In favor of academic boycott

YNET - Ariel Rubinstein
Recognition of Ariel college as a university a purely political move

... An academic conference at Ariel was entitled “Studies of Judea and Samaria.” A typical scientific lecture: “Was the ark of the covenant present at the battle of Michmash?” Another lecture: “Post-partum depression and feelings toward motherhood in Samaria.” Can it be assumed that researchers at the academic center in Ariel have also studied depression among Palestinian women who miscarried at checkpoints? 

.....The recognition of the college as a university has nothing to do with its academic level... The planting of a “university” in Samaria is merely another component in the government of Israel’s bluff of a freeze policy.
The use of academia to drive the cogs of occupation demands an appropriate Zionist response. Ariel is a college designed to advance a catastrophic goal that could lead to the uprooting of the people of Israel – if not from its state and from its land, then from its soul. Boycotting the college is the necessary response.  Full story