Gaza: Why researchers boycotted a conference at the Museum of Jewish Art and History
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Several researchers have canceled their participation in a conference on Jewish history in Paris at the Museum of Jewish Art and History, citing reasons related to the war in Gaza. MARTIN NODA / Hans Lucas via AFP
Five researchers are boycotting a conference on Jewish history in Paris at the Museum of Jewish Art and History. The reason for the protest is that an Israeli doctoral student's travel expenses were funded by a research institute in her country, which the academics view as political support for the Jewish state.
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I subscribeA center for sharing knowledge open to the world, the Museum of Jewish Art and History (Mahj) is not accustomed to controversy. But the Parisian institution has been caught up in a controversy emblematic of its time. Co-organizer of a conference on Jewish history in Paris, with the BNF-bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, the museum announced that five French researchers had decided to boycott it " on the pretext that a medieval history research program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (...) was funding the participation of an Israeli doctoral student ." " Some argued that their participation amounted to support for the Israeli government ," the museum added.
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