help stop the blacklist of Israeli academics

Jeff Weintraub, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania (and Euston Manifesto supporter) whose blog I began reading recently, is calling for American academics to sign a petition against the blacklisting of Israeli academics (which I wrote about here) by a British academic union.

Now this stupid and pernicious idea is being resurrected by members of the other major British academic union, the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE). A blacklist proposal has been introduced to be considered at NATFHE’s national conference on May 27-29. In this case, the blacklist would apply to all Israeli academics, but would be applied in a more underhanded and unaccountable manner. The proposal itself is framed in coded and disingenuous language, but the intent is to endorse a blacklist without exposing NATFHE to possible legal action:

I didn’t realize that Weintraub was involved in the movement to stop the previous attempted blacklist of Israeli academics by British academics (from the other major academic union).

(via Eric Alterman)