{"id":1343,"date":"2008-05-29T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2008-05-29T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:14:46","slug":"a-boycott-call-by-another-name-smells-as-daft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"A boycott call by another name smells as daft&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=''>British academics are at it again, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeexchangeoncampus.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&amp;id=1015&amp;Itemid=48\">Chris Goff<\/a> is right: the call for faculty &#8220;to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions&#8221; is a back-door way to call for a boycott without calling for a boycott. The University and College Union has never asked its faculty to &#8220;consider the moral&#8221; anything with regard to its other comments on international affairs. <\/p>\n<p>As with previous shenanigans of this order, the reliable commentary comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/blog\/index.php\">Engage Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British academics are at it again, and Chris Goff is right: the call for faculty &#8220;to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions&#8221; is a back-door way to call for a boycott without calling for a boycott. The University and College Union has never asked its faculty to &#8220;consider the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-lF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}