The settler right is
celebrating another victory http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ariel-university-wins-vote-goes-to-idf-for-final-approval-1.451794 .
The Israeli Council for
Higher Education has protested the usurpation of its authority by the
government and the IDF, but to no avail. The ball is now in its court. The CHE
must act. Inaction on its part will be justly interpreted as passive acceptance
of the new university, born in the sin of occupation. The CHE is not without
the means to nullify this outrageous bit of academic banditry.
It is hereby suggested
to the CHE and to all worthy institutions of higher learning all over the world
that they go on record to the effect that doctoral studies and the doctorate
awarded by the so-called 'Ariel University' cannot and will not be recognized
as legitimate university studies. I understand that there are those who might
consider this an extreme measure.
However, occupation,
expropriation, repression, and politicide cannot and should not be condoned as
a basis for academic effort. Let the candidates for study at this gross mockery
of educational values and simple decency, know that they may be wasting their
time and money. Let the HCE of education lead the international academic world
in deciding that studies at this so called university are null and void. No
doctoral studies and no doctoral awards in the shadow of shame, on the
blooded ground of a
cruel, brutal and ugly occupation
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