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Promoting Academic Integrity and Honest Debate
PETITION:
VERNUNFT BEWAHREN!
By • The SPME Germany and SPME Austria Chapters.
Am 3. Mai 2010 präsentierte die neu gegründete jüdische,
israelkritische Organisation „European Jewish Call For Reason“,
kurz „JCall“ ihren Aufruf „Appell an die Vernunft“ im
Europaparlament. JCall ließ dieses Papier als Online-Petition in sechs
verschiedene Sprachen ins Netz stellen.....Wir veröffentlichen
die von Frau Dr. Lisl Strzelewicz ins Deutsche übertragene Gegenpetition
„Vernünftig bleiben!“ in der Hoffnung, dass sie dazu
beiträgt, die notwendige Debatte nicht auf Basis von Wunschdenken, sondern
auf Basis gesicherten Wissens zu führen. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6740
Declaration of SPME Germany and SPME Austria on the Expulsion of the Ariel University Center from the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6416
Why It Is Important to Support the SPME Statement on the Expulsion of the Ariel University Center from Solar Decathlon 2010 http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6415
SPME
Statement on the Expulsion of Ariel University from Solar Decathlon 2010 on
Political Grounds
Written by: By 246
December 23, 2009 To: the Presidency of the Council
of the European Union and to the organizers of the Solar Decathlon Competitions..
We, the undersigned faculty members, researchers, professionals, academics and students from around the world, denounce the decision of the Spanish government to expel the team of Ariel University Center in Israel from Solar Decathlon Europe 2010.
The Solar Decathlon challenges college teams from around the globe to design, build, and operate the most livable, energy-efficient, and completely solar-powered house. Solar Decathlon houses must meet all the home energy needs of a typical family using only the power of the sun. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends aesthetics and modern conveniences with maximum energy production and optimal efficiency. The first Solar Decathlon was held in 2002; it and those of 2005, 2007, and 2009 were held in the United States. Solar Decathlon 2010 will be the first to take place in Europe -- in Madrid next June.
Ariel University
is an academic institution located in the West Bank, between Nablus and Ramallah.
Ariel's student body includes both Jews and Arabs; the university provides them
with a strong education and prepares them to work and live together productively
and peacefully.
Last April, the Ariel team was selected as one of the 20 architecture teams
to participate in the competition as finalists.
Then several anti-Israel and allegedly pro-Palestinian groups (Architects for Justice in Palestine- APJP, PACBI, BDS Movement - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions for Palestine) pressured the Spanish Ministry of Housing into expelling the Ariel team. In September, the Ministry announced the expulsion, basing its decision not on the Ariel team's merits or lack thereof but solely and explicitly on spurious political grounds. A letter from SPME requesting that the Ministry reverse its disgraceful decision went unanswered.
Some of us are affiliated with institutions that are past solar decathlon finalists. We are therefore especially appalled by what the Spanish government has done. It is specially embarrassing, that the expulsion of an University from this international competition occurs on occasion of the first Solar Decathlon to be held in Europe.
Politically motivated government interference degrades science and scholarship. The Spanish government’s action has done more harm to Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 than to Ariel University Center, and may have set a precedent for the corruption of other academic competitions.
To read SPME’s letter of concern regarding the expulsion of Ariel University click here
Adopted December 24, 2009 by the SPME Board of Directors.
Nobel Laureate Endorsers To Date: Kenneth J. Arrow, Economic Science, Stanford University; Dudley R. Herschbach, Chemistry, Harvard University; Roald Hoffmann, Chemistry, Cornell University; Sir Richard Roberts, Physiology and Medicine, New England Biolabs; Steven Weinberg, Physics, University of Texas
• To Sign
this petition go to
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=20&Action=Sign
• To see current
signatures go to
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=20&Action=View
Promoting
Academic Integrity and Honest Debate
A Petition To Refute and Condemn the Anti-Israel Academic Boycott Campaign at
Norway's Trondheim University, October
31, 2009, please sign
here
SPME hat von einem Aufruf zum Boykott der Israel Medical Association und ihres Präsidenten Dr. Yoram Blachar erfahren. Die Israel Medical Association bittet, gegen diesen Bokott zu protestieren SPME bittet Sie daher die „Petition against anti-Israel activity and campaigns in the medical press“ zu unterstützen, http://www.petition.fm/petitions/ima
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SPME Statement on Discrimination Against Israeli Academics and Institutions lesen und unterzeichnen
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