Israeli university chiefs on Thursday blasted a coalition law bill set to be discussed in the upcoming cabinet meeting that would outlaw waving the Palestinian national flag anywhere in Israel, alleging that if it passes, it would trigger a “wave of academic boycotts of Israeli institutions all around the world.”
The president of Tel Aviv University, Ariel Porat, went further in a separate statement, saying that if the passes, he will not enforce the law’s clause mandating the permanent expulsion of students who wave the Palestinian flag.
The bill, sponsored by MK Limor Son Har-Melech of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party and which passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset last week, would make it illegal to wave the flag of an entity that is hostile to Israel.