When over three hundred university teachers and lecturers sign a public declaration in the UK Guardian newspaper of an academic boycott against Israeli academics you know there is a deep sickness in the cloistered halls of British academia.
There is room to criticise Israel but, in the words of Booker Prize laureate, Howard Jacobson, when in literary terms “critical” describes a book as the worst ever written should never have been published in the first place, must be banned and all copies burnt, we need a new word for “critical.”