Middle East Online
Still to be addressed is the question of the accreditation, and upgrading to university-status, by the Israeli government of an educational institution in the illegal settlement of Ariel. This is one of the two cases that prompted the ill-advised AUT boycott. The settlement is itself illegal under the terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49, which states: "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies". Lifting the boycott was appropriate, but it is now equally appropriate to address settlement question and particularly the existence of a "university" that is by its location exclusionary and under internatial law illegal.
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