Celebrated Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has threatened to sue British academics who participate in a UK boycott against Israeli universities.
A decision by Britain’s University and College Union to condemn “complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation of Palestinian land” has prompted Professor Dershowitz to start work on a lawsuit against those who support the boycott.
The American Jewish attorney said in an interview with the Times Higher Educational Supplement that he would use a U.S. law that bans discrimination on the basis of nationality, against British universities who are involved in joint research and other projects with American institutions.
“I will obtain legislation dealing with this issue, imposing sanctions that will devastate and bankrupt those who seek to impose bankruptcy on Israeli academics,” vowed Prof. Dershowitz. |