According to the source, the group urged in a communique a boycott by the academic institutions of the Levant nation.

In this sense, they asked the Latin American universities to suspend cooperation with their Israeli counterparts, pointing out that they are accomplices of Apartheid and the military occupation regime.

Among the signatories of the document are anthropologists Arturo Escobar (Colombia) and Ochy Curiel (Dominican Republic), Chilean historian Igor Alexis and Chilean artist Ingrid Wilde Merino.

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