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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

academic boycott

The University of Leipzig (iStock)
December 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
German cancelation of Israeli professor’s talk highlights widening academic boycotts
Even as University of Leipzig presents decision to nix lecture by historian Benny Morris as security-related, some view it as capitulation to BDS in a relatively friendly country
By Zev Stub
Mike Lee of Sonoma State University. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 16, 2024, 4:46 am
In first for US, California public university agrees to academic boycott of Israel
Head of Sonoma State University says he’s on leave less than a day after announcing deal, which includes formation of SJP ‘advisory council’ to ensure school complies with terms
By Alexander Fulbright
Pro-Palestinian student protesters and activists attend a demonstration at the entrance of Lausanne University's (UNIL) Geopolis building, occupied by anti-Israel students, in Lausanne on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 11:44 pm
Irish, Swiss students join anti-Israel protest wave by staging campus encampments
Protesters at Trinity College Dublin and Lausanne University demand divestment from Jewish state over war against Hamas in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Micro algae samples used in research on June 11, 2020, in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)
April 29, 2024, 2:25 pm
Israeli researchers see major drop in international cooperation since Oct. 7
After nearly seven months without a plan, the Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry says it will form a panel to deal with the boycott led by academics in European countries
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, February 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
February 29, 2024, 12:55 am
AAUP becomes largest US faculty group to join call for ceasefire
American Association of University Professors signs statement with hundreds of other labor unions calling for end to Israel-Hamas war; one member decries ‘obsessive’ focus on Israel
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp/File)
July 25, 2023, 1:21 am
US anthropological association votes to boycott Israeli academia over ‘apartheid’
Decision, voted down 7 years ago, is adopted with 70% majority, but does not apply to individual Israeli academics
By Andrew Lapin
FILE: A student reads on campus at the State University of Campinas, Brazil on September 1, 2014. (Ricardo Sdag, Wikimedia Commons)
April 5, 2023, 1:57 am
Protesters force cancelation of Brazil university event promoting Israeli academia
Amid demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists, security at State University of Campinas escort out representatives from four of Israel’s top institutions of higher learning
By Canaan Lidor
Students seen at the Tel Aviv University on the first day of the new academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90)
March 24, 2022, 4:55 am
Thousands of Middle East scholars sign resolution endorsing boycott of Israel
Members of Middle East Studies Association sign off on a resolution ‘endorsing the Palestinian call for solidarity in the form of boycotts, divestment and sanctions’
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: The alma mater statute on the Columbia University campus. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
November 25, 2019, 9:34 pm
Columbia College Student Council to hold campus-wide Israel boycott poll
Non-binding referendum to ask whether university should divest from companies that profit or engage in Israel’s ‘inhumane acts against Palestinians’
By JTA
Illustrative: Demonstrators hold placards outside the Spanish Government Delegation in Barcelona on October 20, 2015 during a protest demanding an end to the collaboration between Spanish and Israeli institutions and Israeli violations in the West Bank and Jerusalem. (Photo by Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)
August 8, 2019, 12:11 pm
European mental health group rethinks nixing Israel meeting after backlash
Enmesh scrapped gathering out of concern of pushback from pro-BDS groups; instead it led to vocal protests from academics worldwide
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative photo of the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 27, 2019, 12:37 am
UK Society for Middle Eastern Studies passes Israel academic boycott resolution
Motion accuses Israeli universities of providing justification for extra-judicial killings and systematically discriminating against non-Jewish students
By JTA
Im Tirzu movement activists demonstrate near to Arab Israeli and Israeli left wing activist students during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary day at Tel Aviv University on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)
May 14, 2019, 2:22 pm
Israeli ‘Canary Mission’: New website fingers ‘anti-Zionist’ academics
Right-wing Im Tirzu group invites users to call out allegedly unpatriotic lecturers; university heads slam ‘intimidation’ campaign
By ToI Staff
Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver addressed students and faculty on March 11, 2016. (screen capture: Pitzer College)
March 16, 2019, 4:45 am
President of California college says he will ignore faculty BDS motion
Melvin Oliver rejects ‘prejudiced’ recommendation to suspend Pitzer’s study program with Haifa University due to Israeli treatment of Palestinians
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Stellenbosch University (CC BY 3.0, Dfmalan, Wikipedia)
November 27, 2018, 7:29 pm
Israeli academics dropped from conference in South Africa due to BDS pressure
Ben-Gurion University professor says she never before faced such fierce boycott calls, feels ‘academics is being trampled by politics’
By ToI Staff
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