It was a sad day for British academics and other Jew-haters yesterday when the University and College Union announced that a planned boycott of Israel would be unlawful. The UCU must now settle for boring debates on the pros and cons of Israeli policies. What has the world come to when you cannot initiate a good old-fashioned pogrom? Damn those human-right lawyers!

Yes, I'm sarcastic. I was insulted by the very idea of an academic boycott of Israel. The world is full of countries that conduct brutal violations against human rights without British academia even noticing.

(News found via Al Hamatzav.)