O governo de Israel quer fechar o
Departamento de Política e Governo da Universidade Ben Gurion, para calar o
livre debate político. Não permita mais este golpe obscurantista à democracia
no país. Leia e assine a petição!!
The Petition
To: Mr. Gideon Sa’ar,
Israeli Minister of Education
Dear Gideon Sa’ar,
We are writing as academics
to express our grave concern about the moves, initiated by Israel’s Council of
Higher Education, to close down the Department of Politics and Government at
Ben-Gurion University, by preventing it from registering students from the
start of the next academic year.
This attack on the
Department quite transparently has nothing to do with the quality of its staff,
or of their teaching or research. It has everything to do with the fact that
some of them have publicly taken brave and locally unpopular political
positions.
The manoeuvres undertaken
to try to bring this closure about already bring discredit on the governance of
the Israeli higher education system. Should they be successful in closing the
Department, it will be a permanent stain on the reputation of Israel’s
universities.
As Professor Rivka Carmi,
President of Ben-Gurion University, has written, the politically motivated
closure of the Department “will constitute a devastating blow to academic
independence in Israel”.
We call upon the Council of
Higher Education to reject the recommendation of its Sub-Committee.
Dr Robert Boyce, London
School of Economics
Professor Jonathan
Rosenhead, London School of Economics
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