Why universities should boycott Israel

A growing number of university staff are arguing for boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, on the campuses – in other words, for an institutional academic boycott of Israel. University of Sydney academic Dr Nick Riemer has just published Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation, taking apart the arguments of BDS critics. Nick is a senior lecturer in the discipline of English and the branch president of the National Tertiary Education Union.