362 NALSAR Students Ask University to Cut Ties With Israeli Varsities Over Gaza Genocide
21 June 2024 | The Wire
A group of 362 students, 70 alumni and 21 faculty members from the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad have written to the university administration asking it to cut existing ties with two Israeli universities – Tel Aviv University and the Radzyner School of Law – as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
“As of today, there is not one University left standing in Gaza. All universities in Gaza are now dust and debris. The resounding silence of Israeli universities in defending Palestine people’s basic right to education, let alone ‘academic freedom’, and failure to strike a strong note against the Israeli government’s onslaught on Palestine’s universities is very telling of the legitimacy of their claim to ‘academic freedom’,” the letter states…