From 2007:

BAGHDAD, 14 March 2007 (IRIN) - Eight-year-old Ahlaam al-Hasnawi and her three brothers, aged between seven and 13, should be at school but their widowed mother recently demanded they stay at home for fear that they might be killed on the streets of Baghdad or in school.

“I love my school, my teachers and my fellow pupils. Even though my class was often empty, there was still much more to do there than stay at home where my mother forbids me from even going to our neighbour’s house,” Ahlaam said.

“I cannot just stay at home watching television but my mother told me last week that the situation in our neighbourhood was getting dangerous and she had to take me away from school until things improve. But I don’t believe that will happen soon,” she added, with tears in her eyes.

Last year, Ahlaam was one of 35 students in her class but today there are only 11 left. Some have fled the country with their parents, others are displaced and now live in improvised camps, and at least half of them stay at home for security reasons.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/70697/iraq-children-s-education-gravely-affected-by-conflict

David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University (located in the United States, the country responsible for depriving countless Iraqi children of an education - a situation that continues to this day)

are in the same boat too" article?

Impressive, indeed...

That is what is asked in the headline and addressed in the article.

I oppose an academic boycott for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the hypocrisy of doing so if one is working for an American university.

I certainly don't think an academic boycott of Israel will do anything to help the children of Gaza. Do you?

come from this I will support their earnest efforts...otherwise academic boycotts are not something
I would generally support.

The situation is near hopeless, I wish them success to enlighten people to change the balance
of power and achieve a viable state based on the framework of international law.

It is a disgrace how long this has continued.

That's pretty sad, isn't it?

How will an academic boycott aimed at Israeli Jews help the children of Gaza?

It won't.

....and launching pads for attacks against Israelis.

When Israel gave the university center in Ariel university status, a red line was crossed, and now all Israeli universities ought to be boycotted.

Nablus -- PNN - The school year started on Monday at Ariel University, where more than 11,500 Israelis study alongside 500 Arab and Druze students. The school is known mainly as the only Israeli university beyond the Green Line, in Palestinian territory. "I got a high score on the [high-level Israeli] psychometrics exam," said Manar Diwani, a 20-year-old computer science student, "and maybe I could've registered at Tel Aviv University or somewhere else, but the enrollment process at Ariel is faster. It's also the closest place for me to study, so I decided to go there."Diwani added that Arab-Israeli relations did not worry her, saying she distinguished between politics and academics and did not care where she studied. Similarly, Arab student Fadel 'Adem [found his name called] said he didn't come to Ariel for the ideology, but to learn.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Arab+and+Druze+Students+at+Ariel+University%3A+There+is+No+Racism.-a0239878091

Not a single of those Arabs are from the West Bank, they're all Israelis. Ariel is an apartheid university, and Israel crossed a red line when it chose to have an illegal university in occupied territory. If the university is removed from occupied land, there is no reason whatsoever to boyott Israeli universities.