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BRISMES’ letter to Times Higher Education (THE) regarding Ariel University
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings website indicates that Ariel University is located in Israel, Samaria. BRISMES sent a letter asking THE to rectify the address of Ariel University as Occupied Palestinian Territory in line with the United Nations defintion.
“Palestine is There”: A Problem, Evidently, for the Cornell Chair of Architecture
This Monday, Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay was kicking off the stellar lecture series Algerian architect and architectural historian Samia Henni has put together for the department of architecture at Cornell….
The Campaign to “Kill” the BDS Movement Against Israel Extends Far and Wide
Israel is facing declining public support in the United States and sees the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as a key threat to its legitimacy. That’s why Israel is enlisting the US government, American university administrators, and even tech companies like Zoom and Facebook to try to destroy the BDS movement.
Victory: Liverpool arms fair canceled, Mayor vows policy against future arms fairs
After weeks of campaigning by a local coalition, event organisers cancelled this year’s Electronic Warfare Europe. Campaigners are mobilizing against the next edition, set for Seville (Spain) in May 2021
Ariel U. study rejected because author refused to remove ‘written in Israel’
An activist group asked the journal to change the address to say « Ariel University, illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, Occupied Palestinian Territory. »
Les étudiants de Columbia ont massivement voté pour le désinvestissement d’Israël et la réaction du président n’est que dédain — Rashid Khalidi
Il y a deux jours, les étudiants de premier cycle de Columbia ont massivement voté pour désinvestir de sociétés qui profitent de ou s’impliquent dans les actions de l’État d’Israël à l’égard des Palestiniens sous la loi « d’apartheid ». Le président de l’université, Lee Bollinger, a très vite rejeté le vote, disant qu’il s‘agissait d’un problème « complexe » sur lequel le consensus n’existe pas sur le campus.
S’adressant mercredi au Centre Arabe, le professeur d’histoire de Columbia, Rachid Khalidi, a dit que le vote, dans une ville qui a la population juive la plus importante au monde, était un signe remarquable de changement. J’ai appelé Khalidi, qui est le professeur titulaire de la chaire Édouard Saïd d’études arabes modernes, afin d’avoir des détails.
Students at two universities just voted to divest from Israel
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Columbia University have both passed historic resolutions calling for divestment from Israel.
Scientific Journal Refuses Normalization of Illegal Israeli Settlement-Based Ariel University
Chemistry journal Molecules decides against false geographic labelling Nobel Chemistry Laureate George P Smith and Royal Society Fellow Malcolm H Levitt congratulate journal on principled decision The scientific journal Molecules….
Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class
Three tech giants censored an online class featuring Palestinian, Black, Jewish and South African activists at San Francisco State University today, after pro-Israel advocacy groups complained. The open classroom event….