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Eve Garrard, in calling for academics to leave the union, wrote that it is “ trying to change the definition of anti-Semitism in order to maintain a policy which discriminates against Jews”. Judging from the responses, you’d think this motion was a crime against reason itself as well as downright antisemitism. On May 30, the motion was passed overwhelmingly.

It called for the union to dissociate itself from it. For the UCU Executive has put a motion to its 2011 Congress asking it to endorse the view that a particular ‘ working definition of antisemitism’, published on the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) website in 2005, confuses criticism of Israeli government policy and actions with genuine antisemitism, and is being used to silence debate about Israel and Palestine on campus. If you are to believe recent bloggers it has moved definitively beyond the pale.

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UCU describes itself as, ‘ the largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and academic-related staff working in further and higher education throughout the UK’. The latest to be called on to prove its bona fides in the UK is the University and College Union (UCU).