The Guardian reports that the UK’s Association of University Teachers voted on Friday to pass a resolution boycotting academic contact with Haifa University and Bar Ilan University:
The boycott, which is now official union policy, will follow a plan prescribed by a group of 60 Palestinian academic and cultural bodies and non-governmental organisations, which calls for British academics to severe links with Israeli institutions but to exempt Israelis who speak out against their government’s policies towards the Palestinians.
Douglas Davis has a fine rejoinder to this outrageous step.
Jpost coverage notes that the ‘blitz procedure was timed, on the eve of Pessah, to exclude Jewish members from the conference…There was no opportunity for those who had planned on opposing the motions, such as executive member Alistair Hunter, to address the conference. ‘
