'Students for Justice in Palestine' protesting Cornell collaboration with the Technion
Last month, Cornell University won a bid for a technology-based campus in New York City in collaboration with the Technion. Now, Cornell's 'Students for Justice in Palestine' are protesting Cornell's good fortune, because it was done in collaboration with Israelis. “More than any other university in Israel, the Technion, which is involved in the research and development of military and arms technology, is directly implicated in war crimes. Its joint programs with the Israeli military and its cooperative research programs with two of Israel’s major weapons corporations, Elbit and Rafael, renders Technion a full participant in the actions carried out by the Israeli military.... The Cornell administration cannot plead ignorance of these facts. We refuse to collaborate with this.”No one asked them to be part of it. They can always drop out of school. Heh.
Labels: Students for Justice in Palestine, Technion
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:52 PM
1 Comments:
"Last month, Cornell University won a bid for a technology-based campus in New York City in collaboration with the Technion."
Won a bid? Bid to who? Who put out the bid? Was it advertised and open competition? So it was a bid that Cornell/Technion put in to somebody not just a joint project they initiated themselves? I'll hate hearing that it was something others of us could have tried to put a team together for that we never heard about!
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