UCT council calls for more consultation on boycott of Israel

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Council secretary Royston Pillay said a number of issues required clarification before the resolution could go to a vote.

“UCT will not enter into any formal relationships with Israeli academic institutions operating in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as other Israeli academic institutions enabling gross human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories”.

Reaffirm its commitment to supporting the rights and freedom of all people as universally recognised under international law;Condemn the atrocities and human rights violations perpetrated in the occupied Palestinian territories, and elsewhere in the world; andeaffirmed"UCT’s commitment to academic freedom but reserved the right to dissociate itself from academics and academic institutions that supported the violation of human rights and/or enabled the violation of human rights".

 

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Since the Taxpayers are now funding these arsonist and terrorists who calls themselves students, why don’t they, the “students” do what they are suppose to do at University, which is to study and graduate and then they go forth out and sort out the issues they have with the World

Would the boycott change anything in Israel, I doubt, sounds like a futile exercise.

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