Irish lecturers call on EU to boycott Israeli universities

Last update - 22:11 24/09/2006 (click here to read more)
By Tamara Traubman, Haaretz Correspondent
Irish academics have called on the European Union in an open letter to impose a moratorium financial support to Israeli academic institutions until Israel ends the occupation in the Palestinian territories. The call for the boycott, published last week in the Irish Times daily, came since according to its organizers "The Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders and to longstanding United Nations resolutions."The letter was signed by 61 Irish academics.