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BDS: 250 European academics call for exclusion of Ahava and Israeli arms companies from EU research projects [15.07.2012]

More than 250 European academics from 14 different European countries have signed an open letter to EU research Commissioner Màire Geoghegan-Quinn calling for the exclusion of Israeli companies and state bodies that are complicit with Israeli violations of international law from EU funded research programs.

The letter, whose signatories include Gérard Toulouse, a member of the French Academy of Science, Malcolm Levitt, a member of the UK Royal Society, and renowned philosopher Slavjoj Zizek, argues that the particpation of companies like Ahava and Elbit Systems “undermines both the reputation of these programs and the stated goals of the European Union and its member states”. …

250 European academics call for exclusion of Ahava and Israeli arms companies from EU research projects

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