Further to this post about outcomes at Cambridge and Oxford, I can now report that at a meeting this week of about 30 people at Reading, a resolution opposed to 'boycotting any university in Israel' was carried nem con; at Salford a ballot of the membership produced a majority against the boycott of 146 to 112 (with one spoiled paper and on a 34.8% return); both Warwick and Sussex have also come out against the boycott, though I have no numbers for those two decisions; and the Brunel student union has passed an emergency motion to distance itself from the boycott and urge the university to do likewise. (Now there's something. These students at Brunel are giving a lesson in academic values to some of Britain's university teachers.)
See also this op-ed piece at the Henry Jackson Society; and David Seymour at Engage, in response to a pro-boycott piece from the Independent.
In connection with this, a friend emails:
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