Israeli professor seeks 'internal boycott' of settlement college

ERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli professor urged fellow academics on Monday to shun a Jewish settlement college in the occupied West Bank, a move that could effectively import an international pro-Palestinian boycott movement.

Uri Ram, president of the Israeli Sociological Society, told local broadcaster Army Radio that the group "will not cooperate with the institution called Ariel University, which is not within the state of Israel's boundaries".

He was referring to an institute of higher learning in Ariel settlement on which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet conferred university status in a 2012 move that critics condemned as entrenching Israel's hold on land Palestinians want for a state.

The boycott initiative by Ram, a sociology professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel, is not immediate. It requires approval by the Israeli Sociological Society's board, which is due to convene next month, he said.

The society had in 2011 passed a motion against conducting academic activity at Ariel University which Ram now intended to implement, he said in a statement to Reuters.

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Built on land stolen from the Palestine people.   Good on him.