta Jerska | Badil | 2 novembre 2013 | The European Union (EU) evolved to become an important player in the Middle East’s power configurations and political dynamics. In the….
The Hebrew University and ‘Hasbara’
by Rosemary Sayigh | Al-majdal Issue N 54 | 30 octobre 2013 | The Hebrew University’s plan to hold an international oral history conference in Jerusalem in 2014, announced early….
Boycott, Academic Freedom, and the Moral Responsibility to Uphold Human Rights
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.
—United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948), Article 29(2)
Discrimination at every level of the [Israeli] education system winnows out a progressively larger proportion of Palestinian Arab children as they progress through the school system—or channels those who persevere away from the opportunities of higher education. The hurdles Palestinian Arab students face from kindergarten to university function like a series of sieves with sequentially finer holes.
—Human Rights Watch, “Second Class: Discrimination against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools” (2001)
On the Fallacy of ‘Engaging’ with the Israeli Academy
by HAIM BRESHEETH and SHERNA BERGER GLUCK | Counterpunch | 20 septembre 2013 | A standard argument against BDS – the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Israeli occupation….
Roger Waters appeals to Rock & Roll musicians to support cultural boycott of Israel
Roger Waters | PACBI | 19 août 2013 | To My Colleagues in Rock and Roll Nigel Kennedy the virtuoso British violinist and violist, at The Recent Promenade Concerts at….
EU (finally) applies own law on Israeli settlements
By Bill Van Esveld | euobserver.com | 8 août 2013 | BRUSSELS – It’s a “big mistake,” Israel’s deputy foreign minister told Army Radio. It’s “an economic terror attack against….
Colonisation israélienne : Juliette Binoche, ne vous laissez pas manipuler
Par Michèle Sibony | Union Juive Française pour la Paix | Le plus du NouvelObs | 26 juillet 2013 | LE PLUS. Vous vous en souvenez peut-être : en 2010,….