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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

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