By Elbarakah Tarik
Morocco world news
Agadir, September 3, 2012
Students from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa say they are adopting an academic and cultural boycott of Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, AP reports.
A statement Monday says that the school?s student representative council is calling for an immediate investigation into any sort of academic, financial and cultural relations with Israeli institutions.
Witwatersrand University became the world?s first to impose an academic boycott on Israel after ending last year its relationship with Ben-Gurion University.
South Africa?s government angered Israel three months ago by issuing instructions that goods imported from Israeli West Bank settlements not be labeled ?product of Israel.?
Many South Africans associate the way Israel treats Palestinians with their former apartheid regime?s abuse of blacks which lasted from 1948 until the 1990?s.
Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/09/54204/students-at-south-african-university-boycott-israel/
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