University Links with Israel - a Bonus for Whom? Sat 26 Oct, 1pm at Wellington Church, University Avenue Speakers: Prof Ilan Pappe will argue the case for the academic boycott of Israel. He was born in Haifa in 1954, graduated from the Hebrew University in 1979 and completed his doctorate studies at the University of Oxford in 1984. Pappe taught at University of Haifa between 1984 and 2006 in the department of Middle Eastern History and Political Science. Due to his support of the academic boycott of Israel and his insistence of teaching the 1948 Nakbah he was forced to resign in 2007. He then joined the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and founded the European Centre for Palestine Studies there. He is the author of fifteen books most notably The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Prof Jonathan Rosenhead will discuss the academic boycott with reference to recent litigation concerning the boycott’s legality in relation to issues of discrimination. Lecturer in law at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He will discuss the nature of any bonus for those academics who choose to collaborate with Israel. He is Professor Emeritus of Operations Research at the London School of Economics. He is also Chair of the British Committee for Universities for Palestine (BRICUP). Chair: Douglas Chalmers, Vice President, UCU Scotland Open to the public and free of charge. You are invited to register on [email protected]
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:28:42 +0000
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