Sunday, September 25, 2005
For another whack at the old divestment ball, that is.
Haaretz: U.K. group renews attempts at academic boycott of Israel
BRICUP was created in response to a Palestinian call for the boycott. It also lobbies on behalf of Palestinian universities and against the Israeli occupation. It has scheduled public discussions on campuses in London, Birmingham, York and Sussex.
"The boycott is moving on extremely well judged by the amount of support coming into us and the willingness of universities to set up meetings to discuss it," Dr. Hilary Rose, one of BRICUP's founders, said in a September 20 interview with England's The Guardian.
On Friday, a conference called "Fear of the Other and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" began at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The conference was called in part to discuss the boycott and was organized by an organization called The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The organization does not itself support the boycott, but it encourages people to visit the PA's universities in order to see for themselves the difficulties faced by students and teachers there...
While they're visiting "Palestine," perhaps they'll take a side trip over to Sderot, where the schools there have been shut down due to a rain of rockets from UNoccupied Gaza.
Haaretz: Sderot municipality to shut down schools after Qassam attacks
In an official statement, the municipality said the closures are the result of the security assessments that were passed onto Sderot mayor Eli Moyal during a meeting with heads of the defense establishment. Municipality heads will reconvene on Sunday to decide on further steps.
Three Qassam rockets landed in Sderot on Saturday afternoon, injuring four people...
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