Summary
An Israeli university that Barghouti presents as a case of institutional racism and complicity: it tolerates and sponsors racist scholarship, distributed the Mitzpim Project’s demographic material, and exonerated David Bukay while pursuing the student who accused him (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PDF p.114-118).
Details
- The AUT’s April 2005 boycott targeted Bar Ilan and Haifa Universities, asking members to heed PACBI’s call (PDF p.92).
- Haifa “not only condones racist utterances and pronouncements by its faculty but also provides institutional sponsorship” to racist scholarship; it “has consistently and systematically failed to censure such academics” (PDF p.114).
- Arnon Sofer (spelled Soffer in Chapter 6) is its chair of geostrategy; the university distributes a pamphlet on the Mitzpim Project in high schools (PDF p.114-116).
- Its rector blessed the May 17, 2005 conference “The Demographic Problem and Demographic Policy in Israel” (PDF p.116).
- Its rector exonerated David Bukay despite an attorney general investigation on Mossawa’s complaint — Mossawa is named in the text as “Mossawa—The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel” — while the university conducted a disciplinary process against the accusing student (PDF p.116-118).
Related pages
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, PACBI, Arnon Sofer, Academic boycott, Judaization, Demographic problem