O no, Universities are definitely not “left”:
University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities.
Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union in Bournemouth voted by 158 to 99 for “a comprehensive and consistent boycott” of all Israeli academic institutions, as called for by Palestinian trade unions in response to Israel’s “40-year occupation” of Palestinian land.
The union’s leadership must now circulate calls from Palestinians for a boycott of Israeli universities to all branches throughout the country.
Disgusting, annoying, hypocritical little socialist anti-Semites.
More:
Tom Hickey, a Brighton University academic and union executive member, who led the move, said: “There will be adverse effects on individuals, but this is not targeting individuals or trying to break contacts with them.” The vote reflected “the deep concern people have”.
A boycott might involve refusing to work with journals published by Israeli companies or collaborate on research contracts with Israeli academics.
The deep concern people have? How about expressing concern over the fact that Palestinians voted for an organization, pardon me, party, whose charter says that Israel should be destroyed?
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