Wednesday, May 28, 2008
It's not exactly a boycott the way I read it, but the Z-Word Blog reports that the British University and College Union (UCU) has jumped back in to anti-Israel politicking today, despite the fact that they have received legal advice to the effect of its potential illegality. Z-Word: The UCU’s Boycott of Israel and How to Fight It.
UCU’s General Secretary Sally Hunt's spin, which remarkably makes it sound as though the UCU is some kind of victim in all of this, is here. What they passed is motion #25, here.
And the fight goes on...
Not much that I can see on the UK blogs yet, but it's late there.
"Motion 25 was passed, by a huge majority. There was a real, palpable desire in the meeting to take some action against Israel. An otherwise rather somnolent audience woke up at the first mention of Palestine, and applauded every suggestion that action should be taken against Israel. A congress which had just passed very moderate motions on Burma and Zimbabwe and Sudan, about solidarity with trade unions and asylum seekers, and putting pressure on governments, quite clearly felt that these measures weren't sufficient for Israel's crimes: that for Israeli academics, nothing but punishment would do."(Eve Garrard)
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2008/05/passing-motion-25-by-eve-garrard.html