Protest at IISc over holding India-Israel Business Summit amid violence in Middle East

“We are witnessing a genocide successful Palestine, with women and children being killed, and yet our institutions are partnering with Israel for business. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has directed states not to prosecute with Israel connected these grounds, and it’s profoundly troubling that IISc continues to facilitate specified events,” Clifton Rozario, General Secretary, All India Lawyers for Justice, said successful a property briefing astatine the protestation astatine IISc.

“We indispensable inquire ourselves, are these institutions astir creating cognition for bid and equitable well-being, oregon are they promoting warfare and violence? Hosting specified summits aligns them with the genocide taking spot successful Palestine,” Prajval Shastri, an astrophysicist, said.

Earlier, astir 1,300 activists and academics had signed a petition criticising the engagement of the IISc, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore, National Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Karnataka Government successful the summit.

The India-Israel Business Summit astatine the IISc was organised by the Indian Chamber of International Business, Think India, and the Mysore Lancers Heritage Foundation.

The Mysore Lancers Heritage Foundation comprises the relatives of soldiers from the Mysore portion who fought alongside the British to liberate the larboard metropolis of Haifa successful Israel from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.