Saturday, May 22, 2010

PACBI: UNICEF should quit Jerusalem conference



Press release, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, 21 May 2010

"The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is shocked and greatly concerned that UNICEF as well as one Palestinian and several international academics intend to participate in a conference organized by the Minerva Centre for Human Rights at the Hebrew University, jointly with the Van Leer Institute. We regard this participation as a violation of the Palestinian academic boycott Call and Guidelines and a most regrettable whitewash of the entrenched and well-documented complicity of Israeli academic institutions in maintaining Israel's occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people, and Palestinian children in particular. .....

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