Looks like the Israel-bashers are at it again, holding Jews to a higher standard than that to which they hold Muslims.

Britain's biggest union for college and university teachers plans to ask its 67,000 members to consider boycotting Israeli lecturers who do not publicly dissociate themselves from what it called Israel's "apartheid policies."

The language is from a resolution to be put before the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education at its annual conference in Blackpool from May 27 to 29.

The move has reopened a fiery debate that seized another college union, the Association of University Teachers, last year. In response to appeals from 60 Palestinian organizations, the Association of University Teachers voted in April 2005 to boycott two Israeli universities, saying it would bar faculty members from Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities from taking part in academic conferences or research with British colleagues.

Less than a month later, the association voted to overturn the boycott when numerous advocates, including a group of Nobel laureates, argued that university campuses in Israel enjoyed vigorous political debate and were not the most appropriate institutions to boycott.

This year, however, the Association of University Teachers, with 40,000 members, plans to merge with the larger National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, just after its conference in Blackpool. The contentious resolution is one of two relating directly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

So if you are an Israeli Jew, these edu-Nazis want to make you submit to a political litmus test as a condition of allowing you to work or study in the UK. Such requirements are not imposed upon the citizens of the world's most oppressive dictatorships -- Red China, Cuba, North Korea -- but will be imposed upon the citizens of the only Western-style democracy in the Middle East.

Furthermore, this is only one of two resolutions being considered by the group.

The first, concerning Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections, enjoins British academics "to continue to help protect and support Palestinian colleges and universities in the face of the continual attacks by Israel's government" and to "contact the Palestinian Authority government to reaffirm that support."

That resolution accuses Britain of displaying "outrageous bias" against Hamas.

The European Union, the United States and Israel consider Hamas a terrorist organization with which they refuse to have dealings, especially so long as it declines to recognize Israel and renounce violence.

In other words, the group wants to go on record in support of Hamas and the Terrorstinians, who continue to conduct a campaign of murder against innocent civilians. Not only will there be no requirement that Muslims denounce Islamic terror around the globe, but the group willcondemn those who oppose the perpetrators of terror attacks! At the same time, though, any Israeli attempt to safeguard itself and its citizens is to be decried as illegitimate.

In the event this resolution passes, the United States needs to implement a policy of denying visas to all members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education "who do not publicly dissociate themselves from" the group's anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist policies.

After all, what's good for the Israeli goose is good for the British gander.

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