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<DIV><FONT size=4>* Please circulate widely*</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR><STRONG>Speakers
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<DIV><STRONG>* Salim Vally</STRONG> - University of Johannesburg, South
Africa</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>* Linda Tabar</STRONG> - Faculty 4 Palestine, OISE - University of
Toronto</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>* Sue Ferguson </STRONG>-Faculty 4 Palestine, Wilfrid Laurier U.
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Omar Barghouti of PACBI has recently stated, the growth in support for the
boycott of Israeli academic institutions has reached a “tipping point”. On April
1st 2011, The University of Johannesburg (UJ) officially announced that it will
cut ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. On this day, the BDS campaign
witnessed a landmark moment as UJ became the first institution to officially
sever relations with an Israeli university. This boycott decision, coming from a
South African institution, was of p</SPAN><SPAN
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significance as it set a precedent, and started a domino boycott
effect.<BR><BR>As well, as the boycott movement is gaining mainstream attention,
academic ties between Canada and Israel are increasing. The Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) recently signed a major collaboration
document with its counterparts in Israel that marks an intensification of
normalizing ties. This partnership agreement with the Association of University
Heads of Israel marks an intensification of normalizing ties with Israeli
institutions on Canadian university and college campuses. The intention of this
partnership is to coordinate, expand, regularize, and institutionally entrench
research, teaching and other ties with Israeli universities.<BR><BR><B
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">Salim Vally i</B>s the director of the
Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, and associate professor at the
Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg. Salim was involved in a
campaign that convinced the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to severe its
institutional ties from Ben Gurion University. UJ was the first institution to
officially sever relations with an Israeli university. <BR><BR>Vally was a
leading member of the South African Students Movement in 1976/1977 and left the
country after its banning by the erstwhile apartheid regime and after severe
repression. He returned to South Africa in 1982. From 1985 to 1994 he was the
education officer for CCAWUSA (later SACCAWU) and was a founder member of
Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU). Vally was an activist for
Palestinian solidarity since the days of apartheid in South Africa and after the
first democratic elections in 1994 campaigned for the boycott of Israel and with
others founded the Palestine Solidarity Committee. In 2001, he was a leading
member of social movements and trade unions that organised the 10 000 strong
march at the UN World Conference against Racism (WCAR) which marched behind a
banner that read “Zionism is Racism” and pledged to form the second
anti-apartheid movement against apartheid Israel. He taught at York University
between 2007-2009 and was a member of Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
and Faculty 4 Palestine. In 2010, together with student organisations, trade
unions and academics convinced the University of Johannesburg to break links
established during the days of apartheid with Ben Gurion University. Vally was
prevented last year by the apartheid authorities in Israeli from delivering a
keynote address on education at Bir Zeit University in Occupied
Palestine.<BR>Salim Vally will speak about the importance of the academic
boycott, in particular the academic boycott work that is being done in South
Africa.<BR><BR><B style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">Linda Tabar</B>, is a
member of Faculty 4 Palestine. She will speak about the significance of the
academic boycott, and will offer insights on perspectives from
Palestine.<BR><BR><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)"><B>Sue
Ferguson,</B></SPAN> a member from Faculty for Palestine will speak about the
ways in which Israel is normalizing its ties with Canadian University and
college campuses. She will underscore the importance of the academic boycott, in
particular the academic boycott campaign that Faculty for Palestine has recently
established and launched in
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