Fred Stone wrote:

http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001113.html

The monstrous regiment of university teachers

If anyone had ever told British academics that there would come a time
when they would punish colleagues because of the views they held, and
would treat them as pariahs and try to destroy their livelihoods in
order to intimidate others into toeing the sole approved political line,
they would have been incredulous. In the western tradition the
universities are, after all, the custodians of free intellectual inquiry
and open debate. Censorship, suppression of ideas and intellectual
intimidation are associated with totalitarian regimes which attempt to
coerce people into the approved way of thinking.

Yet that is what is now happening in British universities -- and the
pariah is, of course, Israel. As the Guardian[*] reported yesterday, the
Association of University Teachers is about to debate a proposed boycott
of Israeli academics who refuse to denounce their government's policies
in the occupied territories. But the motion will 'exclude "conscientious
Israeli academics and intellectuals opposed to their state's colonial
and racist policies".' So in true totalitarian tradition, those who
denounce their own will be permitted to have a livelihood. Gee, thanks!
To survive in the cradle of free expression, Israelis will have to
betray their own people. This is a natural development from the implicit
-- and sometimes explicitly stated -- assumption that has been coursing
through British intellectual circles in the current hate-fest against
Israel, that only those British Jews who denounce Israel's policies can
be considered to be British; anyone who supports Israel is guilty of
'dual loyalty'...

[*] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1452239,00.html

Excellent news