In an opinion piece published in Ynet under the headline "Academic boycotts won't fix what war has broken," Prof. Ariela Gordon-Shaag, President of Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, warns against academic boycotts targeting Israeli scientists. She argues that these boycotts harm precisely those with the least political power and the greatest potential to shape a shared future, while weakening global science at a time of urgent, borderless challenges.
Prof. Gordon-Shaag, a researcher of keratoconus and myopia, contends that fragmenting the international research ecosystem undermines our ability to address crises like climate change and chronic diseases that require the best minds from around the world working together. She calls on her international colleagues to continue scientific collaboration even while criticizing government policy, emphasizing that Israeli campuses are among the few spaces where Jewish and Arab citizens study and work side by side.
