Motion
- Motion title
- Israeli Apartheid and anti-BDS legislation
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 1 June 2022
- Status
- Remitted (not taken)
- Motion
- 24
- Motion text
Congress notes the
1. B’Tselm, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch reports on Israeli apartheid highlighting systematic Israeli anti-Palestinian discrimination – widespread seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of citizenship;
2. Academic Commitment for Human Rights in Palestine;
3. Designation of 11 Palestinian human rights organisations as ‘terrorist’;
4. Israeli Ministry of Defence intention to isolate Palestinian universities, undermining Higher Education, by limiting the number and disciplinary specialisms of foreign scholars permitted work visas;
5. Legislation in UK rendering BDS unlawful for public bodies unless consistent with Government policy.
Congress resolves to
a. join the campaign against anti-BDS legislation.
b. make forceful representations to the Israeli Embassy, affirming Palestinian universities’ membership of the global scholarly community;
c. reaffirm Congress’ 2010 opinion on BDS and academic boycott;
d. immediately invite all members to consider, given reported crimes against humanity, the moral and political consequences of any relationship with Israeli institutions.
- Proposing body
- University of Dundee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/C/06-01/064/24