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110th Congress > House > Vote 612
Clerk session vote number: 618
Sponsor: MURPHY, Patrick (D-PA)
Description: Condemning the decision by the University and College Union of the United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia
Bill summary: Condemns the vote by the leadership of the University and College Union (UCU) of May 30, 2007, to consider at the branch level a boycott Israeli academics and academic institutions.
Urges the international scholarly community, the European Union (EU), and individual governments to reject, or continue to oppose, calls for an academic boycott of Israel.
Urges governments and educators throughout the world to reaffirm the importance of academic freedom.
Urges other unions and organizations to
reject the troubling actions of the UCU.
Urges the general members of the UCU to reject the call of the union's leadership to boycott Israel.
Bill titles: Condemning the decision by the leadership of the University and College Union of the United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia.; Condemning the decision by the University and College Union of the United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia.
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