July | 2007 | PACBI

Israel boycott campaign momentum grows

News and Opinion | Emma Clancy | Green Left Online Posted on July 29, 2007

At its inaugural conference in May, the University and Colleges Union (UCU), which represents 120,000 academic and teaching staff, passed a resolution with a clear majority calling for a discussion within union branches about an academic boycott based on the [...]

Doctors slam British Medical Journal for boycott op-eds

News and Opinion | Tamara Traubmann | Haaretz Posted on July 29, 2007

In response, several physicians in Britain and the United States have proposed a boycott of BMJ, the official organ of the British Medical Association, and among the leading journals in its field worldwide. The features section of the July 21 [...]

Should we consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions?

News and Opinion | Colin Green | British Medical Journal Online Posted on July 28, 2007

You have to see it for yourself. Surely now is the time to bring together a group of doctors and other healthcare professionals under the auspices of the BMA to visit the West Bank and Gaza to witness the reality, [...]

Is the JNF racist?

News and Opinion | Shahar Ilan | Haaretz Posted on July 26, 2007

Here is an embarrassing fact: In 1957, when the Knesset passed the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Law, one of the great leaders of Mapam (the United Workers Party), Yaakov Hazan, said: "The JNF lands, which were purchased with the money [...]

The ivory tower behind the Apartheid Wall

News and Opinion | Margaret Aziza Pappano | The Electronic Intifada Posted on July 26, 2007

What is perhaps most perplexing about this trend is its entirely virtual nature, for in fact no one's freedom has been violated by the boycott yet under discussion. Nevertheless, university presidents are preparing in advance for what could be an [...]

Boycott battle to cost £1m a year

News and Opinion | Bernard Josephs | The Jewish Chronicle Posted on July 25, 2007

The message, from businessman Poju Zabludowicz, was seen by the JC after a senior communal source said that countering burgeoning boycott moves, particularly in British and Irish trade unions, would cost the community a “ballpark figure” of £1 million a [...]

Punk rebel with a classical cause

News and Opinion | Noam Ben-Zeev | Haaretz Posted on July 24, 2007

Eight hours earlier and a short distance away from the concert, on the balcony of his room at the American Colony Hotel, Kennedy described his Polish friends, "I went to clubs in Krakow, where I have lived for the past [...]