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URL: http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060622-080839-1255r BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 22 (UPI) — Hamas has blasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for suggesting that the Islamic militant group may accept a two-state solution and recognize Israel. A Hamas statement faxed to United Press International’s Beirut office…
read moreHamas might offer a 50- to 60-year truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a top Palestinian adviser said. But Hamas still would not recognize Israel, Ahmed Yusef, a political adviser to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, told…
read moreLONDON, June 2, 2006 — The governing council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) said in a statement this week that it opposes academic boycotts, “firmly believing that scientists provide a voice for rationality and moderation in political affairs.…
read moreMartin Rees, the President of the Royal Society, today (30 May 2006) criticised the vote by members of NATFHE for a boycott of Israeli academics, and re-affirmed the commitment of the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, to…
read moreRAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave Hamas three more days to accept a document that implicitly recognizes Israel before he makes good on an ultimatum to bring the issue to a national referendum, an official said Tuesday.…
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One of the suspects in an alleged bomb plot in Ontario is accused of wanting to storm Parliament, behead the prime minister and attack a number of sites, including the CBC building in Toronto, his lawyer says. Lawyer Gary Batasar,…
read moreSource http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1784175,00.html We call on Natfhe to reject the motion that “invites” academics to blacklist Israeli “institutions and individuals” that do not “publicly dissociate themselves” from “Israeli apartheid policies”. The purpose of the apartheid analogy is not to shed light…
read moreBar-Ilan University (RA) International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) An open letter to members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), the academic community and the general public We call on all National Association…
read moreThe American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’slargest general science society, today urged a British teachersassociation to withdraw a motion calling on its members to boycottIsraeli scholars and academic institutions that do not publicly declaretheir opposition to Israel’s…
read moreThe European Jewish Congress, in conjunction with the CRIF, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, will be holding a conference on the 29th of May in Paris, intended to shed some needed light on the situation of Palestinian refugees…
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