Boycott British Products

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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. Read more about this foolish and errant British boycott here and here. 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. Opposition to the vote culminated on Saturday with a letter to The Guardian in which hundreds of academics called

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Protest the Proposed UK Boycott of Israeli Universities

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Contained in the attached press release from Bar Ilan University’s nternational Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) is a note from an British professor to an Israeli colleague advising he has personally decided to boycott Israeli academics. If you care about academic freedom and you care about Israel academics. You must take a stand. The boycott motion — whether the union should carry out a “personal” boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy — drafted by the southeast region of NATFHE (National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education),

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UK academic boycott to resurface soon

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A new attempt to bring about an academic boycott of Israel is now being made by British academics affiliated with The British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP). Last May, the Association of University Teachers (AUT), one of Britain’s two academic unions, overturned a proposal made by a group of its members to boycott Bar-Ilan University and the University of Haifa. On October 1, however, some of the same AUT members who campaigned earlier this year in favor of the boycott – including Bradford University’s Hillary Rose and Birmingham University’s Sue Blackwell – plan to relaunch their campaign with a

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Burger King recalls ‘sacrilegious’ desserts offensive to muslims

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Folks, it is “filler” articles like this that make up the whole of the stated goal of Islam towards world supremacy: the fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a muslim. The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a “jihad”. Rashad Akhtar, 27, of High Wycombe, was not satisfied by the decision to withdraw the cones and has called on Muslims to boycott Burger King. He said: “This is my jihad. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? If you

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British group cancels boycott of two Israeli universities

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The British Association of University Teachers voted Thursday to overturn a controversial boycott of two Israeli universities which had provoked a backlash at universities around the world. Delegates voted to “revoke all existing boycotts of Israeli institutions.” Jon Pike, a senior philosophy lecturer at the Open University and founder of anti-boycott group Engage, said: “I am relieved that…the membership has mobilized and made clear its view that the boycott was an infringement of academic freedom and contributed nothing towards peaceful resolution of the conflict.” The damage is aleady done, thanks to Sue Blackwell, the seawitch and Birmingham University lecturer who

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Raise Your Voice Against the Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel Resolution of the British AUT

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The mean-spirited, anti-Semitic resolution of the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) must be fought by all available and possible means, because if it is not, such hateful action may spread to other universities and institutions. Immediately following this article is information about how you can protest this outrageous action. I urge you to take just 30 seconds to make your voice heard on this important issue. From FLAME: Dear Friend of Israel, This is not the time to be silent. Please write to the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) and tell them to REVERSE THEIR DECISION, made Friday

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UK teachers’ boycott may be overturned

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Good news, folks. The backlash to the decision of Britain’s Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar Ilan universities has continued to gain pace this week, as further protests, resignations, and calls for a national emergency session to overturn the boycotts have been issued, denting chances that the boycott resolutions will survive long enough to be implemented. Chris Fox, lecturer in Computer Science at Essex University, told The Jerusalem Post that the 25 signatures by AUT local association members required to submit a motion calling for the repeal of the boycott resolutions were being collected. The motion would

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Muslims Boycott Holocaust Remembrance

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British Muslims are to boycott this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz because they claim it is not racially inclusive and does not commemorate the victims of the Palestinian conflict. Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has written to Charles Clarke, the home secretary, saying the body will not attend the event unless it includes the “holocaust” of the Palestinian intifada. The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Tony Blair will attend the ceremony in Westminster Hall this Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, in which

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