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The Oral History Association condemns Israeli violence against Palestinian researchers and their archival and oral history collections
The Oral History Association passed a resolution during its annual meeting in October 2014, condemning Israeli violence against Palestinian researchers and their archival and oral history collections.
Academics say No to the partnership between the Ecole Polytechnique and Technion
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.
How ‘Open Hillel’ created a new community by challenging the Jewish establishment
Two years ago, Harvard’s Hillel chapter clamped down on dissent. The Hillel-affiliated Progressive Jewish Alliance planned an event with the Palestine Solidarity Committee to bring two anti-occupation Jews to America’s….
Cambridge academics: we have a ‘responsibility’ to ‘speak out’ against Israel
More than 50 academics from the University of Cambridge have condemned the assault on Gaza, calling for an end to violence and the ‘discriminatory and dehumanising treatment of Palestinian citizens’…..
On the Proposal for the CUNY Graduate Center’s Doctoral Students’ Council to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
In April 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) became the first United States academic body to pass a resolution boycotting formal relations with Israeli universities. In December, the….
Warmongering Hebrew University tries to muzzle Palestinian students
Back in 1969, the civil rights activist Angela Davis complained of how third-level education was being hijacked. Research grants were being awarded by the US government to “force the scholar….
Palestinian students call for Barclays boycott over Elbit investment
The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI), a group of Palestinian students in Gaza dedicated to the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Campaign of Israel….
Palestine activism grows at US campuses despite backlash
“There’s really this deliberate attempt … echoing Israeli state policy, to prevent and stifle any kind of dissent and any kind of honest and critical thinking,” says freelance journalist and….
Signatories of the petition against the École Polytechnique-Technion Partnership
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….