Academia for Equality is a members’ organization with five hundred active members and supporters based in Israel and in academic institutions all over the world. AfE is dedicated to principles of equality, inclusion, and democratization and to the values of an inclusive and accessible public education. AfE opposes policies of war, domination and military occupation in general and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in particular. We stand in solidarity with the struggle for academic freedom of Palestinian academics and address the complicity of Israeli academia with the occupation. AfE is critical of the dominant academic culture and of neo-liberal academic policies and wishes to form broad alliances to advance democratization and accountability and eradicate all forms of discrimination within Israeli academia and in society at large. (https://www.facebook.com/academiaforequality/)
On behalf of over eight hundred academics, members of Academia for Equality, we raise an urgent emergency alarm over the decision of the Hebrew University’s administration to suspend Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian from teaching duties due to her statements regarding the current war.
The Executive Board of Academia for Equality wrote to Leon Botstein President of Bard College to commend him for standing firm in support of Professor Nathan Thrall, who is teaching the course “Apartheid in Israel-Palestine” at his college. Professor Thrall has come under attack by the Ulster Jewish Federation and several right-wing media outlets, who advanced the outrageous claim that the very title and existence of the course is antisemitic.
To: Honourable Ayelet Shaked, Minister of the Interior Government of the State of Israel Honourable Yair Lapid, Minister of Foreign Affairs Government of the State of Israel Re: Protesting the….
Academia for Equality is an organization of over seven hundred members of the academic community, committed to promoting a just and democratic future. Academy for equality expresses its unreserved support….
Academia for Equality is an organization of about 550 teachers, students and others involved in academic life in Israel, among us about sixty members of the Hebrew University community. For….
We [the Board of Academia for Equality] wrote to the President of the German Rectors’ Conference as well as to the Members of the Executive Board and the General Assembly expressing our deep concern regarding their decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
In light of the increase in anti-Semitism as well as other forms of racism in Germany and beyond, we welcome and support all academic professionals and institutions initiatives to combat racism and bigotry. However, we maintain that the adoption of the IHRA definition neither serves the cause of combating anti-Semitism, nor does it protect its victims. We urge the German academic community to fight anti-Semitism while respecting legitimate support for Palestinian rights, without infringing the basic rights of free speech, expression and political association, while zealously protecting democratic spaces.
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This picture, obtained by Academia for Equality, clearly shows two policemen surveilling the neighborhood of Issawiya from the rooftop of “Rabin Building” in the Mount Scopus campus of The Hebrew….
Dear members of Die Linke, Academia for Equality is an organization of over 550 academics dedicated to a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians and to social justice within Israeli….
