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Arguments against the campaign for an academic boycott of Israel
Added by David Hirsh on March 25, 2008 09:12:13 PM.
For a chronology of the campaign for an academic boycott of Israel, click here.

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

See the third part of David Hirsh's long paper for a discussion of the boycott campaign. Click here.

Jon Pike's argument against the boycott campaign: Academic freedom and the limits of boycotts: some Kantian considerations Click 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)

Engage's immediate response to the decision to end the boycott discussion in September. Click here.

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)

Eve Garrard's argument against the boycott campaign. Click here.

Michael Yudkin's argument against the boycott campaign. Click here.

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)

David Hirsh on Ariel College in May 2005. Click here.

Jon Pike on solidarity. Click Here.

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)

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

The twists and turns of the SWP. Click here.

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

Short argument by David Hirsh. Here.

Re-live the Engage Meeting 11 July 2007 Here. (easy to watch YouTube videos and also MP3 sound files)

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)

David Toube on 'the real motive of the boycotters.' Click here.

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

John Strawson on the apartheid analogy. Click here.

Gideon Shimoni on the apartheid analogy. Click here.

John Strawson's May 2005 arguments against the boycott campaign. Click here.

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