Britain's largest lecturers' union has voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel's "apartheid policies". Another example of no matter what the Jews do, they are wrong.

Delegates at the annual conference of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education in Blackpool narrowly backed the proposal, despite mounting international pressure from those opposed to a boycott, including a petition from more than 5000 academics and a plea from the Israeli Government. The decision was greeted with disappointment and anger by anti-boycott campaigners, but Palestinian groups issued declarations of support. Gee Imagine that A Muslim country that supports terrorists groups and Islamofascism agreeing that the Jews have no right to defend themselves.

Presented on the final day of the conference on Monday, the motion criticised "Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall, and discriminatory educational practices" and invited members to "consider the appropriateness of a boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies". So if you try to protect yourself from homicide bombers, and the wall has shown to be successful in lessening the amount of bombings in Israel you are somehow supporters of apartheid? Comparing what Israel is doing to protect themselves to what the South African Government did to the Blacks is just so stupid beyond belief!

After failed efforts to prevent the debate, speakers outlined the many difficulties experienced by Palestinian students and lecturers living under occupation, including the number of Palestinian schools shelled by the Israeli Army. No mention made of why the Israelis bombed a school, could it be the usual practice of Muslims to have bomb factories hidden in schools and Mosques?

"The majority of Israeli academics are either complicit or acquiescent in their government's policies in the occupied territories," said Tom Hickey, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Brighton, a member of the union's national executive committee and the proposer of the motion. "Turning a blind eye to what an Israeli colleague thinks about the actions of their government is a culpable blindness." So the academic scholars Must DEFY THE GOVERNMENT that protects them from the wanton murder of Israelis by Palestinians? This in order to make academic speeches in England.

But the union's general secretary, Paul Mackney, spoke against the motion.

"Most of us are very angry about the occupation of Palestine," he said, "but this isn't the motion and this isn't the way." Of course little is ever mentioned that is was The English that made this "occupation" possible