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| Background material from | |
Links:
British Campaign for Universities in Palestine
Engage Online Forum
Palestine Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The mailing of 24th May 2006 contained the following items
1. Motion to be put to Natfhe conference on 29th May 2006
2. FFIPP-UK statement (on Guardian Education website, 25th May)
3. Letter from academics around Engage, Guardian 27th May
4. Letter from Pacbi supporters, Guardian 27th May
5. Pacbi mailing
6. Engage artilces
The mailing of 15th June
1. Draws attention to the new FFIPP website
2. Contains a brief summary of and links to some of the contributions around the Natfhe boycott debate and the wider situation of Palestinian academics.
A: The Natfhe debate
a) The Natfhe emergency resolution on Palestine and the General Secretary's report on Palestine
b) The actual boycott debate
(1) Benjamin Joffe-Walt's Guardian report, Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics, 30th May 2006
(2) Speech of General Secretary Paul Mackney against the motion
B: Reflections on the debate
a) Birzeit University Right to Education Campaign , The Boycott of Palestinian Education: Can the Anti-Boycotters Please Stand Up?
b) Brian Klug, Spare us the analogies, 30 May
c) John Pike A travesty of democracy, 1 June
d) Victoria Buch, On the Academic Boycott, Occupation Magazine, 3 June
C: Boycott the boycotters?
a) American Anti-Defamation League call for US academics to boycott British lecturers who boycott Israeli universities
b) David Hirsh has a categorical rejection of this call on the Engage website
D: A wider view
Matthew Taylor and Duncan Campbell, The great divide, Education Guardian 6 June
E: Related academic issues
a) Ha'aretz, news report on Shin Bet's proposed degree at the Hebrew University
b) Johnathan Cook, Academic Boycott: Shin Bet training program highlights academic complicity with occupation, Electronic Intifada
c) Right 2 Education, An-Najah University denied educational equipment
F: The apartheid analogy
John Strawson, Zionism and Apartheid: The Analogy in the Politics of International Law
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