UPDATE: UCU Boycott of Israel

In late May, Monkey in the Middle reported that the University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union in the UK for academics and academic related staff decided to try and implement (for the second time) a total boycott of Jewish and Israeli academics. This resolution passed without debate and without any dissent.

Now the rank and file members are grumbling against this boycott.

The University and College Union (UCU) are wavering on whether to implement a motion calling for the boycott of Israeli academia knowing the motion is "illegal" and "discriminatory," according to anti-boycott campaigners.
At the first meeting of the union's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday, members failed to make a decision on the motion passed that will in effect reintroduce an academic boycott of Israel.

Instead members referred the motion to the Strategy and Finance Committee (SFC), which will examine new legal advice the UCU is seeking and will then decide if any parts of the motion can be implemented.

Last year this same group tried the same thing and found not only did the rank and file members reject the idea, but it was illegal by their own legal advisors.

"If a boycott were legal, the union would not have hesitated in implementing it," Lorna Fitzsimons, co-chair of the Stop the Boycott (STB) campaign said. "It is clearly playing for time, its actions show that the union knows what we have known for the past four years - that a boycott is illegal and will be challenged in the courts.

"What is perplexing in the extreme is the UCU's decision to continue to pursue this when it knows that it will end the same sticky way as last year," Fitzsimons added.

A bunch of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic educators wishing to impose a boycott on their rank and file. They will impose their hatred on the British education community and will not worry about the consequences of their actions.

The latest move will undoubtedly come as a disappointment to those who have publicly criticized the motion. People as diverse as the prime minister, the higher education minister, the shadow education minister, the Foreign Office, Israeli and Palestinian Trade Unions as well as the heads of Universities UK [an organization of executive heads of all UK universities] and the Russell Group [an association of leading UK research-intensive universities] have all condemned the union's decision to call for a boycott.

Last year when this was proposed, Universities and Colleges in the US proclaimed that if the UCU implements a boycott of Israelis, they will implement a boycott of all British academicians. The call started with the Ivy Leagues and eventually included almost all of the Universities and Colleges in the US. I'll give you 3 guesses which ones didn't add their voices.

To implement this boycott would be illegal in the UK and immoral. But as things are with the leftists in charge of academia, anti-Semitism is an acceptable. They must not insult or demean their Muslim overlords who pay their expenses. So boycotts of Israelis and Jews will be allowed, criticism of Islam and Shar'ia law isn't.