[NZerFromHK]

This is right, but let me be the devil's advocate here: one crucial difference is that American pro-Palestinian academics (which basically means almost all of US academics in humanities etc) at least still invite Israel's Chomsky clones to conferences that they organize, while they would be treated as personae non grata among members of the British National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, notwithstanding these Israeli academics are just as self-loathing anti-Israel as they themselves.

[MadIvan]

I really don't see much of a difference - American academics loathe Israel just as much as the British academics do. The "gesture" that the British academics made should not be the sole criteria upon which this gentleman judges matters. I'm perfectly willing to accept that academics in Britain are left wing kooks, I'm saying that it's not just the UK, there are left wing, pro-Palestinian kooks in almost every Western university.

I do also wonder about what this fellow feels about the Sorbonne. Whatever British academics have said, that's nothing compared to the vitriolic hatred they'd get from French academia.

Regards, Ivan