Twenty-one Nobel Prize winners published an open letter calling on a British teachers union to overturn its academic boycott of Israel. “Academic freedom has never been the property of a few and must not be manipulated by them,” the letter read. “Therefore, mixing science with politics, and limiting academic freedom by boycotts, is wrong.”
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