University Professors Clash over Israeli Scholar Who Was Lynched

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"It's not right to single out a person because of their nationality, maybe they're one of thousands who are protesting the Israeli government, without me knowing anything about it," says economist Gylfi Zoega, who had to cancel a lecture with Israeli economist Gil Epstein because of Palestinian protesters. The lecture was supposed to take place in the National Museum's conference room yesterday and would discuss artificial intelligence and...

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Gil Epstein, a professor of economics at Bar Ilan University in Israel, was scheduled to give a lecture on the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market and pensions on behalf of the Institute for Pension Research. He offered to give the lecture while he was in Iceland on private business. Epstein is one of the editors of the Journal of Population Economics and has given lectures widely. However, nothing happened because Epstein gave…