MESA Board Joint Letter with CAF to University of Utah
MESA expresses grave concern regarding the University of Utah’s signing on 19 May 2025 of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ariel University, located in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The University of Utah has become the first American academic institution to sign a major formal cooperation deal with Ariel University, the establishment of which constituted a violation of international law. This egregious agreement is also in violation of international law, and comes after months of intensified Israeli violence against and repression of Palestinian universities in the West Bank and its destruction of all the institutions of higher learning in Gaza.