British Wacademics Seek Boycott of Israel

These wacademics are wholly owned subsidiaries of moral equivalence parallel university.com:

Britain’s University and College Union (UCU), comprising of university academics, voted in favour of considering a boycott of Israeli academics and institutions at its conference in Bournemouth on Thursday evening.

The resolution, passed by 158 votes in favor and 99 against, “notes that Israel’s 40-year occupation has seriously damaged the fabric of Palestinian society through annexation, illegal settlement, collective punishment and restriction of movement... deplores the denial of educational rights for Palestinians by invasions, closures, checkpoints, curfews, and shootings and arrests of teachers, lecturers and students.”

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said after the vote: “I do not believe a boycott is supported by the majority of UCU members... Today’s motion on boycott means all branches now have a responsibility to consulate all of their members on the issue... Any future calls for a boycott must pass key tests before a boycott can be implemented.”

That they equate Israel's defense and sovereign rights to defend themselves against terrorist attacks with those who perpetuate the terrorism shows they lack the firing synapses to differentiate right from wrong.

And note that they never once raised their voice to complain about the incessant calls by Palestinian leaders to destroy Israel. Haniyeh, Meshaal and other Hamas leaders regularly call for Israel's destruction. They teach their kids to hate Israel. They publish texts that call for Israel's destruction. They produce maps that show Palestine existing where Israel once was. They call for genocide and support terrorism against Israel.

All that gets nothing but silence.

All their actions succeed in doing is give aid and comfort to terrorists. Nice.

UPDATE:
The NYT has an article that includes some information about academics who have decided to boycott the British for even considering the boycott:

Some, of course, find such talk contemptible. Prof. Steven Weinberg, an American Nobel laureate in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, canceled a visit to Imperial College, London, after the National Union of Journalists’ action.

“I know that some will say that these boycotts are directed only against Israel, rather than generally against Jews,” he said in a letter to the British college setting out his reasons for canceling the trip, which had been planned for July. “But given the history of the attacks on Israel and the oppressiveness and aggressiveness of other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other than anti-Semitism.”

Professor Weinberg’s letter was published in The Guardian.

It's unfortunate that his opinion is in the minority. Not enough academics are speaking out against this nonsense.