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The
moral high ground or just plain racism, anti-Semitism and self-hating
Jews against Israel?
The
AUT academic Boycott of Israel
 On
Friday 23rd April 2005, the eve of the Jewish Passover, delegates
of the 40,000-member United Kingdom Association of University Teachers,
meeting in Eastbourne England, voted Friday to boycott Haifa University
and Bar Ilan University.
Although
the executive opposed the move, delegates belonging to the leading union
of British lecturers voted for an immediate boycott of Haifa University,
which they claim restricts the academic freedom of staff members who criticize
the government. Bar Ilan University will also be boycotted, as it has
a branch in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.[source Ha'aretz]
British
lecturers to reopen debate on Israeli boycott
by Tamara Traubman, Haaretz
Some 10 days after Britain's Association of University Teachers (AUT)
decided to impose an academic boycott on Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities,
lecturers in Britain who are opposed to the move have man-aged to collect
the required number of signatures for reopening the decision to a debate.
The
anti-Israel protagonists...
Sue
Blackwell (Home
Page)
Sue Blackwell is a member of the Association of University Teachers (AUT)
Council and is currently press officer for Birmingham AUT.
see also...SUE BLACKWELL'S
PAGES ON PALESTINE AND ISRAEL.
Shereen
Benjamin (profile)
Jewish Academic, Lecturer, University of Birmingham, and member of
Jews for a Just Peace UK.see also: European
Jews for a Just Peace
Mona
Baker
(Home Page)
Professor at the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology
(UMIST), [dismissed Professor Miriam Schlesinger (Bar-Ilan
University) from The Translator and Professor Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv University)
from Translation Studies Abstracts because they were Israelis.]
see also... The
Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions and
In Defense of the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions.
Uri
Avnery
Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace Bloc)
"You
brought the boycott upon yourselves."
Hilary
Rose,
Jewish, Professor Emerita of Social Policy, University of Bradford,
"Building the
Academic Boycott in Britain"
Steven
Rose, Jewish,
Professor, Open University, UK, started The boycott call.
"The
boycott is ... above all a way of increasing pressure on Israeli society
and state, to increase their isolation ... Of
course boycotts alone cannot achieve this but they are part of a much
wider spectrum of activity..."
The
New anti-Semitism
"The
second great mutation of anti- Semitism in modern times"
 “What
we are witnessing today is the second great mutation of anti-Semitism
in modern times, from racial anti-Semitism to religious anti-Zionism with
the added premise that all Jews are Zionists. It uses all the medieval
myths… The mutation is this; that the worst crimes of anti-Semites
in the past-racism, ethnic cleansing, attempted genocide, crimes against
humanity-are now attributed to the Jews and the state of Israel”
- The Chief Rabbi of the United
Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks
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In
Support of Israeli Universities and Academics |
The
Academic Friends of Israel
The Academic Friends of Israel
is leading the campaign against the AUT boycott of Bar Ilan and Haifa
Universities.
Britain's
National Postgraduate Committee (NPC),
which represents all master's degree and doctoral students there, has
voted unanimously to oppose the renewal of the academic boycott of Israel
proposed by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT).
Ed
Morgan professor
of law at the University of Toronto - April 27, 2005 ...It seems that
while British physicians still take the Hippocratic oath, doctors in other
fields are taking a hypocritical one.
Letter
to AUT by Denis MacEoin
I
am a former AUT member who previously taught Arabic and Islamic Studies
at Newcastle, was for many years an honorary fellow in the Centre for
Middle East and Islamic Studies at Durham, and who becomes the Royal Literary
Fund Fellow at Newcastle this September.
Is
Israel an ‘Apartheid State’?
by Denis MacEoin
Last
week the UK’s Association of University Teachers, a body to which
I was once proud to belong, did a very strange and unacademic thing. By
a slim vote of 96 to 92, with opposed voices still to be heard, they passed
a resolution to boycott two (possibly three) Israeli universities.
Against
the academic boycott of Israel.
by Ron Evans
Professor of Mathematics University of California,
Author and peace activist Amos Oz observed [1] that Palestinians are simultaneously engaged
in two wars: a just war against occupation, and an unjust war aimed at
destroying Israel. Willful blindness towards the second war is a hallmark
of anti-Israel prejudice, and is a common denominator in petitions for
academic boycott of Israel. We focus here on one example.
Rescind
the
AUT Boycott
Sign
the petition...
Video
Tikun Olam
Israel Making the World a Better Place
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From
Britain, with bigotry
Jews
against Israel