{"id":40296,"date":"2014-03-03T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=40296"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:11:02","slug":"fighting-fund-for-academic-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/03\/fighting-fund-for-academic-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Fund for Academic Boycott of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jake Lynch<\/p><\/div>\n

February 2014 – <\/i>Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University\u2019s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) [and TMS advisor\/peace journalist]<\/strong>, has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia<\/a> in a legal action brought by Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Centre, alleging racial discrimination due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel.<\/p>\n

The claim is that Associate Professor Lynch is backing racist and discriminatory policies through their support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.\u00a0 These accusations are unfounded and intimidatory. They are intended to stifle free speech.<\/p>\n

The Federal Court Case against Associate Professor Jake Lynch has already cost Jake some tens of thousands of dollars \u2013 which he has had to raise for himself \u2013 and may cost more as court deliberations continue.<\/b><\/p>\n

This is a litigious case that threatens our right to democratic dissent in Australia.<\/p>\n

\"boycott<\/a><\/p>\n

We call on our supporters to MAKE A DONATION to support Associate Professor Jake Lynch\u2019s fight for our democratic rights.<\/b><\/p>\n

You can donate via PayPal<\/b> with your credit card or PayPal account.\u00a0 You do not need a PayPal account or to register with PayPal in order to make your contribution.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/i><\/p>\n

Thank you for your generosity!<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

PLEASE GO TO ORIGINAL TO MAKE YOUR DONATION \u2013 australiansforbds.com<\/a><\/p>\n

___________________________<\/p>\n

Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS<\/a>. Lynch is the co-author, with Annabel McGoldrick, of <\/em><\/i>Peace Journalism (Hawthorn Press, 2005), and his new book, <\/em>Debates in Peace Journalism, has just been published by Sydney University Press and TUP \u2013 TRANSCEND University Press<\/a>. He also co-authored with Johan Galtung and Annabel McGoldrick \u2018<\/em>Reporting Conflict-An Introduction to Peace Journalism.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/i> <\/b><\/span>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

DON’T BUY<\/b> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/b> BARCODE<\/b> STARTS WITH<\/b> 729<\/b>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 2014 – Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University\u2019s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [and TMS advisor\/peace journalist], has been taken to the Federal Court of Australia by the Israel Law Centre, due to his support of the Palestinian call for academic boycott of Israel. We call on our supporters to MAKE A DONATION to support Jake Lynch\u2019s fight for our democratic rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}