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Gisha organization: Israel must protect Palestinian academic freedom

Prof. Kenneth Mann, chairman of the advisory council of the Israeli organization Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, has stated that, alongside battling a proposed academic boycott of Israeli academe by their British counterparts, Israeli academics and university presidents should be protesting Israeli government policy, “that continues to sweepingly deny the right of education and academic freedom of Palestinian students”.

Read the full Jerusalem Post report here.
Click for the full statement at the Gisha website.

Add comment May 21st, 2007 Posted by Ron

Israeli academics to battle UK boycott bid - redux

Haaretz reports that a group of Israeli academics has met with British academics who are proposing that the UK’s University and College Union adopt a boycott of Israeli academe.  Read the full article here.

One of the Israeli academics is translator and translation scholar Miriam Shlesinger.  In a separate interview, Prof. Shlesinger argues that an academic boycott is a type of unjust collective punishment, which actually weakens the Israeli Left.
Read the full interview here.

Add comment May 18th, 2007 Posted by Ron

Israeli academics off to U.K. to battle boycott bid

Haaretz reports that, “A delegation of Israeli academics will head to the U.K. later this month in a bid to fight a proposed boycott of Israeli universities by British academics,” belonging to the newly-formed University and College Union (UCU).  The UCU is a merger of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE).  Click here for the full report.

Add comment May 4th, 2007 Posted by Ron