"Lecturers threw their weight behind an effective boycott of Israeli universities..."

"Lecturers back boycott of Israeli universities"

by Joanna Sugden

TIMES OF LONDON

May 29, 2008

On the Web at:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4025716.ece

Lecturers threw their weight behind an effective boycott of Israeli universities and academics yesterday, in protest over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

In a move that campaigners have branded illegal, members of the University and College Union, UCU, said Israeli academics had “apparent complicity” in the “humanitarian catastrophe imposed on Gaza by Israel”.

The union, which represents over 120,000 academics, voted to “consider the moral and political implications of education links with Israeli institutions” by a clear majority in a show of hands at their annual conference in Manchester...

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