The US government requested recently that the Saudis abandon the boycott in order to qualify for a free trade agreement. The Saudis promised, but never relented.
Now the British clergy and the leaders of the University and College Union, Britain’s largest teachers’ union have embarked on this hostile and dangerous path. This can only mean one thing: that they too, like the Arab-Muslims, want to see Israel and its people isolated and destroyed.
The British government, instead of offering to Israel empty platitudes and hypocritical excuses, could – and must – introduce fast-track legislation to simply outlaw the boycott as the US has done.
The British minister of higher education, Bill Bammell, said last Sunday, on his visit to Jerusalem, that he and many others in Britain – including academics – are opposed to the university teachers’ union boycott, BUT he has a problem with the “occupation.”
The British government’s minister of education knows full well, or should know, that Israel is not “occupying Arab land,” which is the alleged reason for the boycott by the British clergy and the leaders of the university teachers’ union.
Judea and Samaria are Jewish land, not Arab land, all their poisonous propaganda notwithstanding.
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