Farid Esack describes attempts to ban him from French universities as a “huge tactical blunder.” Read more about Boycotting Israel more urgent than in case of South Africa, says anti-apartheid veteran 

Israel continues to severely restrict academic and other contacts between Palestinians and the outside world while complaining that it is being unjustly targeted by academic and cultural boycott. Read more about Israel interrogates, expels well-known South African academic Salim Vally, invited to lecture in Palestine