Professor Wang Quing Ying, a professor of economics at Guangdong University of Technology's Huali College, has been forced to resign from his teaching position under pressure from school authorities. Professor Wang is a signer of Charter 08, which called on China to respect the requirements of its own constitution, of China's international obligations, and of basic human rights. During a recent outing with fellow dissidents, he wore a t-shirt bearing the slogan "One Party Dictatorship is a Disaster," leading to his firing.

Berlanty Azzim, a resident of Bethlehem, who says that she entered the West Bank on a valid visa in 2005, is a month away from completing her studies in business management at a West Bank university. At the end of October, she was stopped at a checkpoint  by Israeli soldiers and deported to Gaza, on the grounds that as a holder of an identity card with a Gaza address she was in the West Bank illegally. The Israeli Supreme Court has upheld the army’s decision.       

Dr. Reinaldo Di Polo, a physiologist, and Dr. Gioconda San Blas, a microbiologist, were distinguished scientists at the Centro de Biofisica y Bioquimica (IVIC) in Caracas.

'Everyone Loses' When Boycotts Exclude a Country's Scholars

To the Editor:

Some academics in the United States and Canada are proposing a boycott of Israeli academics. And in Britain, the University and College Union, which has over 120,000 members, has voted to frame new resolutions to boycott Israeli academics that might overcome legal obstacles that stood in the way of similar measures in the past.

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