Open Letter from a Former Haifa University Student

A former student from Haifa University, now a grad student at the LSE, writes to the UK's Association of University Teachers. You can read the entire letter here.

Haifa is a university in which one of every five students is Arab; in which loud but civilised political debates take place regularly; and one in which nobody was ever denied his/her freedom of expression. In my opinion, it is a hotbed of peace and dialogue that should be studied as a model for coexistence and not the opposite. Nevertheless, misled by a frustrated lecturer, you decided to boycott this amazing and diverse institute.

Also see this posting about trying to find the sarcasm centre of Sue Blackwell's brain.

For more about the boycott, and why it still concerns so many of us, see this [thanks to MA for the link]