Academic Boycotts
In early 2011, 145 Israeli academics announced they were boycotting the university to protest Israeli settlement expansion. They wrote in their petition, "Ariel is not part of the sovereign territory of Israel, and we therefore cannot be required to go there." This came after the Spanish Housing Ministry disqualified the university from taking part in an international architectural competition in 2009. The Spanish government explained that their decision to ban the university was a result of it being located in Israeli-occupied territories. The Anti-Defamation League asked the Spanish Government and the US Department of Energy to overturn the disqualification of Israeli researchers from an international solar energy competition in Madrid Abraham H. Foxman, ADL’s national director, called the move "unwarranted, biased and clearly discriminatory," and said it introduced politics "into an important scientific competition where politics has no place." The British Association of University Teachers (AUT) also boycotted Bar-Ilan University in April 2005 for its academic links with the college. The boycott was rescinded in May 2005.
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