[Fdu] forum on the academic boycott and Canada-Israel links

[Cynthia Wright]

The New Normal: Canada-Israel Links, Palestinian Rights and the Academic Boycott

  Friday, January 24, 2014
  7:00 pm - 9:30
  Free event (donations welcome)





  Speakers:

  * Linda Tabar, (U of T and PACBI):  The Academic Boycott: Perspectives from Palestine



  * Sue Ferguson (WLU-Brantford) The Normalization Campaign: Canada-Israel Ties in the Age of Boycott



  * Blair Kuntz (U of T): Report from the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine delegation



  * Chandni Desai (U of T): Breaking ties with Israel and building BDS: the student campus divestment movement




  Join Faculty 4 Palestine for a public forum to discuss the relationship between the intensification of Canada-Israel links and the expanding movement for academic boycott, and to learn about our new campaign!




  In May 2013, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking made front-page news around the world when, in support of the academic boycott, he publicly declined an invitation to attend an Israeli conference. Six months later the American Studies Association (ASA) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) both endorsed the academic boycott, a move which marks a new trend in the U.S. academy which begain with the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) endorsement last April. In Canada, three campus divestment campaigns have been launched since 2010 and over eleven student organizations passed resolutions in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in the past year. 




  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.



     
           
           
     
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