The anti-Israeli bigots never stop.  In June 2014, the University and College Union (UCU), which claims to represent 107,000 teaching and related staff in universities and colleges in the U.K., announced that it was planning to send a delegation to investigate “the effects of the Israeli blockade of Gaza on education.”  It would act in liaison with the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and report back to the Executive Committee. The starting question is why the UCU is wasting its money and the time of the members of the delegation on a report on Israeli activity when the contents of the report are in reality already known to them.  For some years the UCU has been at the forefront of the campaign to condemn Israeli actions and to boycott Israeli academics.  In May 2009, it passed a number of resolutions condemning Israeli military attacks on Gaza, calling for Israel to be tried for human rights violations and endorsing the Palestinian BDS against...(Read Full Article)