Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war | Israel | The Guardian
Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the acti
The Israeli historian and political scientist Ilan Pappé disputed that many academics are sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians. “If it were so, I would have seen them among the few hundreds [of] brave Israelis who demonstrate against the war because it is a genocide, not because it fails to bring back the hostages (demonstrations that [are] regarded [as] illegal in Israel),” he said, adding that the vast majority of Israeli academics do not refuse to serve in the country’s army.
“They provide courses and degrees to the secret service, police and are agencies of the government that are oppressing daily the Palestinians,” he said.
On the academic boycott, Pappé said: “[It] is a very harsh and tough, albeit necessary, conversation with the Israeli academic institutions, illuminating for them their responsibility and for being an organic part of an oppressive system. A reality that has been going on for 77 years and the Israeli academia is now told that there is price tag attached to such a conduct.”
