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Source: BOD Press Release
30th May 2006
Board of deputies: NATFHE POLICY "PERNICIOUS"
The Board of Deputies deplores the passing of a resolution at the NATFHE conference yesterday recommending a boycott of Israeli academics. Whilst the very idea of an academic boycott should be an anathema to academics, the particular nature of the NATFHE resolution, whereby Israeli academics must publicly declare their political views and subject them to the scrutiny of British academics, is especially pernicious.
Israeli academics operate in a free society and will undoubtedly have many different political views. Academic institutions in Israel accept students and faculty members from across the Israeli society, including Jews, Muslims and Christians. To single out Israeli academics and institutions in what purports to be an attempt to influence Israeli government policy is perverse and discriminatory. It is a sad day when lecturers in higher education, a section of British society that should have open minds, should have closed theirs so entirely.
Commenting on the resolution, Board Chief Executive, Jon Benjamin, noted that "the resolution was carried by a majority of just 35, but it has committed a union of some 69,000 members to a policy that no one in academia should countenance. We hope that following the merger with he AUT on 1 June, good sense and democracy will prevail and this policy, which is at odds with the AUT’s policy on academic boycotts, will cease to exist."
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