Israeli boycott divides academics
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Academics are being urged to reject calls from colleagues for a boycott of Israeli universities.
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A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe".
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As Israel's Knesset prepares to vote on withdrawal plans, young settlers are split over leaving their homes.
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A group of prominent Israeli hard-liners urged soldiers Thursday to disobey orders to dismantle Jewish settlements, widening the bitter divisions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Higher education staff are being urged to oppose government plans to tackle campus extremism.
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Union leader to ask members to ignore calls for an academic boycott of Israel.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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Â·  Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote Â·  Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds
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Israel's education minister says schoolbooks should show the pre-1967 borders, sparking fierce right-wing criticism.
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The State Department's decision to deny visas to 65 Cuban scholars seeking to attend a conference in Las Vegas drew protests Wednesday from Congress and academia.
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JERUSALEM Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers and their backers essentially shut down much of Jerusalem today. They took to the streets to protest a plan to evacuate settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.
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There&#39;s been a lukewarm reaction to a British-backed Middle East conference. Israel says it will boycott the meeting pencilled in for February in London.
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An Israeli documentary over military actions  in Sinai in 1967 causes a firestorm of protest in  Egypt. But both governments would prefer to ignore  the matter
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An international campaign has been launched to demand that four Palestinian students deported from their West Bank university to the Gaza Strip be allowed to return to complete their studies.
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Jewish groups in Italy are outraged by an internet blog that accused university professors of Zionism.
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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The clubby staff lounges of British universities and the raucous meeting halls of labor unions have long shared a sympathy for the Palestinian cause that has found expression lately with a series of calls for professional unions to boycott Israel.