Comments on: The British academic boycotts: The model is not South Africa http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kav http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368/comment-page-1#comment-9540 Kav Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:38:52 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368#comment-9540 The Natfhe boycott was wrong and wrong-headed as I have expressed before. It was disgusting and demoralising that it actually passed (by 107 to 61) and the fact that it is 'advisory' and not 'mandatory' does nothing to lessen the stink. To its credit the AUT has opposed the boycott, perhaps having learned from its own mistakes in trying to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities.. The boycott of last April was revoked a little more than a month later (over a month too long). Now that the UCU has been formed from the AUT and Hatfhe merging the boycott is in limbo. In fact the UCU has not adopted the boycott even though certain members of Natfhe have suggested that they must. That doesn't mean that UK academics can forget about it. If this is not fought against then a fresh attempt to boycott will be intoduced next year at the conference and then a clear message must be sent to the union representatives that a boycott is not acceptable. The Natfhe boycott was wrong and wrong-headed as I have expressed before. It was disgusting and demoralising that it actually passed (by 107 to 61) and the fact that it is ‘advisory’ and not ‘mandatory’ does nothing to lessen the stink.

To its credit the AUT has opposed the boycott, perhaps having learned from its own mistakes in trying to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities.. The boycott of last April was revoked a little more than a month later (over a month too long).

Now that the UCU has been formed from the AUT and Hatfhe merging the boycott is in limbo. In fact the UCU has not adopted the boycott even though certain members of Natfhe have suggested that they must. That doesn’t mean that UK academics can forget about it. If this is not fought against then a fresh attempt to boycott will be intoduced next year at the conference and then a clear message must be sent to the union representatives that a boycott is not acceptable.

]]> By: Cynic http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368/comment-page-1#comment-9521 Cynic Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:32:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368#comment-9521 Meryl, what's amusing is that last year the EU declared the Hebrew University's Neurology dept., of outstanding excellence and came to an agreement for the HU to provide teaching for some 100 EU institutions. Now one of the 'big' boys behind the British boycott is neurobiologist Rose. Maybe there's something more than meets the eye? Meryl, what’s amusing is that last year the EU declared the Hebrew University’s Neurology dept., of outstanding excellence and came to an agreement for the HU to provide teaching for some 100 EU institutions.
Now one of the ‘big’ boys behind the British boycott is neurobiologist Rose.
Maybe there’s something more than meets the eye?

]]> By: Joel http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368/comment-page-1#comment-9485 Joel Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:20:45 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/03/1368#comment-9485 British Jews are pathetically weak and if I dare say it - cowardly. They will do nothing to confront the anti Semitism that is running rampant throughout the U.K. The Victorian era writer Israel Zangwill referred to British Jewry as "the Trembling Israelites of Britain." Too true! British Jews are pathetically weak and if I dare say it – cowardly. They will do nothing to confront the anti Semitism that is running rampant throughout the U.K. The Victorian era writer Israel Zangwill referred to British Jewry as “the Trembling Israelites of Britain.” Too true!

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