Israel Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/israel/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:49:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Israel Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/israel/ 32 32 59910430 Professor at Al-Quds University Administratively Detained Without Charges in Israel https://concernedscientists.org/2017/08/professor-at-al-quds-university-administratively-detained-without-charges-in-israel/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:57:39 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6251 Ahmad Qatamesh, a university professor and founder of the Munif Barghouti Research Center in the School of Humanities at Al-Quds University was arrested on May 14th and detained without being charged with a crime for his political opinions and writings.  He has spent over eight years in jail in the past for the same situation […]

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]]> 6251 Israel Bans Entrance to Country of British Professor Supporting BDS https://concernedscientists.org/2017/04/israel-bans-entrance-to-country-of-british-professor-supporting-bds/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 03:30:10 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=6022 Dr. Kamel Hawwash, British Professor in the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Birmingham travelled to Israel with his family to visit relatives in East Jerusalem.  At the Tel Aviv airport Professor Hawwash was stopped, interrogated and put on a plane to Brussels.  Israeli authorities noted the reason for restricting his entrance to […]

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]]> 6022 Palestinian Astro-Physicist Detained at Israeli Checkpoint for a Second Time https://concernedscientists.org/2016/05/palestinian-astro-physicist-detained-at-israeli-checkpoint-for-a-second-time/ Sun, 08 May 2016 17:54:33 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=5166 Imad al-Barghouthi, Astrophysicist and Professor at al-Quds University has been detained for a second time at a checkpoint in Israel. No charges were filed. Professor Barghouthi is an Astrophysicist and founder of the Arab Union of Astronomy and Science. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Utah and worked at the US space agency […]

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]]> 5166 Good News: Palestinian Astronomer Released https://concernedscientists.org/2015/01/good-news-palestinian-astronomer-released/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:10:44 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3941 Imad Barghouthi was released on Jan. 22, 2015, according to his lawyer, Jawad Boulos. Boulos said that at the hearing appealing the detention he presented the CCS letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu protesting Barghouthi’s detention and that this had impressed the court. Barghouthi asked his lawyer to convey his gratitude to CCS. Related articles Israel’s […]

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]]> 3941 Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Astronomer Traveling to Conference Violates Human Rights https://concernedscientists.org/2015/01/israels-detention-of-palestinian-astronomer-traveling-to-conference-violates-human-rights/ Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:46:42 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3923 CCS protests Israel’s detention without charges of Dr. Imad al-Barghouthi, an astro-physicist and professor at al-Quds University, while he was traveling to the United Arab Emirates to a conference. Such interference with academic freedom and due process violates international conventions, CCS writes, as well as human rights specifically mentioned in Israel’s agreement with the EU […]

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]]> 3923 Reject Boycott of Israel https://concernedscientists.org/2014/01/reject-boycott-of-israel/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:17:25 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=3062 At its annual meeting this week, the 30,000-member Modern Language Association will hold a session aimed at strategizing how to mount academic boycotts against Israel, and will consider a resolution critical of Israel for the violation of academic rights while ignoring the immensely greater violations of academic rights, as well as far more basic and universal rights, in dozens of countries around the world.

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