July | 2008 | PACBI

Academics protest at army bar on Palestinians

News and Opinion | Donald Macintyre | The Independent Posted on July 30, 2008

The heads of six of the country's most prestigious universities have written to the Defence minister Ehud Barak, taking issue with a limit on Palestinian students to 70 a year in Israel and requiring them to justify to the military [...]

Academic freedom for whom?

News and Opinion | Israeli academics | Posted on July 26, 2008

As the background to the petition makes clear, the Israeli academy is not the bastion of dissent it is purported to be by those seeking to defend it and thus delegitimize the call for the academic boycott of Israel. The [...]

Israeli academic boycott: ‘Sanctions, not connections’

News and Opinion | Sue Blackwell | The Guardian Posted on July 25, 2008

I laughed at his pompous declaration that "the British government will stand full-square against any boycotts of Israel or Israeli academics and their institutions." After all, the University and College Union has not yet voted for a boycott: merely that [...]

Putting out a contract on art

News and Opinion | Yitzhak Laor | Haaretz Posted on July 25, 2008

A few years ago, I was invited to a poetry festival in Barcelona. I was happy. I dutifully faxed my poems, had them translated into two languages - Catalonian and Castilian - and checked whatever I could check. Then, in [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Israel needs sanctions not appeasement, says boycott group

News and Opinion | BRICUP | Posted on July 22, 2008

BRICUP notes that Brown had nothing to say about the systematic sabotage of Palestinian centres of learning and research by the Israeli separation wall, by military incursions and checkpoints, and by the detention of tutors and students. Mr. Brown spoke [...]

UK Officialdom Sides with Israeli Apartheid: A Palestinian response to the new Israeli-British academic partnership

PACBI Statements | Posted on July 22, 2008

Media reports have made it abundantly clear that the July 20 Israeli-British announcement of the establishment of the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX) is politically motivated. The project, described by the Independent as “a major new academic exchange [...]