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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