A British university teachers union will propose a boycott of three Israeli universities they accuse of direct involvement in the Jewish State's occupation of Palestinian land.

AUT accuses Hebrew University in occupied East Jerusalem of trying to evict Palestinians from their homes to expand its campus.

Bar Ilan University is charged by the union with having links to the College of Judai and Samaria in the largest West Bank settlement of Ariel.

Settlements on occupied Palestinian land are illegal under international law.

AUT says it selected Haifa University for the boycott because of its attacks on historian Ilan Pappe, whose account of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war challenges the official Israeli version and argues that there is an organised campaign by Zionist forces to expel Palestinians.

In 2002, Pappe says, the university threatened him with dismissal for criticising the university's disqualification of a Master's student, who wrote a thesis on the massacre of 200 Palestinians in 1948.

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