(Guardian-UK) Benjamin Joffe-Walt and Matthew Taylor - Thousands of international academics have signed an online petition opposing a proposed boycott of Israeli lecturers by the UK's National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe), who are holding their annual conference this week. MPs at the Israeli parliament held an emergency meeting to discuss the UK boycott plans, which were described as a "witch hunt." If passed, the resolution may be short-lived. Natfhe is set to merge with the other major lecturers' union, the AUT. Any adopted resolution will thus become Natfhe policy for less than a week.
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