Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East
The Academic Study Group (Charity No 801772) was an anti BDS charity registered 24 July 1989 and ceased to exist on 1 May 2020. The charity was resurrected on 28 August 2020 with a new charity number (1191067) and it is now called Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East.[1]
According to its website in 2001:
- The Academic Study Group was established in 1977 in order to forge closer links between political and social scientists in Britain, and their counterparts in the higher education sector in Israel. In its infancy A.S.G. concentrated almost exclusively on analysing developments in the newly-reborn State of Israel and conflicts raging in the Middle East. Latterly A.S.G. has radically revised and enlarged its terms of reference.
The ASG was closely associated and shared a website with the Friends of Israel Educational Foundation, a Charity (No. 1095303) and company (No. 04392462) incorporated on 12 Mar 2002 as a copmany, registered as a charity on 9 January 2003 and dissolved on 23 July 2019. [2]
Contents
Against BDS
In spring 2018 the charity added a statement that it was oppsed to the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign launched by Palestinian civil society in 2005. It stated:
- By definition as a Charity ASG presses no political line and eschews any form of propagandising. The only issue on which ASG has firm policy is opposition to BDS. The Charity is totally committed to the universality of knowledge and rejects any disruption to cross-national co-operation.[3]
People
Circa 2020
Executive
- President: Sir Walter Bodmer - University of Oxford
- Treasurer: Ms Aviva Petrie - UCL
- Director: John D A Levy
National Council
Prof Peter Abrahams University of Warwick Baroness Amos SOAS Prof Bob Allison Loughborough University Prof Michael Arthur University College London Sir David Bell University of Reading Prof Vernon Bogdanor Kings College, London Prof Paul Boyle University of Leicester Dame Glynis Breakwell University of Bath Prof Chris Brink University of Newcastle Sir Keith Burnett University of Sheffield Prof Ed Byrne Kings College, London Prof Dame Averil Cameron University of Oxford Mr Francis Campbell St Mary's University Prof Sir Philip Cohen University of Dundee Prof Sir Ivor Crewe University of Oxford Prof Raymond Dwek University of Oxford Prof Sir David Greenaway University of Nottingham
Baroness Greenfield University of Oxford Prof Sir Peter Gregson Cranfield University Lord Krebs University of Oxford Prof David S Latchman Birkbeck College Prof Sir Eli Lauterpacht University of Cambridge Sir Andrew Likierman London Business School Prof Trevor McMillan Keele University Prof Anton Muscatelli Glasgow University Rev Prof Peter Neil Bishop Grosseteste University Dr Wendy Piatt The Russell Group Prof Colin Riordan University of Cardiff Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell Manchester University Prof Marcus du Sautoy Oxford University Prof Sir Steve Smith University of Exeter Prof Sir Christopher Snowden Southampton University Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas University of Cambridge Prof Sir Richard Trainor Oxford University Prof Lord Winston Imperial College[4]
Circa 2017
Executive
- President: Sir Walter Bodmer - University of Oxford
- Treasurer: Ms Aviva Petrie - UCL
- Director: John D A Levy[5]
National Council
Prof Peter Abrahams University of Warwick Baroness Amos SOAS Prof Bob Allison Loughborough University Prof Michael Arthur University College London Sir David Bell University of Reading Prof Vernon Bogdanor Kings College, London Prof Paul Boyle University of Leicester Dame Glynis Breakwell University of Bath Prof Chris Brink University of Newcastle Sir Keith Burnett University of Sheffield Prof Ed Byrne Kings College, London Prof Dame Averil Cameron University of Oxford Mr Francis Campbell St Mary's University Prof Sir Philip Cohen University of Dundee Prof Sir Ivor Crewe University of Oxford Prof Raymond Dwek University of Oxford Prof Sir David Greenaway University of Nottingham
Baroness Greenfield University of Oxford Prof Sir Peter Gregson Cranfield University Lord Krebs University of Oxford Prof David S Latchman Birkbeck College Prof Sir Eli Lauterpacht University of Cambridge Sir Andrew Likierman London Business School Prof Trevor McMillan Keele University Prof Anton Muscatelli Glasgow University Rev Prof Peter Neil Bishop Grosseteste University Dr Wendy Piatt The Russell Group Prof Colin Riordan University of Cardiff Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell Manchester University Prof Marcus du Sautoy Oxford University Prof Sir Steve Smith University of Exeter Prof Sir Christopher Snowden Southampton University Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas University of Cambridge Prof Sir Richard Trainor Oxford University Prof Lord Winston Imperial College[5]
