Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions

This means that:

• EASA commits itself to not collaborate with Israeli academic institutions until Israel complies with International Law and International Humanitarian Law and ends the occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
• the EASA Executive Committee will work in consultation with the Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom to give effect to the spirit and intent of this motion, in a manner consistent with EASA’s bylaws as well as the relevant national laws of its members.
• EASA encourages its members not to enter into institutional arrangements, e.g. through common research projects and grants, and partnerships with Israeli academic institutions.

In light of the mission and basic values of the Association, the Executive Committee commits to and strongly recommends all EASA bodies to take the following course of action from July 2025 onward with the publication of these implementation guidelines

• To not list Israeli academic institutions in EASA’s published materials. In that regard, the Executive Committee of the EASA will ensure that all publications, conference programs, and directories do not list Israeli academic institutions;
• To not advertise Israeli academic institutions in EASA publications, websites, and other communications channels. Hereby, the Executive committee will instruct NomadIT to not list Israeli academic institutions in the conference submission portal, in the EASA members directory, and to block institutional advertising submissions and institutional job postings;
• To not allow the participation of Israeli academic institutions in joint conferences or events with EASA and its networks;
• To not republish and reprint articles from EASA publications in journals and publications owned by Israeli academic institutions. In that regard, the Executive Committee will update publication agreements with Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale as well as with the EASA book series to provide clear guidelines for handling acknowledgments of institutional funding and institutional republication rights.

In line with the motion, we strongly recommend EASA members to take the following course of actions:

• Do not attend academic events sponsored by Israeli academic institutions, including conferences, symposia, workshops, exhibitions, and other activities;
• Refuse academic positions, membership, enrollment in educational programs, and research and teaching jobs and honorary positions at Israeli academic institutions;
• Decline funding, honors, prizes, and awards conferred by Israeli academic institutions;
• Do not publish, serve on the editorial board, or act as a reviewer for Israeli publications and research funding agencies;
• Do not collaborate with or invite academic projects, events, and activities that receive funding from Israeli academic institutions or through the Israeli government;
• Refuse service work for Israeli academic institutions such as sitting on PhD committees, writing letters for admission, hiring, promotion, or tenure or acting as external examiners for dissertations and theses. Individual scholars who wish to write such letters for students or colleagues are advised not to address those letters to Israeli institutions (so as not to legitimise them) and instead to use a dossier service;
• Consider extending the severing of ties to non­-Israeli academic institutions and events that are explicitly collaborating with Israeli academic institutions;
• Declare publicly, if possible, any refusal to participate in an activity due to the motion along with the reasons for declining cooperation. We recognise that people who are at risk of retribution may not be able to publicly declare their support for the motion, especially if they fear being denied entry into Palestine/Israel and need to travel there for work, family, or other reasons. Likewise, we understand that students and those in precarious employment situations may need to carefully weigh the consequences of public declarations.

EASA’s severing of ties with Israeli academic institutions does not per se prevent :

• Individuals affiliated with Israeli academic institutions from registering for and attending EASA conferences;
• Individuals affiliated with Israeli academic institutions from serving as journal editors or Network convenors/EASA elected officials;
• Individuals affiliated with Israeli academic institutions from publishing in EASA journal and book series;
• Israeli university libraries from subscribing to EASA journal;
• Offering informal mentoring or advising of scholars at Israeli institutions or writing reference letters for jobs or fellowships for Israeli scholars at non-­Israeli institutions;
• Conducting research in Israel/Palestine in itself is not covered by the motion. The severing of ties does not apply to research carried out at Israeli facilities such as archives as long as no official affiliation with those facilities (e.g. in the form of a visiting position) is necessary.