Israeli university boycott: how a campaign backfired

Guardian Unlimited : Pro-Israel activists used such hardball tactics during a British faculty union’s debate last month over a proposed boycott of Israeli academics that the effort to defeat the proposal failed, according to an analysis in today’s Guardian. Members of the British union were bombarded with e-mail messages with subject lines like “Subject: Jew Hater!” and bearing obscenity-laden accusations of anti-Semitism for even discussing the proposal, the analysis says.