UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE UNION AND AN ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL 05.06.2007
That this House regrets the motion passed at the congress of the University and College Union (UCU) on 30th May, which promotes a boycott of Israeli universities and a moratorium on research and cultural collaboration with Israel; agrees with Sally Hunt, General Secretary of UCU, who has said previously that `I simply do not believe that the majority of UCU members support an academic boycott of Israel; most want us to retain dialogue with trade unionists on all sides-not just those we agree with'; supports the Government's response to the parliamentary inquiry into anti-semitism which concludes that `calls to boycott contact with academics working in Israel are an assault on academic freedom and intellectual exchange'; believes that boycotting Israeli education institutions and academics is damaging to the UK's reputation worldwide and does nothing to promote a settlement in the Middle East; and urges the UCU to conduct a full ballot of its 120,000 members before adopting the terms of the resolution as policy.
Signatures( 119):
Amess, David
Anderson, David
Arbuthnot, James
Austin, Ian
Benton, Joe
Binley, Brian
Blunt, Crispin
Borrow, David S
Boswell, Tim
Bottomley, Peter
Breed, Colin
Brooke, Annette
Bryant, Chris
Buck, Karen
Burrowes, David
Butterfill, John
Cable, Vincent
Campbell, Gregory
Campbell, Ronnie
Carswell, Douglas
Clappison, James
Coffey, Ann
Conway, Derek
Crabb, Stephen
Creagh, Mary
Cryer, Ann
Davidson, Ian
Davies, Philip
Dean, Janet
Devine, Jim
Dismore, Andrew
Djanogly, Jonathan
Dobson, Frank
Dodds, Nigel
Donaldson, Jeffrey
Dowd, Jim
Dunne, Philip
Dunwoody, Gwyneth
Ellman, Louise
Ennis, Jeff
Evans, Nigel
Featherstone, Lynne
Field, Mark
Foster, Don
Foster, Michael Jabez
George, Andrew
Gove, Michael
Gray, James
Hall, Patrick
Hands, Greg
Harris, Evan
Hemming, John
Hermon, Sylvia
Hodgson, Sharon
Hoey, Kate
Howarth, David
Howarth, George
Humble, Joan
Hunter, Mark
Hurd, Nick
Jackson, Glenda
Jackson, Stewart
Jenkins, Brian
Jones, Helen [R]
Jones, Kevan
Joyce, Eric
Keeley, Barbara
Keen, Alan
Kennedy, Charles
Kramer, Susan
Lait, Jacqui
Leech, John
Lewis, Julian
Luff, Peter
MacKay, Andrew
Maclean, David
Main, Anne
Mann, John
Marshall, David
Martlew, Eric
McCrea, Dr William
McFall, John
Miller, Andrew
Moore, Michael [R]
Mudie, George
Murrison, Andrew
Naysmith, Doug
Neill, Robert
Newmark, Brooks
Norris, Dan
Opik, Lembit
Pope, Greg
Pritchard, Mark
Pugh, John
Rifkind, Malcolm
Robertson, John
Scott, Lee
Selous, Andrew
Sheridan, Jim
Skinner, Dennis
Smith, Geraldine
Spellar, John
Spink, Bob
Strang, Gavin
Stringer, Graham
Touhig, Don
Vaizey, Edward
Vaz, Keith
Villiers, Theresa
Vis, Rudi
Watkinson, Angela
Weir, Mike
Whittingdale, John
Williams, Stephen
Willis, Phil
Wilson, Robert
Wilson, Sammy
Wright, David
Wright, Jeremy
