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Know the Professor: Yinon Cohen
- Signed an open letter calling on the German government to reject a resolution equating BDS with anti-Semitism. The letter also urged Germany to continue funding organizations, including pro-BDS NGOs, that “peacefully challenge the Israeli occupation” and “expose severe violations of international law.” [1]
- Co-authored an article with pro-BDS Israeli professor Neve Gordon in the academic journal Public Culture accusing Israel of being a “colonial project” replete with ” land-grabbing,” “dispossession,” and the “Judaization of Palestinian land.”[2]
- Co-authored another article with pro-BDS Israeli professor Neve Gordon in The Guardian calling on then US president Barak Obama to pressure Israel.[3]
- Gave a talk in New York’s Bard College on the “strategies Israel has deployed to dispossess Palestinian land and settle Jews… thereby enhancing Israel’s colonial project in the West Bank.”[4]
- Signed a petition in “support and appreciation” of students and lecturers who illegally refused to carry out their IDF service in Judea & Samaria.”[5]
[1] https://bdsmovement.net/news/240-jewish-and-israeli-scholars-german-government-boycotts-are-legitimate-and-non-violent-tool
[2] https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-abstract/30/2/199/133931/Israel-s-Biospatial-Politics-Territory-Demography
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/04/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast1
[4] http://www.bard.edu/news/events/event/index.php?eid=136670
[5] http://israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=3105&page_data%5Bid%5D=3841&cookie_lang=he&the_session_id=85626acf2f490e8ccab62531182e40b3&BLUEWEBSESSIONSID=59bb72759c315d82295dcd97e791afb4
lecturers » Yinon Cohen
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