Howard Moss in a letter in the THE Here. Unfortunately the letter was edited and it leaves out the important part that argues explicitly that leaving UCU is the easy and the wrong solution.

You can read the letter online but here is the original letter sent before it was edited :

"Dear Editor,

It is undoubtedly extreme for Baroness Deech to recommend that Universities derecognise the University and College Union for the motion it passed at its last conference on links with Israeli universities (“Derecognise UCU over Israel motion, says Deech”, 10 July). Nor, as anyone on the ground will tell you, is it in any way true that there is ‘an atmosphere hostile to Jewish academics … in this country’. Basically everyone just ignores UCU on this issue. At the same time it is undeniably true that the union is fishing in murky waters. It is allowing a tiny (yes tiny) minority of its members to dictate its agendas.

The way to deal with this is not to vilify or campaign against the union as Deech is doing or to resign from it as Eve Garrard, mentioned in the same article, has done. That is the easy way out and is actually regarded as a positive result by the tiny minority which thinks the union exists to fight against Israel. The real solution is for enough people (and it would not take many), to come forward from the rank-and-file membership, which overwhelmingly opposes UCU official policy on Israel, to get themselves nominated at local level and to vote appropriately at national level. That is is the right way to set the union back on the responsible track of focusing on its key purpose of protecting and improving the pay and conditions of its members."

Howard Moss