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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.
Under AUT regulations, the decision can be reopened to discussion if 25
members of the AUT council submit a formal request for such a move. Lecturers
opposed to the boycott have recently col-lected more than the required
number of signatures.
The AUT's decision to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities aroused
fierce opposition, both in Israel and in England. Opponents of the boycott
within the AUT charged that they were not given a chance to speak during
the initial discussion on the matter and that the decision was taken without
re-questing a response from the universities.
Doubts have also been raised with regard to the legality of the decision.
In addition, the past few days have seen widespread actions against the
boycott, including sev-eral lecturers' resigning from the AUT in protest.
The AUT's council is likely to convene again this month to review the
issue, said Dr. John Pike, a lecturer at Britain's Open University, who
is among those organizing the call for a special meet-ing to rediscuss
the matter. Pike, together with other lecturers who have participated
in collecting the required number of signatures, says that this time they
will be coming to the discussion well prepared, and are "confident
that the campaign for a boycott of Israeli thinkers, writers, teachers,
musicians and artists will be permanently defeated."
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Against
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The
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The Academic Friends of Israel
is leading the campaign against the AUT boycott of Bar Ilan and Haifa
Universities.
From
Britain, with bigotry
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz
April 27, 2005
The
British Association of University Teachers has now created a blacklist
against Jewish Israeli academics -- really a blue and white list -- reminiscent
of the worst abuses of McCarthyism.
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.
Rescind
the
AUT Boycott
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the petition...
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Britain, with bigotry
Jews
against Israel