Danish University Boycotts "Israel"

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After years of cooperation between Danish universities and "Israeli" universities, the Technical University of Denmark drop their project with Roskilde University located in "Israeli" settlements in the occupied West Bank.

It is not just Danish companies, but also Danish universities that have connections to illegal "Israeli" settlements in Palestine.
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) worked together with Ariel University, located in the settlement by the same name. According to DTU the collaboration dates back to the 1990s.

After DanWatch presented the information to the leadership of DTU, president of DTU Anders Bjarklev chose to stop the collaboration immediately:

"We have ended the cooperation immediately after we were made aware of it," he says: The money that was devoted to analyses in the laboratories of Ariel University has been suspended and will be paid back to the fund that supplied the finances."
According to DTU's president, it is problematic for DTU to be associated with illegal settlements:

"If you fund analyses in laboratories at Ariel university, it can be seen as supporting a settlement, something we will not," said Anders Bjarklev.
That decision is Foreign Minister Villy Sovndal satisfied with: "We do not want to Danish scientific institutions participating in activities that may help to maintain the illegal settlements. If there has been any doubt about our position on this matter, the case of DTU is a good opportunity to reiterate. And I am satisfied with DTU's decision," said Sovnda.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org