Lecturers vote to back Israel boycott
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Britain&#39;s largest trade union for academics voted Wednesday to back calls for a boycott of universities in Israel in protest at the nation&#39;s treatment of Palestinians.
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Schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip remained closed Tuesday as thousands of their students gathered in the Rose Garden opposite the Knesset in Jerusalem to protest against the disengagement plan.
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Members of Britain's largest college teachers' union have reignited a fierce debate about academics and politics by asking colleagues to consider boycotting Israel over what it calls "apartheid" policies toward the Palestinians.
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Dozens of Jewish settlers demonstrated on Thursday in central Gaza Strip to protest a promised Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
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JOHANNESBURG - A small group of pro-Palestinian supporters were escorted out of the Sandton Convention Centre here during a protest against a visit by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday.
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Israeli settler leaders on Monday backed a call to resist the planned evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, signalling a shift toward revolt as hopes dwindle for stopping the pullback by political means.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon marshalled support for Thursday&#39;s Likud party vote to bring the Labor Party into a government that would block snap elections and pave the way for a Gaza withdrawal next year.
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The Israeli parliament is set for a second tempestuous day of debate ahead of a vote on whether to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Monday saw Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urge the Knesset to back the planned
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset appeared set today to approve a historic withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the occupied territories following an emotional appeal yesterday by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a major strike against Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip suffered a symbolic setback on Monday when the legislature voted to reject the speech in which he raised the proposal.
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JERUSALEM -- From the podium of the Israeli Knesset last week, Shimon Peres, the engineer of the Oslo peace process and leader of the parliamentary opposition, lambasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's speech on the state of the nation. Minutes later, in a nearby conference room, he urged his Labor party colleagues not to vote against Sharon's program so as not ...
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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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Angry Jewish settlers yesterday said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s rejection of a proposed national referendum on his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip
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Lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott government plans to tackle extremism on college campuses.
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Britain's higher education minister went to Israel Sunday to express his solidarity with the country's academics amid efforts by a British professors' union to shun Israeli colleagues in a protest against occupation of Palestinian territory.
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A dozen Israeli lawmakers have signed a pledge to join Jewish settlers in resisting the dismantling of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank &#151; the latest sign that protests could be fierce.
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Lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott government plans to tackle extremism on campuses.