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Boycotts, divestment and other efforts to single out the state of Israel for censure have recently been proposed by various trade unions in the United Kingdom, including unions representing academics, journalists and government workers.  The Anti-Defamation League has been working on the frontlines to expose these outrageous and fundamentally biased assaults on the state of Israel and to counter the actions by encouraging good people to stand up and express their moral indignation and support for those Israeli professionals and institutions of higher learning targeted by such efforts.

This page offers an overview of ADL's UK boycott resources and essential links to understanding the issue. You'll find information on the various boycott attempts and their supporters and detractors, statements from ADL and others, and advertisements that have appeared in international newspapers. Also featured are backgrounders and op-eds that help to explain and expose the hypocrisy of the boycott efforts and their detrimental impact on the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Press Releases & Statements:
ADL Calls On ADL Condemns Britain's Main Academic Union For Re-Issuing Call To Boycott Israel (5/28/09)
ADL Calls On World Labor Leaders To Reject British Union's Anti-Israel Boycott (6/20/07)
Universities, Academics Urged To Follow Columbia's Lead In Taking Principled Stand Against Academic Boycott Of Israel (6/14/07)
British Union's Vote Targeting Israeli Academics 'Biased, Unfair And Destructive' (5/30/07)
British Union Of Journalists Call To Boycott Israeli Products Condemned (4/16/07)

Op-eds:
A Call For Moral Outrage Over the British Boycott
ADL op-ed in The Jerusalem Post (6/14/07)
The Contemporary Fight Against Anti-Semitism (6/14/07)
By Anthony Julius and Alan Dershowitz
Academic Boycott: Bashing Israel
ADL op-ed in the International Herald Tribune (4/22/05)

ADL Backgrounders:
The UK Boycott: What They Are Saying
British Worker's Union Votes In Favor of Israel Boycott
The Anti-Israel Divestment Campaign
Advocating for Israel: An Activist’s Guide

About the ADL’s Ad Campaign:
ADL Alerts Public to Unfair and Biased Nature of Anti-Israel Boycott Votes with Ads in Major Newspapers

UK Archive:
ADL Praises Lord Richard Rogers for Opposing Ban of Israel at Venice Biennale (9/8/06)
ADL Calls for Action Against Academic Boycotters (5/30/06)
ADL Slams British Academic Boycott Policy (5/29/06)
Church of Scotland Call to Label Products From Israeli Settlements Is Biased (5/26/06)
ADL Condemns British Union's Attempt to Blacklist Israeli Scholars (5/15/06)
ADL Calls Church of England's Divestment from Israel "A Moral Outrage" (2/8/06)
Rescinding of British Boycott of Israeli Universities Hailed By ADL (5/26/05)
Decision of British Academics to Boycott Israeli Universities 'Misguided and Ill-Timed' (4/22/05)
Don't Boycott Israeli Universities: Academics Sign Letter of Protest (4/19/05)
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Stop the Boycott, UK

Stop the Boycott Ad in the London Times
(6/13/07)

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