Physicist Dr Raphaël Lévy has now resigned from the University and College Union in protest at its policy of encouraging members to boycott Israeli academics. His resignation letter is here.
Jonathan Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies & Judaism has just resigned because the union has done nothing to distance itself from the discriminatory policy passed at Congress after six months. His resignation letter is here.
Colin Meade, Senior Lecturer in governance and international relations at London Met resigned in August from the union. His letter of resignation is here.
Sarah Annes Brown, Professor of English, resigned in July, saying that even though she wasn't Jewish, she still felt alienated by the policy of inciting members to boycott Israeli scholars. Her letter of resignation is here.
Lawyer Eric Heinze has resigned from the union. His letter of protest and resignation is here.
Philosopher Tim Crane resigned from the union in protest. His letter is here.
Philosopher Eve Garrard resigned in July after attending Congress. Her resignation letter is here.
Computational linguist Shalom Lappin resigned in June 2007, following the first UCU Congress. His letter of resignation is here.
Political philosopher Norman Geras explains why he is no longer a member of the UCU here.
Philosopher and UCU NEC member Jon Pike writes on these resignations and on the UCU's breaches of anti-discrimination law. Here.
Sociologist David Hirsh was permanently excluded from the UCU e-list, where much of the internal union discussion about the boycott takes place, on spurious technical grounds. His formal complaint can be read here.
Scientist Michael Yudkin considers resignation from the UCU here.
Biologist Dov Stekel has not resigned from UCU but says: "... this is the only organization with which I have been involved in which I have been made to feel uncomfortable as a Jew..." here.
Learning technologist Mira Vogel looks at UCU's anti-bullying policy here.
Sociologist Robert Fine, who has no intention of resigning, on UCU Congress 2008: "The tones are mellow but they give me a shiver and make me feel my Jewishness in a new way." here.
Mathematician Robert Simon makes his case here.
Lawyer and UCU member Lesley Klaff has spoken out against the position of the UCU, which, she argues relies on deception, on undemocratic means, and degrades the ability of the union to stand up for its members in unity. Here.
Sociologist Deborah Lynn Steinberg articulates her problem with UCU's support for the campaign to boycott Israel here.
Michael Rubenstein, academic expert in the field of equal opportunities talks about the UCU's problem with antisemitism here.
76 UCU members signed a public protest about UCU's failure to take seriously the criticism made against it by the Parliamentary Inquiry. Read their protest, published in the Times Higher, here.
39 UCU members signed a public protest at the UCU's refusal to meet with Ger Weisskirchen at his request. Weisskirchen is the OSCE's Chairman-in-Office Representative on antisemitism. The protest, which went unheeded and ignored by the UCU, is here.
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