GERMANY – Berlin University Suspends Pro-BDS Professor
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The Free University in Berlin has cancelled academic assignments for a pro-BDS professor who allegedly engaged in ''anti-Semitic'' activities.
In a tweet from the Free University sent to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, the university stated: “The professor will not receive teaching assignments at the Otto Suhr Institute until the accusations are clarified.
The Otto Suhr Institute (OSI) at the FU said it takes the accusations very seriously. The FU’s Twitter handle has 6,776 followers. The OSI, where the anti-Zionist academic Roldán Mendívil teaches at the FU, is a well-respected political science department.
Roldán Mendívil wrote on her blog titled “cosas que no se rompen” that it “only makes sense that different groups meet and BDS-affiliated or BDS activists fight against rep...