Israeli minister annoyed by boycott of Israel
According to The Guardian, the Israeli education minister Yuli Tamir has claimed that a proposed boycott of Israeli universities by the UK academic community would be ‘tremendously dangerous’.
In fact, the boycott would have precisely the opposite effect. Anything which pressurises Israel (especially, as with this proposal, where it is targeted at an influential group) into behaving like a civilised country is a good thing. An academic boycott might upset Mr Tamir, but put in the context of a country which thinks nothing of murdering 1,000+ innocent people in the name of two of its soldiers I hardly think ‘dangerous’ is an appropriate term here.