5-20-2014 How Israel buys loyalty of US university administrators Max Blumenthal The Electronic Intifada


 

http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-buys-loyalty-us-university-administrators/13399

Documents reveal disturbing details of a propaganda tour of Israel and the occupied West Bank undertaken by top University of South Florida officials…

Last December, members of the American Studies Association voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in Israel's occupation and other violations. The vote by the academic association, which has 5,000 individual members along with 2,200 library and other institutional subscribers, was seen as a landmark for the academic boycott movement.

Scores of university presidents denounced the ASA's boycott resolution, and some, apparently, were rewarded with an AJC-guided trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank.

….USF President Judy Genshaft has been a vociferous advocate of collaboration between her university and Israeli institutions. As USF undergraduate and SJP member Omar Erchid reported for Mondoweiss, Genshaft is the co-manager of a family foundation that invests in Israeli banks that finance illegal settlement activities. A veteran of at least 25 trips to Israel, including one with Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott, she joined other presidents of major universities in condemning the American Studies Association's boycott referendum….

The University of South Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine has gathered more than 10,000 signatures for a petition calling on the school to divest from corporations complicit in Israeli occupation and human rights violations. The signature-gathering drive has resulted in the largest student petition in Florida history.

 

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