Dear Goldsmiths, University of London,

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

All papers and email correspondence between January 2008 - current date, that include: "Palestine", "Israel", "Palestinian", "Israeli", "antisemitic", "antisemitism", "anti-semitism", "anti-semitic", "BDS", "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions", "Apartheid" "Humanitarian Scholarship"

1) All papers and email correspondence to and from all members of the Senior Management team and their executive office, the chair of Council, the management team of Governance and Legal, the management team of Communications, the management team of Estates and Facilities, and the management team of the Student Experience Directorate.

and

2) All papers and email correspondence to and from the Israeli embassy and all members of the Senior Management Team and their executive office, the management team of Communications, the management team of Governance and Legal, and chair of Council.

Best,

Muna Khoury

Goldsmiths Information Access, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dear Muna Khoury,

We are writing to formally acknowledge your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on 22 August 2019. We will respond promptly but in any event by 20/09/2019.

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross,
London, SE14 6AF

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Great! Thank you.

I am waiting for your response.

Muna Khoury

Goldsmiths Information Access, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dear Muna Khoury,
 
I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request
received on 22 August 2019. You asked for:
 
All papers and email correspondence between January 2008 - current date,
that include: "Palestine", "Israel", "Palestinian", "Israeli",
"antisemitic", "antisemitism", "anti-semitism", "anti-semitic",  "BDS", 
"Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions",  "Apartheid"  "Humanitarian
Scholarship"
 
1) All papers and email correspondence to and from all members of the
Senior Management team and their executive office, the chair of Council,
the management team of Governance and Legal, the management team of
Communications, the management team of Estates and Facilities, and the
management team of the Student Experience Directorate.
 
and
 
2) All papers and email correspondence to and from the Israeli embassy and
all members of the Senior Management Team and their executive office, the
management team of Communications, the management team of Governance and
Legal, and chair of Council.
 
 
We have undertaken searches to locate the information requested. Our
searches of our systems for the period January 2008 to September 2019
using the keywords "Palestine", "Israel", "Palestinian", "Israeli",
"antisemitic", "antisemitism", "anti-semitism", "anti-semitic",  "BDS", 
"Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions",  "Apartheid"  "Humanitarian
Scholarship" indicate that they would return 1,588,136 emails or email
attachment items.
 
As our email search capabilities analyse all mailboxes held on our system
these emails or email attachment items will include those that relate
purely to academic or personal matters, therefore, we would need to
undertake further processing such as examining individual emails to
determine whether they contain University business correspondence.
 
Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) states that a
public authority is not obliged to comply with a request for information
if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request
would exceed the appropriate limit. As a non-central government
department, our appropriate limit is 18 hours to determine whether we hold
the information you requested, locate, retrieve and extract it.
Additionally:

* If a public authority starts to carry out some searches without an
initial estimate, it can stop searching as soon as it realises that it
would exceed the appropriate limit to fully comply with the request.
* A public authority is not obliged to search up to the appropriate
limit.
* If a public authority initially estimates that it could complete its
searches under the appropriate limit, but then finds that it cannot,
it can stop searching once it reaches that limit. This is because it
is not obliged to continue searching just because it originally
estimated that the searches could be completed within the appropriate
limit.

 
In this instance given the broad nature of your request we consider that
it is reasonable, sensible and realistic to estimate that locating,
retrieving and extracting the information you requested from in excess of
1.5 million records would exceed 18 hours and consequently we are not
obliged to comply with your request.
 
In order to be helpful to you we are providing this link to the advice
published by the Information Commissioner's Office which provides detailed
guidance on accessing information from a public body:
[1]https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/off...
 
 
I hope this information satisfies your Freedom of Information request.
However, if you are dissatisfied with this response, you may ask for it to
be reviewed by either contacting us by email: [2][email address] or by
writing to:
 
Data Protection Officer
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross,
London, SE14 6AF
 
Please describe the original request, explain your grounds for
dissatisfaction, and include an address for correspondence.
 
If you are still not satisfied following the internal review, you have a
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at
the following address.
 
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
[3]www.ico.gov.uk
 
 
Yours sincerely,
Information Governance
Goldsmiths, University of London
 
 
 
 

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