UNSW History Professor under pressure to reject Israeli award
BDS Australia Eminent international researchers are calling on an Australian historian to refuse a controversial Israeli award. In a highly unusual instance of global pressure, over 220 international and Australian academics have written an open letter to UNSW Laureate Professor of History, Alison Bashford, appealing to her to support the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions by rejecting the US$1million 2021 Dan David prize, which she is sharing with two other researchers. The academics’ letter says that accepting this year’s prize, which rewards Professor Bashford’...
Source: miragenews.com
