[Times-UK] Editorial - There could hardly be a motion more inimical to the purposes and ethos of a university than the call for an academic boycott of Israel, tabled at the inaugural conference of the University and College Union. The move is a mockery of academic freedom, a biased and blinkered call that is as ill-timed as it is perverse. Such a boycott is tokenism of the worst kind - a meaningless gesture that sends a "message" to politically correct union members but does nothing to advance the cause that they purport to uphold: the freedom of all peoples in the region to live and study in freedom and dignity.
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