Haaretz reports that the UK’s largest union of university lecturers is once again pushing for a boycott of Israeli academics institutions and lecturers that don’t publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza:
The boycott motion, which was drafted by the southeast region of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), will be brought to a vote at its annual national conference, which will be held May 27-29. It comes about a year after the last boycott by British lecturers….
Unlike the previous boycott, which targeted two specific institutions, the current motion relates to all lecturers and academic institutions in Israel. Now that the University of Haifa has threatened the AUT with a lawsuit, the NATFHE motion is more cautious: instead of recommending the lecturers union boycott Israeli institutions, it calls on the union to suggest its members carry out the boycott.
It’s deja vu all over again.
