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http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1493083,00.html
Academics vote against Israeli boycott
Press Association
Thursday May 26, 2005
Academics voted today to overturn their controversial boycott of Israeli universities, sources said.
Delegates were said to have voted overwhelmingly in favour of abandoning the boycott at a special meeting of the Association of University Teachers in London.
The union provoked international outrage after backing the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities at its annual conference last month.
Delegates had alleged the two institutions were complicit in the oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories - claims that both universities have denied.
Today's meeting was triggered by intense lobbying by AUT members opposed to the boycott, which they described as an "outrageous" assault on academic freedom.
Speaking before attending today's private meeting, Jon Pike, a senior lecturer at the Open University and one of the key members responsible for reopening the debate, described the action as "an assault on the values of dialogue and co-operation".
"The boycotts contradict principles of academic freedom," he said. "They are counter-productive in terms of securing peace and reconciliation between Israel and Palestine.
"It's clear that the majority of AUT members are strongly opposed to this boycott.
"Israeli academics are being singled out for treatment not applied anywhere else in the world," he said.
Dr Pike stressed that he was not in favour of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
"The people who have been opposing the boycott also oppose the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
"We are critical of Israel activities in the occupied territories and the way that impacts in particular on teachers and students."
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