From DISSECTING LEFT, an excerpt from "a letter sent on Thursday to Sally Hunt, the secretary general of the AUT, the UK teachers' union, by Dr. Ottolenghi, The Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford Univ.:
"... in addition to a call for boycott [of Israeli schools and scholars], the AUT is ready to offer a waiver to scholars on condition that they publicly state their willingness to conform to the political orthodoxy espoused by the academics who sponsored your motion. Oaths of political loyalty do not belong to academia. They belong to illiberal minds and repressive regimes. Based on this, the AUT's definition of academic freedom is the freedom to agree with its views only. Given the circumstances, I wish to express in no uncertain terms my unconditional and undivided solidarity with both universities and their faculties. I know many people, both at Haifa University and at Bar Ilan University, of different political persuasion and from different walks of life.
The diversity of those faculties reflects the authentic spirit of academia.
The AUT invitation to boycott them betrays that spirit because it advocates a uniformity of views, under pain of boycott.
In solidarity with my colleagues and as a symbolic gesture to defend the spirit of a free academia, I wish to be added to the boycott blacklist. Please include me. I hope that other colleagues of all political persuasions will join me." "
Once again, we are given proof that the Left is statist, elitist, anti-libertarian, and the home of anti-Semitism.
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