UK: Academics express outrage at Israeli boycott

by E Wayne Ross on June 2, 2007

The Guardian: Academics express outrage at Israeli boycott

Academics and students today hit back at the decision by university lecturers to support calls for a boycott of Israeli institutions.

Yesterday the University and College Union decided by 158 votes to 99 to circulate a motion to all its branches to discuss calls from Palestinian trade unions for a “comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli academic institutions”. The motion is going to branches for “their information and discussion”.