Circa 2010
Executive
Sir Walter Bodmer (President) | Aviva Petrie (Treasurer) | John D. A. Levy (Director)[6]
Members of the National Council
Prof Vernon Bogdanor, University of Oxford Prof R F Boucher, University of Sheffield Sir John Boyd, University of Cambridge Prof Glynis Breakwell, University of Bath Prof Sir Kenneth Calman, University of Durham Prof Dame Averil Cameron, University of Oxford Prof Sir Colin Campbell, University of Nottingham Prof Sir Philip Cohen, University of Dundee Prof Sir Graeme Davies, University of London Sir Howard Davies, London School of Economics Prof C R W Edwards, University of Newcastle Prof John Friend, University of Hull Prof Alan Gilbert, University of Manchester Prof Malcolm Grant, University College London Baroness Greenfield, The Royal Institution Prof Peter Gregson, Queen's University of Belfast Prof Sir Andrew Haines, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Gavin Henderson, Trinity College of Music Prof Stephen Hill, Royal Holloway College Prof Christine King, Staffordshire University Prof David S Latchman, Birkbeck College Prof Sir Eli Lauterpacht, University of Cambridge Prof Simon Lee, Leeds Metropolitan University Prof Peter Mathias, University of Cambridge Prof David Melville, University of Kent Prof Jerry Morris, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Prof Sir Howard Newby, University of the West of England Prof Daphne Osborne, Open University, Oxford Prof Sir Gareth Roberts, University of Oxford Prof Steve Smith, University of Exeter Prof Christopher Snowden, University of Surrey Sir Richard Sykes, Imperial College Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge Prof Richard Trainor, King’s College London Prof V D VandeLinde, University of Warwick Prof Paul Webley, School of Oriental & African Studies Prof Sir David Williams, University of Cambridge
Circa 2001
Executive
- Sir Walter Bodmer (President), Prof John Friend (Chair), Prof Graham Zellick (Vice-Chair), Aviva Petrie (Treasurer) John D. A. Levy (Director)[2]
Members of the National Council
Prof Sir John P Arbuthnott, University of Strathclyde; Dr John Ashworth, British Library; Prof George Bain, Queen’s University of Belfast; Prof Gerald Bernbaum, South Bank University; Prof R F Boucher, UMIST; Prof Sir Alec Broers, University of Cambridge; Sir Kenneth Calman, University of Durham; Prof Averil Cameron, University of Oxford; Prof Sir Colin Campbell, University of Nottingham; Prof Ron Cooke, University of York; Prof Ivor Crewe, University of Essex; Sir John Daniel, The Open University; Prof Sir Graeme Davies, University of Glasgow; Prof Patrick J Dowling, University of Surrey; Prof Sir Brian Follett, University of Warwick; Dr C E Gamble, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Prof Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics; Prof Susan Greenfield, The Royal Institution; Rt Hon Lord Jenkins, University of Oxford; Prof Christine King, Staffordshire University; Sir Eli Lauterpacht, University of Cambridge; Prof Simon Lee, Liverpool Hope University College; Prof Peter Mathias, University of Cambridge; Prof Jerry Morris, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Prof Sir Howard Newby, University of Southampton; Lord Oxburgh, Imperial College; Baroness Perry, University of Cambridge; Prof Ben Pimlott, Goldsmiths College; Prof Sir Gareth Roberts, University of Sheffield; Dr Harold Shukman, University of Oxford; Prof Chris Llewellyn Smith, U.C.L; Prof Sir David Smith, University of Oxford; Prof Sir Stewart R Sutherland, University of Edinburgh; Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge; Prof Leslie Wagner, Leeds Metropolitan University; Prof Sir David Williams, University of Cambridge [2]
Resources
- Charity Commission [] Retrieved from Archive.today of 2 May 2020 on 2 May 2020.
- Internet Archive holdings of foi-asg.org
Notes
- ↑ Register of Charities Governance. Accessed 16 March 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 ASG Background on the ASG. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 4 March 2001.
- ↑ The text was not there on 23 March but had been added by 25 April 2018: ASG ASG Home. Retrieved from the Internet ARchive of 25 April 2018.
- ↑ ASG National Council. Retrieved from the Internet ARchive of 4 May 2020 on 4 May 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 ASG ASG National Council. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 20 August 2017.
- ↑ ASG Background. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 24 May 2010 on 4 May 2020.
