27-05-2008 / Britain

Britain - British Union to vote again on controversial call for academic boycott of Israel

British Union to vote again on controversial call for academic boycott of Israel
British Union to vote again on controversial call for academic boycott of Israel
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will debate Wednesday a motion which calls again for an academic boycott of Israeli universities in the light of the "humanitarian catastrophe imposed on Gaza."
It also demands Jewish and Israeli academics that they explain their politics as a pre-condition to normal academic contact.
A similar motion passed at the union's annual conference last year provoked outrage from academics and politicians in Britain and overseas.
The motion, to be discussed at the union’s conference in Manchester, asks colleagues "to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions, and to discuss the occupation with individuals and institutions concerned, including Israeli colleagues with whom they are collaborating".  
The motion states that "criticism of Israel or Israeli policy is not, as such, anti-Semitic".
Source: http://www.ejpress.org/


< BACK