A number of folks in the UK university community have been attempting to pass a boycott of Israel through their union.
Let me rewrite that line….
A bunch of pro-“Palestinian” do nothing college professors want their union to sever all academic ties with Israeli universities in protest of, well, the Israelis refusal to get driven into the sea.
Sadly for them, their own hyper-PC rules are keeping them from doing so
Legal advice to the union’s strategy and finance committee said a boycott call ran the risk of infringing discrimination legislation and was also considered outside the aims and objects of the union.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU, insisted the majority of the union’s 120,000 members would neither support a boycott call nor regard it as a priority. She said last night: “I hope this decision will allow all to move forwards and focus on what is our primary objective, the representation of our members.”
However, Sue Blackwell, a member of the union’s executive and of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, said of the decision: “It is quite ridiculous. It is cowardice. It is outrageous and an attack on academic freedom.”
Ahh, yes! That academic freedom to fund those that demand the death of the only democracy in the region. I haven’t heard that call for a good long time.