Ilan Pappé: Where They Stand on Israel

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Documented record

• May 24, 2005: On May 24, 2005, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, then a tenured University of Haifa professor, published a Guardian op-ed titled "Back the boycott," urging the UK's Association of University Teachers to maintain and expand its academic boycott of Israeli universities, explicitly likening it to the anti-apartheid boycott campaign against South Africa; he had already faced a public resignation call from Haifa University president Aaron Ben-Ze'ev the previous month over his boycott advocacy, and left Israel in 2007 for a professorship at the University of Exeter, becoming a leading international BDS-movement academic figure. a historical movement similar to the anti-apartheid campaign against white supremacist regime in South Africa Source 1 Source 2

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: We don't stand with academics who spent decades campaigning to isolate and boycott the very Israeli institutions and colleagues they once worked alongside.

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