UK ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL TO BE OVERTURNED?

Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities Likely to be Overturned - Jon Boone (Financial Times-UK)
Sue Blackwell, an academic at the University of Birmingham who attracted worldwide condemnation for leading calls to cut academic links with Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities in Israel, said she expected the boycott to be rescinded on Thursday by the British Association of University Teachers. Anti-boycott activists hope they will overturn the original motion, which they say was not properly debated and did not represent the balance of views of the whole membership. David Hirsh, a lecturer at Goldsmiths College and one of the coordinators of the campaign to overturn the boycott, said: "The logic of their position is that Israel is an illegitimate state and that Jewish nationalism is unlike that of any other nationalism. I think that is essentially an anti-Semitic position."