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David Hirsh replies to Steven Rose - Vote No to the Blacklist Jacqueline Rose, at a conference last September became exasperated by patient logical arguments against boycotting Israeli academics. In the end she fell back on the desperate exclamation, "We have to do something!" Never mind that a blacklist of Israeli academics will do nothing to help Palestinians or Palestinian universities. Never mind that a blacklist will do nothing to help unite all those who oppose the Israeli occupation in a campaign for a free and democratic Palestine. Never mind that the proposal to draw up a blacklist of Israeli...

So, in Britain, the boycott on Israeli universities imposed by the railroading tactics of malevolent executive members of the Association of University Teachers has been lifted, thanks to a democratic vote that needed to be taken in an extra ordinary session of AUT members. And so the anti-boycott campaigners can congratulate themselves that justice was, in the end, done and they can go home happy in their victory. And yet, the injustice remains. The boycott has been lifted but the vicious slander against the Israeli universitie, remains. It was strange indeed that no other universities in the world were...

The strangest thing about the concerted anti-Israeli terror assault that began in fall 2000 is that rather than leading Europeans to rethink their assumptions about Israel and the Palestinians, it touched off a bizarre orgy of Blaming the Victim that must be unique in history. The sight of babies being blown up in their strollers, teenagers being blown up while waiting in line at a disco, off-duty soldiers having their eyes gouged out and being dragged burning through a street by a mob, a pregnant mother and her four children being machine-gunned to death in a car—and so on and...

LONDON, April 23, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Protesting endorsement of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, Britain's main university teachers' union decided on Friday, April 22, to boycott two major Israeli universities. Association of University Teachers (AUT) General Secretary Sally Hunt, who announced the decision, urged all members to avoid all academic or cultural cooperation with the universities, reported Reuters. AUT council, meeting in Eastbourne England, voted to boycott Bar-Ilan because it runs courses at colleges inside Ariel Jewish settlement, built on the occupied West Bank. The body, the trade union and professional association for over 48,700 UK higher...