More than 300 presidents of American colleges and universities have signed a statement assailing a proposal by Britain’s leading faculty union to consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The statement, which was written by Columbia University’s president, Lee C. Bollinger and ran as an advertisment in Wednesday’s New York Times, follows widespread criticism since the University and College Union passed a resolution in May calling for the group to debate whether to refuse to work with Israeli academics over the country’s Palestinian policies. Last week a group called Scholars for Peace in the Middle East said it had gathered 10,000 signatures on an online petition opposing the faculty union’s proposal. —Andrew Mytelka
August 9, 2007
College Presidents Attack Proposed Faculty Boycott of Israeli Academics
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