Word: boycotts
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...Tuesday, one of Britain's largest unions of university instructors passed a resolution urging its members to boycott speeches by Israeli academics who do not condemn "continuing Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practice...
...statement issued Thursday, Summers said that "there is much that should be, indeed that must be, debated regarding Israeli policy…But the academic boycott resolution passed by the British professors union in the way that it singles out Israel is in my judgment anti-Semitic in both effect and in intent...
...boycott controversy began in March 2005 when Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) passed an advisory resolution urging its 48,000 members to boycott Israel's University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University. AUT targeted the two institutions because Haifa had allegedly disciplined a lecturer after he defended a student who criticized Israel, and because Bar-Ilan held courses in the West Bank, an area designated by the United Nations as “occupied territory...
...backtracked, citing strong internal and external opposition and reversing the previous call for a boycott. But another union, the 67,000-strong National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) renewed the controversy this Tuesday when it urged its members to boycott Israeli academics who do not distance themselves from their government. Complicating the matter is the fact that the AUT and the NATFHE merged on Thursday...
...council overwhelmingly rejected an earlier decision to boycott two Israeli universities," AUT said in a statement this week. "[F]reedom of expression, open debate and unhampered dialogue are prerequisites of academic freedom...