Israeli academics to battle UK boycott bid - redux

May 18th, 2007 Posted by Ron

Haaretz reports that a group of Israeli academics has met with British academics who are proposing that the UK’s University and College Union adopt a boycott of Israeli academe.  Read the full article here.

One of the Israeli academics is translator and translation scholar Miriam Shlesinger.  In a separate interview, Prof. Shlesinger argues that an academic boycott is a type of unjust collective punishment, which actually weakens the Israeli Left.
Read the full interview here.

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