We, independent students, researchers, and professors, are announcing the launch of the website academiccomplicity.fr
This platform, created with the support of Stop Wapenhandel , Solid Sustainability Research and a team of volunteers, lists the institutional ties that French universities maintain with Israeli universities and companies associated with the Israeli military. Based on a variety of sources, including the CORDIS-website with EU funded research projects, university websites, results from Freedom of Information requests and the work of Dr. Maya Wind, this website maps institutional ties that are current as of March 2025. Given the magnitude of the data we still need to process, we will continue to regularly publish new information and updates in the coming months.
The data made public here demonstrates the complicity of French academic institutions in violation of international law committed by the State of Israel. Indeed, the active support of these companies and Israeli academic institutions in colonization, occupation, and apartheid against Palestinians is widely documented.
In the context of the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Israeli state in Gaza, many universities around the world have already cut their ties with these institutions. However, French universities persist in maintaining these compromising ties. This inaction is all the more shocking when we know that they ended their partnerships with Russian universities only two weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
This extensive picture of complicity prompts pressing questions about the obligations of French higher education institutions under International Law, namely to end all of their ongoing partnerships and to refrain from any more cooperations implicated in violations of International Law and human rights.
Contact : stopacademiccomplicity@proton.me
Instragram : @stopacademiccomplicity