This Report was prepared by a delegation of 8 academics from 5 European countries representing the European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI) who visited seven Palestinian universities and academies in April 2015. The delegation is grateful to the many faculty members and administrators of those institutions who made the visit possible.
Press Release (April 19, 2015)—Responding to the announcement that Monique Canto-Sperber, a famous French intellectual and academic administrator, is to deliver a talk on Freedom of Speech at the prestigious….
AURDIP communiqué (March 27, 2015) – A roundtable discussion had been planned for Thursday March 26 at the Université Paris 1, in connection with Israeli Apartheid Week. Three speakers were….
Update (March 10, 2015) – The mobilization paid off! The conference was held after all, and went off without a hitch. Let this encourage us to remain alert and to continue to insist that international law must be respected (photos of the conference).
Letter from AURDIP and BRICUP to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, of 22 février 2015.
To the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Our colleague, the internationally renowned astro-physicist, Imad al-Barghouthi of Al-Quds University, was arbitrarily arrested by the Israeli authorities on 6 December….
A petition has gathered more than 600 signatures — mainly of French academics — protesting an official agreement between the Ecole Polytechnique and Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology.
List of the signatories of the petition against the École Polytechnique-Technion Partnership. Signatures collected between September 21 and October 8, 2014. List of the first signatories 614 signatories Abbes Ahmed….
– AURDIP condemns the exclusion of Amira Hass from a conference at Birzeit University. We recall that the academic boycott is directed against the Israeli government and its institutions, engaged….
In 2013 the École Polytechnique signed a double agreement with the Technion, the Israeli Technological Institute. The first agreement foresees the exchange of invited professors and students, along with a….
