(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Manfred Gerstenfeld - Several Israeli academics and American Jewish leaders believe the academic boycott against Israel has failed. They point out that not one major academic institution or organization has supported it; no American university has decided to divest Israeli shares, and the Paris 6 University had to retract its anti-Israel motion. There were many more academics who signed petitions against the boycott of Israel than those who signed for it. Furthermore, the editors of the world's leading general science magazines Science and Nature came out against the boycott. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, a Jewish French Nobel prizewinner and former professor at Paris 6 University, wrote in the French daily Le Monde, attacking the boycott action by that university: "I'm ashamed of those colleagues who dare to express abhorrence about other colleagues because of their nationality. I'm ashamed of those colleagues who in the case of a painful conflict, where two people suffer cruelly and daily, choose to demonize one of the two parties rather than trying to bring them closer to each other."
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