(National Review) Emanuele Ottolenghi - Please don't call these zealous unionized scholars Nazis. Call them by their true name: Stalinists. Theirs is not a blanket boycott. The AUT is ready to offer a waiver to scholars on the condition that they publicly state their willingness to conform to the political orthodoxy espoused by those academics who sponsored the motion. As a symbolic gesture to defend the spirit of academic freedom and express solidarity with my harassed colleagues, I have expressed my wish to be included in the list of people and institutions to be blackmailed and I sincerely hope that other colleagues of all political persuasions will join me. The writer teaches Israel studies at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
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