ENGAGE - ARCHIVE

Re-live the Engage Meeting 11 July 2007 Here.

Colin Schindler shows how a boycott hinders his ability to do his job to teach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read it here. (June 07)

Martha Nussbaum argues in Dissent against academic boycotts. Read it here.(June 07)

Eric Lee argues a boycott is no way to help the Palestinians here. (June 07)

Robert Fine on anti-semitism, boycotts and freedom of speech here.(May 07)

Eve Garrard argues against the boycott at the 2007 Euston Manifesto Conference. Read it here or listen to it here.(May 07)

Anthony Julius and Simon Schama's argument against John Berger's boycott call. Here.

Paul Frosh's contrast between boycott and joint work. Here.

A detailed critique of PACBI's (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) call for "BDS" – "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions". Here. (September 06, David Hirsh)

Jon Pike's arguments for voting against the Natfhe motion. Here. (May 06)

David Hirsh's arguments for voting against the Natfhe motion. Here.

Letter in the Guardian opposing the Natfhe motion signed by 600 anti-occupation academics. Here. (May 06)

David Hirsh's response to the passing of the Natfhe motion: Don't get mad, get even. Here. (May 06)

Jon Pike's response to the passing of the Natfhe motion: such motions are only passed by undemocratic means. Jon traces the ways in which a small unrepresentative minority can pass policy without consulting the membership of the union. Here. (May 06)

Jon Pike's discussion of boycotts. The distinction between 'boycott as solidarity and boycott as punishment'. Critique of Jaqueline Rose's case for boycott. Here|. (Jon Pike, September 05)

The myth of the institutional boycott. The boycott campaign pretends that it is boycotting institutions when really it proposes a boycott of individuals. Read Jon Pike's analysis. Here. (February 06)

Steve Cohen's response to the McCarthyite political test that Natfhe voted to apply to Israeli academics. Here. (May 05)

The story of the overturn of the boycott in the AUT in 2005 in Dissent. Here. (David Hirsh, October 05)

A report of Judith Butler's paper – she argues that academic freedom is more than just an abstract right. Academic freedom in Palestine is disrupted by material conditions. So arguments against the boycott that rely simply on abstract freedom as an absolute right are incomplete. We need both the right to academic freedom and the material possibility of making use of that right. Here. (September 05, Jon Pike)

Hirsh's speech and reports from his debate with Ilan Pappe, pro-boycott professor at Haifa University, on the issue of the boycott. At Birmingham AUT. Here. Gargi Battacharyya's account is here. (November 05)

David Hirsh responds to a supporter of the boycott. Here. (September 06)

Colin Shindler's argument against the Natfhe motion. Here. (May 06)

Boycotters' misrepresentations printed on the Guardian letters page. Here. (David Hirsh, February 06)

Footballer John Barnes breaks the "sporting boycott" to help kick-start a campaign against racism in Israeli football in Tel Aviv. Here (March 05)

Don't boycott World Pride, Jerusalem. Here . (Alexandra Simonon, June 06)

Josh Appignanesi, film maker, argues against the cultural boycott. Here. (August 06)

David Hirsh looks closely at what Steven Rose says on Radio 4's Today programme. Here. (September 06)

Short argument by David Hirsh. Here.