Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel is leading the fight against a boycott of Israeli academics institutions of higher education by the British University and College Union.
Wiesel recruited 51 Nobel Prize laureates from around the world to sign a petition condemning the boycott after he was tapped by a friend and colleague, Technion Chemistry Professor Aaron Ciechanover, also a Nobel Prize laureate.
The petition, which notes that “not only do such boycotts encourage the extremists, but they also praise and glorify prejudices,” also slams a boycott proposed two other British unions, the British National Union of Journalists and UNISON, the largest union in the British Trades Union Congress.
Wiesel recruited 51 Nobel Prize laureates from around the world to sign a petition condemning the boycott after he was tapped by a friend and colleague, Technion Chemistry Professor Aaron Ciechanover, also a Nobel Prize laureate.
The petition, which notes that “not only do such boycotts encourage the extremists, but they also praise and glorify prejudices,” also slams a boycott proposed two other British unions, the British National Union of Journalists and UNISON, the largest union in the British Trades Union Congress.