Israel partnership cancelled – University of Geneva distances itself from Israel – single-handedly

by BezugssystemCH1903

16 comments

  1. Good, this was long overdue. It seems that slowly people start to understand that being strongly against what Israel is doing is not antisemitism.

  4. I don‘t see why this should be applauded or should be seen as an act of defiance against Israels inhumane approach in eliminating terrorist groups. Why should people in education and scientific research take the penalty for their countries faults, especially in regards to their incompetent politicians and military leaders? Also this is definitely not a one-sided story but a complex, nearly a cenrury old conflict with no clear good-bad side.

  5. As a lebanese born swiss who seeks to study in unige, this is wonderful.

  6. Wow.. didnt know UNIGE had it in them. Bravo to the students and faculty who fought for this!

    EDIT: title is optimistic and misleading. They claim it wasn’t a political decision and they cut ties with several other institutes. Private research collaboration between scientists are unaffected. So .. read I guess.

  12. This is dumb, Switzerland needs to be neutral and not take sides.

  13. A shame they caved to terrorist sympathisers, but not surprising considering the recent Muslim Brotherhood headlines about Geneva

  15. When I’ve been to Zurich, I went to Swiss National museum. They had a whole floor dedicated to Swiss history of silent complicity to one Austrian painter’s crimes. Guess, it’s just return to good old European traditions.

  16. Reading of comments is quite disturbing. We’ve all seen the reporting, we listened to all what has been said. We, the people who have no relations or contacts to these places, neither of religions or cultures, simply can’t understand what’s the end game there.

    Is Israel and, probably, the majority of Jews, US, really ready to live with themselves knowing so many people have died? I feel sick, heavy, meaningless when going through such places with a distance of 110 years, 80 years, 30 years. Generations are plagued with reckoning with massacres. Please tell, what’s your future? 

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