Category: Miftah

YORK UNIVERSITY VS. ISRAEL: “ACADEMIC FREEDOM” OR ACADEMIC FARCE?[UPDATED]

June 19th, 2009 | Category: Boycott / Divestment, ICAHD, Miftah, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Sabeel
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The President of York University in Toronto has issued a statement attempting to defend his university’s sponsorship of an event headlined “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace”, scheduled for June 22 to 24. This response to intense criticism of the program attempts to portray serious criticism as an attack on academic freedom. [...]

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Norwegian NGO Funding: Boycotts and Apartheid Rhetoric instead of Peace and Coexistence

March 12th, 2009 | Category: Al Haq, B'tselem, Gisha, Government Funding, Hamoked, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Miftah, NGO Monitor, Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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NGO Monitor Report, Norwegian NGO Funding: Boycotts and Apartheid Rhetoric instead of Peace and Coexistence, March 12, 2009
Norwegian money continues to be channeled from the MFA and NORAD to many politicized Norwegian, Palestinian and international NGOs. The radical political campaigns promoted by some of these NGOs continue to contradict objectives which the Norwegian government sets [...]

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