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Posts with category Complicity of Israeli Academia

Amid censure of left-leaning politics, Israeli university urged to ‘rectify faults’

Over the years, some of Ben-Gurion University's Department of Politics and Government's staffers have been labeled radical leftists...
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Parents in Nazareth Illit: ‘There is no need for our children to be educated with Arabs’

Only few days ago Haaretz published disturbing, though not surprising, survey that was conducted among Jewish Israelis, where most...
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Will Upgrading West Bank College Boost Boycott Movement?

JERUSALEM — A decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “strengthen higher education in the State of Israel,” as he put...
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Tel Aviv University to cooperate with settler group on East Jerusalem dig

Tel Aviv University’s spokesperson refuses to explain why its archaeologists will work with Elad, an organization notorious for its...
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The full story behind the war against free speech in Israel’s universities

Is Ben Gurion University being punished because its head has opposed upgrading the status of a college in an Israeli settlement?
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Chomsky in Gaza: academic boycott “will strengthen support for Israel”

During visit to Gaza, Noam Chomsky says BDS may strengthen support for Israel, backs Abbas UN bid.
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Academic boycott has to be part of the BDS campaign

As the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement, launched by Palestinian groups in 2005, has grown, some strategies and targets...
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Smadar Lavie’s lesson on global neoliberal restructuring, Israeli style

On Israel's silencing of its own intra-Jewish apartheid and the complicity of Israeli academia
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It ain’t necessarily so: The textbooks children learn from in school reveal and shape national attitudes—and should provoke debate

Nurit Peled of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied Israeli textbooks covering history, geography and civics, says that...
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Eroding liberties: The ‘witch-hunt’ against Israeli academia

The Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE), a government-appointed body charged with the supervision and financing of universities...
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