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British Academic Boycott Of Israel,
Again
By Fred Taub
May 21, 2006
 Previously, the British Association of
University Teachers (AUT) had established an academic boycott of Israel, which
Boycott Watch had
reported as a
book-burning since, by definition, also barred ideas of
Israeli educators. The boycott was later rescinded after much debate.
Today,
IMRA, the Israel-based
Independent Media Review and Analysis organization,
reports a merger of British teachers unions which may force
the AUT, which has rejected the academic boycott, to join into a larger boycott
of Israel and the ideas of academics even though it is against it.
If this occurs, we will once again see a national
academic book burning reminiscent of
Kristallnacht, the night the Nazis broke the windows of
Jewish stores and burned books. An Academic boycott is the denial of all ideas
from people one does not agree with, regardless of what those ideas are. In a
sense, it is saying that nothing Israeli academics say, even if saving lives,
it good. This can only be summed up as anti-Semitism - pure and simple. It is
hate. It is racism.
The British Parliament should be
ashamed of the National Association of Teachers in Higher Education (NATFHE)
which may absorb the AUT, and the British Labour party should demand its
immediate disbanding.
In a world where Iran is
preparing to wage war against the entire western world including Christians and
Jews within their own borders, seeing Britain's supposed intellectuals join in
the world of hate is appalling, dangerous and downright scary.
While Boycott Watch usually reports both sides so
people can decide for themselves what the truth is, this boycott is so
disturbing that giving the NATFHE a platform to spew hate is not something we
find unacceptable since there is no excuse for anti-Semitism.
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