No sign yet of a major campaign in the UCU, the British academic union, to highlight the current plight of Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. We’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, the UCU leadership is now denying earlier reports that some of the union’s trustees have gone to court this week to obtain an injunction to stop the union from going ahead with another debate about boycotting Israelis - while, as usual, not telling anyone what is going on. Update: read the new UCU motion and David Hirsh’s take on it here. Here we go yet again.
These bigots will always be with us, alas.
Just as will these other bigots:
“Blaming Jews for the Financial Crisis”
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stash/archive/2009/05/13/blaming-jews-for-the-financial-crisis.aspx
From the post:
“Just in time for Jewish-American Heritage Month, here’s a bit of disturbing news from the Boston Review (HT: Brainiac):
“In order to assess explicit prejudice toward Jews, we directly asked respondents “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?” with responses falling under five categories: a great deal, a lot, a moderate amount, a little, not at all. Among non-Jewish respondents, a strikingly high 24.6 percent of Americans blamed “the Jews” a moderate amount or more, and 38.4 percent attributed at least some level of blame to the group.”
Most surprisingly given the liberal Jewish tradition in the United States, Democrats were more likely to blame Jews than Republicans:
“…while 32 percent of Democrats accorded at least moderate blame, only 18.4 percent of Republicans did so (a statistically significant difference).” “