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The Academic Boycott of Israel: Why Britain?


(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Ronnie Fraser - In April 2002, the Guardian published an open letter calling for an EU moratorium on funding for grants and research contracts for Israeli universities. Since then, Britain has become the world's center of agitation against Israeli academia. The Association of University Teachers (AUT) boycott of Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities, which initially was approved and subsequently rejected in spring 2005, has been a belated wakeup call for Israeli academia and for UK Jewry.
2005-09-02 00:00:00
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