Israel's Council of Higher Education, which oversees all Israeli colleges and universities, decided on Wednesday to adopt a new ethical code. The new code forbids universities from discriminating against students based on their ethnicity, gender, race, or political opinions, and bans lecturers from supporting boycotts of Israel.
A part of the code had drawn the wrath of Israel's universities for prohibiting professors from “wrongly taking advantage of the teaching platform to systematically and improperly exhort a political position that clearly exceeds what is required by the teaching of the course in its broader context within its field".