For academics, they are awfully dumb
You will recall that as of April 1, the University of Johannesburg is cutting its ties to Ben Gurion University, thereby endangering South Africa's water supply. Well get a load of this statement issued by the South Africans on Friday. In a statement on Friday, Prof. Ihron Rensburg, vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) said “I need to make this quite clear. UJ is not part of an academic boycott of Israel. UJ holds the view that given the current situation in the Middle East the formal institutional agreement between UJ and BGU is an insurmountable obstacle to either institution facilitating a wider dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian academics.”Huh? Who says academics can't behave like morons?
The statement continued, “it has never been UJ’s intention to sever all ties with BGU, although it may have been the intention of some UJ staff members.
Rather, the UJ Senate voted to bring an end to the formal institutional agreement between the two universities which at this particular time, in the Senate’s view, creates an obstacle to cooperation between academics in Israel and Palestine.”
Labels: academic boycott, BDS, Ben Gurion University, University of Johannesburg
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:52 AM
4 Comments:
may i translate?
"we totally effed up....oh, we still hate you jews, and hope the arabs destroy you...but we need your research on purifying water...or we will have to drink dirt"
i hope the jews in sa start thinking seriously about aliya
The only ones harmed by the boycott will be the South Africans - and the tenured anti-Zionist extremists at BGU.
Heh
As an SA jew, I'm well aware of their real intentions.
Typical of SA aspiring politicians, let the people suffer so that you can get ahead
I hadn't even heard of the stupid place! How they exaggerate their importance. Well let them suck up to their mozlem terrorist masters and their "abeid" puppet leaders. South Africa must be a real cess-pit!
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