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Letter from AURDIP to the administration of the Hebrew University concerning the University’s involvement in police harassment of the Issawiyah neighborhood
Prof. Asher Cohen,
President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Barak Medina,
Rector, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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An open letter to the administration of the Hebrew University and the academic community with regard to the University’s involvement in police harassment of the Issawiyah neighborhood
Academia for Equality is an organization of about 550 teachers, students and others involved in academic life in Israel, among us about sixty members of the Hebrew University community. For….
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Academia for Equality’s letter to the President of the German Rectors’ Conference
We [the Board of Academia for Equality] wrote to the President of the German Rectors’ Conference as well as to the Members of the Executive Board and the General Assembly expressing our deep concern regarding their decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
In light of the increase in anti-Semitism as well as other forms of racism in Germany and beyond, we welcome and support all academic professionals and institutions initiatives to combat racism and bigotry. However, we maintain that the adoption of the IHRA definition neither serves the cause of combating anti-Semitism, nor does it protect its victims. We urge the German academic community to fight anti-Semitism while respecting legitimate support for Palestinian rights, without infringing the basic rights of free speech, expression and political association, while zealously protecting democratic spaces.
See the full letter below