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- ↑ "MESAAS".
- 1 2 3 New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel, By Bari Weiss, New York Sun, September 12, 2008
- ↑ 'Cambridge Tripos', The Guardian, 30 June 1977, p. 11.
- 1 2 http://www.nd.edu/~econrep/bios/mitchell.html Archived 2005-01-03 at the Wayback Machine Untitled Document
- ↑ 9/11 Resources—Timothy Mitchell
- ↑ Boycott Israeli Academic and Research Institutions: Open Letter
- ↑ Boycotting Israel at NYU? - Campus Watch
- ↑ La démocratie en Iran, pas la guerre
- ↑ Akbar Ganji's open letter on Iran at The Arabist Archived 2012-07-01 at archive.today
- ↑ Faculty Appeal
- ↑ "Free Kian » Sign the Petition!". Archived from the original on 2007-06-02. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ↑ http://www.mahmag.org/english.php/?itemid=323%5B%5D
- ↑ "An Open Letter to President Khatami".
