Israeli diplomat pressured US college to drop course on ‘apartheid’ debate
by Chris McGreal in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6G73K)
Consul Yuval Donio-Gideon objected to course at Bard College but president says institution stood up for academic freedom'
An Israeli diplomat tried to persuade a leading New York college to cancel a course about the growing debate over whether the Jewish state practices a form of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli consul for public diplomacy in New York, Yuval Donio-Gideon, took the highly unusual step of contacting Bard College earlier this year to object to the course, Apartheid in Israel-Palestine, on the grounds that it breached the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
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