June 17, 2005

A British Union Reverses a Boycott: 3 Responses

By ROGER W. BOWEN, YEHUDITH HAREL, ANONYMOUS ISRAELI LAWYER, JOHN D. KLIER

When the Association of University Teachers resolved to boycott two Israeli universities -- the University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University -- in late April, the American Association of University Professors and numerous other learned societies and education groups condemned the resolution as a violation of the fundamental premise of academic freedom -- the right of scholars to share their ideas with other scholars everywhere. When the British faculty union voted to rescind its