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NYU Department Creates ‘Pledge of Non-Cooperation’ With Its Tel Aviv Campus

(Algemeiner) A pledge of non-cooperation with New York University’s Tel Aviv campus was announced last week by the school’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

Faculty members and students who publicly spearheaded the move, all supporters of the Palestinian-led BDS campaign, said it was a response to Israel’s entry restrictions, including its recent prohibition on “members of groups that are critical of government policies.”

A 2017 amendment to Israel’s entry law barred access to foreigners who are identified as key proponents of the BDS campaign, among them leaders of National Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which both maintain chapters at NYU.

In a Friday statement, NYU’s leadership reiterated that the school “has not had a student denied entry to Israel to study at our Tel Aviv campus,” and said they “deplore this uncollegial and pointless effort to stigmatize the Tel Aviv program.”

In a statement announcing the resolution against NYU-Tel Aviv, its backers said they did not target NYU-Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates because “the UAE has no publicly articulated policy that bars entry to population groups to which NYU faculty and students belong.” The UAE does discriminate against Israeli passport holders, according to a travel advisory issued by NYU’s own administration.

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