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Not long ago in this column I wrote about the case which had been brought against the University Trade Union in the UK by one of its members, accusing it of institutional anti-Semitism. The case was heard by an independent…
read moreTwo weeks ago, I had the pleasure of writing about the successful BIRAX scientific cooperation between Israeli and UK universities. The context was not only the promotion of intellectual cooperation, but also the response to those who would boycott scientific…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=168815 I am no fan of the current government, but its ambassadors should be accorded the same respect as those of any other country. The two most prestigious universities in the UK, Cambridge and Oxford, were the scenes of some…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027305177&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Tomorrow, my colleague Professor Colin Shindler will deliver his inaugural lecture as the new professor of Israel studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. This comes against the backdrop of…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198167283&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Today’s summit meeting between US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas coincides with the circulation of a petition initiated by the Israeli Peace NGO Forum and signed by many Israeli public…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418678374&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull My colleague at Ben-Gurion University, Dr. Neve Gordon, has made headlines during the past few days as a result of an opinion piece he wrote for the Los Angeles Times (reprinted in the Guardian, with excerpts at the…
read moreDavid Newman David Newman is a professor of political geography and a senior research fellow at Ben- Gurion University in Israel, where he founded the Department of Politics and Government. Editor of the international journal, Geopolitics, he has published widely…
read moreBEER-SHEVA – The Board of Governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) condemned all attempts to “boycott Israeli academic institutions” today at the Closing Plenary session of its 38th Annual Board Meeting, May 25-28, 2008. The resolution was passed…
read morehttp://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m12s30&SecId=30&AId=60310&ATypeId=1 The Chief Rabbi’s remarks concerning the status of Jewish students on UK campuses (JC, May 16) cannot be dismissed lightly. In informal meetings with Jewish student societies over the past 18 months, students have – time after time –…
read moreDavid Newman is a professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion Universityof the Negev in Israel, and is currently editor of the journal Geopolitics.He is now on sabbatical as a visiting scholar in Great Britain, and the Ukrepresentative of the IAB…
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