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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.

Call to Senior University Administrators to Refuse the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

We, the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and allies, urge all universities to refuse to adopt the problematic and confusing International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance [IHRA] Working Definition of Antisemitism. We urge university administrators across a broad spectrum to join in asserting that protest and criticism of state violence constitute protected speech on campuses.

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

The Israeli military is systematically using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, several former detainees and soldiers tell the AP, though the practice is banned by a national court decision and international law. According to some Palestinians, it’s also happening in the occupied West Bank where the army has intensified its operations.