Boikott av Israel slår tilbake

Amerikansk professor ved Harvard har lansert en motkampanje etter at en gruppe britiske forskere har startet en boikott av israelske forskere i akademia. De britiske forskerne vil ikke engasjere seg i forskningsprosjekter derom israelske forskere og institusjoner er med. Motkampanjen vekker nå stor interesse:

To my surprise, we have secured nearly 6,000 signatures, including those of
20 Nobel Prize winners, 14 university presidents as well as several heads
of academic and professional societies. Three university presidents -- Lee
Bollinger of Columbia, Robert Birgeneau of Berkeley and John Sexton of New York
University -- have issued public statements declaring that if Israeli
universities are boycotted, their American universities should be boycotted
as well. Every day, I receive emails from other academics asking to be
included as honorary Israeli academics for purposes of any boycott. We
expect to reach at least 10,000 names on our petition.
It is fair to say, therefore, that the British boycott appears to be backfiring. British
academics are on notice that if they try to isolate Israeli academics, it is they -- the British academics -- who will end up being isolated from some of the world's most prominent academics and scientists.

... skriver professor ved Harvard University school of law ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ 28 juni i Wall Street Journal.