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Science 29 April 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5722, p. 613
DOI: 10.1126/science.308.5722.613c
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CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM--The U.K. Association of University Teachers (AUT) has called for a boycott of two Israeli universities said to be supporting Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.

After little debate, the group voted 22 April that its members--from professors to university support staff--should shun Bar Ilan and Haifa universities. The boycott's proponents claim that Bar Ilan is affiliated with a West Bank school "in the illegal settlement of Ariel," and that the University of Haifa has harassed a senior lecturer who guided a student's investigation into the conduct of Israeli soldiers.

The universities deny the allegations. Moshe Kaveh, president of Bar Ilan University and a well-known physicist, called AUT's decision "very unbalanced" and "shameful." AUT, meanwhile, has asked members to delay implementing a boycott pending legal advice.




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