Courtesy of News Max:

Susan Estrich Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Its supporters call it “a historic step forward.” Even opponents acknowledge that “it creates a precedent.”

It is the resolution passed on Monday by Britain’s largest association of academics to urge its members to boycott Israeli academics who have not renounced the so-called “apartheid policies” of Israel.

With fewer than 200 members voting, this resolution puts a 67,000-member organization on record in support of a wrong-headed and ill-considered boycott of Israeli academics, part of a dangerous but growing movement on university campuses to isolate Israel.

Make no mistake. This was no isolated action taken by a single group on Monday. This was Britain’s biggest association of university professors, voting at its annual meeting. The resolution, which passed by a vote of 106 to 71, made note of “continuing Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practices,” and called on British academics to “consider the appropriateness of a boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies.”

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