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{weblog_name} - Boycott This!
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Britain’s new University and College Union voted in advance a boycott of Israel’s academic institution in support the Palestinians’ plight. Our editorial page applauded the international backlash against the British. Yesterday, the American Jewish Committee paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times written by Lee Bollinger of Columbia University and signed by 286 presidents of major U.S. universities asking to be boycotted as well. The ad headline proclaimed, “Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!” It went on to say, “Boycott us, then, for we gladly stand together with our many colleagues in British, American and Israeli universities against such intellectually shoddy and politically biased attempts to hijack the central mission of higher education.” By late yesterday afternoon, the AJC was flooded with phone calls of support and requests from 17 more universities, including Johns Hopkins, to… read more