February 10, 2006

Israeli Conference Discusses Boycotts

By HAIM WATZMAN

Although the academic boycott a British faculty union imposed on two Israeli universities last spring has been overturned, anti-Israel bias continues to harm scholars and distort research, said participants in a conference last month at Bar-Ilan University.

"Discrimination on the grounds of citizenship is still a live issue," declared Michael Yudkin, a biochemist at the University of Oxford.

Scholars and public figures from the United States, Britain, and Israel said that

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