The UCU, the Boycott, and Economic Protectionism
My favourite drug dealer, JB, has some amusing speculation about why the University and College Union of England has been trying to implement a boycott of Israeli scholars:
Unions are about, at least in part, protectionism (protecting the jobs of people who would lose them in a completely open market). The UCU are merely protecting themselves against being shown up by Jewish scholars, since no intelligent, self-respecting Jew would now want to go to Britain on an exchange basis, whether or not the UCU sanctions a boycott.
Next on the UCU list will be Americans and then Germans if number of Nobel laureates by country is used as a metric for sanctions.
Category: Academic (& other) Freedom, Anti-Semitism, Education, Israel Posted on
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 1:46am
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