British Faculty Union's Vote Will Lead to Debate on Academic Boycott of Israel

By AISHA LABI

Members of Britain's main faculty union courted international controversy on Wednesday with a vote that will set in motion months of debate over whether the union should boycott Israeli universities and refuse to cooperate with Israeli academics.

Delegates to the first annual meeting of the new University and College Union, which represents 120,000 members, cast 158 votes in favor and 99 against a motion condemning "the complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation, which has