DERSHOWITZ THREATENS TO SUE BRITISH BOYCOTTERS OF ISRAEL
Harvard legal expert vows to sue lecturers boycotting Israel (Financial Times)
A top American lawyer has threatened to wage a legal war against British academics who seek to cut links with Israeli universities.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor renowned for his staunch defence of Israel and high-profile legal victories, including his role in the O.J. Simpson trial, vowed to "devastate and bankrupt" lecturers who supported such boycotts.
This week's annual conference of Britain's biggest lecturers' union, the University and College Union, backed a motion damning the "complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation [of Palestinian land]".
It also obliged the union's executive to encourage members to "consider the moral implications of existing and proposed links with Israeli academic institutions".
Prof Dershowitz said he had started work on legal moves to fight any boycott.
He told the Times Higher Educational Supplement that these would include using a US law - banning discrimination on the basis of nationality - against UK universities with research ties to US colleges. US academics might also be urged to accept honorary posts at Israeli colleges in order to become boycott targets.
"I will obtain legislation dealing with this issue, imposing sanctions that will devastate and bankrupt those who seek to impose bankruptcy on Israeli academics," he told the journal.
Sue Blackwell, a UCU activist and member of the British Committee for Universities of Palestine, said: "This is the typical response of the Israeli lobby which will do anything to avoid debating the real issue - the 40-year occupation of Palestine." Jewish groups have attacked the UCU vote, which was opposed by Sally Hunt, its general secretary.
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2 comments:
As a American and a Christian I'm for supporting Isreal 100%! Much sucess to Professor Alan Dershowitz in the fight against these misguided people! I'm glad people like the Professor exist and that the USA has produced such a great individual! Shalom
Perhaps “Britain's biggest lecturers' union” and especially Sue Blackwell who is most likely in league with other Jew haters that wants Israel wipe off the map and replace with another failed Islamic state should be just disbanded. They are starting to sound like holocaust deniers and supporters of Osama bin Laden. Anybody with even a two digit I.Q. and just a little knowledge of History knows that the Palestinians only goal in life is to wipe out every Jew in the world and turn the center of Judeo religion, that being Israel, into another Islamic center for suicide recruits. The very idea of boycotting a country that is merely trying to survive against the daily attacks of terrorists is utter nonsense and void of any logic what so ever. I’d like to propose we impose sanctions against Palestinian Academics but they don’t have academics since the bulk of the Muslim population are in Mosques reading the Quran and plotting suicide missions to kill more Jews. Professor Dershowitz deserves the world’s (you can count the Muslims out) support against racist Jew haters like sue Blackwell.
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