Category: From the Media

Professor Ofer Aharony of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot wrote on Monday Ariel University in the West Bank is the wrong venue for a science conference. Aharony, together with 14 other academics, published an open letter in The Guardian referring to the conference on cosmology and particle physics that is scheduled to take place this week at Ariel University in the West Bank.

Weizmann Institute of Science professor calls for boycott of conference at Ariel University in Samaria in the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper • Council for Higher Education: Boycott “improper, anti-democratic step” that deeply contradicts essence of academia

 

Academics express their disquiet at a science conference being held in a settlement in the occupied West Bank

An Israeli university on the West Bank would be a university for the occupation sciences; it must not happen.

Ariel versus Academia – The Daily Beast.

Diaa Hadid, AP: Israel to decide on settlement university.

The Fifth Question -Israel News – Haaretz Israeli News source..

Israeli academics protest granting university status to West Bank settlement college – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

165 Academics sign boycott against Ariel University.

Israeli academics to boycott settlement college – Yahoo! News.