Sydney peace centre boycotts Israel
An application to participate in the program by an academic from the Hebrew University in Israel was rejected by Associate Professor Jake Lynch, who heads Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

The Centre says this is because it supports the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

The movement calls for action against Israel for alleged breaches of international laws through the way it treats the Palestinians.

Ed: when apartheid south Africa was boycotted, the same arguments were trotted about the action hurting the oppressed, as in this article. Of course there is ample paternalism in this view, as surely the oppressed themselves should make that call; not white south Africans or Israelis.

When I did speak to my black friends all those years ago about this, they said they supported it because 'when you already have nothing, it can't be taken away'