Welcome to TheAcademic Friends of Israel
The Academic Friends of Israel has been campaigning against the academic boycott of Israel since 2002. We are concerned about the increasing number of anti-Israel and anti–Semitic incidents on British Campuses as well as the anti-Israel policies of the UK’s education unions.
Our members may or may not support the policies of the Government of the State of Israel but are all agreed that Israel has the right to live in peace within secure borders. We are opposed to the “new” anti-Semitism, which is aimed at Israel, which often hides behind legitimate criticism of Israel.
The AFI Digest and latest news
No 5 - 24 June 2010
The view from Britain: Unions agree to boycott the Histadrut
No 4 - 22 April 2010
The view from Britain:Unions to discuss boycotting the Histadrut
No 3 - 22 March 2010
The view from Britain: Hate war on campus to be "stamped out"
No 2 - 18 February 2010
The view from Britain: Plenty of anti-Zionism on Campus
No 1 - 16 February 2010
Anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic emails posted on UCU activists list
Essays by Ronnie Fraser
Trade Union and Other Boycotts of Israel in Great Britain
- The United Kingdom more than any other country in the world has embraced the Palestinian call for academic, trade union, media, medical, architectural, and cultural boycotts of Israel. The driving force for this campaign is Britain's trade union movement and its anti-Zionist activists on the far Left, such as the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
- The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) actively works for a general boycott of Israeli goods as well as a cultural and sports boycott of Israel and has forged links with the far Left and the unions to publicize their cause. All the major UK trade unions are affiliated with the PSC and several of them actively promote PSC policies and literature.................
The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It
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The Academic Boycott of Israel: Why Britain?
This essay has been has been updated and published by The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in the book; Academics against Israel and the Jews edited by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld [ISBN 978-965-218-057-5, 276 pp.]