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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: May 27, 2005 |
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In spite of a call by the union's general secretary, Sally Hunt, "to build bridges between those with opposing views here in the U.K. and to commit to supporting trade unionists in Israel and Palestine working for peace," Sue Blackwell, a lecturer at Birmingham University and a driving force behind the boycott, said she would continue her efforts.
Boycott supporters said they would bring a new resolution to boycott Israel at next year's council meeting.
Professor Steven Rose, a delegate from the Open University, spoke in favor of the boycott at the council meeting. Rose pointed out that although the union's decision on the boycott was canceled, a union decision of two years ago to call a moratorium on scientific cooperation with Israel still stood. He pointed out that the European Union had instructed last March that there be no cooperation with organizations that have branches in the occupied territories, and Bar-Ilan University sponsors the Judea and Samaria College in Ariel.
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AUT boycott supporters: Efforts to ostracize Israel will continue
- (Haaretz)
05.27.2005
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