By Elbarakah Tarik
Morocco world news
Agadir, September 3, 2012
Students from the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa say they are adopting an
academic and cultural boycott of Israel in solidarity with the
Palestinian people, AP reports.
A statement Monday says that the
school’s student representative council is calling for an immediate
investigation into any sort of academic, financial and cultural
relations with Israeli institutions.
Witwatersrand University became the
world’s first to impose an academic boycott on Israel after ending last
year its relationship with Ben-Gurion University.
South Africa’s government angered Israel
three months ago by issuing instructions that goods imported from
Israeli West Bank settlements not be labeled “product of Israel.”
Many South Africans associate the way
Israel treats Palestinians with their former apartheid regime’s abuse of
blacks which lasted from 1948 until the 1990’s.
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