Talk about a coup for pro-Palestinian groups on campus.
An administrator at a Brazilian university agreed to fulfill a public-records requests by those groups to identify “Israeli students and lecturers in the graduate program,” according to a memo the administrator circulated “urgently” to his colleagues, Ynetnews reports:
The dean did not specify in the document the reason he requested the list, but specified that this was done in response to the request of several bodies, including the student union, the teachers’ union, and the Association of Solidarity with the Palestinian people of southern Brazil.
The school said the document is legit but claimed an inflammatory stamp on the widely circulated memo, reading “liberate Palestine – boycott Israel,” was “forged.” The dean is now being investigated by the attorney general with jurisdiction over the area for possible discrimination, Ynetnews said.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the memo an “ugly and racist initiative” that amounted to a “blacklisting” of Israeli faculty and students.
The administrator under fire told Inside Higher Ed that “the controversy is caused by the deliberate confusion between Israeli nationality and Jewishness,” and that a list of Israelis was never put together.
But he conceded the university should have forced the pro-Palestinian groups to sue for the information, so it was clear the school was acting lawfully.
Read the Ynetnews and Inside Higher Ed reports.
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