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UK Academics Participate in Haifa U. Conference, Rejecting Calls for Academic Boycott of Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Lidar Grave-Lazi - Haifa University hosted 13 academics from several leading universities in the UK over the weekend at a conference on quantitative studies of conflict in international relations. The conference, initiated in coordination with Prof. Kristian Gleditsch from Essex University, was held against the backdrop of increasing calls for the academic boycott of Israel among UK academics. Prof. Gleditsch emphasized that despite the calls to boycott Israel, no institution has yet to announce a boycott. "I have not met anyone who is for the boycott. I think that the majority of people feel that you can disagree with a country's governmental policies, but that a boycott of academic institutions is pointless and will have a counter effect."