The IAB reports that less than a month ago, the editors of the TSA/TBS translation study series in Great Britain publicized an offer for articles to be sent to them. Prof. Miriam Shlesinger, head of Bar Ilan's Translation and Translation Research Department, who herself had contributed an article to TSA/TBS in 2001, asked the organization if it would be willing to accept articles from Israeli academics. The answer: "From Israelis, yes - but not from Israeli institutions."
TSA/TBS, which belongs to the Manchester-based St. Jerome Publishing, states that it aims to be "unhampered by academic politics."
Its website says it is "committed to promoting high quality research and publication in all areas of translation studies and intercultural communication. ... [Its] first and foremost concern is to ... help create an environment in which the work of promising young scholars can reach the research community, unhampered by bureaucracy or academic politics."
However, it has been reported that one of its workers recently resigned on the backdrop of its policy not to sell books to Israeli institutions.
Academics in Ireland, and Others
Less than two months ago, 61 Irish academics from a wide variety of disciplines called publicly for a moratorium on EU support of Israeli academic institutions until Israel "abides by UN resolutions and ends the occupation of Palestinian territories."
Recently, the NATFHE union of British lecturers voted to boycott their Israeli colleagues who did not publicly declare their opposition to Israel's policies in Judea and Samaria. The ruling was nullified when NATFHE merged with another union to form the University and College Union. However, IAB assumes that the matter will be raised again next year.
This past August, acclaimed British director Ken Loach - the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival - declared his support for a recent call by Palestinian Authority film-makers and artists to boycott state-sponsored Israeli cultural institutions. Urging others to join the campaign, Loach announced that he would not take part in the Haifa Film Festival or "any other such occasions."
TSA/TBS, which belongs to the Manchester-based St. Jerome Publishing, states that it aims to be "unhampered by academic politics."
Its website says it is "committed to promoting high quality research and publication in all areas of translation studies and intercultural communication. ... [Its] first and foremost concern is to ... help create an environment in which the work of promising young scholars can reach the research community, unhampered by bureaucracy or academic politics."
However, it has been reported that one of its workers recently resigned on the backdrop of its policy not to sell books to Israeli institutions.
Academics in Ireland, and Others
Less than two months ago, 61 Irish academics from a wide variety of disciplines called publicly for a moratorium on EU support of Israeli academic institutions until Israel "abides by UN resolutions and ends the occupation of Palestinian territories."
Recently, the NATFHE union of British lecturers voted to boycott their Israeli colleagues who did not publicly declare their opposition to Israel's policies in Judea and Samaria. The ruling was nullified when NATFHE merged with another union to form the University and College Union. However, IAB assumes that the matter will be raised again next year.
This past August, acclaimed British director Ken Loach - the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival - declared his support for a recent call by Palestinian Authority film-makers and artists to boycott state-sponsored Israeli cultural institutions. Urging others to join the campaign, Loach announced that he would not take part in the Haifa Film Festival or "any other such occasions."