Activists with Cornell Students
for Justice in Palestine call on Cornell University to end its
relationship with the Technion, an Israeli university that is involved
in the research and development of military and arms technology. Read and sign the open petition .
On Monday
December 19 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the joint bid
advanced by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology in the multi-billion-dollar competition to create a massive
applied sciences and technology campus on Roosevelt Island had won.
While this initiative is sure to benefit Cornell University and the City
of New York in many ways, the partnership with Technion means that
these benefits will come at the expense of Palestinians living under
Israeli occupation and, thus, also of the moral standing of the
University and the City. Read more here.
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