Boycotted Israeli embraced by fellows
A HEBREW University political scientist has expressed outrage at the effort to block his Australian fellowship by Sydney academic Jake Lynch. Associate Professor Jake Lynch’s refused to accept a proposed fellowship between Hebrew University and the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. To have accepted the proposed fellowship of Hebrew University academic Dan Avnon would have violated the CPACSs’ official commitment to the global campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law. This campaign includes a boycott of institutional links with Israeli universities.
Dan Avnon this week took up a Sir Zelman Cowen scholarship at Sydney University’s Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, after Professor Lynch, who heads the university’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, turned him down.