Western universities, education ministries, higher education bodies, funding programs, science academies, and publishers have taken swift action in response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Applying a double standard, higher education institutions have failed to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid. 

The MESA membership voted by 80%  to endorse the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid.

The US group is due to perform on the ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village

These trips serve to present Israel in a positive light, whitewashing its regime of military occupation, apartheid, and settler-colonialism and its decades-long denial of Palestinian rights, including the right to education.

The Israeli Film Festival in Nairobi, Sherekea ("celebrate"), artwashes colonialism and apartheid

The Dan David Foundation partners with government organizations actively involved in Israel’s gradual ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and fully enlisted in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

The scholars from 14 countries refuse to participate in academic exchanges, collaborate with or receive funding from complicit Israeli institutions in a stand for Palestinian rights.