The Chronicle: British Union’s Leaders Call Off Debates Over Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities
The British faculty union that fanned international outrage earlier this year when delegates to its annual meeting voted to have the membership consider an academic boycott of Israeli universities sought to put an end to the controversy by announcing on Friday that it had received legal advice saying that such a move would be unlawful and could not be implemented.
The University and College Union, which has 120,000 members and is Britain’s main faculty union, did not publish the full text of the advice it had received but included excerpts in a statement posted online. “The legal advice makes it clear that making a call to boycott Israeli institutions would run a serious risk of infringing discrimination legislation,” the union’s statement said.
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