This piece, by Simon Rocker, is from the Jewish Chronicle. The quotes from David Hirsh and from Mira Vogel were not given by us directly to the Jewish Chronicle but appear to have been taken from material published by the UCU within the union on the UCU activist list itself. Evidently somebody has been leaking this material to the JC. Here, we simply reproduce an article from the Jewish Chronicle - DH

One of the leaders of the campaign to prevent the academic boycott of Israel has been banned by his own union from an email forum.

David Hirsh, a co-founder of the Engage campaign, has been denied use of the University and College Union activists' email list since last November for breaching the rules of confidentiality. But in an email to the UCU, an academic colleague of Dr Hirsh's said he had been "unjustly excluded" on a "technicality". Calling for his reinstatement, mira Vogel said that he had been "disem[owered at a critical time for anti-boycotters".

Dr Hirsh, in an email this week to UCU secretary-general Sally Hunt, accused her of ignoring emails he had sent her over the past 10 weeks. He asked to know the duration of his exclusion and wehther he could appeal.

The JC understands that, in a apaper on antisemitism, Dr Hirsh used a comment from an anti-Zionist academic posted on the email forum. He accidentally left the name in his text but removed it as soon as he was made aware of the error.

A spokesman for the UCU said the union "does not comment on individual members of the activists' list".

It was true that Sally Hunt had ignored my emails and letters over a ten week period but I am happy to say that yesterday she apologized and has been discussing the issue. I don't want to go into the detail of what the union has said to me at this stage, but I am prepared to say that I remain excluded, for the present time, from the e-list. The error was that in footnote 71 of this paper I left the name of the person discussed, in the text. When this error was pointed out to me, I took it out immediately and it did not appear in the printed version - DH