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Levin speaks against U.K. profs’ boycott

British profs discuss cutting ties with Israel

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, September 11, 2007

As of Friday, 408 American university presidents had signed on to a statement denouncing a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Yale’s president is not among them.

Instead of signing the petition, University President Richard Levin reaffirmed his own, similar position this week. Both he and the group of university presidents have criticized a move by the University and College Union, or UCU, which represents 120,000 British professors, to consider a boycott. The boycott, which was first proposed by a Palestinian trades’ union, asks professors to end their ties with...

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