Academic freedom is not academic license

1 January, 1900

Professor Michael Gross, Patron of the UK Council on Academic Freedom, challenges some academics of the Ben Gurion University in Israel, and argues to prove that the BDS (Boycott and Disinvest) movement is itself at odds with the very concept of academic freedom, and that it is essentially totalitarian, and indeed fascist in nature.  "It has no place – none at all – in a true university environment" - he writes.  

Read his whole article in our Campus section