Hillel Halkin rightly says it is “wrong” for some (mainly leftist) Israeli and Jewish academics to respond to the boycotts of Israeli academics by UK university entities by declaring all boycotts to be “unacceptable”:

This is mealy-mouthed, cowardly, and self-accusing. Basically, it says: “Look here, Israel may really be the dreadful country that you say it is — in fact, many of us believe that — but why take it out on us? We’re the good Israelis, the ones who condemn our government just like you do…”

This is also intellectually absurd. There is, in fact, nothing wrong with boycotts, academic or otherwise, if they’re aimed at the right targets. When Nazi universities in the 1930s fired all their Jewish staff, a boycott of them would have been entirely appropriate…