Academics must take a leading role.. By Mona Baker Mona Baker is a Professor of Translation Studies at Manchester University The recent vote by NATFHE in support of a boycott of Israeli institutions is the latest in a series of…
read moreAn anti-Israel and anti-Semitic wave is consuming England. Several groups are waging an aggressive war against Israel, and the battle has reached new heights of late. A group of British university lecturers with 67,000 members recently decided to support the…
read moreMay 30, 2006FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the vote of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) in favor of a boycott of…
read moreMain Category: Public Health NewsArticle Date: 28 May 2006 – 14:00pm (PDT) The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general science society, today urged a British teachers association to withdraw a motion calling on its members…
read moreUCL President and Provost Malcolm Grant today expressed his concern at the vote by delegates at the National Association of Higher and Further Education (NATFHE) conference for a boycott of Israeli universities and academics unless they publicly dissociate themselves from…
read moreMay 30 — The governing council of the National Academy of Sciences opposes academic boycotts, firmly believing that scientists provide a voice for rationality and moderation in political affairs. A boycott of Israeli academics announced yesterday by Britain’s largest faculty…
read moreOn March 15, 2006, the network of powerful non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that includes Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , joined with recidivist human rights abusers such as Sudan and Libya to support the U.N.’s new Human Rights Council .…
read moreLet 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…
read moreDear 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…
read more27/05/2006 The ‘Protocols,’ 21st century style By Benjamin Neuberger Currently, another academic boycott of Israel is being organized in Britain. The boycott movement does not represent all British lecturers and intellectuals. The organizers are not a majority but clearly rather…
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