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UK professor yields to BDS, turns down prize from Israeli university

MAY 24, 2016 04:52

UK Prof. Catherine Hall was markedly absent from this year’s Dan David Prize ceremony at Tel Aviv University after declining to accept the award for political reasons. The BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement called on her and other recipients to refuse the prize due to “Tel Aviv University’s complicity in the occupation.”

On Sunday evening, the Dan David Foundation awarded the prestigious $3 million prize to eight winners for their contributions toward outstanding scientific, technological, cultural and social achievements.

Each year the foundation awards prizes that cover three time dimensions that represent realms of human achievement: past, present and future. This year’s categories were “Social History: New Directions” for the past; “Combating Poverty” for the present; and “Nanoscience” for the future.

The prizes of $1 million awarded to each time dimension are generally shared by two or more recipients.

Hall was set to receive a $300,000 award for the social history category for her work as a pioneer of gender history.

She was quoted earlier this month on the Facebook page of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine as explaining that she had withdrawn from the prize due to an “independent political choice, undertaken after many discussions with those who are deeply involved with the politics of Israel-Palestine, but with differing views as to how best to act.”

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