http://ajcwire.org/2007/07/09/laboring-the-boycott/ blog of the American Jewish Committee. Articles on Jewish life, current events, and Israel. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:53:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://ajcwire.org/2007/07/09/laboring-the-boycott/#comment-1412 Dehri Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:39:44 +0000 http://ajcblog.org/2007/07/09/laboring-the-boycott/#comment-1412 A very sober and incisive analysis of our situation here in Britain. Speaking from the vantage point of British academia, the key point here is exactly correct: a handful of extremists drive this policy, but the internal divide between activists and the apathetic silent majority within the unions has created a space for exclusion and demonization to become the norm. Good to read such a clear-sighted view of this predicament from across the pond. A very sober and incisive analysis of our situation here in Britain. Speaking from the vantage point of British academia, the key point here is exactly correct: a handful of extremists drive this policy, but the internal divide between activists and the apathetic silent majority within the unions has created a space for exclusion and demonization to become the norm. Good to read such a clear-sighted view of this predicament from across the pond.

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