YNET NEWS: British academicians apparently unconcerned about occupation in Ireland
The British University and College Union (UCU) has decided to call on its members to "consider the moral implications" of ties with Israeli academic institutions, and even weigh the imposition of a boycott on those same institutions to protest Israel's policy towards the Palestinians.
Beyond the intolerable harm to academic freedom, this decision features grand hypocrisy; the Union, which sees fit to condemn Israel's "occupation" in its own country has no problem identifying with the British occupation of Ireland, which has lasted for hundreds of years now and led to violent struggles and peace deals that failed one after the other. British hypocrisy reigns supreme (more) By Ron Breiman
HAARETZ:
Boycotting Israel as moral masturbation By Bradley Burston
Mark Alexander
