By Tamara Traubman, Barak Ravid and Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz
Correspondents, The Associated Press and Haaretz Service
A British academic union dropped controversial plans to boycott
Israeli universities Friday, after it decided that the proposed boycott
would be illegal and could not be implemented.
Britain's University and College Union (UCU) had been considering
whether to halt funding, visits, conferences and joint publishing with
Israeli institutions.
In May, the union voted to promote a boycott of Israeli academic
institutions, accusing Israeli scholars of "cooperating in the occupation"
of the Palestinian territories, which the motion said had denied education
to Palestinians............Continued
WHY ACADEMIC BOYCOTT - A reply to an Israeli comrade ... Last week, you published in Ha'aretz a moving letter defending the freedom of expression of a group of Israeli professors, including myself, who signed a European petition calling for a moratorium on European support to the Israeli academia. ... "The Coordinating Council of the Faculty Associations issued a public statement, which appeared in Ha'aretz on May 6, denouncing the call of scientists in Europe and North America to declare a boycott on the Israeli academia, following... ... In the present climate in Israel, it is comforting, and far from trivial, to hear voices still defending old fashioned ideas like freedom of speech. ... This is a call for economic sanctions on the Israeli academia in general, and not for full boycott of ties with individual Israeli academics.... (alt.religion.islam)
Boycott Israel ? ... today to begin an academic boycott of two Israeli universities, ... a document which was roundly lambasted by many Israeli academics.... families uprooted during the 1948 war.... (soc.culture.polish)
Zionazi Academics boycotted by British Universities ... Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics...Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate ... anger by anti-boycott campaigners last night, but Palestinian groups issued... (alt.politics.bush)
British journalists call for boycott of Israeli goods. ...British journalists call for boycott of Israeli goods ... London -- Britain's biggest journalists' union,... voted narrowly in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods.... (soc.culture.iranian)
British journalists call for boycott of Israeli goods ...British journalists call for boycott of Israeli goods ... London -- Britain's biggest journalists' union,... voted narrowly in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods.... (soc.culture.iranian)
