Education

Global: AUC Senate resolution in support of Palestinian academics

2008-05-16

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/education/48150

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Whereas: Given the role of the Senate as a collective conscience of AUC, expressed in the many resolutions adopted over the years denouncing Israeli brutality and systematic racist policies against Palestinians and their basic rights, we propose the following resolution in support of Palestinian academics and institutions of learning:
AUC (American University in Cairo) Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics Presented via the Senate Administration Affairs Committee

Preamble:
Whereas: Given the role of the Senate as a collective conscience of AUC, expressed in the many resolutions adopted over the years denouncing Israeli brutality and systematic racist policies against Palestinians and their basic rights, we propose the following resolution in support of Palestinian academics and institutions of learning:

Resolution:
The AUC Senate condemns Israel’s systematic measures that strangle Palestinian academic development – from curfews, checkpoints, severe control over research laboratories, to not allowing Palestinian academics with dual citizenship and international academics from resuming their work at Palestinian universities;

Supports the growing voices of global civil society organizations, and prominent individuals, calling for various forms of boycott of Israel.

Calls for AUC faculty, staff, and students to refrain from dealings with Israeli Academia within the AUC environment, and consider divestment of the AUC endowment from all companies investing in Israel.