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May 29, 2006
UK: Higher Education Union Votes to Boycott Israel
A hint for the innocent; when the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education asks for the end of "apartheid" policies, they are asking for the Palestinian's unlimited right of return. They are asking Israel to commit national suicide: British academics' union votes to boycott Israeli academics
Members of Britain's largest college teachers' union on Monday voted to boycott Israeli academics over what members termed "apartheid" policies and discriminatory practices toward Palestinians.The 69,000-member National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) passed the motion at its annual conference in the northern English city of Blackpool. Two parts of the proposal passed with a show of hands, while a third went to a vote.
But union spokesman Trevor Phillips said the motion will only act as an advisory policy and will not necessarily be adopted, as the union is to merge this week with the Association of University Teachers, or AUT, to become the University and College Union with more than 100,000 members.
Ronnie Fraser, director of the Academic Friends of Israel, said his group would continue fighting the boycott and called the union's move "racist." "If the sponsors of this boycotting campaign succeeded in something, it is only to undermine further progress, collaboration and peace in the Middle East and to marginalize the standing of NATFHE," Fraser said.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at May 29, 2006 1:27 PM
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