Keele University lecturer Eve Garrard has resigned from the University and College Union following its pro-boycott resolution in May. In a letter to the UCU general secretary Ms Garrard questioned why the union should continue to “punish Israel”.
She wrote: “I, like many others, can no longer bear the shame and embarrassment of belonging to an institution which is willing to discriminate against Jews, and whose readiness to do so is supported by leading members of its executive committee. “Some of these members were elected on an explicitly anti-boycott platform, but nonetheless went on to support this latest attempt to boycott Israel… This union is no longer a fit place for those who think Jews have the same rights of self-determination, self-defence and national identity as other peoples do and I hereby resign from it.”
Source: Jewish Chronicle
