The academic boycotters may not have the last word

By Ted Belman

Yesterday the University and College Union decided by 158 votes to 99 to circulate a motion to all its branches to discuss calls from Palestinian trade unions for a “comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli academic institutions”.

Carol Gould of Current Viewpoints sent me this article by Leo McKinstry, an Irish gentile, which describes the soil in Britain that gives rise to such activity.

SHAME ON THE LEFT AND ITS VICIOUS HATRED OF ISRAEL

The Guardian Unlimited, of all places, weighs in with Academics express outrage at Israeli boycott by Debbie Andalo.

Carol Gould recently took on the BBC in Paddy Ashdown and Rod Liddle Demolish Israel

Happily there are still voices of sanity in the UK.

May 31, 2007 | Comments Off on The academic boycotters may not have the last word