BRICUP’S protest to the Science Museum about Israel Science Day, 16.02.09
With amazing and insensitive bad taste the Science Museum in London
(and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry) are allowing their
premises to be used for an ‘Israel Day of Science’ sponsored
by the Zionist Federation. The research of seven Israeli universities
is to be showcased. The planned dates are March 3 (Manchester) and March
5 (London).
Event details
This cannot be allowed to happen. These universities are without exception
complicit in the mechanisms and policies of the Israeli occupation,
and in developing the military technology used in the massacre in Gaza.
Protests are rolling in from scientists and non-scientists alike
BRICUP has drafted a statement to be sent to the Chair of the Board
of Trustees of the London Science Museum Lord Waldegrave.
Unless you tell us to the contrary we will take it that you equally
oppose the Israel Science Day in Manchester, and are willing to support
an equivalent statement to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
The leaflet distributed outside
the Science Museums
The deadline for signing up is 21 February 21. BRICUP will then send
the statement in to the Science Museum with a list of signatories and
maximum publicity.
- Letter
published in the Guardian 16 February – but more signatures still
needed. - Jonathan
Rosenhead responds to critics of the museum protest - British
academics urge cancellation of Israel Day of Science – PressTV - Science
Museum accused over links to Israel – The Independent, London,
3 March, Front page lead - Academics
blast Science Museum’s Israel Day – Evening Standard 3 March - Science
Museum attacked over Israel link – The Statesman, India, 3 March - Protests at
Israeli science event – BBC News online , 3 March - Science
Museum Trade Union branch (PCS) supports the BRICUP action