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Großbritannien: Akademischer Boykott stößt auf Widerstand
150 150 T. Holmer

http://www.israelnetz.com/themen/nachrichten/artikel-nachrichten/artikel/grossbritannien-akademischer-boykott-stoesst-auf-widerstand/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=10&cHash=e62620343a LONDON (inn) – Die Leitung der größten akademischen Gewerkschaft Großbritanniens hat für einen neuen Antrag auf Boykott israelischer Institutionen gestimmt. Doch bereits im vorigen Jahr hatten eigene Anwälte einen solchen Boykott für “gesetzeswidrig und nicht durchsetzbar” erklärt. Im Mai vergangenen Jahres war auf der jährlichen Konferenz der Gewerkschaft “University College Union” (UCU) bereits ein…

‘UK is European Center of Anti-Semitism’
150 150 Etgar Lefkovits

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632378756&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Britain has become the epicenter for anti-Semitic trends in Europe as traditional, age-old anti-Semitism in a country whose literature and cultural tradition were “drenched” in anti-Semitism has developed into a contemporary mix of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, an Israeli historian said Monday. The problem of anti-Semitism in Britain is exacerbated by a growing and increasingly…

Financial Woes Silence Anti-Boycott Body
150 150 Abe Selig

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632378765&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull As the spring conference season for British trade unions draws near, and with it the calls to boycott Israeli academia, funds for a non-government body that fights those calls have dried up. The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, an organization associated with Bar-Ilan University, has until now been at the forefront of the…

RACHEL’s LAW Unanimously Passed by NY Legislators
Assemblyman Rory I.Lancman, Sen. Dean G. Skelos

Assemblyman Rory I.Lancman Sen. Dean G. Skelos New York State Assembly, 25TH District New York State Senate,9 District Assemblyman Rory I.Lancman Sen. Dean G. Skelos Legislature Passes Libel Terrorism Protection Act To Protect American Journalists and Authors FromOverseas Defamation Lawsuits Albany, NY (March 31, 2008) – The New York State Legislature today unanimously passed the…