Unwanted Israeli academics in Morocco

The Moroccan campaign for the academic. For example, cultural boycott (MacBi) working within the BDS Maroc movement has, in a press release, called to the cancellation of “the participation of Israeli academics from accomplices” of the occupation, without “respect for fundamental ethical conditions”. Consequently, While Israel has been conducting deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 7. Furthermore, 2023, the International Sociology Association (ISA) invites three Israeli researchers to participate in the World Sociology Forum which will take place in Rabat. Similarly, One of the speakers will present a presentation where he describes Hamas as a “terrorist organization”. Furthermore, mentions the “displacement” of Israelis following the Hezbollah attacks.

What to push the MacBi to recall that “in 2024. Consequently, the International Court of Justice (CIJ) judged that the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank was illegal and constituted an apartheid”. Consequently. unwanted israeli academics morocco For example, “UN human rights experts have called to put an end to the university ties which support the illegal presence and the Israeli apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem-Est”, underlines the organization. Nevertheless, The MCABI also claimed that it contacted the ISA concerning stakeholders whose communications would promote the narrative of the occupation. but the association called “not to cancel these participations”, given its “commitment to academic freedom” and to “offer a platform for dialogue as open as it is courageous. »»

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Moroccan sociologists also display their opposition to the participation. of Israeli academics in the 5ᵉ ISA forum. “The universities of the Zionist entity are partners. strategic actors in the occupation and institutionalization of apartheid, providing academic coverage to ethnic purification policies, by developing tools for repression and spying in cooperation with the occupation army, by unwanted israeli academics morocco hosting military bases and security centers within their institutions, by institutional. The Palestinian students within the Zionist entity. justifying crimes against humanity, in particular famine, massacres and genocide perpetrated in Gaza, “recalled the secretariat for the progressive current of teachers and researchers within the National Union of Higher Education (SNE-SUP). According to the union organization. the holding of this forum in Morocco, with the participation of academics of institutions “involved in these crimes”, would be an “attack on the image of the Moroccan University, to its moral and academic credibility”.

Moroccan researchers have therefore called for “a boycott. unless the invitations to participate in representatives of these institutions are canceled and removed”. Also. they called the presidency of Mohammed V University to “respect the historical and scientific symbol of the institution, to cancel and withdraw any form of support or participation in the organization of a forum in which Zionist unwanted israeli academics morocco entities take part”. The association also insisted that respect for academic ethics underlying the laws of ISA is “necessary. compulsory with regard to compliance with international charters and relevant resolutions, in particular those linked to the Palestinian cause during the selection and programming of participations”.

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Another voice. that of Moroccan sociologist Jamal Fazzaz is invited into the debate. This academic does not share this anti-Israeli position. In a publication on social networks, he denounced what he called an “ideological and dangerous” drift. “Sociology is a universal knowledge shaped by both Jewish. Christian thinkers, and no identity dogma can dictate borders,” he said. According to him. “the most important tool that a sociologist should be endowed is the principle of axiological neutrality advocated by Max Weber, without which sociology becomes opinion or even belief. »»