May 7, 2004

Israeli Official Boycotts University

By HAIM WATZMAN

Israel's minister of education, Limor Livnat, has announced that she will not participate in events at Ben Gurion University of the Negev until the institution disciplines a member of its faculty who wrote that Israel is conducting a "symbolic genocide" of the Palestinian people.

Lev Grinberg, a sociologist who is a senior lecturer in the behavioral-sciences department, wrote in March in La Libre Belgique, a Belgian daily newspaper, that "the murder of Sheik Ahmed Yassin is part of a

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