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The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It

The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It

October 21, 2003 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
Since early 2002, a variety of attempts to boycott or discriminate against Israeli academic institutions and scholars have been undertaken in several Western countries. These include proposals such as the divestment of Israeli securities, ostracizing Israeli academics, refusal to publish or review Israeli academic papers, hampering the career of pro-Israeli scholars abroad, etc. Several of the campaigns have anti-Semitic motifs. Many actions are initiated by university lecturers.