Funding and collaboration - at least £700k over five years in the form of the Britain and Israel academic exchange partnership - is one response to the academic boycott campaign. In fact, we're to understand it wouldn't have happened without the boycott campaign.

Like Tempus, the EU-funded collaboration mentioned earlier, this programme, by presenting the solid fact of funded collaboration, negates the boycott. As European Commissioner for Culture, Media and Sport Jan Figel said:

"My presence here, this agreement that was just signed, the dialogue and participation which will ensue, are the clearest answers to calls for an academic boycott," he answered. "They are better than any polemics"

Nobody's sniffing at funding or organised collaborations - they are great.

Does this mean that the arguments against antisemitism and for academic freedom are won?

Update: a response from Ben Cohen on Z-Word Blog.