Response to April 19 Letter Regarding Israel’s State Archives
Letter from Dr. Yaacov Lozowick, Archivist of the State of Israel, responding to the April 19, 2016, letter concerning procedures for digitization of Israel State Archives.
Letter from Dr. Yaacov Lozowick, Archivist of the State of Israel, responding to the April 19, 2016, letter concerning procedures for digitization of Israel State Archives.
Letter to Israeli authorities urging caution regarding procedures for digitization of the Israel State Archives and access to archival material. Both could result in violations of academic freedom.
Letter from CUNY Chancellor James Milliken responding to the concern voiced in the March 30 CAF letter regarding what could be construed as the cooperation of the administration of the City University of New York with a campaign of harassment and intimidation initiated by a politically motivated group based outside the university.
Letter to the Italian Minister of Education regarding recent decisions to deny university facilities or otherwise hamper the discussion on campus of the academic boycott of Israel.
Letter to the Chancellor and Trustees of CUNY regarding the university's investigation of alleged anti-Semitic incidents on campus.
Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the USG to reconsider its assistance to the Government of Egypt in light of the recent crackdown on Egyptian NGOs' working in the rights' domain.
Letter to Egyptian president protesting reopened prosecution of NGO researchers.
Letter to the President and Regents of the University of California protesting the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in the report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance.
Letter to PM Davutoglu (see previous letters of January 14, 2016 and February 22, 2016) concerning an escalation in government actions against Peace Petition signatories and their supporters including arrests, a deportation of a foreign academic and a declaration by the President that the Turkish Criminal Code will be amended to broaden the definition of terrorism to include academic activities.
Letter to Bahraini king protesting the denial of entry to Professor Abdulkhaleq Abdullah and the decision of Bahraini authorities to declare him persona non grata.
Letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and parliamentary leaders regarding the motion passed by Canada's parliament denouncing the BDS movement.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu (see previous letter of January 14, 2016) concerning the gravity and magnitude of the pattern of harassment, intimidation, prosecution and repression to which academics have been subjected as a consequence of signing the Peace Petition, followed by a comprehensive appendix detailing these violations of academic freedom.
e travel ban on graduate student Haydar Darıcı was lifted February 21, 2016.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu (see previous letter of January 5, 2015) concerning graduate student Haydar Darıcı, who is currently subject to a travel ban, preventing him to return to the US to continue his doctoral studies, and criminal indictment for his academic activities and writings, including twitter activity, with regard to the Kurds in Turkey.
Letter to Israeli authorities about army incursions, land confiscation, and seizures in Palestine Technical University University-Khadoorie in Tulkarm and Birzeit University in Ramallah.
Letter regarding increasing detentions and travel bans in Egypt.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding disciplinary proceedings against Assistant Professor Halil Ibrahim Yenigun who has been suspended by the university administration of Istanbul Commerce University for being a signatory of the Academics for Peace Petition.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the torture and murder in Cairo of Italian Ph.D. student Giulio Regeni, who was a visiting researcher at AUC.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Professor Emerita, Adjunct Professor and anthropologist Sibel Özbudun who is facing two separate prosecutions related to comments and photographs that she posted on her Facebook page.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu regarding Boğaziçi University Prof. Koray Çalışkan who is under criminal investigation for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan on Twitter.
Letter to Egyptian officials regarding the detention and interrogation of Tunisian Professor Amel Grami, invited to participate in an international conference.
Letter to the Emir of Qatar expressing concern over the continued imprisonment of poet Mohammed al-Ajami for reciting poems allegedly critical of Qatar's government.
Letter to PM Davutoğlu concerning Turkish Higher Education Council's condemnation of a peace petition signed by academics as "terrorist propaganda" triggering a series of disciplinary investigations at various universities, and initiation of criminal investigations, against signatory faculty members.