UK Academia Burn Israel at the Stake
One of the most terrible aspects of contemporary terror, from Nazi Holocaust to Stalin’s war on the Kulaks, is that it appears in the guise of a theory. This is true also for current anti-Zionism. Hitler had Alfred Rosenberg, Stalin had Zdanov, while the contemporary anti-Semitism is spread by the most educated European professors, intellectuals and journalists.
Academics, students, deans, even the security officers at London University were called to vote last week. 2,056 people expressed their opinion. 73 percent decided for a total boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Only 425 voted against the anti-Semitic measures. And 60% of the professors voted in favor of the exclusion of the Jewish State.
The first to suffer from the boycott will be the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The vote is important also because it comes from the most prestigious English university for Middle East studies.
In 2007, United Kingdom lecturers gathered in Bournemouth to vote in favor of “a general boycott” of Israeli institutions. The London University vote, which was defined as “non-binding” by the administration, will have practical effects: preventing Israeli students from obtaining grants at London University, persuading other academic institutions to break relations with Israeli universities, convincing academics who work at London University to not to travel to Israel, disinviting the Israelis at their conferences and preventing the publication of articles in the journals of the university by Israeli researchers.
Israel has now been burned at stake by the British academia.
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