UK UNIVERSITY VOTES TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL HOURS AFTER DEADLY ATTACK:
Posted on One of London's leading universities has voted to boycott the State of Israel, just hours after a deadly terror attack and while Israel is still in the throes of a renewed upsurge in Palestinian terror. University College London (UCL) Union voted 14-4 to accept a motion to endorse the BDS movement, which advocates boycotts, divestment and sanctions against the Jewish state. The vote took place mere hours after a Palestinian terrorist murdered a US citizen and seriously injured scores more people in a stabbing spree in Tel Aviv/Jaffa, and other Arab terrorists committed a string of stabbing and shooting attacks. Jewish students in British universities have complained of rising intimidation and antisemitism from left-wing and Muslim anti-Israel student activists. Ariel Tamman, co-president of the Friends of Israel Society, said the vote would simply compound already "invasive" anti-Israel campaigning on campus, and deter Jews from attending UCL in the future. UCL has traditionally had a relatively large Jewish student body, though Tamman warned Jews were already feeling "intimidated" by increasingly aggressive anti-Zionist activity. (Arutz-7)