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Hundreds Of UK Academics Pledge To Boycott Israeli Universities
British & Israeli governments have condemned pledges by 343 professors and lecturers who criticise what they call ‘Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land’ 
by Carol Adl
Over 340 senior academics at UK universities have published a pledge not to cooperate with Israeli institutions.
Scholars from dozens of British universities have pledged to boycott Israeli academic institutions in protest at what they call intolerable human rights violations against the Palestinian people.
The declaration, by 343 professors and lecturers was printed in a full-page advert in Tuesday’s Guardian newspaper entitled: “A commitment by UK scholars to the rights of Palestinians”.
The Guardian reports:
The pledge says the signatories, from a variety of universities in England and Wales, will not accept invitations to visit Israeli academic institutions, act as referees for them, or take part in events organised or funded by them. They will, however, still work with individual Israeli academics, it adds.
The advert says the signatories are “deeply disturbed by Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights violations that it inflicts on all sections of the Palestinian people, and its apparent determination to resist any feasible settlement”.
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