There's an attempt amongst US academics to mount an academic boycott of Israel. I wonder if they'll be able to match the ahievements of their UK counterparts. They match them, in any case, in the way their consciences function:
"As educators of conscience, we have been unable to stand by and watch in silence Israel's indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip and its educational institutions," the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel stated in its inaugural press release last Thursday.
They only 'watch in silence' as things go not entirely well elsewhere on the planet. Responding to Haaretz, David Lloyd of the University of Southern California wrote that...
... to the best of his knowledge, all supporters of the anti-Israel boycott were also opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Asked if logic wouldn't dictate that he and his colleagues boycott themselves, he responded, "Self-boycott is a difficult concept to realize. But speaking for myself, I would have supported and honored such a boycott had it been proposed by my colleagues overseas."
But it never was, was it? And you wonder if Mr Lloyd thinks to wonder why. (Thanks: SdeW.)