In the early hours of 5 June, Google took down our running petition “STOP European Funding for Israeli Institutions – Stop Complicity in Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid” from its platform Google Drive, and blocked the associated account without prior notice. There was no element in our petition that violated their terms of service or stated policy.
Questa petizione, firmata da AURDIP e da altre organizzazioni accademiche europee, chiede all’Unione Europea di porre fine alla sua complicità con Israele per quanto riguarda la guerra genocida contro Gaza e la violazione del diritto internazionale. L’UE continua a continuo finanziare le università israeliane, profondamente legate all’apparato militare e di occupazione, mentre le università palestinesi vengono sistematicamente distrutte.
La petizione chiede all’UE di:
Per concludere, la petizione esige che l’Unione Europea imponga sanzioni, compreso un embargo sulle armi, e utilizzi la sua influenza per far rispettare il diritto internazionale. Il documento è aperto ai ricercatori, al personale universitario e agli studenti che possono firmarlo compilando questo modulo.
La petición, firmada por AURDIP y otras organizaciones académicas europeas, exige a la UE a poner fin a su complicidad en el genocidio de Israel en Gaza y la violación del derecho internacional. En la carta se denuncia la continuidad de la financiación Europea a las universidades israelíes, profundamente vinculadas al aparato militar y de ocupación, mientras se destruyen sistemáticamente universidades palestinas.
Solicitamos que la UE:
– Ponga fin a toda cooperación académica y de investigación con instituciones israelíes
– Revoque el estatus de Israel como país asociado en el marco del programa Horizon Europe.
– Tome la iniciativa en la reconstrucción de las universidades e instituciones palestinas destruidas por Israel.
– Investigue el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de la financiación pasada y futura de la investigación de la UE a Israel
Por todo ello, instamos a la UE a imponer las sanciones oportunas, incluido un embargo de armas, y a utilizar su influencia para hacer cumplir el derecho internacional. La petición queda abierta para ser firmada por personal de investigación, personal universitario y estudiantes establecidos en Europa, los países socios del programa Horizonte Europa o afiliados a una institución de la UE. Formulario aquí.
This petition, signed by AURDIP and other European academic organizations, urges the EU to end its complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and in violation of international law. It denounces the continued EU funding of Israeli universities deeply tied to the military and occupation apparatus, while Palestinian universities are being systematically destroyed.
The petition calls on the EU to:
End all academic and research cooperation with Israeli institutions
Revoke Israel’s Horizon Europe status
Rebuild Palestinian academic institutions
Investigate the human rights impact of past and future EU research funding to Israel
It urges the EU to impose sanctions, including an arms embargo, and to use its leverage to enforce international law. It is open to researchers, university staff and students for signature by filling the form here.
Columbia PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan self-deported after her F-1 visa was revoked. In this letter, she explains how she feels.
Katherine Franke: “This is very important new news: today Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration.”
Germany, which brandishes the « Staatsräson » (raison d’état) as the absolute justification for its support of Israel, hijacks the memory of the Holocaust to cover up the genocide in Gaza. This posture is accompanied by a fierce McCarthyism against any dissenting voice, equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. This AURDIP report examines the mechanisms of this drift, its consequences and the rare attempts at resistance.
On December 11 and 12, NYU students and faculty peacefully demonstrated in support of Palestine. Police intervened at the request of the administration, making arrests, and three faculty members were declared “persona non grata” (sic) on campus, an unprecedented, arbitrary, and outrageous sanction.
Everyone in Strasbourg on Wednesday 27 November at 12.30pm
Collective departures (bus / train / cars) will be organised from several french cities and Brussels – contact: afps@france-palestine.org
“On 6 March 2024, Barak Medina and Anna Peters published an article in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) with a question as their title: “Fighting Terror with Military Means?”… Why do we bother to write against another case of grave violation of basic academic standards? There are several reasons for making our rejection of Medina’s and Peter’s declared support for the Israeli army public.” By S.B. & A.M. The authors, who sign with initials for security reasons, are an Israeli and a German academics.
