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Let us revel this morning in our own righteousness, our self-evident immunity from reproach, our moral stain-repellence, our unerring instinct for the just, our irresistible compulsion to right wrongs and raise the downtrodden. Let’s, just for the moment, be British…

Dear Colleagues, We recently learned that the (British) Association of University Teachers, at its forthcoming council, is to debate a decision to boycott three Israeli universities for their alleged complicity with the Israeli government’s policies on the Palestinian territories. Such…

Ya Libnan Volunteer Noam Chomsky visited Hezbollah’s Headquarters and met with their Secretary General, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in the Southern suburb of Beirut. After the meeting he defended Hezbollah’s rights to hold onto their arms. Chomsky, a critic of US…

The question on the Palestinian street is no longer when civil war will break out, but when will it end. Armed clashes between Hamas and Fatah supporters have been taking place every day since the deployment of the new Hamas…

People who cherish the values of independence of thought, scientific research free of governmental intervention and academic freedom, and who are used to fighting governmental encroachment on such freedom find themselves in a strange situation nowadays. The current threat to…

May 17, 2006 President John Wilkin NATFHE 27 Britannia Street London WC1X 9JP Dear President Wilkin: It has come to our attention that the NATFHE intends to vote on the issue of boycotting academic personnel (professors and teachers) and institutions…

It is, even by Brussels standards, an odd decision. The EU is to resume its subventions to the Palestinian Authority (PA)-despite having recently passed a series of laws against financing terrorism, and despite the fact that Hamas, which runs the…