Source: AURDIP

Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide

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.

Germany and Israel: from historical responsibility to criminal complicity

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.

Losing academic integrity in favor of whitewashing the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories

“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.

Urgent Appeal to Suspend Israel’s Participation in EU Research Programs Following ICJ Interim Order on Gaza Genocide

AURDIP and four European academic organizations urge the EU to suspend Israel’s participation in EU research programs following the International Court of Justice’s interim order, which found plausible claims of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The letter highlights Israel’s violations of international law and criticizes EU funding that may support these actions. It calls for compliance with the ICJ order and an end to EU support for Israel until it adheres to international law and ethical standards.

The invocation of Amalek in Israel: from extremist religious rhetoric to a totalitarian project culminating in the genocide in Gaza

This AURDIP report focuses on a fundamental aspect of the anatomy of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It shows that the invocation of Amalek in Israeli public discourse has shifted in recent decades from extremist religious rhetoric to ideological indoctrination in the social and political arena. At the end of a long process initiated in 1967 in the aftermath of the Six Day War, it has now become a political agenda leading to the development of an increasingly violent and aggressive policy of colonization and apartheid, culminating in the ongoing genocide for which Amalek has become the code name.

Ivar Ekeland invited to a webinar of the Palestine Solidarity Student Organization of the University of Tokyo

Title: Palestinian Universities: Past, Present, Future

Saturday, May 18th, 19:00-20:30 (Tokyo time), corresponding 12:00-13:30 (Paris time)

To participate to the webinar, you must register by completing the form below. The zoom link will be sent to registered emails.

https://forms.gle/a6Sk2uyHzANcRUb18 (English version)

https://forms.gle/uHZ6r4BvDNj2ziAy8 (Japanese version)