Of all the improbable kites that are occasionally flown at conferences, the decision by the University and College Union to explore a boycott of Israeli academe must rank as one of the most...
Not so very long ago the only people on campus likely to care about environmentally friendly policies were hippies and a perhaps a few climatologists. Now, as the first Green League table reveals,...
I am surprised that The Times Higher has trivialised the question of the University and College Union boycott of Israeli universities in its interview with Alan Dershowitz, otherwise an advocate of...
I read with incredulity the latest outburst from Alan Dershowitz - his threat to "devastate and bankrupt" those British academics who support an academic boycott of Israel. He clearly hasn't yet...
If evidence were needed to show that this anti-academic absurdity was motivated by racism, UCU members should ask the old question: did the union fall or was it pushed? The "arrangements" for the...
There is uproar over the UCU's decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions. It is even more alarming when we realise that those who feel uncomfortable about the motion cite intellectual...
The proposed boycott of Israeli universities is strategically inept and tactically counterproductive. It is a perfect example of ultra-leftism, when a simplistic moral position is adopted to crank up...
Following the courageous resolution of the UCU to boycott (or discuss boycotting) Israeli academics for their complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestine, I urge its members to boycott...
Steven Weinberg equates criticising Israel with anti-Semitism or, since Palestinians are also Semites, anti-Jewishness (Letters, May 25). The syllogism that because anti-Jewish racists criticise...
Many of us who were members of the Association of University Teachers in the 1970s supported its decision to become a trade union under the law of the land. Hitherto, it had been a professional...
Julian Bradfield says that the intellectual Left holds Israelis to higher standards than Arabs (Letters, June 1), but it is this Orientalist attitude that gives licence to certain people to engage in...
There is no doubt that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is illegal and should be opposed. But given the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the illegal invasion and continued occupation of Iraq by...
Chris Rapley is retiring as director of the British Antarctic Survey after nine years. But, he tells Karen Gold, his mission to spread the message on global warming continues Chris Rapley is eye-...
Dave Reay learnt the hard way that climate change can frighten kids to death. Here, he describes how he came to make the topic fit for a children's book "When will I die?" This was the first question...
Orange Prize-shortlisted writer Chimamanda Adichie evokes nostalgia for African family and academic life and tackles Nigeria's troubled past, says Huw Richards It would be an error to describe...