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Law providing released soldiers with free higher education in settlements might damage Israeli academia
By Gush Shalom
July 27. 2010
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/press_releases/1280217335/


In a letter to the Committee of University Heads in Israel, the Gush Shalom movement warns of the potential danger of the law enacted by the Knesset last week, which offers released soldiers free schooling at academic institutions located in West Bank settlements. `You, respectable University Heads, are constantly crying out against the growing worldwide movement of academic boycott against Israeli universities - but behind your backs, it is the Government of Israel which is adding considerable impetus to this boycott.

A law on `aid to released soldiers` which would also `help the peripheral areas` is easily and quickly passed and no one looks at what is hidden behind the facile words. But outside Israel, it would be well noticed that it is the `academic` institutions` in the settlements of Ariel, Elkana and Alon Shvut which are among those given a special benefit and encouragement.

As if it was not enough that Israeli youths are conscripted for three years of military service, which many of them spend in daily oppression of the Palestinians, from now on they will be directed, also after discharge from the army, towards an `academic` strengthening of the occupation, settlement and dispossession of Palestinians. This is a stain on the entire Israeli academic system plunging it deeper into complicity with the occupation. `

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