ADL Blasts Spain For Excluding West Bank Israeli University From Solar Competition

The Jerusalem Post reports that "one of the largest American Jewish advocacy organization blasted as unfair and unjustified the Spanish government's decision to exclude Israel's Ariel University Center of Samaria from the Solar Decathlon Europe. The exclusion of the West Bank academic institution could not be justified as a broader European policy or in the context of EU treatment of 'universities elsewhere in the world in areas [the EU deems] occupied,' according to a statement issued the New York-based Anti-Defamation League on Thursday." The Jerusalem Post further reports that according to the ADL "there is no policy of noncooperation with Israeli institutions in the West Bank, some of which have received funding from the 'EU Framework Programme for R&D.'" The American Jewish anti-discrimination group also listed other universities "in occupied areas that have received EU support." Tweet