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...foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses. This year, the Congress of the University and College Union—the British lecturers’ union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics for what it regards as their complicity in 40 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. This boycott has its counterpart in a decades-old U.S. practice of threatening, defaming, or censoring scholars who dare to criticize Israel...
...South African rugby has another promise to keep, and victory alone won't do it. The Springboks were once among the most powerful symbols of the nation's apartheid regime and a prime target of the international sports boycott aimed at ending white rule. Then, in 1995, one year after Nelson Mandela's election as President inaugurated democratic majority rule, South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup - and won. As tens of thousands of fans - almost all of them white - erupted in the stands, Mandela donned a Springbok jersey and went onto the field to hug the team's captain...
...University President Drew G. Faust did not have to wait long to address a potentially fiery public relations issue. On her second day in Massachusetts Hall, Faust wrote to the president of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents British academics, to denounce the organization’s boycott of Israeli academics and universities...
...first major public statement, Faust hit a home run with her vigorous support of academic freedom and discourse. We agree that the boycott would adversely affect the world of academia and the freedoms of speech and study academics need to produce their best work. As Faust wrote, “academics should be promoting, not undermining, the fullest possible collaboration with Israeli universities as well as other universities in the Middle East and elsewhere...
After Cornucopia issued its report card, the Organic Consumers Association e-mailed some 380,000 organic food devotees calling for a boycott of Horizon milk. Dozens of food co-ops pulled the milk from their shelves. Horizon responded with ads in publications popular with organic-food advocates, like the Utne Reader, showing cows grazing in lush fields. Scalzo says, however, the boycott barely affected his company's sales, and that activists like Kastel cast doubt on the entire organic-food movement. "This is eroding consumer confidence in the business, this industry and the family farms he's a self-proclaimed...