"Zionist Nazi Power"

[blackbear]

Legal opinion forces end to UCU's boycott campaign
Posted by Gene

The The University and College Union’s campaign for an academic boycott of Israel is no more, Engage reports.

The [UCU's] own lawyers advised it that a policy to exclude academics who work in Israel from the global academic community – and to exclude nobody else on the planet - would have been a violation of equal opportunities legislation in Britain.

Given this legal advice, the leadership of the UCU had no choice but decisively to end the union’s flirtation with a boycott of Israeli academia. To persist in a ‘discussion’ of an illegal and discriminatory policy would have opened the union up to potentially fatal lawsuits on the grounds of unfair discrimination. Union members could have been held personally liable if they had ignored clear legal advice. The Opinion was given to UCU by a widely respected barrister.

UCU’s Strategy and Finance Committee voted unanimously today to end all consideration of the boycott proposal. The Opinion said:

"It would be beyond the Union's powers and unlawful for the Union, directly or indirectly to call for or to implement a boycott by the Union and its members of any kind of Israeli universities and other academic institutions; and that the use of Union funds directly or indirectly to further such a boycott would also be unlawful."

The Opinion also said:

"...to ensure that the Union acts lawfully meetings should not be used to ascertain the level of support for such a boycott."

I suppose it would have been more satisfying to have the proposed boycott defeated by an overwhelming vote of the members. But even if it ends with a relative whimper rather than a bang, it's still a defeat for the would-be boycotters-- and that's good news...........

Some comments....

So presumably boycotting Apartheid SA and nobody else would be unlawful discrimination ?

Jeez, I live in CA, home of BS laws, but this takes the biscuit.

Posted by Dave W at September 28, 2007 04:36 PM
So presumably boycotting Apartheid SA and nobody else would be unlawful discrimination ?

The ruling applies to a boycott of Israeli academics. I don't think anyone ever tried to enforce a boycott of South African academics.

Posted by Gene at September 28, 2007 04:43 PM

The next headline on this popular hate site...Tatchell a visitor...........

Demonstrate Against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sunday 7 October, Piccadilly
Every year, supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran hold an Al Quds Day rally.

In the United Kingdom, that rally is organised by the Khomenist group which misleadingly calls itself the "Islamic Human Rights Commission".

In Germany, German, Iranian and Turkish progressives have put together a counter-demonstration to Al Quds Day.

This year, there is going to be a counter-demonstration to Al Quds Day, supported by Iranian and British progressives.

It will take place at 12 pm, next Sunday 7 October, in Piccadilly, London.

Please join us.

And please pass the message along to as many people as you know who will stand with us. .........

Yessssssss Not.! Are you a "progressive"..? ..keyword hijacking.

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[rodin]

[PaulStott]

[karlos]

http://bigcampaign.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01art icleid=9&cntnt01returnid=15
I cant understand how a boycott of the Apatheid regime in Israel can be possibly declared illegal.
I certainly would encourage all decent people in Britain to continue to boycott all Israeli products and services.
The Israeli regime is the worst in the world today and the most deserving of boycotts and sanctions.

http://www.bigcampaign.org.uk/

[PaulStott]

[karlos]

[blackcat]

[karlos]

Talk about ZIONIST NAZIs
the topic



This is Debra Cagan, although i cannot believe this is her photo that was all over the UK press.
She looks like a character from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. But in fact she is a close Bush aide. To be honest it is not even clear she is a woman in this photo.

Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior officials Debra Cagan: "I hate all Iranians."
And she also accused Britain of "dismantling" the Anglo-US-led coalition in Iraq by pulling troops out of Basra too soon.
The all-party group of MPs say Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month.
Hard line: Debra Cagan stunned the MPs with her comments

The six MPs were taken aback by the hardline approach of the Pentagon and in particular Ms Cagan, one of Mr Bush's foreign policy advisers.

She made it clear that although the US had no plans to attack Iran, it did not rule out doing so if the Iranians ignored warnings not to develop a nuclear bomb.

It was her tone when they met her on September 11 that shocked them most.

The MPs say that at one point she said: "In any case, I hate all Iranians."

Although it was an aside, it was not out of keeping with her general demeanour.

"She seemed more keen on saying she didn't like Iranians than that the US had no plans to attack Iran," said one MP. "She did say there were no plans for an attack but the tone did not fit the words."

Another MP said: "I formed the impression that some in America are looking for an excuse to attack Iran. It was very alarming."

Tory Stuart Graham, who was on the ten-day trip, would not discuss Ms Cagan but said: "It was very sobering to hear from the horse's mouth how the US sees the situation."

Ms Cagan, whose job involves keeping the coalition in Iraq together, also criticised Britain for pulling out troops.

"She said if we leave the south of Iraq, the Iranians will take it over," said one MP.

Another said: "She is very forceful and some of my colleagues were intimidated by her muscular style."

The MPs also saw Henry Worcester, Deputy Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs, who said he favoured talks with Iran.

The Pentagon denied Ms Cagan said she "hated" Iranians.

"She doesn't speak that way," said an official.

But when The Mail on Sunday spoke to four of the six MPs, three confirmed privately that she made the remark and one declined to comment. The other two could not be contacted

[ian neal]

[blackbear]

What about the racist treatment for a significant minority of the citizens of Israel. You know.....the semitic ones.

One state.!

[nrmis]

Have you got a link to that story about that thing?
And what is that round her neck?

[karlos]

[paul wright]

Always amuses that the ruling Ashkenazi jews should have "nazi" at the end of their title. Converts to Judaism weren't they. Hitler was the illegitimate offspring of Frau Schickelgruber's servant liaison with Count Rothschild wasn't he

[paul wright]

Nothing more. Absolutely nothing
Apologies -a slip

[karlos]

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=11590&highlight=
israel's nazis

[Disco_Destroyer]