And in Britain ..IT IS RESISTANCE

Well, there seem to be a few recognizing the big lies and, in this world enough to act on that recognition.

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The UCU is approaching a crisis. The management at Nottingham Trent University has formally de-recognized the UCU branch as the legitimate representative of the staff there. You can sign the petition against this move on the UCU website.

The former independent adjudicator for higher education Ruth Deech said in a House of Lords debate that because of UCU's support for the campaign to boycott Israeli academics, it should now be considered "an unprofessional union". "Universities would do well to cease to recognise it and to deal with alternatives," she said. She told the Times Higher:

"These efforts to boycott, or to come as close as possible to a boycott, are contrary to race relations legislation and ultra vires the powers of the union.... The UCU has created an atmosphere hostile to Jewish academics and to quality academic research and freedom in this country."

The union is in a poor state to launch an effective defence against the threat of de-recognition. It is widely thought of as being obsessed by the campaign to exclude Israeli academics from UK campuses. It has arrogantly ignored many of its Jewish members who are worried by the spectre of institutional antisemitism. It has complacently brushed aside the advice which tells it that the boycott campaign puts it in legal jeopardy. In other words our union is, at the moment, a union which it is very easy not to take seriously.

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