Israel’s education minister warned her British counterpart against a boycott of Israeli universities. The Guardian reported that Yuli Tamir told Alan Johnson on Monday that such a boycott would have a “tremendously dangerous” impact on international academia. Tamir called boycotts the “wrong political tool,” noting that some of the arguments in favor of boycotting Israel are colored by anti-Semitic language.
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