Sanctioning of the Zionist regime by 300 Western universities
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Shahab news agency, the Zionist newspaper Yediot Aharonot published the statements of Daniel Chamowitz, the head of Ben Gurion University located in Be’er Sheba, and announced that since October 7, 2023, more than 300 cases of sanctions have been imposed. Israel’s educational system It has been done to European countries, America and Canada. Sanctions include refusing to participate in international conferences or canceling the publication of joint articles, as well as canceling the academic relations of members of universities and study centers with Israeli institutions, or even stopping aid and investments in companies that cooperate with Israel.
The attacks of the Zionist regime on Gaza and Lebanon in the last one year have severely affected higher education in this regime. So that about a quarter of students and professors have been called to the army. It is also expected that the budget of the university will decrease and the budget of the army will increase.
Decreasing foreign financial aid to Zionist universities is another consequence of these attacks for the occupied Jerusalem regime. Also, the international cooperation of the universities of the Zionist regime has been affected due to the sanctions. Earlier, Professor Daniel Chamowitz, the president of Ben-Gurion University, described the effects of the conflict in the past year as unimaginable and said: About 70,000 students out of 300,000 students of this university have been called to the army. While we continue to witness the resurgence of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionist protests and calls to boycott universities.
Immediately after October 7, 2023, Zionist students and professors joined the military reserve forces, and as a result, the start of the academic year was postponed to January of the same year. The postponement of university classes due to the call of professors to participate in the war caused universities to switch to virtual teaching.
Decreasing the number of international students in 9 public universities of the Zionist regime is another consequence of the war in the past year. Experts believe that the anti-Zionist atmosphere is felt in the academic world.
On the other hand, more than 2 thousand European universities and 45 other organizations asked the European Commission to end the agreement between the European Union and the Zionist regime in order to allow Tel Aviv to participate in The European Union research program worth 2.6 billion euros will be destroyed.
