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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					07/11/2010 &#8211; 04:27 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">JOHANNESBURG, (PIC)&#8211; Hundreds of  African academics with the support of international influential figures  announced an initiative to boycott Israeli universities until their  state ends its occupation of the Palestinian territories.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">More than 200 academics from 13 African  universities pledged in a statement reported by different media outlets  on Sunday to support the initiative made the university of Johannesburg  which calls for ending academic cooperation with the Israeli occupation.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper said today  that a lot of international influential figures support this initiative  including noted South African archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond  Tutu in addition to leading figures in South Africa.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The academics&#8217; statement noted that the  Israeli universities are not targeted due to their ethnic identity or  religious faith, but because of their support for the apartheid regime  in Israel, especially the university of Ben-Gurion which directly and  indirectly support the military attacks which are carried out by the  Israeli army against the Palestinians.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The academics also accused Ben Gurion  university of sponsoring scientific research projects that serve the  armament program of the Israeli army and contribute to the production of  prohibited weapons that are used against the Palestinians.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Al-Ahram newspaper pointed out that this  boycott campaign was preceded by a report issued months ago by the human  sciences research council in South Africa and funded by the department  of foreign affairs of South Africa under the title &#8220;Is Israel an  apartheid state.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report emphasized that the countries,  which pursue the apartheid policy, follow three methods to maintain the  domination of particular ethnic groups, and in the case of Israel, the  regime there uses laws, courts and security apparatuses to implement its  racial polices against the Palestinian and in favor of the Jews alone.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7XRuOLGZ0gg5mUtyUaX6S8aM24m6p%2fXwCOtBEUMTS8e4iSpyQiadqs1sPLDCjegAStnGuol%2f8MWKt5M94148KJuD%2f5gETisrFNEbHwqJK31Y%3d">African academics launch boycott campaign against Israeli universities</a>.</p>
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