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Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/15/INGPOCNKN91.DTL
Misguided Boycott of Israeli Universities
(San Francisco Chronicle) David Biale - The British boycott of two Israeli universities is self-defeating and even incoherent. Bar-Ilan University gives credit to students taking courses at the College of Judea and Samaria, which is located in the West Bank town of Ariel. The College of Judea and Samaria is hardly the "apartheid" institution alleged by the British; there are actually several hundred Israeli Arabs enrolled as students there - a reality more complex than the boycotters realize. So it is with Haifa University, which has a 20% Arab student body and the most Palestinian students of any Israeli university. The writer is Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at UC Davis.