Should US Universities copy the initiative of British academics and start to boycott Israel?
The UCU proposal is part of a growing wave of British initiatives to boycott Israel. These include decisions for an academic boycott approved by the AUT and NATFHE - the two lecturers’ unions that later merged to form the 120,000-strong UCU - in 2005 and 2006, respectively; last month’s decision by Britain’s National Union of Journalists to boycott Israeli products; the Anglican Church’s decision to divest from companies doing business with the Israel Defense Forces; a demand for Israel’s expulsion from the World Medical Association by 130 British doctors; and boycott calls by leading British architects.
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are you going to boycott the Arabs since they blew up your buses too?
Nope…
Boycotts have no real effect except to make those boycotting feel good about themselves.
Sure, and we can also yank off their yamaka’s and give them all noogies. You are asking the wrong question in the wrong country. England is over the top with this foolish behavior. Expell Israel from the World Medical Association! Insane. England has enough of her own problems to deal with. Let Israel take care of her own problems as she deems appropriate..