Jewish Agency Head Vows to Act Against UK Academic Boycott
By JAFI Press Release, May 31, 2007 / 14 Sivan 5767
Source: Jewish Agency
Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel Executive, Zeev Bielski, said that the Jewish Agency will work together with the Jewish community in Britain to revoke a decision by the University and College Union, Britain`s largest trade union for academics, to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Bielski added: "It is a shame that academics who are always a bastion of democracy and free speech should resort to such a discriminatory, stereotyped and warped manner of behavior."
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