http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/03/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Textbooks.php JERUSALEM: Authors of Palestinian school textbooks took small steps toward softening their harsh portrayals of Jews and Israel under the rule of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – but progress was quickly reversed after the Islamic Hamas won a…
read morehttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/29/ucu For the third time in four years, Britain’s main faculty union has passed a resolution questioning the appropriateness of ties between scholars in the United Kingdom and those in Israel. While the measure adopted on a voice vote Wednesday…
read morehttp://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYw_10AmXikO0Fy9h6EXz9Irvw9w Government higher education minister Bill Rammell has called on lecturers not to boycott Israeli academics. He told the University and College Union’s (UCU) annual congress in Manchester: “You should be entitled to decide your own policy but I have…
read moreThe following letter was sent to Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the UCU from attorney Anthony Julius representing various members of the UCU on June 3, 2008. Sally HuntGeneral Secretary UCUEgmont House25-31 Tavistock PlaceLondonWC1H 9UTUnited Kingdom 3 June 2008 BY…
read morehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282541,00.html A lecturers’ union was last night accused of launching a new academic boycott of Israel after it agreed a policy to call on its members to “consider” their links with Israeli institutions. The University and College Union voted overwhelmingly…
read morehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4025716.ece Lecturers threw their weight behind an effective boycott of Israeli universities and academics yesterday, in protest over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. In a move that campaigners have branded illegal, members of the University and College Union, UCU, said…
read morehttp://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAZe6vCLtKnL-oi5BMnSI94rzZPQ Academics are set to reignite an international row as they urge fellow lecturers to consider whether they should sever links with Israeli universities. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will highlight the “humanitarian catastrophe imposed on Gaza…
read morehttp://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/736686/the-universities-witchhunt-ag Today, the Universities and Colleges Union is discussing whether universities should single out Israeli and Jewish scholars for active discrimination. Yes, you read that correctly. The UCU is debating a motion which not only raises the spectre yet again…
read morehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,2282281,00.html Keen to develop its higher education, Qatar has enticed US universities to set up stall in its capital city. Even by the surreal standards of Doha, this ceremony took some beating. A convocation event for 122 graduating students serenaded…
read morehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2282231,00.html “There are people who want to see us fall out over Palestine and do nothing else,” says Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, currently preparing for the UCU conference, which starts tomorrow. And you can…
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