by Jadaliyya Reports Aug 06 2014 [The following letter calling on scholars and librarians within Middle East studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions was submitted in the name of the below signatories to Jadaliyya on 6 August 2014.]
We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new military assault on the Gaza Strip—the third and most devastating in six years—constitutes complicity.
More than 1,000 professionals have signed a manifesto, released by the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) academic campaign for Palestine, demanding to end all institutional relations with the Israeli academic world, until it stops supporting occupation and apartheid in Palestine. The campaign, which started two years ago, asks for support from professionals from the academic and scientific field, and also from associations linked to this field, such as student’s and worker’s unions, research centres, professional associations, etc.
MARTIN SHAW 31 July 2014 The latest Israeli assault on Gaza is for one scholar an occasion to rethink the fundamental arguments for and against a boycott of the country. Israel’s slaughter in Gaza must make us all pause and ask whether we should rethink our stance on the Palestine conflict. The killing is presented as a regrettable response to Hamas’s provocations, an almost routine police action as the Israeli euphemism "
General http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1321 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1307 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1175 http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/4461-academic-boycott-has-to-be-part-of-the-bds-campaign http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/economy-of-the-occupation/2223-the-economy-of-the-occupation-23-24-academic-boycott-of-israel.html http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1430 http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history.premium-1.524308 http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/alrased1_eng.pdf http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/report_english_yara.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/court-stops-israeli-university-suspension-palestinians-commemorating-nakba/13408 Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) http://againstcornelltechnion.wordpress.com/ http://www.usacbi.org/2011/12/open-letter-to-cornell-university-dont-collaborate-with-apartheid/ Tel Aviv University http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10673.shtml http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1216 http://www.electronicintifada.net/downloads/pdf/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf http://electronicintifada.net/content/study-tel-aviv-university-part-and-parcel-israeli-occupation/3434 http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/right-wing-ngo-funding-tel-aviv-university-dig-in-east-jerusalem-1.529641 Haifa University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1285 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1840 (includes Tel Aviv U) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1794 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1329 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1274 Hebrew University http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1852 (see references) http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=11 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1242 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=947 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1738 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1883 Ben Gurion University http://www.ujpetition.com/2010/10/background-and-update-on-issue.html http://www.pacbi.org/pics/file/The%20UJ-BGU%20Report%20(15%20March%202011).pdf http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1526 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=165 http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1527 http://www.aabgu.org/media-center/headlines/academic-pilots.html http://www.
31 July 2014 As we write this statement, 25 days after the brutal incursion on Gaza, over a thousand and four hundred of innocent civilian women, men and children have been butchered by Israel’s war machine and much more are threatened to be killed. The call for raping Palestinian women by the so-called “Bar-Illan University Arabic Literature Professor” teaches us, once again, that Israeli “scholars” and “academic institutions” are an organic and integral part of the Zionist colonial project.
Adam Horowitz on August 1, 2014 In light of the ongoing Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip and the renewed call from Gaza civil society to enact boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel, Verso Books is offering a free ebook download of its 2012 BDS anthology, The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, with contributions from authors such as Ilan Pappe, Noura Erakat, Mustafa Barghouthi, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Haneen Maikey, Nada Elia, Naomi Klein, John Berger, Neve Gordon, and Slavoj Žižek.
A Palestinian child wounded in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, receives treatment at Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya on 24 July. (Ali Jadallah / APA images) Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 07/25/2014 - 13:10 Two leading Israeli academic institutions are offering strong support for Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza. Tel Aviv University is giving students who serve in the attack on Gaza one year of free tuition.
