Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Eminent British attorney Anthony Julius has written to the British UCU (their college teachers' union) on their latest shenanigans. Read the letter in full at Engage: Anthony Julius, acting for 'certain groups of UCU members' has written to Sally Hunt, General Secretary of UCU
Everyone hates lawyers except when they've got a good one on their side.
In related news see:
Norman Geras: A tainted organization
Kenneth Green, University of Toronto Advises Colleagues on Responding to UCU Boycott
David Newman: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Condemns UCU Motion to Boycott Israeli Universities
to motion 25): this speaks of the 'apparent complicity' of the Israeli academy with illegal Israeli government policies ...
is a phrase Norman Geras uses. A pity he did not put illegal between inverted commas.
What illegal policies? Policies looked at without the mitigating context of Arab behaviour?