{"id":535,"date":"2006-05-14T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=535"},"modified":"2006-05-14T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:16:50","slug":"boycott-proposal-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Boycott proposal redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) first passed and then rescinded a policy advocating a boycott of Israeli universities and all affiliated faculty. It looks like British anti-Semites and muddle-headed allies are at it again. This time it&#8217;s a resolution placed before the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), which will meet at the end of the month. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/05\/12\/boycott\">Inside Higher Ed article<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/14\/world\/europe\/14britain.html\">New York Times article<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spme.net\/cgi-bin\/display_petitions.cgi?ID=2\">petition of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/blog\/article.php?id=410\">analysis by Jon Pike<\/a>, an AUT activist at Open University, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/blog\/article.php?id=417\">a description of credentialing politics inside NATFHE<\/a>.<br \/>\nWatch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engageonline.org.uk\/blog\/\">ENGAGE blog<\/a> for developments until the meeting May 27-29. Because NATFHE and AUT are planning a merger, union merger politics play into this as well.<br \/>\nUgh.<br \/>\n(Belated hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/25092.html\">Ralph Luker<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) first passed and then rescinded a policy advocating a boycott of Israeli universities and all affiliated faculty. It looks like British anti-Semites and muddle-headed allies are at it again. This time it&#8217;s a resolution placed before the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}